Babau

Babau is a Gameboy game developed for the 2023 GameBoy Competition Jam, themed "You are the monster". 

You impersonate an incubus - a demon of dreams, a bringer of night terrors - chasing a dreamer down the nightmare realm to eat his soul.  Hunt the dreamer across multiple oneiric sceneries preventing him to wake up and escape you. Till the next night. 

Babau is a work in progress. Further polishing and beta testing are still being conducted. We highly value any feedback and comment to improve the game experience!

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HOW TO PLAY

• Press [A] / Z key to catch the dreamer when he's within reach

• When the dreamer runs towards the borders of the dream, he will respawn in the middle of the scene

• Use the environment to corner him while he tries to escape you

• You can summon familiars to aid your hunt. Press [SELECT] / Shift key to the summon menu and place the familiars in the dream-scene

• The summonable familiars are limited in number. Use them wisely!

• At each new level, you can use an additional power once, by pressing [B] / X key

• Play the in-game tutorial for in-depth instructions on how to play

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KNOWN BUGS

• It can happen that when the dreamer reaches the left side border of the scene, he doesn't respawn in the center of the scene: press [SELECT] twice to make him reappear.

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Babau has been developed on GBStudio by Yami Kurae - Matteo Polato and Jacopo Bortolussi - in 2023.