{"id":1811,"date":"2023-05-14T02:19:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-14T01:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leonlynn.com\/leonlynn\/?p=1811"},"modified":"2025-08-06T02:27:43","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T01:27:43","slug":"game-jam-depth-of-despair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leonlynn.com\/leonlynn\/2023\/05\/14\/game-jam-depth-of-despair\/","title":{"rendered":"[Game Jam] Depth of Despair"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"315\" height=\"250\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/leonlynn.com\/leonlynn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/9U_cO_.png?resize=315%2C250&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1812\" style=\"width:581px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/leonlynn.com\/leonlynn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/9U_cO_.png?w=315&amp;ssl=1 315w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/leonlynn.com\/leonlynn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/9U_cO_.png?resize=300%2C238&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 315px) 100vw, 315px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/itch.io\/embed\/2048360?dark=true\" width=\"552\" height=\"167\"><a href=\"https:\/\/esmaeil.itch.io\/depths-of-despair\">Depth of Despair by Esmaeil, komatr, Lenl, nicosilio, Vicoodi, Queque121<\/a><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Depth of Despair<\/em> is a (mostly) topdown 2D horror-exploration game where you take control of someone trying to find their way out of their own mind. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I participated in the Themed Horror Game Jam #12 on itch.io with a brilliant team, where we designed and wrote a game based on being trapped within one&#8217;s own nightmarish psyche. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I wrote the initial Game Design Document, planned out the rough story beats, wrote a dialogue script, and sourced sound effects for the game&#8212;but didn&#8217;t have much to do with the implementation this time around (something I&#8217;m going to fix in later jams!)<br><br>The game has a super cool atmosphere, and I keep telling myself I&#8217;m going to play it through sometime soon! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Depth of Despair by Esmaeil, komatr, Lenl, nicosilio, Vicoodi, Queque121 Depth of Despair is a (mostly) topdown 2D horror-exploration game where you<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/leonlynn.com\/leonlynn\/2023\/05\/14\/game-jam-depth-of-despair\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">[Game Jam] Depth of Despair<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1812,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_editorskit_title_hidden":false,"_editorskit_reading_time":0,"_editorskit_is_block_options_detached":false,"_editorskit_block_options_position":"{}","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[161,147,163],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home-made-games","category-portfolio","category-portfolio-archives"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/leonlynn.com\/leonlynn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/9U_cO_.png?fit=315%2C250&ssl=1","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leonlynn.com\/leonlynn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leonlynn.com\/leonlynn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leonlynn.com\/leonlynn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leonlynn.com\/leonlynn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leonlynn.com\/leonlynn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1811"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/leonlynn.com\/leonlynn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1815,"href":"https:\/\/leonlynn.com\/leonlynn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1811\/revisions\/1815"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leonlynn.com\/leonlynn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leonlynn.com\/leonlynn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leonlynn.com\/leonlynn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leonlynn.com\/leonlynn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}