Aeon Nightmares is a story focused horror themed platformer inspired by Cave Story, LISA, Yume Nikki and Haibane Renmei.
A young girl wakes up in a strange place without a single memory of who she is. She soon meets up with the demoted god of death and destruction who starts to yell orders at her.
Will they be able to escape the Last Plane...
And why did they meet up there in the first place?
The game is controlled with the arrow keys and Z, X, C and V.
Aeon Nightmares is a platformer with lenient movement. You can explore slowly, or you can use recoil and rocket jumping to fly through the air!
The game is designed to be relatively short with a lot of focus on optional content such as random chance events and side quests.
There is minimal backtracking and most upgrades aren't mandatory!
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Roughly 2-4 hours of gameplay with a ton of optional content
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An adorable cast of characters that go through horrible experiences
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Multiple boss fights, items and environments to explore
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A movement system that is begging for you to push it's limits
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Never ending nightmares
I have worked on this solo for over 5 years now. I hope my suffering was not in vain.
Sound effects are from freesound.org and the music is made by Catonator and Felis.
Be sure to check out Catonator at Soundcloud.com
and Felis at Soundcloud.com
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The full version of Aeon Nightmares, my story focused 2D platformer, is finally out. I worked on the game solo for the last 5 years, and the main sources of inspiration for the project were Cave Story, Yume Nikki and LISA.
You can play it here: Indiedb.com
The game features roughly 2-4 hours of content, including:
A story about a strange girl, a strange world and a strange gun.
A wide range of environments that you can explore slowly or breeze through using recoil and rocket jumping.
Multiple boss fights and challenges to overcome
A great deal of optional content, items, lore and random chance events.
Cute angelic characters that go through horrible experiences
A banging (mostly) original soundtrack
I can't believe the game is actually done. When you work on something for this long as a solo developer, it really feels like it's never going to be ready. Cave Story, probably the biggest inspiration for this game, also took five years I believe. I think I finally have an idea of what Pixel must have felt like working on that for so long. If, by any chance, you are a solo developer reading this, I hope you know what you are getting into when you try to make your dream game a reality.
When I started on this thing, I thought it would take something like 2 years. As the project dragged on and on, I asked myself countless times whether it's even worth it to keep going or not. That being said... Now that it's finally done, I really feel like it was worth it.
I don't think I'll make a game of this magnitude ever again though. Surely, my next project is only going to take 2 years max.
I hope you'll give my game a try and thank you for reading!
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