A downloadable game for Windows

Dissimulation is a first person, dungeon crawling, rule discovery puzzle game, fully playable with a Launchpad Pro MK3. Explore a small dungeon, learn how to open the gates blocking your way, and find your way out. It came out of EdJam26 and it 'masks' information with darkness.

The game will take about 20 minutes to play, and has a few surprises. It can be played with mouse and keyboard, but if you have a Launchpad plug it in to see it respond to the game world in real time! And yes, the music was composed using the same device you can play on. Watch the video to see how it plays on a MIDI Controller, or try to escape yourself first.

Made for humans, by humans.
Game Design, Music, Puzzle Art by Amicable Animal
Puzzle Design by Menderbug
Environment Textures from Kenney
Sound Effects CC0 from Freesound
Music uses Memos by Venus Theory & Dave Hilowitz
With thanks to Xinixia, Portponky, domcamus, Sophie, and Ludipe for testing.

More information

Updated	7 days ago
Published	17 days ago
Status	Released
Platforms	Windows
Rating	Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars (12 total ratings)
Authors	Amicable Animal, Menderbug
Genre	Puzzle
Made with	Godot
Tags	3D, alt-controller, Atmospheric, Dungeon Crawler, First-Person, maze, Pixel Art, Retro, Short, Singleplayer
Average session	About a half-hour
Languages	English
Inputs	Keyboard, Mouse, MIDI controller
Accessibility	Color-blind friendly, Interactive tutorial

Download

Dissimulation.zip 90 MB

Install instructions

Download the game, unzip it somewhere and run the .exe file to play the game. Please be aware the game does not save state as it's a small game, and you'll need to use Alt+F4 to quit. It was made in Godot so you should be able to run it through Proton or other emulation, although I have no idea if the MIDI stuff will work.

If you want to use the Launchpad Pro MK3 to play the game, plug it in before launching or when instructed. Please make sure you fully close any DAW or Sampler software which might be trying to use it before you do, or the game won't be able to communicate with it properly. They have a habit of being quite possessive of MIDI channels...

Development log

Dissimulation Update 1.01
7 days ago
Dissimulation Is Out Now!
17 days ago

Comments

calico_kitties5 days ago

this is a fun little puzzle. made my gremlin brain pretty happy.

Amicable Animal3 days ago

Thanks for the comment! Glad the gremlin is happy!

theRealDyer10 days ago

This was great!
I'm deep into dailyakari.com currently, so this was so nice to put those skills to the test in a new way. The dungeon-crawler aspect made it more interesting as well. Top marks. Like others, I didn't have a Launchpad sadly.

Amicable Animal8 days ago

Thanks for the comment! Glad it scratched your puzzle itch <3

Itooh16 days ago

Neat twist at the end! I’m surprised I didn’t see it coming, it makes so much sense. The puzzle rules are satisfying to discover. I like how the hints get more and more opaque, forcing you to learn by experimenting.

I can confirm that the game work with Proton! Although Godot Linux export is usually reliable. I didn’t try it with a Launchpad though.

Amicable Animal16 days ago (2 edits)

Thank you for the kind words – I'm quite partial to the twist too! ~~I'll take a look over the weekend if I'm able to create a native Linux build.~~ I took a look at native builds and there are some DLL issues, but I'll keep investigating. We did get someone to test in Proton before launch, so I'm glad it also worked for you!

ComputerJames17 days ago

Oh this is wonderful! excited to someday replay it with a launchpad

Amicable Animal17 days ago(+1)

Thanks! It's really fun with that as an input device, I might need to bring it along to some events for people to try!