Pretty hard to play :
I think you can consider one of my advices: short time in searching or longer stamina.
It happened when a new game started, just after a Game Over.
Almost certainly the code for choosing starting positions, which has since been rewritten. Thanks!
Definitely. As it stands, the game is very hard for me, and I wrote it. I’ve already increased stamina by 50%, and may decrease the time taken to search and push things by like 25%.
http://www.zarkonnen.com/dawn/logo.png
Right, updated the beta version at http://www.zarkonnen.com/dawn/b2.html.
This version is a bit easier (more stamina, less time spent searching and pushing), hopefully no longer sometimes crashes on game restart, and has some more items of scenery (a bed, rugs and flower pots).
I still have about 100 bytes to play with. Suggestions on what to add?
Add zombie? but zombie don’t hate sunlight. Rocket launcher or shotgun can be good ;D
I’m impressed by how much you could get into this game, but how many times do you expect someone has to play it before figuring out a way to win? I have tried it over 10 times now and can’t seem to survive for more than about 10 seconds. If I run to a drawer and try to search it the vampire will get me before the search is complete (sometimes I just have time to see the text saying what I found).
Probably good game, bad player, but I would prefer if it was a lot slower.
Seems like there are only a few possible maps, or do some of them just look similar? I never managed to run very far to explore.
This was a lot of fun! Took me quite a few attempts before I managed to win, but it’s definitely doable. Amazing what you managed to cram in 4K
I’m glad you like it. There’s actually only one map, but different starting locations. The trick to winning is to shift around furniture to block doorways, and to shake the vampire’s tail: if he sees you going around a corner, he’ll go up to there, but if you’re not visible from there, he has to start searching the house.
I’ll record a session of me evading him for 8 minutes in a bit.
Ha! I made it. Never thought I would. Most games ended after only a few seconds. Had to have some luck with starting positions and finding the key quickly.
Pretty cool idea and I really like the graphics.
Unfortunately so far I’ve only managed to survive 1 minute, but still the game didn’t feel unfair. OK, sometimes you get a bad position to start so you’ll only survive a few seconds, but maybe this isn’t a problem once you know the map.
OK, just to show it’s possible, here’s me beating level 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FupowYzi66o
Dawn is a very original game, and very well done technically. However, the game seems hard to master as soon as level one, which is a bit frustrating.
Once I understood why she started running slow after a while and learnt how to use the gun the game got a lot easier until level 3 (survived 6 minutes at the longest).
Mike
I think the creepiest element of this game is the breathing sound. Maybe add a heartbeat?
Well you know you could create 2 versions of the game. One for ASWD and one for QZSD. Or at least make an options menu so people can change that. Just saying that these are also other options. Arrow controls are fine too 