One thing that would be really cool would be if you subverted the whole "your boss is an evil corporation that doesn't care if you die" thing that's in EVERY game now. Like this is a group of people trying their best, but despite good intentions all around, they're helpless against space
Good point; if the player knows their bosses don’t care they (the player) doesn’t have anywhere to place hope outside of themselves, while if their boss does care they place hope in the corporation that ultimately can do nothing for them. The destruction of hope is much more effective than starting with none.
@@Ryadovoy_Borodin I imagine a sort of hopeless final part where you boss sends a personalized message. Before, you contact was simple briefings like "Hello pilot. Your next mission is XYZ" but suddenly it's "I'm sorry, Bob, but we've done everything we can, and there's absolutely no way for us to reach you."
@@Miziziziz If you're ever thinking of playing it, don't read too much into it, as it's a game full of secrets and unexpected weirdness. Plenty of scares and unsettling moments too
To make more feel of the ship moving, you can add inertia physics system, for example, when the ship moves forward your character move abit to the back, when the ship stop, your character go forward abit faster.
This reminds me of an educational game I played in my childhood in the early 2000s that is probably completely unknown outside of Germany because it was only available in german. It was called "Löwenzahn" (german for "dandelion") and was based on a very popular educational TV show in Germany of the same name. These were mostly simple educational 2d point and click games, but in the fourth game of the series there was a 3d space game were you would fly through the solar system and take photos of the different planets. You could either navigate on a top-down map or in 3d view. Seeing the planets of our solar system quietly get closer and closer to you in the darkness of space had a very similar feeling to your game. Obviously the Löwenzahn space game had no horror elements as it was meant for kids, but it still captured that exciting feeling of exploring space. Nice to see this childhood nostalgia recreated in your game.
Unholy Hunger (no idea what name to give lol) Basically you are infected by a virus (does not need to be a zombie virus) and you can no longer eat food with ease and has a weakened immune system. you need to prepare your food carefully and control your jaws and tougue as well as other internal organs to prevent harming yourself
looks soo cool!! I would sugest a "zoom in screen" mechanic when you click on the monitor, because it can be kinda hard to read? or maybe not idk but anyways I'm really excited for this release!!
I think it's absolute remarkable that you're able to put your ideas in small but still engaging and atmospheric games which are so much more feasible to develop and release as a solo developer. I'm still struggling with FPS or TPS game ideas that always fall out of proportion because I lack certain skills (mostly artistic, especially character art) and therefore never even reach an alpha state. Very inspiring, thanks a lot! :)
For inspiration for the horror aspects, I recommend checking out Voices of the void, a horror game where you analyze signals from space Some of them show normal space stuff, some of them very eerie, and some cause events to happen in the game
Just recently, I watched the movie Salyut-7 and started thinking: what if Voices of the Void took place in space ? Being a single astronaut on a small space station positioned on the dark side of the Moon, maintaining it and controlling the work of a lunar observatory on the surface. And of course, creepy things happening, like manual docking and fixing your power and life support systems wasn't enough.
I remember playing a kid-friendly version of this game back in 2002. From Löwenzahn, I believe. Sometimes on the way to the next planet to photograph, space garbage patches would appear and you had dodge remnants of sattelites. Very fun.
There’s no way dude went ghost for two months and came back to drop a 5 minute video on an entirely new game that makes my top 5 games that are in the works. Wild.
