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This is not a minimalist game

By volute

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall184.10
Coolness1100
Humor313.80
Mood463.86
Theme634.17
Fun803.69
Graphics1023.91
Audio1433.44
Innovation1853.63

Comments

stqn 2013-04-29 04:42

The beginning was nice and funny; not sure about the white part… Can it be done?

volute 2013-04-29 07:39

Yes it can be done ! I've just added a walkthrough :)

brian-corr 2013-04-29 08:43

Great concept, nice mood. I like the control very much. Perhaps a little short on challenge...

*fyi I met a bug: if you leave after the dude drops the red squares, you can't make them respawn again. He'll talk and talk but no squares appear. This seems to be a dead end bug.

volute 2013-04-29 08:51

Thanks for the bug report :)

tau7153 2013-04-29 11:24

Wow, amazing! Very nice art style and good music. Not to mention the story!

krutech 2013-04-29 11:58

Nice guitar at the end! overall a fun game.

lapogo 2013-04-29 13:52

I couldn't get into to it, but it looks great, and is pretty funny!

zekyon 2013-04-29 15:15

Great concept! I love this game

arnaudmolle 2013-04-29 16:39

Nice game, i like the parallel world. Simple but efficient!

mortus 2013-04-29 18:30

Great idea. I was thinking about something like that, but ended up with quite the opposite game idea.

atraxgames 2013-04-29 18:34

Wow. My favourite so far.

loren 2013-04-29 22:30

very cool idea, awesome execution ;)

kewry 2013-04-29 22:39

Great game as usual!

sheep 2013-04-30 00:01

Great idea!

bleating 2013-04-30 00:01

Really clever take on the theme!

gokuhd 2013-04-30 03:22

Very nice game, I like the art :) and it looks polished.

cosmicadventuresquad 2013-04-30 03:28

Strega: Neat concept. I liked the feedback when you jumped on objects to destroy them and change the world. It took a bit of trial and error to complete, but I managed to beat it without using the walkthrough.

(this is a team account)

cmjd 2013-04-30 05:15

This is an awesome game! It's amazing to see what can be made in 48 hours. Nice work!

thegiallo 2013-04-30 10:18

Great work!

freezx 2013-04-30 10:49

Nice story

zappi 2013-04-30 13:53

Great music! nice gameplay!

_rilem 2013-04-30 17:46

Blood everywhere .___.
Very cool game, and very minimal. :p

thecze 2013-04-30 18:18

Very nice game and quite surprising.

miharbi 2013-04-30 22:20

Really awesome game and story.

naufr4g0 2013-05-01 00:12

I enjoyed very much this game!
Nice story, good graphics and excellent ending.

psychomonster 2013-05-01 00:47

Fantastic

avidgamernino 2013-05-01 02:30

I really enjoyed the dialog. I enjoyed the graphics and it stayed true to to theme.

phocker 2013-05-01 03:13

this was superb -- i love these types of games -- and it was neat to have it as a platformer too -- great job!

bonezoner 2013-05-01 03:22

Adding detail to the world is a cool mechanic :)

siewart 2013-05-01 14:07

This game is awesome :)

infernet89 2013-05-01 15:15

Ok, rating any other game is useless now.. We have a clear winner. Congratulations!

fenriswolf 2013-05-01 17:53

This is really really impressive. Congrats on getting Kongregate badges on a Ludum Dare game also. Very cool!

aaants 2013-05-01 17:58

Fantastic job

eatenalive3 2013-05-01 19:08

I gave this one all fives. I really enjoyed it! I might have liked an auto-jump feature where if you hold down up you keep jumping, but then again I just like jumping. Awesome!

volute 2013-05-01 22:59

Thank you all for the nice comments ! I'm very happy so many people liked the game :)

vdogamez 2013-05-01 22:59

This was a very nice take on the theme, and the story had a very Flatland feel to it. The graphics were really well done, even the simple ones, and the game generally played nicely. I didn't really like the whole concept of going back and forth between places that much, and there were some rough spots with the item system, although some of the puzzles were neat. The ending was a neat idea, but it seemed a little rushed graphically.

volute 2013-05-02 00:35

Thank you for your comment :) The end was not rushed as I had plenty of time to finish. It was intended to be like this, I wanted it to feel very abstract, as the main character finds himself in a totally unknown situation where he has lost his bearings.

rastagong 2013-05-02 01:36

I don't know how to say it. I'm in love with this game!

It's a very tiny game, but very well written, moving, and original. The very beginning enthralled me in a wonderful manner. I didn't know what to expect according to the title, nor when I saw this skilled fighter. And then there's the curse, the minimalist world, and we must learn to adapt. Incredible.

Seeing these pixels explode so often was particularly painful. But it was such a relief to adapt and change the world. The ending was such a wonderful idea too, although quite abstract. Some scenes were deeply disturbing (the mirror), and yet they were extremely simple.

