Dead End by chaosBrick

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made by chaosBrick for LD35 (JAM)
Can you survive in a dark shape-shifting maze full of evil monsters
seeking for your death? With few ammo and only one weapon you have
to fight your way through the labyrinth.

Will you survive?


Controls:

Move - [W][A][S][D]
Reload - [R]
Shoot - Left Mouse Button
Look Around - move Mouse
Adjust flash light - Mouse Wheel
Set Ambient Light - [Up][Down]


For better game experience turn off the lights.
You have a flashlight, which you can (or must)
adjust using your Mouse Wheel so you can see
where you're going.

If you don't see anything then you can increase
the ambient light in the game. But still this is
meant to be played as dark as possible.

This game uses
- DirectX 9
- .Net Framework 4
- Pixel/Vertexshader 3.0

If one of these is not installed the game might not work.

Ratings

Coolness 46% 1294
Overall(Jam) 3.00 751
Audio(Jam) 3.19 372
Fun(Jam) 3.05 602
Graphics(Jam) 3.36 527
Humor(Jam) 2.78 363
Innovation(Jam) 2.67 845
Mood(Jam) 3.25 427
Theme(Jam) 3.00 776

Feedback

ruchirbapat
19. Apr 2016 路 00:48 UTC
good game.
eeely
19. Apr 2016 路 01:30 UTC
i died almost immediately. it's too dark in that maze :P

... and then it crashed...
Pestel Crew
21. Apr 2016 路 06:31 UTC
Just see a black screen
magicagrilsdoinggamesforsenpai
21. Apr 2016 路 06:32 UTC
I can't see anything. It's just a black screen for my. Too bad :(
馃帳 chaosBrick
21. Apr 2016 路 06:34 UTC
Well, the darkness is actually the point of this game :D
It would be nice to know, when exactly it crashed and what failure message you've got. We can maybe fix it then.
PeachTreeOath
21. Apr 2016 路 07:00 UTC
Also getting only black screen and sound effects.
clementd
21. Apr 2016 路 07:23 UTC
Yeah, I got the same problems, I got juste a black screen with the sounds effects like shooting. Is that a monster I hear ?
馃帳 chaosBrick
21. Apr 2016 路 07:26 UTC
You have to use your mouse wheel to adjust your flash light.
Khaoz_Fang
21. Apr 2016 路 07:36 UTC
Nice textures, but it's really too dark..If you want to make a horror game,it's not good to just make it dark.
paquinn
21. Apr 2016 路 07:41 UTC
Had to turn my brightness up a lot to see anything. Still very impressive for a jam entry.
testzero
21. Apr 2016 路 07:53 UTC
"You have to turn the brightness up" is not an excuse.

"The darkness is the point of the game!" is not an excuse.

The game is literally just a black screen.

I took a screen shot and loaded it into photoshop to adjust the brightness manually. All completely black.
馃帳 chaosBrick
22. Apr 2016 路 08:27 UTC
if you have a complete black screen you maybe have problems with your DirectX. But we added a little feature to increase ambient lighting for people who see absolutely nothing. On every computer/screen combo we tested this on it worked perfectly.
BSODDevTeam
22. Apr 2016 路 13:39 UTC
Nice game.
whilefun
22. Apr 2016 路 14:25 UTC
I too suffer from the "actually just a black screen" issue. Running GTX 970 on win 7 if that helps.
pi_pi3
22. Apr 2016 路 14:35 UTC
Just a black screen.
馃帳 chaosBrick
22. Apr 2016 路 14:48 UTC
Did you try the Up/Down keys to increase ambient light?
Are you sure your system can run Pixelshader 3.0?
ragnta
22. Apr 2016 路 15:25 UTC
Nice game. :) Let me ask you how to find the errormessage in my game?
馃帳 chaosBrick
23. Apr 2016 路 13:40 UTC
@ragnta:
The error occurs dirctly after clicking the play button. before you even see graphics.
GGAlliance
23. Apr 2016 路 22:52 UTC
Good challenge. I think that could have and target and reduces the spining speed (or maybe put that on settings). Good graphics. ^^
aeveis
26. Apr 2016 路 04:50 UTC
Everything is very well textured/shiny. I couldn't get out of the maze, the mouse sensitivity was too high for me, and sometimes there was a bit a lag making it hard to navigate.