SLEEPCATCHER
A downloadable game
You're about to go inside the world of SLEEPCATCHER.
You're an operator whose responsibility is to go into people's chaotic and obsessive dreams and wake them up at all costs.
Your mission revolves around a genius architect who has gone rabid for shapes and forms, with an obsession with transcending through patterns and structures. He finds his flesh weak and only exact truths via mathematics and forms mean something to him now...
His dream is an eerie and dangerous manifestation of his insane passion. Will you be able to wake him up?
CONTROLS:
WASD: Move
Middle mouse Button: Switches Shoulders
Left mouse click: Shoot
Right mouse button: Aim
Shift: Sprint
Space Bar: Slide (while sprinting)
DEBUG COMMANDS:
We were not able to implement checkpoints well enough, so we made some teleporting debug commands. Please use them responsibly and only when in need :)
There are 6 locations you can teleport to. You go there by using numbers from 1 to 6 on the keyboard. To enable debug mode, press 0
Bare in mind this debug essentially allows you to skip the whole game. Go through 1 to 6 and check which area you completed when teleporting so you don't skip the game!
SETTINGS MENU:
In case you struggle to run the game, you can change the graphical settings through the main menu. We recommend trying at least high, as low settings will turn off the lights and not deliver the intended experience.
When in game, through the pause menu, you can disable camera shake, change brightness and tweak mouse sensitivity.
Audio assets from freesound.org
Credits to the users:
younoise
Luca2399
pnmcarrierailfan
g0ggs
bolkmar
kronyx04
magnuswaker
spoonsandlessspoons
wilhellboy
discordantscraps
nathan_lomeli
opossum
sherlock
sdlx
visionear
moveawaypodcast
ominouswhoosh
morganpurkis
erh
alienxxx
badwolf23
roloxi
samusounds79
zenpho
berdnikov2004
klankbeeld
roloxi
xkeril
Download
Install instructions
Unzip the folder and run the Merkaba.exe file
Comments
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First the game has an aesthetic that i really enjoyed with it being all artificial and bizarre with dream like sense, making it the highlight of the game for me.
And while I found bugs during my playthrough , the gameplay overall was really solid and comfortable to play specially the boss fight and shooting the enemy in general.
I also liked the minimal HUD that was present in the game making it more immersive , especially since I felt for the most part everything was intuitive for me
Also I have to mention the level design was really well intentioned , since I felt, I explored all of the area that was given to me while following the objective.
Overall it was a great experience for me and i think the player controller for some reason was really "comfortable" to play so for that alone it is already super commendable. Nice game you got there
Really enjoyed the cryptic writing and the whole mood and uncanny blockout aethetic of the levels. Didn't find any bugs besides a missing collision box on a column :3 (Oh and the default game sound was extremely loud xD)
The game mechanics were easy to understand as they were organically revealed to the player at the start, after that it was just exploration and solving the area puzzles which was entertainng given the level design. Only got stuck for a bit in the room before the boss where i didn't seem to understand what to do.
The turrets felt like a bit of a nuicence in my oppinion, and the sliding mechanic was more often used to traverse the level than for combat. The gun had some fun effects ! but also felt a bit missplaced given the limited ammount of threats and enemy types.
The boss fight at the end was a more interesting challenge, and i liked that you applied the mechanics of the level there to make the fight also a puzzle :3
overall was an interesting game to play, good job ^^ 💖!