Late Night Surfing
A downloadable game for Windows, macOS, Linux, and Android
Get 🎵R-E-A-D-Y to clown around 🎵 with Looney Lou and the Small Red Chair Reruns
Feeling emotionally drained? Exhausted from living through multiple once-in-a-lifetime events? Distract yourself from reality and watch TV! Return to the once popular kids television show about a clown doll that teaches self-care and piece together clues about why it went off air. Discover what happens when memories, TV, and your darkest fantasies blend together.
Channel Surf All Night Long
Tune in to TV straight from the dark dimension! Surf through channels and watch Looney Lou reruns, the news, infomercials, a talk show, and uncover snippets from a mysterious home movie to dive deeper into your own fractured psyche. But beware: not everything on TV is real.
Dive Deep Into Looney Madness
How far are you willing to go to discover what really happened during the Looney Lou Halloween Special? Can you sit and just watch your fears and true capacity for cruelty be laid bare? And where is Hazel?
Features
- A Working TV Made of Flesh
- 5 TV Channels to Surf
- Voice Acting
- 5 VHS Clips to Watch
- 9 Characters to Traumatize
- Bold, Dramatic 2D Art
- Original Music
- An Original TV Show With a Child-Sung Theme Song
Credits
- Director, Programmer, Writer - Dana Reijerkerk (decolFutures)
- Art Director - Esskaden
- Audio Designer, Composer - Chibenobi
- Voice Actors - Kenkoy, Esskaden, CarolTheatr
About The Game
Late Night Surfing is a psychological horror visual novel. Reader discretion is advised.
Content Warnings
This game contains themes of violence, blood/gore, strong language, loud sounds, and suggestive themes of death, murder, and body horror.This game version is a demo made for the Spooktober VN Jam and will be extended into a fuller game that will include multiple endings.
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Feedback on the demo in the form of comments and ratings on the itchio page are encouraged.
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Wow, this one is a journey!! 💚 Had so much fun with the delightfully unhinged game of channel-surfing hopscotch the story takes you on; the writing, art, voices, and sound design are all excellent, and tie together brilliantly into a disturbing and wonderful package. Phenomenal work to the whole team!
I did not expect The Big Comfy Couch going into this lol
The story is chaos (in a good way), and the visuals are disgusting (also in a good way).
Great job!
This was only the demo? I'm so excited to play this again when it's fully released. Phenominal work as always! You really do know how to seemingly take some of my worst fears ( walruses and spiders) and put them onto the screen.
Thank you! I plan to add more childhood fears to the TV channels.
Thank you so much for playing! I'm so glad you liked the game, especially the Looney Lou Show theme song. I watched a lot of TV reruns from the 90s to come up with it.
[Spoilers ahead]
Absolutely insane. I've never played a game like this, so well thought out. The story was impeccable. This game was probably the scariest work of art I've ever seen in my life, being that the monster was capitalism (doesn't get scarier than that tbh).
I loveeeed the artwoork and the UI was so good. It was like inter-dimensional cable had a baby with an actual lesson learned about the weight of corporate greed. Great work to the entire team. I thoroughly enjoyed this!
Esskaden, our artist, showed me your comment and I laughed so hard reading the monster is capitalism. 🤣 Thank you for the praise! You're right on the nose for the plot and the direction we plan to go in for developing the full game.
I instantly fell in love with the concept behind this game and you all really nailed it! Channel hopping to tell the story and build the world was such a good idea! The art was fantastic and creepy. It made me wary to sit in my own thinking chair! The song was delightful!
I got ending 2.
Great job everyone!
Thank you!! I impressed myself figuring out how to do overlays in Ren'py, especially during the splash screens. We're hoping to make new TV channels and make the buttons always work so you can truly channel surf post-jam!
I'm a sucker for a good menu; going straight into channel surfing from the main menu was such a playful way to begin.
Watching the hints and bits of different world-building accumulate as the story progressed had a satisfying feel to it, and the art direction was a cohesive combination of Saturday-morning cartoon(with very nostalgic weekday morning kids' show vibes) and gore-splattered horror!
Thank you! We watched a ton of Y2k cartoons to achieve the tone.
What a wonderful game by some wonderful people! I loved all of characters and the depth of the story. I was throughly scared! You guys did such a wonderful job and I can’t wait to see more of this story and other ones you come up with! May GluGlu be with you.
Thanks for streaming the game on Twitch! <3
I love the story. I love interacting with the TV. I love all the sounds and the partial voice acting. I love how it is definitely creepy without making me want to run away.
The TV interface and aesthetics makes this game my personal favorite out of the Spooktober 2024 games I've played so far.
Is there currently only one ending?
Hi! THANK YOU for the high praise!😃 Yes, there is only one ending for now because this is a demo and we (us 3 devs) are tired from the jam! We wanted feedback before we started making new TV channels, endings, and the TV mechanic more freestyle.
We're planning to make the TV buttons always active so that players can truly flip through channels to get our other planned endings.
Oh my gosh, being able to flip through the channels sounds so exciting!!
I cannot wait to see the creative endeavors that come from this team!
I’ve always liked your animated UI design since Hear Me Hear You. Feels so lively. The art style on this is also very bold and distinct. Flat sprites against shaded backgrounds? So good.
Thank you for making sure the text is still easily read even in such a stylized presentation! I was initially worried it would be warped to match the TV. Nice job writing all those shows.
All in all, an interesting entry.
Thanks so much for the kind words! I really happy with how my art is blooming from game to game.
I'm so glad you liked it! 🤩 The text font and size were tricky to program. I kept going back and forth on one point size difference, so I'm glad it was easy to read!