Show HN: Game demo made with my homemade game engine

Is this actually a game?

It loads with one item in an inventory I can’t seem to use past the first room, and there seems to be nothing in the second room that is interactive except (spoilers) a cupboard door.

Is this just a tech demo of some features? Or something bigger that everyone in the comments is missing?

(That aside, the art is vibe is very cool. I love old-school point and clicks ever since Zak McKraken, and a horror themed one would be an instant buy from me)

The music starting so suddenly just gave me a big jumpscare. Great work, tho!

I love the art style! Echoing the others, I'm stuck in the second room - would be cool to have a few hints at the beginning to help out with discoverability.

The animation is really cool.

I want to replay the game, but it always starts me in the second room.

I think I was confused about where the pointer is on the hand, because there are two fingers raised. Suggest you add a little flash (sparkle, smoke, etc.) animation to the index finger, if that's the one which is the pointer. I had decided that the symbol on the hand was like a targeting reticle.

I love the passion that has went into this, even if it is still wip. I would like to link to it from https://wmw.thran.uk if that's ok with you.

Engine source code: https://github.com/willtobyte/carimbo

I’d like to take this opportunity of reaching #1 on HN to promote the pixel artist who has been working with me all this time.

She is extremely competent. Professional. Creative. Dedicated. Skilled.

https://linktr.ee/dandelion.pixelart

Thank you all for the feedback!

If you ever get stuck forever, it’s probably an issue with Cloudflare Pages. Trying again might work—the game is made entirely of static files.

For now, there’s nothing beyond the second scenario. Pixel art is a slow and expensive process, and I’ve been working on this game since the beginning of the year. Please be patient!

Thanks again!

Super cool art, can I ask how you did it?

I can't manipulate any objects nor leave the room. Firefox and Safari on latest MacOS.

It's suddenly the 90s again, this is awesome.

I think I remember this, you posted this once before. It looks like you've posted this a few times.

And I think my comment was that the art style was good, but the game itself didn't have any substance. And I stand by that. It's difficult to know what to do and what to interact with, and the hand as a UI element isn't really helping as much as it should. My honest opinion is that this should have been a lot better between then and now and from what I remember it looks almost exactly the same.

Please, for your own good, stop posting this until you've finished an actual playable game with this engine. Bad content doesn't even show off the capabilities of your engine very well.

I'm trying not to be mean because I have a pile of unfinished projects of my own but you really shouldn't shortchange yourself.

In fact, maybe you could put up a dev blog to show your progress. That might be a good way to get feedback as you work as well, and advertise your engine and games.