Sleepytime Village

To learn how to be an adult you have to act like a kid.

Sleepytime Village is a story about learning to rediscover both your inner child and the joy of creativity. It’s also creepy AF.

It’s the story of a neglectful, workaholic father who makes one wrong choice too many and becomes trapped in a children’s storybook reality, haunted by the residents of Sleepytime Village, its formless narrator and visions of his childhood. What is the Village, what does it want from him, and how can he escape?

Appropriately, the game is a family affair. The characters are all based on drawings by writer / composer Steven Horry’s daughter, created between the ages of 3 and 5 and interpreted by Ukrainian artist Yulia Lapko. We figured the best way to create children’s storybook characters that would appeal to kids but freak out adults was to actually work with a child - have you ever watched the Bedtime Hour on CBeebies? Trust us, it’s trippy and it’s terrifying. Don’t Google Collywobble. It has been a source of joy and encouragement to see her drawings turned first into art by Yulia, and then bought to animated life by Creative Director/Developer James Lightfoot.