although i understand why miziziziz chose the player to be in the spaceship opposed to controlling it from afar, i still find the "controlling something remotely" fascinating, it gives a vibe of "you're not in control", or "you don't have as much control as you might think", it's just like how a kid who relies on their parents for control, can't find said parents thus faced with a lack of control, therefore planting panic and most importantly fear in their head. idk about yall, but i feel like that is a great concept for a horror game (edit: by concept i am referring to the "lack of control" part, not the "kid in a walmart" part lmao), but everybody avoids it thinking the opposite
Nice one. I like the claustrophobic vibes of interior view. Hopefuly you could see something creeping there too. Would be scary, since you probably can't do anything due to being completely immobilized
I have a lot of problems with this game, but I wanna start out with the good. The aesthetic is intriguing, The tension and atmosphere at the ending was great. The Bad: The gameplay is way too slow and boring. You do the same stuff for each planet, each moon, and every star. Near the end of the game, you just take more time since you don’t have any power. I never was required to use my life support for anything, so why is it even here. The pixels on the monitor were random I had to squint my eyes to see the planets and to read the entries. The ending was so bad I thought I had died and replayed the last level, only to realize I’d already beaten the game. Though the different planets/ruins are cool, I have no motivation to imagine what these worlds are like. I have no clue as to why the earth ate me, and I have no clue why this game so lacking in creative design. Gameplay sucks, drip fed me content, save your money and your time.
i have no idea about developing games but, you could try adding an anomalous entity from the get go, and make it a red dot as you navigate your way through the map, it's extremely territorial but moves from time to time, makes the game much more intense and photographing the planets much more thrilling, and as for the photographs of the planets, you can sometimes make them animated, as if an entity passes through, it could cause static on the camera, doesn't have to be distinguishable, just enough for the player to feel unease and eerie. For the chef's touch, add tapping or knocking sounds once in a while, as there's no sounds in space, that's the only viable way to scare the player sound-wise.
This is awesome, excited to see the horror aspect other than the already established claustrophobia and endless vastness of cold void on the other side of your pod
missed opportunity to call the in game OS something like PhobOS. i've always wanted a reason for that pun to exist. with all those greek gods (and by extension celestial bodies) whose names end in "os," it just seems criminal not to make an operating system named after one
As someone who absolutely LOVED Endoparasitic, I'm still positive this will be my favorite game of yours. It's insane to me how much this feels like every element of this game is geared to my interests, like I don't think I, myself, could've come up with a concept for a horror game that I would like more than this, this game looks AWESOME. My only hope is that it's pretty replayable because I feel like this concept has so much potential for a game you can play over and over again trying to do better. Regardless of if it's replayable or if it's more of a one-off short experience like iron lung, I'm confident it'll be one of the coolest games I've ever played. Super excited!
a command line section would be very cool, adding to the "engineer maintaining archaic, constantly breaking systems" feel. Like some other machine on the side without GUI that controls certain functions of the ship. But that might not appeal to the non-nerd playerbase or simply be not fun, idk
Why? It was popular and has given rise to similar games, the same way that FNAFdid. It means we will hopefully see people elaborate on the theme like Miziziziz is doing. And maybe we get a couple of great horror games out of it. :-)
honestly id highly recommend to have the photos not have any stars in them --- if you look at many photos from apollo missions and such, the camera exposure makes it so that while you can see celestial bodies, stars are barely visible at all. It adds a sense of realism to it that I think could really help with the horror aspect
I watched an entire playthrough of this game on TH-cam, here are my comments (critiques, really): 1. The degradation of the screen becomes too much at higher levels - so high that it's hard to distinguish the planets on the Navigation screen from the background noise (i.e. dead pixels). Maybe tone it down a little? 2. Text files < 1KB in size don't take years to decrypt. Maybe instead of that convert them to one ship in each system having one piece of the puzzle? 3. The effects of the life support system going offline are unrealistic - contrary to popular belief people don't die in a matter of minutes in the absence of life support, simply because there's enough air in the cabin to last days, and radiation protection is completely passive (e.g. lead shielding). 4. Having a relativistic propulsion system and antiquated monitors and power modes (e.g. camera takes same power as thrusters) is immersion breaking because it feels anachronistic. Maybe replace the sub-light travel with a timelapse and a regular propulsion? 5. There is only one villain in the game. Are there plans to add more? I was expecting multiple, to be honest. Apart from these, I liked the game in concept - I think it has potential.
Looks great! CRT displays like the one you're depicting can't really have dead pixels tho. Sorry, I realize that's probably not the most helpful nitpick. I'm sure they could be damaged in some way by cosmic rays - just no idea how.
