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You're a thief who is afraid of darkness, but your boss doesn't know that and he sends you out to do his dirty work in the middle of the night. You must stay on the edge of darkness so you don't pass out and don't get caught by the guards.

This game was made for VimJam 2 (10 days)
Requirement: Boss
Theme: On the edge

Keyboard:
- QWERTY / AZERTY for movement
- Escape for pause menu
- F to interact
- R to restart
- M to mute
- Space to drag/hold

Controller (Xbox):
- Left joystick for movement
- Start or B for pause menu
- X or Y to interact
- Select to restart
- A or RT to drag/hold

Known Bugs:
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This is a very short experience (5-15 minutes), but I hope you enjoy it nonetheless. Thank you for playing and post your times!

Mac build is not tested, please let me know if it works or not!

Font: https://kenney.nl/assets/kenney-fonts
Music: patrickdearteaga.com

Playthroughs



StatusPrototype
PlatformsWindows, macOS, Linux, HTML5
Rating
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(15 total ratings)
AuthorItsGeppy
GenrePuzzle
Made withGodot
Tags2D, Casual, lighting, Pixel Art, Shadows, Stealth, vimjam
Average sessionA few minutes
LanguagesEnglish
InputsKeyboard, Xbox controller, Playstation controller

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MidnightHeist-0.2.exe 49 MB
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MidnightHeist-0.2.x86_64 50 MB
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MidnightHeist-0.2.zip 38 MB
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MidnightHeist-0.1-JamEdition.exe 49 MB
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MidnightHeist-0.1-JamEdition.x86_64 50 MB
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MidnightHeist-0.1-JamEdition.zip 38 MB

Development log

Comments

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Enjoyed it. Linux build works fine ;)

Thank you!

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I really enjoyed the idea, I think it has a lot of potential and i do hope you keep working on it and adding more to the game 

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This was a very funny idea!
The 'fear meter', or whatever you'd call it, was a well-implemeted mechanic. It went down so fast that every time I was in a dark area I frantically moved to get out of it as quickly as possible. It very accurately simulated the feeling of being scared of the dark!

The music is very good, too. Simple, but fun and atmospheric.

Playing as a thief who's scared of the dark is a funny idea, and also adds an exciting extra edge to a stealth game. It would be good if this idea was expanded and turned into an even bigger game. I once played a stealth game about a thief that had similar pixelated graphics, called 'The Art of Stealth', so that sort of thing has happened!

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This is a winner i can feel it

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Thanks so much for this experience! I love when storytellers will write a contradictory character, meaning a character that does something that plays directly against what they'd like to do. If you've never seen Monk, I'd recommend it, because the title character, like your protagonist, is constantly thrust into situations that he would much rather avoid. It creates humorous situations, and in your game, it's actually a MECHANIC in that the "life bar" if that's what it can be called is affected by how long the character is in the dark. I thought that was very creative. The music was, as noted by other comments, extremely addicting and funky fresh. I edited it out because I honestly thought it would be annoying to people, but like a good 3 minutes of commentary for me was just making up songs to the music, which is a good sign that the music is fun to listen to and absorbing. I also thought that the level of difficulty was very balanced: challenging, yet not so hard that I gave up after a few times. I kept coming back after getting caught because I still believed I could beat the levels. Excellent work! Shout out to Boss Ross.
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Super entertaining to watch :D Seems like you were playing the jam version (0.1) where the intro is still broken, but at least you found the light switch! Not everyone found it :) Thank you so much for playing, recording it and your feedback!

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Awesome art style and super catchy music. The game loop is a bunch of fun and also noticed a few Easter eggs hidden in the levels, whats not to love.

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Thank you <3 :)

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Neat concept. Would love to see more.

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143.317 wr lets goo

https://imgur.com/a/lyYc1xS

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