Freeware Game Pick: Night of the Cephalopods
Night of the Cephalopods is a short action game created for the Artsy Games Incubator project, where players assume control over a man who is hounded by Lovecraftian creatures of the octopi type. Contact with these horrors causes your character to lose a little of his sanity, although mental health can be automatically restored by standing still in one spot for a few seconds.
Use the cursor keys to move, and press the space key to fire your shotgun or reload it. The game ends when our hero loses his mind completely, or when you manage to somehow survive until the break of dawn. (gameplay video)
Name: Night of the Cephalopods
Developer: Miguel Sternberg
Category: Action
Type: Freeware
Size: 10MB
Direct download link: Click here










Comments
more lovecraftian games are always needed so I loved this one :) wish it was longer/bigger though!
Posted by: Anonymous | November 21, 2008 3:35 AM
I quite liked this, although the commentary repeated a bit too frequently. I also found that when playing with the keyboard the character would get locked going in the last direction I pressed unless the key was released before pressing a new key
Posted by: BenH | November 21, 2008 5:31 PM
Glad you both liked it!
You'll be happy to know I'm planning a larger more expansive version in the future and recording more commentary for common events like reloading so they don't get repetitive.
@BenH I'll try to replicate your problem with the keyboard controls and get a fix in, thanks for posting about it :)
Posted by: Miguel | November 22, 2008 3:10 AM
Basically, say you pressed the left key, then before you let go of that key you begin pressing the up key, if you then let go of the left key so you're only pressing up, the character will continue going left. Hope that makes sense
Posted by: BenH | November 22, 2008 5:13 PM
Happy to hear you'll expand it! If you dont mind suggestions or potential ideas ; For more areas, you could do an underground cyclopean city. For other creatures, perhaps shub niggurath's dark young (since they are meant to exist in the woods), or larger cthulhu style spawn.
Posted by: Anonymous | November 22, 2008 5:34 PM
@BenH - I see what you're talking about and I've got a good idea how to fix it so I should have a new improved version up Monday. Thanks again for the heads up.
@Anonymous
Clearly you've been reading my notes, a cave leading to a cyclopean city is one of the areas I'm thinking of adding.
I've created a mailing list on the Spooky Squid site if you want to be kept up to date on the next version. Thanks again for playing!
Posted by: Miguel | November 22, 2008 11:50 PM
I didnt read the notes, but im intrigued to do so now! :D
Posted by: Anonymous | November 23, 2008 12:38 AM
Mooore :)
Posted by: Jonas | November 24, 2008 2:25 PM
@BenH - The fix is now up and online, keyboard controls are much improved. Thanks again for the tip.
@Anonymous - I'm planning on posting some info on my plans for the expanded version sometime in the next week or two.
@Jonas - glad you liked it!
Posted by: Miguel | November 25, 2008 7:20 AM