I have an idea for a name to the creature that kills you, similar to the name of a skinwalker let’s call them planet orbiters. The name comes from A. Planet is obvious because this creature disguises itself to be a planet like a skinwalker disguises itself to look like a human, orbiter comes from the face that this being will orbit stars like it’s a normal planet. LORE TIME!!1!!1! What if these creatures come from humans as humans did a massive experiment on a planet which made a life form grow inside of the planet and eat away at its inner core and use it as a disguise to kill humans? But what if those creatures eat planets also, that would actually make lots of sense how that planet lives, it might just be that they absorb the metals into their blood.
what exactly do you call that style of map navigation with the horizontal and vertical crosshair bars that move individually? I've been trying to look for some resources on this but it's kinda hard to find because i don't know what the correct way to describe it is called (most results just show me things relating to GridMap or TileMap nodes, which are helpful, but aren't really relevant to this particular problem)
I didn't know Iron-Lung-like was a category. If I ever get good at game dev, I'd like to do something similar, but with more newtonian physics involved. And more controls.
I think it's cool that you came up with the concept of the game and THEN realised it was similar to Iron Lung. As opposed to thinking "I wanna make a game like Iron Lung cuz it was popular." Having an original idea coincidentally similar to a pre-existing one is so much better than an original idea based on a pre-existing one.
You can't just drop such a banger game idea and execution and not give us a download immediately :( For real though, great game idea, have already wishlisted and can't wait to play it! I checked the min requirements for the game on Steam and have noticed that it says 8 MB of RAM, is this intentional?
You know, I thought I was weird because I found the process of scanning planets in Elite Dangerous pretty creepy. I still don't know exactly why. Something about imagining how big they are, how alone and isolated they each are, how vast the distances of empty space around them are, and the strange sound effects they made when listening to their radio signals. Now you've made a horror game which is basically just exactly that. I feel like I'm not that weird to think it was so creepy now.
Looks really cool, since its going for immersion over the realism. Mby it would be cool if room where you are in is bigger? Would be cool if you could walk, not too big of a room. But maybe a window, some cabinets etc to make it more fun and as a story progresses ( I assume there will be one) creppy things start happening and you have to solve a mystery? Idk if its correct choice, but pc feels good and rest a bit empty. Just a window looking at space and maybe you occasionally see weird stuff through it would go a long way. Excited to see how this one develops further tho!
Honestly I feel like the game could've been just as scary if it was only the monitor view, and you were remotely controlling it, if you played it right. It'd be more of a sense of dread of like "the cosmic horror thingy we encountered is out there, and on it's way to Earth, we don't know how long we have, or if we could even fight it" rather than "raw" horror, but it could still be just as scary imo
You've heard of Iron Lung, now get ready for Titanium Liver.
What about Silver Heart?
Next it's going to be golden stomach
palladium pancreas
Tungsten brain
Fallout has lead belly covered
3:40 Sure, it doesn't add to the gameplay, but it helps really nail the atmosphere just being claustrophobic and helpless.
I think this has already been invented, it's called Kerbal Space Program with scansat installed
He'll yea brotha
Lung-like is going to become a genre mark my words
it already is💀💀
"Tincan" is an lung-like that's been out for quite a while
the first lung-type game
dont give the gaming journos any ideas
I somehow knew it too a while ago- with the exact name "lung-like" too
I never knew I needed Space Iron Lung but I can't wait for the Markiplier theatrical release
Space Iron Lung?
Oh yeah that’s right Markiplier did play his other game
@@kaiser9321 miz didn't make iron lung
Iron Lung is in space 💀
Space iron lung
So
Iron lung lmao
if you had multiple screens, it'd give player a reason to look around.
more scarier for just one screen i think
@@drenz1523 But with multiple screens, you need to multitask.
It would be cool if you had other functions away from the computer that you had to maintain. Just to add to the stress
@@IgnobleKin like pipes or controll a robot arm to clean dirt off the photo camera.
One thing that would be really cool would be if you subverted the whole "your boss is an evil corporation that doesn't care if you die" thing that's in EVERY game now. Like this is a group of people trying their best, but despite good intentions all around, they're helpless against space
i mean it's true to life
@@OutbackCatgirlBut the setting is darker if, even when at their best, humanity is helpless.
