What Is It?

The Quiet Sleep is a city builder/tower defense game set in your mind.

In it you will:

• Build out a personality and watch your mind develop.
• Handle various life situations, including talking to people, finding a job and trying to overthrow a local government.

Trailer

Explanation

Gameplay Video

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Details

The Quiet Sleep was released on Oct. 15, 2017. The Quiet Sleep is available for PC and Mac.

Links

• Twitter: @murthynikhil
• YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoFEuEueEt1Z2L-CQM8Uopw
• E-mail: murthynik1@gmail.com
• Presskit: Presskit

Latest Posts

• The Quiet Sleep Is Not Punk

  The distinction between punk and the DIY aesthetic of TQS.

• A Final MDA Analysis of The Quiet Sleep

  A Final MDA Analysis of The Quiet Sleep

• The Quiet Sleep Playlist

  The playlist I used when working on The Quiet Sleep

• Putting An Emotional Moment In The Quiet Sleep

  Analysing the addition of an emotional moment to The Quiet Sleep.

• The Evolution of Emotion in The Quiet Sleep

  How the representation of emotion changed in The Quiet Sleep

• The Quiet Sleep: Mechanical Parallels

  A deep dive into an interesting design approach

• The Quiet Sleep: Third Story

  Introducing the third story for the quiet sleep.

• City: Refinements

  Some refinements to city.

• City: Interaction

  A quick note on a failed feature.

• City: The Difference Between Spending and Losing Pride

  A look at some of the minutiae of making The Quiet Sleep.

• City: Communication Through Systems

  Talking a bit on the novelty of communicating through systems.

• City: Surprises

  Playing through the latest build of city.

• City: Towers, Focus and Emotion

  Looking to fix the issues with a few systems of city.

• City: Moana

  More detail on what this new story is trying to say.

• City: Technology

  Looking at a new approach to narrative in city stories.

• City: Second Story

  Thoughts on the second story for The Quiet Sleep

• City: Post IGF Submission

  The state of The Quiet Sleep post-IGF Submission

• City: A Quick Story

  A quick anecdote of The Quiet Sleep.

• City: Trains and Emotions

  Adding trains and emotions to The Quiet Sleep.

• City: Playtest 2

  Further notes from playtesting.

• City: Playtest 1

  The results of the first playtest.

• City: Focus Proposal

  The proposal for a new focus system for city.

• City: Playable Week 2

  Getting the City systems to really come together.

• City: Playable Week 1

  The first week of work on getting City ready for a public playtest.

• City: Story and People

  Work on the story and people of City.

• City: Story and Info

  Work on the story and UI of City.

• City: Info

  Some work on cleaning up the information flow of City.

• City: Further Analysis

  A deep analysis of the mechanics of City.

• City: Knots

  Tying features together.

• City: Iteration

  Growth and pruning of existing city features.

• City: Construction For Communication

  Building out features to help communicate ideas.

• City: Pieces of Mind

• City: Consolidation

  Work done on consolidating my game.

• City: A System Analysis of City So Far

  Analysing the systems of city thus far and the aesthetics desired from the game.

• City: The Core of the Game

  A description of some situations I want to represent and how I plan on doing so.

• City: Honing

  Honing the systems of my game.

• City: Content

  City: Content

• City: Personal Information

  The progress made on the player representation of my game.

• City: Tower Life

  The progress made on the towers of my tower defense game.

• City: First Playable

  Description of the first playable version of my game.

• City: Opening

  Quick rundown of the game I'm working on and what I'm doing.