Enemy is invisible until you shut your eyes

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🔊
If you notice light beyond the normal spectrum leaking into your eyes,
SHUT THEM IMMEDIATELY AND STAY STILL.
WIP, as I need to add a sound effect for when you're looking in its direction/it's attacking you to go along with the eye floater effect.

EDIT: Scroll down to see the finished version 🙂

[mellow spindle]

thats a pretty good concept! did you make the assets yourself?

[quaint sinew]

thank you! Everything hand made from scratch!

[vivid pendant]

I dont get it.

[mellow spindle]

thats great and what a nice style you have there

[quaint sinew]

Thanks!

[quaint sinew]

That's too bad!

[vivid pendant]

Can u explain maybe?

[strong crane]

That is nuts!? AWESOME

[quaint sinew]

This video's a little old, check out the finished version here:

In my game, you can be afflicted with various gameplay modifiers called Afflictions. In this case, the Affliction is "Photopsia". When afflicted with this, occasionally an "invisible" enemy will be hanging out around lights. If you see the squiggly squirmy eye floaters appear on your screen, you're "looking" at it, and it will attack you by invading your eyes. You have to shut your eyes to prevent it from dealing damage to you and to kill it.

Along with the eye floaters, you can also hear it when you're looking at it before it attacks you, as a warning. It attacks once you're close enough.
You can see a vague shape of it super-imposed on your vision when you shut your eyes too.

[strong crane]

I can say one thing,

This will pop off on release.

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Feel free to check out more from the project here!!
https://twitter.com/HEAVY_AS_STONE

[strong crane]

In your discord 🙂

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based

[strong crane]

😂

[timid kelp]

This is really cool! I love the art style you have going on. I do think some work can be done to make it easier to identify the enemy. Currently, it's hard for me to tell what I'm supposed to be looking for. Though I suppose this will be fixed with a tutorial in the game

[vivid pendant]

Hah, thx man, i assumed i had to close my eyes in real life when playing to see something lol...

[quaint sinew]

Thanks!
The vagueness on what you're "looking for" is intended - I think it's much easier to spot the effect in the second video posted above 🙂
Yes the onboarding process is quite long for the game due to the esotericness. Each new enemy type is a bit of a puzzle to figure out the most appropriate response.

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oof

[timid kelp]

Gotcha haha. Sounds good then 👍 As long as that onboaridng is easy to understand, then it sounds like an awesome concept. Best of luck

[quaint sinew]

It's been the biggest hurdle and feedback for me so far haha. "This all sounds super cool but, I know everything about the game cuz you explained it. I hope a new player can get to know the game smoothly too"

Thanks~