Good point; if the player knows their bosses don’t care they (the player) doesn’t have anywhere to place hope outside of themselves, while if their boss does care they place hope in the corporation that ultimately can do nothing for them. The destruction of hope is much more effective than starting with none.
YES
@@Ryadovoy_Borodin I imagine a sort of hopeless final part where you boss sends a personalized message. Before, you contact was simple briefings like "Hello pilot. Your next mission is XYZ" but suddenly it's "I'm sorry, Bob, but we've done everything we can, and there's absolutely no way for us to reach you."
Seems really cool, gives me real Signal Simulator/Voices of the Void type vibes mixed with Iron Lung
Babe wake up, new Miziziziz game
Currently watching, but already giving me MASSIVE voices of the void vibes
But without the jokiness of it
oh dang, never heard of that before, going to check it out
@@Miziziziz If you're ever thinking of playing it, don't read too much into it, as it's a game full of secrets and unexpected weirdness. Plenty of scares and unsettling moments too
yup
@@Miziziziz have you heard of kerfus
You should checkout "Voices of the void", really good indie horror with kinda similliar topic.
And Signal Simulator too, for good measure
UFO PORNOOOO
@@okie9025NO
@@okie9025NO DRACULAS NO MUMMY NO DUENDE NO MARCIANITO
To make more feel of the ship moving, you can add inertia physics system, for example, when the ship moves forward your character move abit to the back, when the ship stop, your character go forward abit faster.
Would that still apply in space tho?
@@Foxtrot-51 Yes and would be more drastic, going from 0g and then when the engines fire they add g-force.
Voices IN the iron lung
I'm genuinely impressed that you made a game about space, a seemingly infinite expanse, claustrophobic. Massive props!
You actually sound like an AI
@@kingangus4808 I have that effect on some people lol
You actually sound like an AI
@@ShargDudu-wf6hi beep boop beep boop
you don't sound like an AI, you just express your ideas well 💪
Voices of the Iron Lung
If iron lung and voices of the void, or signal simulator had a child
This reminds me of an educational game I played in my childhood in the early 2000s that is probably completely unknown outside of Germany because it was only available in german. It was called "Löwenzahn" (german for "dandelion") and was based on a very popular educational TV show in Germany of the same name. These were mostly simple educational 2d point and click games, but in the fourth game of the series there was a 3d space game were you would fly through the solar system and take photos of the different planets. You could either navigate on a top-down map or in 3d view. Seeing the planets of our solar system quietly get closer and closer to you in the darkness of space had a very similar feeling to your game. Obviously the Löwenzahn space game had no horror elements as it was meant for kids, but it still captured that exciting feeling of exploring space. Nice to see this childhood nostalgia recreated in your game.
Bro Cant stop COOKING
Loving the VotV rep in this comment section, can't wait for this
inb4 pyrocynical makes a two hour long video explaining the entire game
"so if you don't know there's this device called a photo camera and what it does is-"
This man can see me making a grilled cheese sandwich and somehow coming up with a masterpiece of a horror game
Unholy Hunger (no idea what name to give lol)
Basically you are infected by a virus (does not need to be a zombie virus) and you can no longer eat food with ease and has a weakened immune system. you need to prepare your food carefully and control your jaws and tougue as well as other internal organs to prevent harming yourself
To be fair, seeing someone like me try to make something as simple as a grilled cheese would give anyone inspiration for a horror game
@@Noxious_chemicals I never even make a grilled cheese(yet), the concept of cooking cheese is still alien to me due to my Vietnamese household
So, basically, it's kinda Iron Lung meets Voices of the Void?
Getting real Scavenger SV-4 vibes from this game, thats one of the games I really like!
lowkey one of my favorite games of all time, i really wish someone would make something like it again
looks soo cool!! I would sugest a "zoom in screen" mechanic when you click on the monitor, because it can be kinda hard to read? or maybe not idk but anyways I'm really excited for this release!!
