The Sleeper in the Gulf
A demo project for Whimtale — and a standalone story, too. A traditional short eldritch tale.
Move with WASD, arrow keys, or with touch controls. The game works both on desktop and mobile devices.
If you want to make a game in a similar style, check out Whimtale — a cool engine for tiny storytelling games 💪
Source project can be found below ⬇️
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Development log
- Update for Whimsy 0.4.0Jun 21, 2025
- Update for Whimsy 0.2.0May 18, 2025
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really cool
nice story very short but I guess thats the point.
I’ll probably expand it in the future; this game was made as a demo for Whimsy, and I didn’t want to just make a tech demo, but also didn’t want to pay several days on making an example game when I had a ready-to-go engine awaiting its release. So it is what it is. But I will return to it as I add more features to the engine, to make this project as polished as it can be :3
I also wanted to make an outdoors section after you light the beacon — this is stripped, for now.
Very cute although i don't get it...
You just can’t talk on the internet anything — one badly-landed joke and you’re instantly attacked, with wrong assumptions about my work. You know nothing about it. At least, learn to read the description on how this particular game was built and on what fandom it bases.
Oh, and also—get banned.