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Mask Quest - A Platformer Where You Have to Manually Breathe. Survive a Pandemic Lockdown, Escape Police Brutality, and Find a Surgical Mask. (store.steampowered.com)
submitted 19 hours ago by [email protected] to c/games
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Hey! Over the last four years, I made an action platformer called Mask Quest together with Stephen Lavelle, aka increpare whom some of you may know for his puzzle games such as Stephen's Sausage Roll. It started as a weekend jam, but then we got carried away 😅

We tried to get the game out in 2020, but it took much longer than we expected. Now it's finally releasing on October 17th – way too late for it to be thematically relevant, but too soon for people to be nostalgic about the pandemic. 🙃

The game is satirical and has a unique breathing mechanic, where you have to press a button to inhale and release the button to exhale. If you breathe too litte, the blood oxygen gets too low and you die. If you breathe too quickly, you hyperventilate and you faint (which is also game over). So the central challenge in the game is to control your breath while doing some old-school platforming.

If you have any questions about the game, I'd be happy to answer them! 😁

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[–] tanisnikana 4 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (1 children)

This sounds poorly conceived. It’s not interesting, just tedious and it opens wounds that haven’t even begun to heal.

You spent four years on this? No self-reflection about your audience, or what they would want to play?

Look, the sunk-cost fallacy is a thing. Don’t over-invest in this.

[–] tanisnikana 4 points 11 hours ago

Also the fact that every single comment here so far is panning your game should give you pause.

I suppose what you should reflect on is this: most folks have a favorite video game. What type of people are you courting in the hopes that those people say your game is their favorite? I don’t actually even see a core audience for this. A few people will buy it as a curiosity, but I don’t expect people would log more than an hour or two.

[–] Lost_My_Mind 16 points 17 hours ago

I don't think people are ever going to be nostolgic for the pandemic, just like I don't think they'll ever be nostolgic for the aids outbreaks of the 1980s.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 18 hours ago

Thanks, but the horrific reality of my obstructive sleep apnea is enough for me.

[–] PlantJam 5 points 15 hours ago

unique breathing mechanic, where you have to press a button to inhale and release the button to exhale

I get that a satirical game about the pandemic probably just isn't my cup of tea, but this breathing mechanic sounds like such unnecessary tedium.