I'm really amazed. That's a great work!

enzo 2013-05-02 02:21

I really liked seeing the world gradually change!

silentspartan72 2013-05-02 04:18

This game was pretty fun to play, starting out complex then becoming minimal and working your way back to complexity again.

whitetigle 2013-05-02 08:43

Just great. Good story. Good quests. Easy and fun to play. And it does fit the theme. So... bravo!

gravel 2013-05-02 09:07

A lot of work very well executed and it fits the theme with elegance.
Nice!

millie 2013-05-02 10:37

Good fun! Impressed you pulled this off so fast! Did you also build the Kong API into the game in the 48 hours?! :0

volute 2013-05-02 14:42

@ millie : I did a special version for Kongregate with the API. But it didn't take very long, it's only a few lines of code.

matheod 2013-05-02 19:05

Yeah ! Really good game ! Near perfect game :p

rujomarco 2013-05-03 08:11

pixel art here is adorable, and so the choice of colors.
a really cool entry.

exclamation_mark 2013-05-03 18:13

Excellent story, one of the most engaging I've seen so far! A very enjoyable entry to play through indeed. Bravo.

brotherst 2013-05-03 18:28

fantastic little game. Not that you copied it or anything but it reminds me of Evoland. I like the script though, how they are constantly amazed by the changes. Doesn't really need a walkthrough in my opinion but I guess you could get stuck if you were really impatient.. maybe.

arkadydracul 2013-05-03 18:31

I Love it!

mikel 2013-05-03 18:33

Impresive

patrik 2013-05-03 18:36

Wow, that was a trip. Well done! Handing people the walkthrough was a chicken move though ;)

reverso13 2013-05-03 18:44

One of the best games of LD48 so far for me :)

volute 2013-05-03 18:51

Thanks for your comments :)

About the walkthrough, it seemed necessary. How to progress in the story may seem obvious, but I assure you it is not for everyone. For instance, some players didn't realise that they could jump on the red squares and they left the game angry.
I prefer that players go through the game even if they use the walkthrough rather than leave frustrated.

As a player, it's not because a game gives me a walkthrough that I look at it. I only look at it when I would have left the game otherwise.

orni 2013-05-03 18:54

I liked the idea - definitely one of the games I played for more than 5 minutes. well done

:)

HelkeGames 2013-05-03 19:04

Nice game, well done :)

kidevil 2013-05-03 19:08

Great game! Very cool story and use of the theme. Nice artwork. Probably the most complete game I've played so far :)

stabalarash 2013-05-03 19:19

That's really great !!! congrats, one of the best games i've seen so far

klianc09 2013-05-03 20:25

Really well done, I really liked it.

tcstyle 2013-05-03 21:08

Awesome game! That was so much fun to play.

pixelulsar 2013-05-03 21:19

Good game. I like how the main character couldn't take being 3D.

xanjos 2013-05-03 22:16

Clever use of the theme as part of the game plot and the puzzles are well thought out. Had a bit of a chuckle with the ending as well :D

zccc 2013-05-03 23:32

This is excellent, I loved it so much! Very humorous story and clever ending!! Could use better graphics tough, I hope you enhance it :)

ltyrosine 2013-05-03 23:59

LOVED it... really amazing how to it used theme in its essence. Amazing job.

catman 2013-05-04 07:47

Nice game, especially the mood and the take on the theme, which reminded me of the novel Flatland. The gameplay was a bit frustrating at times, however, due to lack of hints!

thephantom 2013-05-04 11:37

great game :) this is the first game that i rate all 5

jlauener 2013-05-04 21:41

Awesome, congrats! By far the funniest game I played so far.

johnnysix 2013-05-04 22:42

I had to go to the walkthrough for the first step with the map, but wow, glad I did. Amazing work for 48h and a solo project! 5 Stars. :)

pvwradtke 2013-05-05 06:44

One of the best games I have played for this compo. Really well don, nice plot and the feeling of a complete game that's well thought out. I missed some in-game tutorial on how to open the map and to start exploring the world (I'll say in your defense that I didn't read the notes before playing). Thanks you did that walk-trough and linked it at the game window, that helped me earlier on until I could do it on my own.

colapsydo 2013-05-05 08:01

Change is good when we are ready for it.
Really nice story, gameplay, and execution.

ManyAwesome 2013-05-05 12:00

This game is great! A little bit short though.

aquilicoco 2013-05-05 18:27

Nice game

dans17 2013-05-05 18:59

This is the best game I've seen for this competition yet!

