goldfish

[ABOUT]

Lost and swallowed by darkness, fumble your way through an unfamiliar place in search of a way out.

Goldfish is a short, proof-of-concept demo that seeks to simulate the childhood fear of navigating back to your room through the darkness once you've switched the last of the lights off.

• Run your hands along walls and feel the ground as you step to remember the path you've taken
• Rely on your sense of object permanence by touching things around you to remember their location
• Your memory of the surroundings will fade over time, but it is never safe to rush around in the dark
• Listen to the sounds of the space around you and pick out landmarks to help find your way
• Just because something was there moments ago doesn't mean it's still there, and just because there was nothing there before doesn't mean there isn't now...

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[CONTROLS]

WASD - Move

SHIFT - Run

CTRL - Crawl

E - Interact

L/R MOUSE - Touch

[DEVELOPER NOTES]

Goldfish is the result of a one-week self-imposed game jam as a means to create a playable build reflective of a core concept in order to gather feedback. While this built is short, taking only 10-15 minutes to complete, and is lacking some of the features and ideas I had hoped to add before the weeks end, it serves as a groundwork for expansion and is a good reflection of the core concepts I'm wanting to explore.

[WARNING: MAY CONTAIN BUGS]

[CREDITS]

Sounds: All sounds under CC0 via freesound.org
Models: LowPolyAssets, Broken Vector