The Dark Envelope
A downloadable game for Windows
*This game is a submission for Scream Jam 2022+1*
The Dark Envelope is a small game about a man struggling to crawl his way out of the dark and tight cavern system. He must race against time as suffocation and hallucination are taking a toll on him. Will he escape? or Will this cave become his tomb?
The game intentionally comes with complex controls to simulate harsh claustrophobic cave crawling. Here are control schemes.
P to pause the game
M to open map
F to Deploy glowsticks
Shift to toggle between moving mode and turning mode
[Moving Mode Controls]
1. Clicking left mouse and then right mouse back and forth = move forward
2. Clicking right mouse and then left mouse back and forth = move backward
[Turning Mode Controls]
1. Hold right mouse + A = Turn Left
2. Hold left mouse + D = Turn Right
3. Hold right mouse + W = Tilt Right
4. Hold Left mouse + S = Tilt Left
[Note: This game is in the early development stage and our team is quite new to this, so expect some bugs and glitches]
Download
Install instructions
1. Unpack the zip file
2. Run Dark Envelope.exe
Comments
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remember when I literally became sonic the hedgehog in that game?
For a game Jam project, this was perfection! Finest job. Yet, the mechanics were unnecessarily difficult.
There are 2 main perspectives, based on how I give the game a positive feedback - immersion and the struggle I had to encounter while navigating using the keyboard+mouse. First, I think the level of detail with these specific mechanics are superb. I literally felt as if I was crawling and that adds true depth to the horror, which I have not seen other games do. With that said, after couple of minutes I was irritated and overwhelmed, which is the reason why I quite the game.
I fully understand that this is a game Jam project. If you were to develop or update the game, I would recommend trying to find the balance between the 2 sides, which I mentioned in the paragraph, because the game has a great potential and it is super engaging.
Best of luck with the future developments and with the Jam. Cheers!