Descent Into Madness by Dan Davis
Trapped in a mysterious abandoned asylum, you find yourself alone in the dark, with no way out. To keep from starving, you eat the only thing you can find, a strange glowing mushroom. Suddenly you realize, that this is the key to your escape!
To Control use your arrow keys and the e key!






| Link | https://alienairship.com/bin/DiM/DiM.zip |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/48/descent-into-madness-1 |
Ratings
| Overall | 181th | 4.028⭐ | 20🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 324th | 3.778⭐ | 20🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 170th | 3.972⭐ | 20🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 498th | 3.944⭐ | 20🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 363th | 4.158⭐ | 21🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 43th | 4.333⭐ | 20🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 278th | 3.594⭐ | 18🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 108th | 4.263⭐ | 21🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 19🗳️ | 17🗨️ |
Great job.
My only point of critique is that the movement felt slow & clunky at times.
Really nice music, it fits very well. The idea was also fairly original.
The game needs much clearer feedback on what's going on. I died multiple times in the same way and I'm still not sure what was the cause. Did I eat too much mushrooms? Did I eat a poisoned mushroom? Did one of those creepy monster trees kill me? Really, I have no idea, the only thing I know is that I suddenly appeared at the latest checkpoint. That ultimately caused me to get frustrated and quit the game.
A short, 2 second clip of the character suffocating right after eating the mushroom (assuming that poisoning was the cause of death) would give me all the information I need on how to play the segment differently next time.
The atmosphere and the music are, for me, the highlight of this game. With a bit of polishing and perhaps some more innovative elements to the gameplay (moving, jumping and climbing got old pretty fast, something was missing there, but I'm not sure what), this could be a really fun asylum trip.
I love the art and music, and the idea was really cool.
The lighting was a bit dark though making it very hard to see the edges of precipices, and climbing was a bit janky, but otherwise great job.