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Orbs of Sound

By sakar

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Theme243.8715
Innovation803.1315
Fun1052.8015
Graphics1072.9315
Audio972.5714
Humor1891.605
Overall833.0715
Community873.1010
Coolness201

Comments

jcurrie33 2010-12-19 00:10

pretty cool! Some completion message would be nice once you find the orbs though

McFunkypants 2010-12-19 06:26

Extremely cool. To me, it felt like cave diving underwater with scuba equipment. I love the fog effect and the sense of diving into a huge cavern. I find the mouse sensitivity too high, and would have loved to find something at the edges (eg the very bottom when the world stops there is infinite nothingness), but overall, wonderful work! Well done!

korywazhere 2010-12-20 00:47

ooh aah... Where's the distance fog setting for Unity. It's lovely =)

greasemonkey 2010-12-20 04:28

I'm having issues playing this under Wine, will probably try again once I've finished building 1.3.something.

alexlarioza 2010-12-20 21:52

I liked this. =] Could use some notifications for when you pickup an orb and some more ambient stuff going on around the player.

cosmologicon 2010-12-21 06:49

Is there supposed to be a Readme? I checked the Windows and Source downloads, and I couldn't find one. An explanation of the controls would be nice; I couldn't figure it out. I'm running it in Wine so I may be running into issues.

sakar 2010-12-21 08:12

Oops. Guess I forgot to add it in. Will add that right now.

randomnine 2010-12-21 12:16

Fits the theme well. The doppler effect worked nicely. Reminds me quite strongly of "Activate the Three Artefacts and then Leave".

hamumu 2010-12-22 16:37

I thought it was impossible, then I turned my speakers louder and did it! The world made of white cubes actually makes a pretty nice environment. You needed a bigger collision sphere on the player though, seeing through walls was a regular event. Also, since you had a web version, and your readme was 2 lines, why make us download 6mb to get it? Just write it here! I will for future reference:

Use WASD and mouse to fly around and get the 3 blue orbs that are making sound. There's a whoosh sound when you get all 3.

joekinley 2010-12-27 10:04

Yay Timelapse video. I just love em. And I love that you started to create a completely different game, ending up with changing your mind. Little short though. Also you got the obligatory gaming down too.

The game is fun. I like the theme recognition and the claustrophobic feeling to it. Oftentimes I just could look through a little gap in between cubes but did not fit in there. This blended well with the sound. Very claustrophobic indeed.

Graphics are fine, not too exciting. But still they also blend in quite nice. Everything looks ghostly and pale. Creating a nice atmosphere.

No humor, but that would actually misfit here. So nice work all in all. Maybe some kind of sonar, more than just the audio, would be nice. It was just so damn hard to find anything in there.

endurion 2010-12-27 14:44

Nice idea.

However either I'm tone deaf or I'm wrong on interpreting the sonar. I tried to get the tone as loud as possible, but I never saw or collected an orb.

acodegerm 2011-01-01 20:07

I'm with endurion, I could never come across an orb either, is the environment randomly generated?

Pretty decent aesthetic for 24 hours, your first game looked like it coulda have been nifty. :P

eli 2011-01-01 21:27

Nice megastructure!!

sakar 2011-01-05 17:13

Thanks for the comments everyone!

@ACodeGerm
Yeah, the levels are randomly generated. Each block is spawned in a random location with a random size (within set bounds), thus some levels may not be completable.