A downloadable game

They say he watches on only the hottest summer nights....

Spend probably no more than two minutes exploring a desert town to look for clues and unlock the tomb of the Jersey Mothgoat. Will you cement your name in paranormal history or not? Will you survive his judgment? That's for you to decide.

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E: Interact (finicky atm, might have to press a couple times)

R. Mouse Click: Select Menu Choice

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Art, Coding, Design, Modeling, Testing: @kushifer

Audio: Freesound.org

Plugins: Fungus, PSXEffects

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Solo entry for the 3 hour game jam: Trijam #171. There's a few more screenshots of the process on my twitter. Pretty happy with how it turned it, but I would've liked to implement the "Watch Your Step" theme more directly. As it is, I wanted to make the player feel like an unwelcome outsider, watching their back for the town's hostile inhabitants as much as the Jersey Mothgoat himself.

I ran out of time to come up with my own music as well as flesh out the town a little more, which would've been next to add. I also wanted a more fleshed-out puzzle for opening the Mothgoat's tomb but I worked on building game/assets itself rather than design and planning at the start. The latter should've had more focus, so in the next jam I'll be trying to focus more on planning and design at the beginning.

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In a Quiet Town.zip 29 MB

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good short story

This was quite cool! I enjoyed the atmosphere and pixelated style! Great job!

Thanks for taking the time to try it out!

Pretty atmospheric game! Considering it's a 3-hour jam, great job!
A small open world, NPS with puzzles, even a small story is available. In my opinion, games in the genre of quests for 3 hours is quite difficult to realize, but that's just my opinion.

Thanks for the feedback!