Asleep in the Deep

About Asleep in the Deep

Asleep in the Deep was made by Harlequin Diver with Decker, a tool for making HyperCard-style interactive decks, for the Decker Fantasy Camp 2024. It plays in the browser on itch.io and can also be downloaded as an HTML file or a Decker deck. It is name your own price.

It opens with a warning. Beware the shadows who glare at every movement. You are trapped within hollow walls, getting more lost and numb in the Deep, and time passes without warning until your demise is near. It closes on the line: many brave hearts are asleep in the deep, so beware.

You look at each room in first person, in faded, dithered colours: a hall of doors and portraits, a desk with an old computer, a fireplace, a mantelpiece with framed pictures and a butterfly. You click to look closer, read what you find and solve puzzles to open the way through the rooms. Some of what you find is not pleasant at all.

It is short, with two endings. It suits players who like quiet, eerie point-and-click puzzle rooms in the spirit of old adventure games.

How to play Asleep in the Deep

1. Open Asleep in the Deep on itch.io and play it in the browser.
2. Click on doors and objects to look closer and move between rooms.
3. Read what you find and look at the paintings carefully.
4. Solve the puzzles to open the way through the house.
5. Find your way out, then play again for the other ending.

Tips

• Look at every painting; they are part of the puzzles.
• Use the Back button to step out of a close-up view.
• It is short, so a second run for the other ending is quick.

Questions