I think it's absolute remarkable that you're able to put your ideas in small but still engaging and atmospheric games which are so much more feasible to develop and release as a solo developer.
I'm still struggling with FPS or TPS game ideas that always fall out of proportion because I lack certain skills (mostly artistic, especially character art) and therefore never even reach an alpha state.
Very inspiring, thanks a lot! :)
so it's Duskers meets Ironlung? That fucks severly, I like it
Iron Lung + Voices of the Void
ooooh this kinda gives me the same feel as Scavenger SV-4. Very interesting!
For inspiration for the horror aspects, I recommend checking out Voices of the void, a horror game where you analyze signals from space
Some of them show normal space stuff, some of them very eerie, and some cause events to happen in the game
My inner child awakens when it comes to space exploration related stuff
New addition to the iron lung genre of game
You have to add the moon with blood oceans from Iron Lung as an easter egg or something
Iron Lung... in spaaaaaaaace!
ANOTHER BANGER OTW 🗣️🗣️🗣️🔥🔥
Just recently, I watched the movie Salyut-7 and started thinking: what if Voices of the Void took place in space ?
Being a single astronaut on a small space station positioned on the dark side of the Moon, maintaining it and controlling the work of a lunar observatory on the surface. And of course, creepy things happening, like manual docking and fixing your power and life support systems wasn't enough.
Voices of the Void plus Iron Lung, both are awesome games. No doubt this will be too
3d planets displayed as 2d images inside a 3d capsule, love it!
WoW, this guy is alive after all
This man was born to make games
He's mediocre lol
Technically Iron Lung DOES take place in space, but technically everything is in space so...fair enough?
I remember playing a kid-friendly version of this game back in 2002. From Löwenzahn, I believe. Sometimes on the way to the next planet to photograph, space garbage patches would appear and you had dodge remnants of sattelites. Very fun.
There’s no way dude went ghost for two months and came back to drop a 5 minute video on an entirely new game that makes my top 5 games that are in the works. Wild.
although i understand why miziziziz chose the player to be in the spaceship opposed to controlling it from afar, i still find the "controlling something remotely" fascinating, it gives a vibe of "you're not in control", or "you don't have as much control as you might think", it's just like how a kid who relies on their parents for control, can't find said parents thus faced with a lack of control, therefore planting panic and most importantly fear in their head.
idk about yall, but i feel like that is a great concept for a horror game (edit: by concept i am referring to the "lack of control" part, not the "kid in a walmart" part lmao), but everybody avoids it thinking the opposite
i dont know about u but i think "horror game where u play as a lil kid lost in a walmart" sounds cool too
@@AuntBibby after a second thought, maybe i didn't give the walmart kid enough credit
try out voices of the void, its free and does something similar to what you're talking about
Ooh its like Voices of The Void! ❤
Updates or Windows 7 compatibility tips? Currently running --rendering-driver opengl3
I always get so excited when this guy uploads. This is what I want from a devlog. I really like the aesthetics as well.
I think it would be a nice touch if the hose connected to the players body was disconnected or removed when the player turns off life support.
"Overall this environment doesn't add anything to the gameplay..."
*IS 90% OF THE HORROR*
This is how i imagined Iron Lung 2 to look, this is amazing!
WHAT!!!!??? I was thinking this is just another cool indie game, but it's Miziziziz!!!
Nice one. I like the claustrophobic vibes of interior view. Hopefuly you could see something creeping there too. Would be scary, since you probably can't do anything due to being completely immobilized
I have a lot of problems with this game, but I wanna start out with the good.
The aesthetic is intriguing,
The tension and atmosphere at the ending was great.
The Bad:
The gameplay is way too slow and boring. You do the same stuff for each planet, each moon, and every star. Near the end of the game, you just take more time since you don’t have any power. I never was required to use my life support for anything, so why is it even here.
The pixels on the monitor were random I had to squint my eyes to see the planets and to read the entries.
