SLATS

Sounds Like A Travel Survival is an audiogame where you need to walk a dangerous path home avoiding zombies and finding food, water, and ammo for the journey.

It takes about 3 minutes to complete and it's played with a one-button interface and without any visuals.

This is still a very early build using really bad placeholders for the gameplay sounds and no background sounds.  All gameplay elements are complete but still likely to be tweaked based on your input. Please comment.

Instructions

You can use the spacebar, return key, tab key, Up and Down arrow keys, left or right mouse buttons. Press at any time and the game will do the appropriate action based on what's going on.

When walking, it will toggle between walking and running

When you hear the rattle of an abandoned house, it will enter the house to search for supplies.

When you hear supplies, it will pick them up and you will hear a hum of approval to confirm the pickup. Pickup sounds are dripping for water, plastic bag crinkle for food, and gun cocking for ammo.

When you hear a gasp, meaning you're thirsty, it will drink water.

When you hear rumbles, meaning you're hungry, it will eat.

When you hear a zombie, it will stop walking and hide.

When you're hiding from a zombie, it will fire your gun.

When the game ends because a zombie ate you, you ran out of time, or you reached your goal, it will restart the game.

Goals and strategy

This is a game of strategy, risk and resource management.

You start with 1 food, 2 waters, and 6 ammo. Keep track. When thirsty, hungry, or facing an enemy, you'll hear some clicks counting how many of the needed supply you have.

You have 3 minutes to reach safety. You will hear a loud bell ring once when the game starts. As the time passes, it will ring more times. When it rings 6 times, the sun sets, the zombies go wild, you die,  and the game ends.

At set intervals, there are sets of planks in the path that will make your footsteps ring. As you get closer to safety, the sets get shorter.

Entering houses is the only  way to find supplies but uses up time.

There's no penalty for weight. Pick up everything.

Running is faster but you get hungry and thirsty faster than when walking.

Your walking and running speed vary with how well fed and hydrated you are.

If you're going too slow, the game will automatically make you run. Likewise, if you're too fast, it will make you walk. In the comfort zone, you can choose whether to walk or run.

Thirsty gasps and hungry rumbles sound more often as you get more hungry and thirsty.

You don't always have to eat and drink when you hear a gasp or rumble. Waiting a bit can stretch your supplies without hurting your speed. Pay attention to the speed of your footsteps to gauge your condition.

There's a good chance that a zombie will just walk by if you hide. You don't always have to shoot them down. This saves ammo but wastes time. When you hear a zombie get enraged and rush you, you definitely need to shoot. I hope you've been saving ammo.

If you are at top condition, well fed and hydrated, your shots are certain to hit. If you are weakened by lack of food or water, you may miss a shot.

Be careful but quick.

Development

For now, most gameplay sounds are just me saying the names of the sounds. In time, they will all be proper sounds and there will be a full soundscape for ambience and as a distraction for difficulty.

The game is shorter and the difficulty is a bit on the easy side right now.

Please comment so I can make this game better. 

Thanks for playing