Backers' unite!

Yep, our Kickstarter has now launched for Sleepytime Village, our creepy point and click adventure! And we need to make sure we continue the strong start to encourage others to back it who come across the project, so we need you super awesome lot to please back it and help us - here's the link!

Awesome Rewards

Plus, you will be able to get your hands on a bunch of excellent physical rewards! We've got an awesome big box available, with physical postcards, newspapers, village maps, metal pins, making of art book, Rufus' work business cards. Check these out!

Let's make it a success!

The campaign has got off to an ok start, but we defo need to get a boost today, so please help us reach our goal, show the faith in our creepy adventure and back our game today. With your help we can make something really special! So click on this link, check out the rewards and be part of the adventure in bringing the game to life! THANK YOU

[ 2024-05-01 12:06:28 CET ] [ Original post ]

To learn how to be an adult you have to act like a kid.

Sleepytime Village is the story of a neglectful, workaholic father who becomes trapped in a children’s storybook reality. When Rufus Stone makes one wrong choice too many, he becomes trapped in a children’s storybook reality, haunted by the residents of Sleepytime Village, its formless narrator and visions of his childhood. What is the Village, what does it want from him, and how can he escape?

The game covers relationships between generations, from grandparents, to parents and children and when those grown up children have kids of their own, it explores how the sensibilities through the generations distort and twist the perceptions of what is important.

There is one main player character with a large cast of 'real world' secondary characters that fill in the backstory and push and pull of the gameplay. Players will be faced with heavy choices with the freedom of taking the wrong path often. The send category of secondary characters are the 'Villagers', characters that seem to spring from kids' TV programmes and books. At first they seem simple and innocent, but they have their on singular purpose to 'help' Rufus learn the lessons he needs to change his outlook.

The leading secondary character is a seemingly omniscient narrator, who prods Rufus through the game, but as the game progresses, the player will begin to question if the narrator is all they seem to be.

Rufus must explore the many locations in sleepytime village, finding objects that don't belong there which when collected transport him back to the 'real world' in the form of a flashback so he can get some insight into his past and recent present.

The game will track the choices the player makes and provide multiple paths depending on if the lessons the village is trying to teach are being taken on board.