The ending was so bad I thought I had died and replayed the last level, only to realize I’d already beaten the game. Though the different planets/ruins are cool, I have no motivation to imagine what these worlds are like. I have no clue as to why the earth ate me, and I have no clue why this game so lacking in creative design. Gameplay sucks, drip fed me content, save your money and your time.
i have no idea about developing games but, you could try adding an anomalous entity from the get go, and make it a red dot as you navigate your way through the map, it's extremely territorial but moves from time to time, makes the game much more intense and photographing the planets much more thrilling, and as for the photographs of the planets, you can sometimes make them animated, as if an entity passes through, it could cause static on the camera, doesn't have to be distinguishable, just enough for the player to feel unease and eerie. For the chef's touch, add tapping or knocking sounds once in a while, as there's no sounds in space, that's the only viable way to scare the player sound-wise.
Wow new Mizz!
You're one hell of a game designer, man. You make cool stuff.
🤣🤣🤣
This is awesome, excited to see the horror aspect other than the already established claustrophobia and endless vastness of cold void on the other side of your pod
missed opportunity to call the in game OS something like PhobOS. i've always wanted a reason for that pun to exist. with all those greek gods (and by extension celestial bodies) whose names end in "os," it just seems criminal not to make an operating system named after one
GRAYSTILLPLAYS ACTUALLY PLAYED THIS CONGRATS 👏👏👏
This feels like an idea i should have came up with. Glad it won’t rot in the backrooms of my todo lists
You mixed the terrefiest indie game from the past year with one of my phobias.
*I'M IN*
As someone who absolutely LOVED Endoparasitic, I'm still positive this will be my favorite game of yours. It's insane to me how much this feels like every element of this game is geared to my interests, like I don't think I, myself, could've come up with a concept for a horror game that I would like more than this, this game looks AWESOME. My only hope is that it's pretty replayable because I feel like this concept has so much potential for a game you can play over and over again trying to do better. Regardless of if it's replayable or if it's more of a one-off short experience like iron lung, I'm confident it'll be one of the coolest games I've ever played. Super excited!
You photo the planet, it will subscribe to you.
oh lord, we're going full gemini home entertainment with this, aren't we
I wanna call you a nerd, but I physically can't
Sounds similar to voices of the void. Great game, I suggest checking it out but still continue your project. It is still very different. 👍
was thinking the exact same thing
Kernel Space Program Kerbal POV:
This looks great! Definitely going to play it... Wishlisted!
Love how you've built this video, its great seeing your work again!
saw manlybadasshero play this
Horrifying, thanks 👍
Kinda reminds me of VoTV
This looks similar to VOTV
servo skull simulator
a command line section would be very cool, adding to the "engineer maintaining archaic, constantly breaking systems" feel. Like some other machine on the side without GUI that controls certain functions of the ship. But that might not appeal to the non-nerd playerbase or simply be not fun, idk
You ought to add VR support
I just love your worldbuilding in games like this. Maybe you can somehow connect it with Wrought Flesh and Endoparasitic? I mean lore wise
Iron lung and it's consequences have been a disaster for the indie horror space
Why? It was popular and has given rise to similar games, the same way that FNAFdid. It means we will hopefully see people elaborate on the theme like Miziziziz is doing. And maybe we get a couple of great horror games out of it. :-)
This looks so awesome! Reminds me a bit of Sunshine, in the sense that it evoked that same fear of space that that film did
this is voices of the void inspired for sure
votv is a great game
Aluminum Kidney
nothing but bangers from miziziziziziziziziziziziz
honestly id highly recommend to have the photos not have any stars in them --- if you look at many photos from apollo missions and such, the camera exposure makes it so that while you can see celestial bodies, stars are barely visible at all. It adds a sense of realism to it that I think could really help with the horror aspect
You are killing it 🎉🎉
I watched an entire playthrough of this game on TH-cam, here are my comments (critiques, really):
1. The degradation of the screen becomes too much at higher levels - so high that it's hard to distinguish the planets on the Navigation screen from the background noise (i.e. dead pixels). Maybe tone it down a little?
2. Text files < 1KB in size don't take years to decrypt. Maybe instead of that convert them to one ship in each system having one piece of the puzzle?
