Babau
Babau is a Gameboy game developed for the 2023 GameBoy Competition Jam, themed "You are the monster".
You impersonate an incubus - a demon of dreams, a bringer of night terrors - chasing a dreamer down the nightmare realm to eat his soul. Hunt the dreamer across multiple oneiric sceneries preventing him to wake up and escape you. Till the next night.
Babau is a work in progress. Further polishing and beta testing are still being conducted. We highly value any feedback and comment to improve the game experience!
HOW TO PLAY
• Press [A] / Z key to catch the dreamer when he's within reach
• When the dreamer runs towards the borders of the dream, he will respawn in the middle of the scene
• Use the environment to corner him while he tries to escape you
• You can summon familiars to aid your hunt. Press [SELECT] / Shift key to the summon menu and place the familiars in the dream-scene
• The summonable familiars are limited in number. Use them wisely!
• At each new level, you can use an additional power once, by pressing [B] / X key
• Play the in-game tutorial for in-depth instructions on how to play
KNOWN BUGS
• It can happen that when the dreamer reaches the left side border of the scene, he doesn't respawn in the center of the scene: press [SELECT] twice to make him reappear.
Babau has been developed on GBStudio by Yami Kurae - Matteo Polato and Jacopo Bortolussi - in 2023.
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Wow, that's a really creative concept 😮 I only really wished that I could move diagonally. I never managed to catch any dreamers 😅
Thank you! The game is still a work in progress, and we really value every feedback to improve what we know is a gameplay mechanic that must be really fine-tuned to be challenging but fair and fun! We'll try to see what happens by adding diagonal walking! Thank you again also for the kind words!