Gestate
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this project is currently in development, any and all feedback is deeply appreciated :)
An incomprehensible horror resides in the old shed on the outskirts of your farm.
The only way of satiating it's hunger is to leave offerings outside the door every night.
But this ancient evil is poisoning your land, and must be dealt with.
Scavenge the dying land, earn the creature's trust, and stop the creature from gestating.
Gestate is a horror-simulation game in which you must collect animal carcasses and offer them to the eldritch entity residing in your tool shed. These animals have a variety of effects on the creature, impacting its hunger, strength and trust in the player's offerings.
- If the creature's hunger bar is depleted, the player will be consumed, ending the game.
- If the creature's strength bar is depleted, it will perish, winning the game.
- The effect of the player's offerings scale with it's trust. At 0 trust the monster will refuse your food, at maximum trust, the monster will devour your offerings without hesitation.
The objective is to reduce the monster's strength to zero by feeding it harmful substances, whilst feeding it nourishing carcasses to regulate its hunger and maintain its trust so that it will continue to ingest your offerings.
controls:
- W, A, S, D - movement
- LEFT SHIFT (hold) - sprint
- E - interact
- Q - drop
- SCROLL WHEEL - navigate hotbar
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Development log
- Devlog 1: Recap & Small Update & Future PlansJun 10, 2024
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great game! I thoroughly enjoyed myself and really liked the gameplay. The sound design was good and the level design was great. I wish there was more story to it but it was great either way.
shrimply quite amazing, i love eating rat poison so it quite a struggle being forced to share
Good Game
Superb game!
I want to say thanks for suggestion to play the game. It was a fun ride indeed. I loved the design, the overall look of the game and somehow the atmosphere creeped up on me. Have to say, I did try to poison, whatever was in the shed, but that's just me goofing around - I didn't have any issues with the game. Great job!
Best of luck with the future developments.
Apologies about not recording the game as currently I am sick and my voice is trash. I was able to capture some gameplay, but its not the same as commenting on it. Definitely recommending this to my friends, who surely will love to showcase this. Cheers ✨
Hi Niven! I'm so glad you liked it :D Thank you so much for taking the time to play this and for giving us this feedback
I'm so glad you like the atmosphere, I always enjoy how you create such a strong disturbing atmosphere in your work so it means a lot that you liked ours too :)
No worries about the video, my friend, I hope you feel better soon!
Gestate still has a lot of room for improvement so we're not too concerned with marketing the game in this incomplete state anyway - Getting feedback from such a skilled developer as yourself is what's most important to us for making improvements to the game :D
Finally got around to playing Gestate last night. I adore the art style, sound design and atmosphere. You executed the PSX aesthetic perfectly. Little things like the sound when you add items to your inventory, the way it moves to your hand, and the buzzing sound when you're near corpses are some lovely tactile touches. One thing is perhaps the bars/inventory boxes could use a little more style (Like a frame that matches the text style or something).
Stupidly, on top of having a few drinks at the time, I didn't read all the instructions on the page before I started playing so I was a bit confused for a bit. After reading everything I was able to make some progress. I really love the unique concept, though I will say after a decent chunk of time I did lose motivation to continue and ended up not completing the game. I don't think I'm qualified to provide any technical solutions, but overall I think the gameplay loop wasn't engaging enough to keep me invested the whole way through. Perhaps I was playing wrong/missed something and it's not meant to take so long to reach the objective, but I think there either needs to be more to it or it should be easier/quicker to win.
Best of luck, and great inspiring work! Looking forward to playing the final game. :)
Thanks so much for playing, Alex :D
We're definitely with you about the UI needing some sprite work, right now they're basically placeholders, thematic stuff like the hunger bar being intestine-like would be so sick, and more occult-ish themes too :)
our main goal moving forwards is more variation between days, as like you said it gets a little repetitive. I can usually win in about 5-7 days by just seeking out rabbits and birds until trust is maxxed out, and then hitting it with poison and hedgehogs until i need to raise trust again, but evidently the player isn't really given the understanding of the game to optimise their approach like that, so I will make note of this as something to work on.
Since the Game-Jam we've been mainly focused on setting a strong foundation to build new mechanics and features onto, so that's why at the moment it seems like a really minimal game with a weird amount of QoL / tactile stuff, we've been making sure we first redesign any inherently flawed systems before we extend from them if that makes sense.
Thanks again for taking the time to try this out, your advice is going to really help us with improving the game :) I look forward to seeing more of your work too ! keep killing it out there ;D
My pleasure! I love the idea of the intestine bar. Excited to see what you guys come up with for the rest of the UI :)
Interesting. I'm usually quite bad at management-type games and don't play a lot of them so it could also be that I just don't have a feel for the gameplay. Other players would likely be more intuitive.
I understand and appreciate that approach :) There's certainly an awesome foundation here so I'm looking forward to what you build upon it. I've never competed in a game jam so I really admire you guys.
Thank you, keep killing it too haha! :D
GOOD
hi there,
you first have to select (by clicking) the items which you want to feed the monster from the feeding menu, and then click feed.
our apologies for the confusion, this is a very common misunderstanding of that ui :(