SAND

Little "game" that is not actually much of a game, because it is more like putting sand in a container while talking with a cat guy in a small room.

Made in a day or two for fun. (I stayed up 24 hours because I was making this).  Originally made in a day or two for fun, and then remastered in a week or so because I wanted to add stuff but the original project was so incomprehensible from being made in a rush that I had to remake it from the beginning again.

NOTES

The piano has sustain (hold down space while playing)

It autosaves every three minutes

The background music only changes upon closing and reopening the game

If you just want to read the different dialogue without taking up too much time, you can spam click the sand instead of actually picking it up. However if you are clicking too fast you might accidentally skip it instead.

The tab is supposed to close when you walk out the door, which was working at first, and then it stopped working for me even though I did not change anything. Oddly enough, it works for most of my friends though. I have no idea how to fix that. If it doesn't work for you, just pretend it does.

Greatly inspired by Sisyphean Funtime

THINGS TO ADD

  • Save system 
  • Ability to skip dialogue (I'm not sure how to do that one but I'll figure it out)
  • Varied BGM 
  • Small piano/keyboard to play around with  (Placeholder version implemented)
  • Customizable sand color
  • Painting on wall
  • Custom icon (for downloadable version) (I will do this after adding all the changes above, though)
  • ...Random Muffled Crying SFX..???
  • Ability to sit down by clicking on player character
  • ability to fall asleep if sitting down with the lights off for a while and bla bla bla put little dream thingies floating above your head depending on the current song playing 
StatusReleased
PlatformsWindows, HTML5
Rating
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(4 total ratings)
AuthorBabs
GenreInteractive Fiction
Made withAseprite, Construct
Tags2D, Cats, Construct 2, Cozy, dialogue, Pixel Art, sand, Short, Singleplayer
Average sessionA few minutes
LanguagesEnglish
InputsKeyboard, Mouse

Download

Download
sand (old) 92 MB
Download
SAND-win64.zip 97 MB

Install instructions

Extract .zip. The game is "SAND.exe". I apologize for the fact that it is 200MB but I think Construct 2 is just like that. 

Development log

Comments

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thats my name.

Woah sand in real life

yea

instrument 9 on the keyboard

(too lazy to find the gif i wanted to find so here's dancing killer beans in glorious 64p)

Me and my friends find orchestra hits very funny i dont know how this happened

Was very excited about the update and the first thing I did was mess around on the piano XD The amount of features it has was astounding!! I really like that all the buttons translate to the keyboard, made me think about making like. Keyboard sheet music or something. Enjoyed all the new dialogue a bunch :)

Of course my first mission was to make the sand clip violently into itself again and launch it at hilarious velocities out of the cups, but it didn't work at first. I did manage to make it happen again by stacking little towers on the edge of the cups and clipping pieces into those XD Also the fact that you made music for this is so cool!!!

Thank you the piano was fun to make

Immediately went for the piano and it plays a specific loop of notes. I wanted to see if I could figure out the song but I just ended up spamming the piano XD 10/10

Out of curiosity is sand color crossed out because it's implemented or cancelled?

Implemented 👍The piano just plays a random selection between 3 notes but I plan to make it more in depth and give it a unique screen like the Sand eventually

i like the gameplay, its very relaxing, I can see this becoming a proper game :) i look forward on your updates

Thank you!

why do i love this game so much

(+1)

Thank you :-)