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Mask Quest - A Platformer Where You Have to Manually Breathe. Survive a Pandemic Lockdown, Escape Police Brutality, and Find a Surgical Mask. (store.steampowered.com)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hey! Over the last four years, I made an action platformer called Mask Quest together with Stephen Lavelle, aka increpare whom some of you may know for his puzzle games such as Stephen's Sausage Roll. It started as a weekend jam, but then we got carried away 😅

We tried to get the game out in 2020, but it took much longer than we expected. Now it's finally releasing on October 17th – way too late for it to be thematically relevant, but too soon for people to be nostalgic about the pandemic. 🙃

The game is satirical and has a unique breathing mechanic, where you have to press a button to inhale and release the button to exhale. If you breathe too litte, the blood oxygen gets too low and you die. If you breathe too quickly, you hyperventilate and you faint (which is also game over). So the central challenge in the game is to control your breath while doing some old-school platforming.

If you have any questions about the game, I'd be happy to answer them! 😁

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

unique breathing mechanic, where you have to press a button to inhale and release the button to exhale

I get that a satirical game about the pandemic probably just isn't my cup of tea, but this breathing mechanic sounds like such unnecessary tedium.

[–] Reverendender 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This game is such a terrible idea in its entirety, I’m starting to wonder if this is satire.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

And yet we keep getting downvotes. Come on dev, self-reflection!

[–] Reverendender 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I definitely have 2 downvote gremlins stalking me

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I mean, I’ve said some mean things about this game, but I’ve said them with my whole chest, with my fucking name attached to them. None of this anonymity with downvotes. At least I stand by my opinion, that this game isn’t a good idea to have been created.