Outer Darkness
“Death, the beginning of eternal things, is only the end of earthly cares. -Priest”
— Jules Verne
This is our entry for the GameDev TV game jam 2022, made in less than 10 days. This is a horror survival fps.
Slowly uncover the story of a mysterious "dead" town and try to survive the unknown entities that stalk and lurk in every corner. Collect the key items needed to unlock new areas and manage your resources to survive the darkness.
"But the children of the kingdom shall be cast out into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth." - Matthew 8:12
Controls:
WASD to move,
Mouse to look around
Mouse 1 to shoot
Press F to use a healing kit.
Move towards notes to read them, move towards objects to pick them up or open doors.
Credits:
znerbackwards(jimmy): Programming , Game Design, Environment and level design, Lighting, Writing
graciebuns: 3D and 2D Artist, UI
snea snake: Sound design, Character animations, Additional UI, Additional programming
We used some existing assets such as Unity First Person Template, Game Jam Starter Kit, Unity Standard Assets, and free sounds from freesound.org. The rest, we made ourselves :)
Recent updates: (version 0.9)
* Fire rate has been increased
* Bottom stairs of the basement area has been updated with smaller step height
Known issues:
Do not walk into the black doors xD - the 0.9 version has fixed this issue
Sometimes the cursor stays on the screen. Alt-tabbing should fix this for now.
*Removed the main menu temporarily due to a bug
If you downloaded the game, you must alt+f4 to get out of it.
Some AI issues.
Some clipping issues.
You can climb some of the trees lmao
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Super creepy! This is honestly the first submission I've played where reading "Death is only the beginning" was genuinely scary. A dark, twisted and superb take on the theme.
The first shadow to appear in the game, the one running past, really set the mood right from the start. The ones which loiter around are also a nice touch, perhaps a bit too prominent to be as creepy. Which is fine, though, since the ones that attack you are plenty scary to deal with when they sneak up on you.
I think some sort of sound effect, a subtle one, to indicate there's an enemy nearby would really take it to the next level. Not necessarily a noise from the shadows themselves, more along the lines of the radio static in Silent Hill; an audible trigger which warns the player of danger and, more than anything, increases their paranoia.
i think i fell off the map when i walked in a room
This just happened to me too lol
This is a scary game, usually not the type of game I play but I like this one. It is curious and keeps tension :D I was waiting for some AAAAA this "silence" is creepy on a good way it suits! Well done!
Not me spending 5 minutes tyring to search for the dude that ran past at the beginning lol. Loved the game, super eerie and big fan of the interactive items that tell the story.
Very atmospheric. I really enjoyed this, nice work.
Very nice game! I have few thoughts:
I climbed a tree! XD
omg that's funny xD I never expected people would go around climbing stuff.
creepy
Omg, thanks for taking the time to not only play it but record your gameplay! You're awesome. Subscribed!
hi there! Thank you so much for taking the time to play it and record! Awesome!
Salamat! THANKS!
GREAT GAME, love it, really good work :)
Thank you! Leave a rating if you can :)
Wow, this was a great submission! It had a pretty creepy atmosphere. Great work! I made sure to rate it as well.
Thank you so much! Your feedback means a lot. This was our first game jam ever.
No problem! It was my first jam as well. I'm trying to play as many submissions as I can since that's why we pretty much did the jam in the first place, so people can play our games. Once again, congrats to you and your team!
My thoughts on this:
the style of the notes contrasted too much to the overall style of the world so that is jarring. But I really commend the environment design and the level design.
1. The programming is really good for a game that looks to be in the pre alpha phase. The menu is pretty basic but that's to be expected at this stage. I could not reload for some reason so that's how I died lmao. That needs to be fixed but I think you guys know that.
2. What really stood out to me was the sound design. Very well placed, and high quality, if polished and refined further, it almost reminds me of Resident Evil. Love the ambient sounds/sound effects. Awesome!
3. Gameplay wise, it's like any other survival horror game out there. Mechanisms are very reminiscent of RE games. Hopefully if you do manage to finalize this, you can come up with more standout mechanisms, or if not, really deliver on the lore of the game.
4. Graphics wise, i know that the low poly and pixelated look is its intended design, but it's painful to the eyes after some point, probably because of the pixels. In my opinion i don't recommend the minecraft look, but you can still do low poly like how you did your kitty copter game, it could still serve its function well hahha sorry I have to be frank about this
Final thoughts for a pre Alpha is a 7/10. Good job!!!
Hi, I appreciate this review so much. I agree with all the points that you raised. There is currently no reloading in the game, all you need is to pickup ammo, but we'll add that in the future. The 10 day deadline really forced us to cut out a lot of features we otherwise would've had. I love that you compared it to RE, because this was inspired by RE, Silent Hill, and Amnesia. Also glad to hear you like the level design and environments, because it's what I spent the most time on, and my first time to actually level design for a horror game. I'll definitely work to fix a lot of those issues. Thanks for trying it out :D