In Dreams II

The eighth game of the “12 games in a year” challenge I had set for myself is a lot smaller than others. I wanted a series of games where I could focus on a single unsettling moment, so I started the In Dreams series. In this game, the player is walking in the dark along an endless row of houses while a dull droning sound slowly swells in the background. After a while the player's movement speed is slowly reduced, until they cannot move at all. Then, four dark figures with bright red eyes rise up from the ground and surround the player. The screen goes black. Every instance of this series, I want to reuse the same model for the dark figures. I want to build a lore of these figures silently appearing, only being referred to as “them”. In this particular game, I focused on creating complete darkness with very little illumination.