THE DINER
A downloadable game for Windows
The Diner:
Is a short, experimental, atmospheric indie horror-game. Using the Godot Engine 4.0's newest rendering and performance techniques.
This project started as a small prototype, for testing Godot 4's new graphics capabilities, but as time went on, it slowly became a full-on, short, interactive horror experience.
There are tons of interactable objects and items in this game. Can you find 'em all?
Average playtime: Ranges from 5-15 minutes.
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Story:
You play as Holly, a peppy college student in her early 20's. She gets a call from one of her long-time high-school friends; Siarra.
They haven't seen each other in person for quite some time now, so Siarra wanted to meet up with Holly at a local diner in their area, to hang out, chat, and catch up.
Upon arrival, Holly is greeted with a completely barren and slightly overrun abandoned diner. Scared yet curious to figure out where Siarra went, she investigates this strange phenomenon.
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Game Features:
- A short, spooky horror experience.
- Tons of interactable objects, accompanied with dialog and events.
- Strong sound design.
- Ambient music.
- A rich atmosphere, complete with volumetric fog, global illumination, and more!
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Controls:
- WASD to walk
- Shift to run
- E/LMB to interact
- RMB to zoom
- F to use flashlight
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Socials:
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Disclaimer:
All credit has been given to the proper individuals for all free-to-use, CC0 licensed assets, such as models, textures, shaders, and music.
This game is in no way associated with the recently released 'Ronald McDonald' horror game. As it uses the same map asset, but has been in development before the release of that game.
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Development log
- Update Ver. 1.0.2May 25, 2023
- Update Ver. 1.0.1May 21, 2023
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oOOOO this was nice!!!! really into this, its super well done!! love the style, very well done scares too, and loved checkin out everything i could click on :] on my 2nd playthru managed to Back Up quick enough to keep the game from ending and thought for a second i found a 2nd ending- alas i just broke the game and had to resign myself to walking directly into the beast's arms. it was waiting VERY politely for me
Amazing to see people still enjoying the game today and discovering things like that!
I myself was never able to outrun the beast, so kudos to you for pulling it off!
love the foggy atmosphere !
Pretty spooky and atmosphere short experience,wish this game would less linear though,but i liked it anyway,5\5
Great game! But because of the music at the end I got atata(
cool design for his gameplay
Great game! Pretty scary with a nice environment
Loved everything about this game!! The audio was great, the environment was spooky, and the story behind it was interesting! Thank you so much for the great experience! :D
I play your game at 33:59 in this video!
Creepy 10/10
Audio was goood
Interacting with the environment was soo much fun, i clicked on everything.
I wanted to eat more donuts!
Thanks for making this, i had fun :)
Good game, wish it was a bit longer.
the ending got me i hate you lol
my game gets stuck in the starting,the circle at the bottom right corner gets stuck
Hey there, sorry for the late reply. Does this issue still occur?
yes
Have you tried running it in administrator mode?
If that doesn't help, maybe whitelisting the .exe file your antivirus software might help.
It doesn't seem to be a Vulkan related issue, since the game does launch for you...
Keep me posted!
scary and fun, great job!
first game in the video
You got me. Well executed scare. :)
Click if you're cute.
Excellent game. You built up the tension very effectively.
Good game, but i could not leave without woman. Woman got me killed.
this was fun! I liked it!
Nice atmosphere!!! Me gustó mucho.
Really nice atmosphere, plus, I do enjoy the diner as a setting. We don't have them here, so I kinda find them fascinating.
Oh, and btw, the credits song gets blocked in Russia of all places...
Fantastic atmosphere and a great short story! The environment design with the fog was really good! Jumpscare got me pretty good too lol this was the first game in the video
Hello! I made a GREEK video about the game! If you want you can check it out here:
No Commentary Gameplay
question, is the monster ispired by _boisvert?
Not sure, but it could be. It's a model used made by another.
Encontré el juego bastante entretenido a pesar de ser corto, y me lleve un buen susto
Graphics were pretty good. Liked the experience.
this game was amazing wish it was longer.
好副臂
Hey D. Zenith
I’m a game dev too and I’m totally blown away by your game The Diner. I saw the gameplay video on YouTube and it was awesome. The vibe, the graphics and the sound were all on point. It looked super slick and pro.
I was wondering if you wanna team up with me on a new game project. I can do some 3D modeling and narrative design, and I think we could make something cool and original together.
My discord - lazydog01
Ahoy there.
I appreciate the feedback, thank you!
Looking back there are definitely certain aspects that could've used some work, but all in all- I'm happy with the end result.
As for collaborating, I'd be down to- but don't count on it. I've been quite busy as of late with personal projects, group projects and college lol.
I propose a specific collaboration for creating games. If you're not sure or can't respectfully commit enough time to the work, it doesn't sound reliable to me. Have a good day.
"Your video card drivers seem not to support the required version of Vulkan."
How do I fix this?
So, I made a shorts video of the Diner. With the jumpscare haha.
This was a really great small game! I thought that it had great atmosphere and an environment and it was scary till the end!
The little cinematic intro was really cool and going around in the game was scary and overall it was well done! I felt like it had more potential and there could have been more done in the game about the story and the creature, which was also being warned about on the TV; just felt like there could have been more than what was there!(Also the music at the end, while good, is apparently blocked in certain countries and copyrighted. Not that, that matters to the game itself, but thought it was something to mention!)
I loved this game! Strange,creepy and with a scary ending. The only things is that YOUTUBE partially blocked the video for copyright.
Super Scary Game!! Loved It!
Absolutely amazing, coming from a godot dev aswell. I would really like if you could show how you you made the head bobbing, it's fantastic!