Trapped

Wild idea that fits the theme perfectly, you must have been watching a lot of Stranger Things. Loved the contrast between the dream and nightmare worlds, and the amount of upgrades was great.

Very interesting. The art was great, and it really felt like you were part of a bigger story/world. How this was achieved, in my opinion was through the very humanoid voices, the eerie music, and multiple levels with differing assets. Cutting the game into multiple bites: fight, shop, fight was also just incredibly motivating, and gave the game a sense of flow. The negatives I have for the game, are negligible at worst: AI wasn't very smart, which resulted in a very easy game. This didn't matter, because the story was compelling enough for me to want to keep playing. It's too short!

Really good art and sound, and the game feels great to play, and I really like the idea of enemies switching dimension too. As usual, I would have like a little more content :D

The big issues are clearly the bugs.

• The first big one is when you get knocked back into the void, your character get stuck and you can only move again if you become a ghost. I'm guessing you can just apply your collision code for the knockback here?
• And of course the crash. From what I can tell it's definitely an infinite loop (music keeps playing, nothing works, only way to get out is to kill it in the task manager). Happened to me around the middle of the 2nd level, when I killed a squid thing that was hovering above the void. I'm guessing the code is trying to put the ghost on the ground? I avoided killing any enemies in the void on my second run and didn't have any freeze.

And last thing, not really a bug, but you can skip dialog by accident, since it's the same button as the shooting, and I'm basically always shooting :D

As usual, your game looks amazing, sounds wonderful, and plays decently well too. A little slow at first but it's OK. On my first playthrough, I quickly went through the shops and was very surprised when the game closed itself. So I booted it back up and didn't rush through the levels.

I noticed an array of bugs with the game :/

• Sometimes when toggling fullscreen, the cursor would disappear for a little while??
• Sometimes the shooty enemies would "get stuck" (idk how) in the same spot, wiggling a lot, and firing crazy amounts of bullets at me.
• One time I got stuck and couldn't move, just had to sit a wait until enemies got near me and I got hurt enough to get into the "ghost" state.
• Eventually on level 2, the game completely froze. When I tried tabbing out of the game and back in, it just displayed a white screen. I had to close it with Task Manager.

Nice job again Kwisarts, game looks nice! The first playthrough I just went to the ending and thought "huh is this it?" Second playthrough I died on purpose. Cool concept. It's something that feels like it could really work well if there was more content. (dying on purpose to get through levels/puzzles, boss mechanics in which you'll have to be in both dimensions etc) Nice sound design as well!

The idea was good, the killing doesn't make you die, but sends you to the otherworld. Game is good, but it feels empty and really easy :/ The characters do look nice, but the character walking animation and speed which she runs doesn't much up. Sounds were pleasent. The icon in this site gives more sinister first impression than it is ^^"

Second time I tried the game, I got stuck :U I got hit and moved towards corner, where I got stuck and couldn't move anywhere.

A) love the game its awesomely designed. B) Music was awesome, I love the change when you are on the dark side, the bullets are like a little off and it added to the atmosphere perfectly! C) dark side was really awesome, actually freaked me out the first time. D) I couldn't really figure out the plot, if there was one. E) I got killed in the dark side and then made my way to the dreamer thingy and then it broke the game, making me close it with task manager.

Other than that, this is a great game. It does seem a bit too easy but really without the glitch and the plot, this game is perfecto. Good job guys! and Good Luck.

EDIT: yea the crash was on level two. I loved the game regardless tho.

Really cool little game! I found it a bit too easy, though, and I had to kill myself towards the end of the game to see what happens. I recommend just removing lives altogether, that way you can actually see the dark side.

Hey goldy and kwis, excellent job all around! The concept was brilliant, the art was gorgeous (especially those backgrounds, mmm) and those sfx were on point! I did however run into an unexpected game crash when i was phased after being defeated in the nightmare realm for the first time on the second world upon trying to enter back into the tiled portion of the game. It was an odd crash as I was unsuccessful in replicating it a second time, must have just been an unexpected death loop in functions but i did have to CTRL+ALT+Delete my way out of it. I went back though and had a total blast all the way through. The atmospheric changes were absolutely incredible to behold and you guys really nailed a fun gameplay loop of killing dream monsters and nightmare monsters. I loved the alternative sprites for both the tiles, bg, and monsters. An incredible amount of thought and very precise coding! Overall, a totally enjoyable experience and a very well polished entry! Keep making incredible games you two! :D

Super cool. And very familiar. :3 Edit, well reply really, but can't seem to find a button for that. I was fondly remembering a point and click adventure game you did with the fish a few jams ago. It transformed into a 2D shoot-em-up with dream-like qualities too. Fun stuff. Sadly due to crashes I never pushed all the way to the end of either of these.

Great game! I love the visuals, music, narrative, and overall aesthetic you have going on here. I think for a game where the primary focus is shooting enemies, you could've given the gun a bit more "oomph," like add a little bit of screenshake, muzzle flare, particles, a more intense sound, etc. but seeing that this was made in 48 hours, I can't really expect anyone to go to that amount of detail so whatever. You guys made a solid entry.

Nice job! I'm sucker for top down shooters so I really loved this. Switching between the dream and nightmare was a super neat mechanic, and the visual transition was eye candy :D Music/soundfx and art are all top notch.

Had a really fun time with this! :)

That was a cool take on the idea of no death. I was nice how nothing really died, it just changed dimension. It gave the game a weirdly calming feel even though you're basically shooting some little hell doggoes with a fish.

I tried to shoot them again after coming out of the nightmare but there were no more drops :( I thought I had a found a clever way to farm currency haha.

The music and art is very clean too. The transition with sound between dream/nightmare is well done.

Unfortunately I froze twice while playing it. It might be something to do with the enemies getting stuck in walls as it happened the first time after I shot one and it got knocked back into the edge. The second time was seemingly random. But the third time, I got to the end :D! ...and there was nothing to buy in the shop anyway!

But I wouldn't worry too much about the freezing. The fact I tried three times should say enough :)

Nice game! With an interesting mechanic, I hope it gets remade!

The artstyle is good, and I think it fits!

Keep up the good work!

Holy crap, there is so much I enjoyed about this game. The co-ordination between you and g0lden was excellent in this game whereas the art,music and sound all compliment each other perfectly to create a really nice atmosphere. I'm happy you included the dialogue you did, as it's always nice to see a dialogue system implemented, especially when it looks as great as yours usually does. I actually really like how death is one of the ways to transfer you between the two worlds, and it is designed to look like a nightmare-esque world. The shooting felt smooth, although I am slightly upset to see a fish :v. There's not really much for me to complain about this game, it had a pretty innovative theme and was overall my favorite game I've played so far!

Really cool game :D Only one tiny thing: I would have destroyed enemy projectiles either at a certain range, or when out of view.

A very cute and interesting game! I like the two worlds and their aesthetics, and the little bits of dialogue were nice. It was simple but well-produced. It froze once, but I unfortunately don't know what caused it. Overall, the game felt like a demo of a longer game. If it were expanded, I would definitely want to play it!