Night of the Cephalopods - two minutes of gameplay

Night of the Cephalopods is a short survival horror game with old school pixel art graphics and an innovative fully voiced dynamic narrative system.

The game begins with you lost in the woods after mistakenly summoning legions of preternatural octopi through a mistranslation of the Octinomicon, an eight volume set of books with mysterious power. Now you must fight till dawn with only your shotgun and a handful of shells. Throughout the game your status, the actions you take and the locations you explore are narrated back to you in the style of classic horror master H.P. Lovecraft with full high quality voice acting.

Go to http://www.spookysquid.com/ to download the game for free, view credits, and see our other projects.

I've added some annotations to describe the game more fully and give some commentary.

Night of the Cephalopods was originally created during the third round of the Artsy Games Incubator a six week event where Toronto artists help each other learn how to make their own games.

Category:

Gaming

Tags:

• squids
• cephalopods
• indiegames
• indie
• games
• cthulhu
• artsygamesincubator
• pixelart
• excessivenarration
• spookysquidgames

[Disfigurator]

Really nice game - narrative works so strong, that I cannot do anything but want more.

Respect!

[spookysquidgames]

Thanks! we've got plans to do something bigger with this in the future, though right now we're concentrating on the Guerrilla Gardening game.

You might also want to check the spookysquid website, I have a co-op game set in the same universe called Cephalopods Co-op Cottage Defence, the version available for download isn't final (no voices) but it's playable and a lot of fun if you can get a friend to join you.

[Devr0ss]

What are you developing in?

[spookysquidgames]

Hi Devr0ss,

Night of the Cephalopods was made using Gamemaker 7.

[CaptianMCcool]

can some one help me whenever i trie 2 run the game it says that the compressed file is invalid

[spookysquidgames]

Hi CaptianMCcool send me an email (you'll find the address at the bottom of the site for notc) with some details of exactly what's happening and I'll help you out.

[gatehearing]

Looks awesome.

[MRCAB]

Nice game. Only, one of my pet peeves with top-down 2D games like this, is when enemies can walk at angles and the player can't. It's unnecessarily frustrating.

[KokaKolaKlan]

You have GOT to make more of this!

[spookysquidgames]

Thanks!