3. The effects of the life support system going offline are unrealistic - contrary to popular belief people don't die in a matter of minutes in the absence of life support, simply because there's enough air in the cabin to last days, and radiation protection is completely passive (e.g. lead shielding).
4. Having a relativistic propulsion system and antiquated monitors and power modes (e.g. camera takes same power as thrusters) is immersion breaking because it feels anachronistic. Maybe replace the sub-light travel with a timelapse and a regular propulsion?
5. There is only one villain in the game. Are there plans to add more? I was expecting multiple, to be honest.
Apart from these, I liked the game in concept - I think it has potential.
I'm really digging the clay CRT effects, but you've kind of broken that, cos dead pixels is a totally LCD thing...
what my kerbals see when I lock the pod in a fairing:
Looks great!
CRT displays like the one you're depicting can't really have dead pixels tho. Sorry, I realize that's probably not the most helpful nitpick. I'm sure they could be damaged in some way by cosmic rays - just no idea how.
I have an idea for a name to the creature that kills you, similar to the name of a skinwalker let’s call them planet orbiters. The name comes from A. Planet is obvious because this creature disguises itself to be a planet like a skinwalker disguises itself to look like a human, orbiter comes from the face that this being will orbit stars like it’s a normal planet.
LORE TIME!!1!!1!
What if these creatures come from humans as humans did a massive experiment on a planet which made a life form grow inside of the planet and eat away at its inner core and use it as a disguise to kill humans?
But what if those creatures eat planets also, that would actually make lots of sense how that planet lives, it might just be that they absorb the metals into their blood.
looks pretty cool and unique! curious what the horror elements will be like
what exactly do you call that style of map navigation with the horizontal and vertical crosshair bars that move individually? I've been trying to look for some resources on this but it's kinda hard to find because i don't know what the correct way to describe it is called (most results just show me things relating to GridMap or TileMap nodes, which are helpful, but aren't really relevant to this particular problem)
Lk-2(if im remembering correctly) really reminds me of Jean Jacket! Did you take inspiration from Nope?
I didn't know Iron-Lung-like was a category. If I ever get good at game dev, I'd like to do something similar, but with more newtonian physics involved. And more controls.
I think it's cool that you came up with the concept of the game and THEN realised it was similar to Iron Lung. As opposed to thinking "I wanna make a game like Iron Lung cuz it was popular." Having an original idea coincidentally similar to a pre-existing one is so much better than an original idea based on a pre-existing one.
Memory: 8 MB RAM
Graphics: GTX 1080
xd
You can't just drop such a banger game idea and execution and not give us a download immediately :(
For real though, great game idea, have already wishlisted and can't wait to play it!
I checked the min requirements for the game on Steam and have noticed that it says 8 MB of RAM, is this intentional?
You know, I thought I was weird because I found the process of scanning planets in Elite Dangerous pretty creepy. I still don't know exactly why. Something about imagining how big they are, how alone and isolated they each are, how vast the distances of empty space around them are, and the strange sound effects they made when listening to their radio signals.
Now you've made a horror game which is basically just exactly that. I feel like I'm not that weird to think it was so creepy now.
Looks really cool, since its going for immersion over the realism. Mby it would be cool if room where you are in is bigger?
Would be cool if you could walk, not too big of a room. But maybe a window, some cabinets etc to make it more fun and as a story progresses ( I assume there will be one) creppy things start happening and you have to solve a mystery?
Idk if its correct choice, but pc feels good and rest a bit empty. Just a window looking at space and maybe you occasionally see weird stuff through it would go a long way.
Excited to see how this one develops further tho!
Honestly I feel like the game could've been just as scary if it was only the monitor view, and you were remotely controlling it, if you played it right. It'd be more of a sense of dread of like "the cosmic horror thingy we encountered is out there, and on it's way to Earth, we don't know how long we have, or if we could even fight it" rather than "raw" horror, but it could still be just as scary imo
Would love to get a "wrought flesh" easter egg. Catch a weird drop pod zipping by real fast on some unknown mission to do God knows what! 🤣