The Journey by Mekuri

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made by Mekuri for LD36 (JAM)
The Journey is a small horror themed game about going home, riding your bike, all while trying not to crash and/or go insane.

As with most Ludum Dare games, there's a lot of features and ideas that was cut. I did end up with some gameplay, and it is possible to beat the game- Although I put more effort into the "failing" part of the game.

As for the Theme- I planned to make the theme more obvious than a fairly vague reference to it, in text, but.. it is what it is.

I hope you enjoy it.

###- NOTICE -###
The UI is not optimized for 4:3 resolutions, and some GUI elements may go off screen. I recommend you play in any of the 16:9 resolutions- And use sound!
Also - Play with sound! - As most of the Audio is from Freesound.org and I haven't spent too much time editing the sounds, you may want to -NOT- have your volume at full.

As usually with my games, OS/X and Linux versions have not been tested.

Feedback

CyberStarLight
30. Aug 2016 路 20:11 UTC
Oh god, I'm not good with horror games XD

Nice work on the atmosphere and sounds, it fits the horror theme and it made me jump a few times (though I'm an easy target).
It's a good idea to give info on the opening screen.

Do the enemies do something on touch? because I just went straight all the way and looked away when I saw them coming. I got home without troubles.. and barely used any stamina.

The environment is really nice too, did you do all the modeling and animations? if you did, then you did a really good job!

Overall a very nice game :)
xirion11
31. Aug 2016 路 03:14 UTC
Great job I was so scared that I had to play with no sound XD. I really liked the atmosphere and gameplay.
馃帳 Mekuri
31. Aug 2016 路 18:58 UTC
@CyberStarLight
Thanks for your input. Except for the trees, then yes I did the modelling and animations myself. The humanoid models, I made the base with MakeHuman, and then "scaled" them down to fit into a game.
tonynogo
03. Sep 2016 路 14:03 UTC
Congrats for the job!
Mood is good. Graphics are nice.
SamuelSousa
06. Sep 2016 路 17:54 UTC
Great Entry! Greta art! Solid presentation.
Simple and easy to play with!

Felt creepy enough and I never returned home ;)
Horbee
06. Sep 2016 路 19:46 UTC
Okay... i played it only once. I freaked out :D
Man... you made it very good! I never played any horror games during ludum dare, so I wanted to try out this one. So apparently I never got home too. The graphics and sound are good enough to call this an indie horror game :D
Jupiter_Hadley
08. Sep 2016 路 18:16 UTC
Very nice atmosphere! I included it in my compilation video series of Ludum Dare 36, if you鈥檇 like to take a look :) https://youtu.be/66O503w0cEI
Recursiveanomaly
09. Sep 2016 路 21:19 UTC
Love the concept! I adore horror games. I thought the camera was a bit hard to control. And I think it might be better to have the mouse control the bike as that was my intuition at the beginning. Some cricket sounds would really add to this I think. I love your graphics. I kept getting caught by the monster character. Thanks for the game!