{"id":14993,"date":"2012-06-13T06:32:36","date_gmt":"2012-06-13T11:32:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=14993"},"modified":"2012-06-13T06:31:42","modified_gmt":"2012-06-13T11:31:42","slug":"among-the-sleep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=14993","title":{"rendered":"Among the Sleep"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not entirely sure what the name means, but the concept is certainly intriguing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.krillbite.com\/ats\/\">Among the Sleep<\/a> is a first-person horror game in which you play the role of a two-year-old child.  After being tucked into bed one evening, nightmarish things begin to happen.  Accompanied only by your faithful teddy bear, you have to fight your way through a surreal world to survive and return home.<\/p>\n<p>Krillbrite Studio, the game&#8217;s indie developer, recently released a gameplay teaser video:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"425\" height=\"239\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YWDQN_X5b-M\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I really like the conceit of playing as a toddler.  Not only would it make routine tasks interestingly complicated, the idea of being so small and vulnerable makes the threat extra-spooky.  (Of course, as a commenter pointed out on BoingBoing, you can easily win the game by just hiding under the covers until morning.)<\/p>\n<p>The game will be available for PC and Mac next year.  You can follow its progress on the Krillbrite <a href=\"http:\/\/krillbite.com\/blog\/\">blog<\/a>, where they have some neat time-lapse videos of concept art creation.<\/p>\n<p><i>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/superpunch.blogspot.com.au\/\">Super Punch<\/a>)<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not entirely sure what the name means, but the concept is certainly intriguing. Among the Sleep is a first-person horror game in which you play the role of a two-year-old child. After being tucked into bed one evening, nightmarish things begin to happen. Accompanied only by your faithful teddy bear, you have to fight [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-needful-things"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14993"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15289,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14993\/revisions\/15289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}