A downloadable game

I made this for the GBA jam, a 3d sound demo. I wanted to make something with horror inspired by an overnight train I rode during one of my travels but unfortunately I ran into some problems. I'm submitting this because why not, so along the with the uncompleted demo(Which I will continue to work on) is the original with which I tried testing how 3d sound would work so you can at least sample that one. 3dSoundSample.gba is the one where nothing happens as I am currently still fixing it. You can only walk left and thats it. testingtheengine.gba is a simple little demo where in the character can swing her sword and... that's it. Well depending on which direction you swing you sword, affects the sound so you can kind of tell which direction its coming from. Please use headphones or earphones for this effect to work better.

Update 07-14-2021: Updated 3dSoundSample.gba Finally found what was messing up my engine. The 3d sound works somewhat, but its still crude. I'm going to continue working on this to refine it a bit more and hopefully get it to a full walking simulator type game or more. I'm removing testingtheengine.gba now since the actual "game" works now

Update 07-26-2021: Hi guys, so just a heads up. It looks like it'll be a couple of weeks before I can get another update in. Unfortunately I rushed this out to meet the jam deadline and I didn't properly learn how to make sound effects. So I'll take the next few weeks learning it to make some proper updates. Also for those of you who were able to download the game "testingtheengine.gba", that too is its own game for those that are curious. Though I have no idea if I will try to implement the 3d sound there as well as currently the processing for it is rather costly and I have yet to optimize it, if it is at all possible at that.

Update 08-26-2021: No significant changes here. Just added a few effects here and there. I at least have a better idea on how to create sound effects.

Update 12-05-2021: Added a night time walk in a housing area. You can get to it by walking all the way to the left of the train. Most of the work I've been doing has been on my dev tools so nothing special is noticeable for players. I'm pausing development on this for now as I have no idea how to make this a compeling/fun game. But I'll continue to work on the engine while developing my other game here which uses the same engine. Thanks for the support and I hope I can get back to this one with some better ideas for gameplay and story.

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