0beah 2013-05-06 14:57

Lovely game. Brilliant way to incorporate the theme into your story. A little vague on where to go and what to do sometimes but brilliant all the same.

tifu 2013-05-07 22:30

That was interesting. Loved building the world back together again slowly. Great stuff.

chronodrax 2013-05-07 22:48

Really nice and fun mini-quest !
Great ending too :)

twbnc 2013-05-08 09:07

Hi ! Looks great ! I am trying to play the flash version, but impossible to start it. The game doesn't listen to my X key, (I'm on an azerty keybord), nor to any other key.
S'il vous plaît !

volute 2013-05-08 11:24

@twbnc : You need to click on the game to set the focus before you hit "X"

shiro 2013-05-08 12:14

Great game! I really like minimalist world and how player passes through it.

brant 2013-05-08 14:49

Sensational entry. Nice story. Nice take on the theme. Fun for while it lasts, include a walkthrough. Congratulations!

twbnc 2013-05-08 16:28

THX @Volute, great game !

ryusui 2013-05-08 20:17

Neat little game; loved the twist at the end. I just wish the game was a little less reliant on "guess-the-author's-mind" puzzles.

shawn42 2013-05-09 04:10

Great game. I _had_ to finish it! Now it's tomorrow so I must sleep. Keep up the good work.

leginar 2013-05-09 05:01

Great game. Very good craft. I was happy to see that the game was able to adjust to weather the player chose the high road or low road off the start. Very clever entry. I also loved all of the dialogue during the mirror segment. Good show. :)

euwaku 2013-05-09 06:39

Nice little game, and interesting theme interpretation!

robotality 2013-05-09 07:11

Very well done. Loved the end. :D
Awesome entry overall.

galman 2013-05-09 10:15

Nice game! It was really good at overall, but I felt that something is missing..

bobiniki 2013-05-09 11:00

10/5 on humor others are 5 from me. Best game I have seen so far. I realy liked the mood the dialogs the idea. I have played many games where they begin with minimal graphics and evolve. I don't like games like that. Even though your game has this idea it is a lot different, deep and fun.

dector 2013-05-09 13:16

Epic ending! Man, you rocks

minionstudios 2013-05-09 16:09

An amazing game full of hilariousness! Huge and fun!

stqn 2013-05-09 16:31

So after reading the comments I thought there might be something more than this annoying white level where nothing can be done. I played again and saw I could press 1/etc. to change locations. This game is a nice achievement, although I find there is little logic in most required actions so I had to visit everything several times and drop random objects until something happened.

zener 2013-05-10 14:45

This game is pretty fun to play. I like the dialogs and how well the character is controlled.

Jeremias 2013-05-11 08:21

I played through it and solved all the puzzles except the last one without the walkthrough :)

foyosoft 2013-05-11 19:34

Nice! I love the parallel world idea. Some of the puzzles were a little left field for me, thanks for the walk-through!

lotusgame 2013-05-12 17:50

Very cute polished game. The way you use the theme is truely innovative ! Well done :)

jod 2013-05-12 17:58

Wow, this is awesome. The game flowed naturally for me, no need to look through the walkthrough. I loved how things grew slowly, great take on the theme! Defenitely one of the more polished games I've seen.

messiano 2013-05-13 02:25

Awesome, pretty interesting changes :).

alwaysinbeta 2013-05-13 17:00

Really great story. Enjoyed playing.

udrian 2013-05-13 17:30

This was a very cute game. I enjoyed it a lot! ^^

puzzlem00n 2013-05-13 23:33

Quite a weird interpretation of the theme. I approve! You definitely got a good amount done for the 48 hours.

rafaelsales 2013-05-14 17:09

AMAZING game. It's really impressive how the concept was well done. I've played until the end. Congratulations a lot!

sylvain-p 2013-05-14 21:15

Nice concept and atmosphere! I liked the story, but I think a bit more challenge would be great.

madball 2013-05-15 17:51

Cool! Amazing story! *claps*
The gameplay was simple but very polished. Though sometimes it wasn`t obvious if I could pick up/destroy someting.
Now let`s craft a sign "This is not 3D"!

echa 2013-05-18 10:47

Great!

lightnarcissus 2013-05-19 13:18

Cool concept and an interesting twist to the done-to-death RPG formula. Does fairly stick to the theme,so no complaints in that department.

deathray 2013-05-19 18:59

I really enjoyed this game! The graphics were nice, it fit the theme great and was actually funny. It's impressive for 48 hours! My only complaint is that it needs some more hints on what to do next. I needed to consult the walkthrough - something I don't like doing.

aestheticgamer 2013-05-20 03:23

A very fun entry! Had quite a bit of charm, mood, and humor, and was interesting, though at a couple instances I didn't find the solution before consulting the walkthrough. Even made me think a small bit. Quite enjoyed.

pentaphobe 2013-05-20 07:51

Awesome stuff :)

voxel 2013-05-20 09:16

THIS IS SO COOL aaahhhhh

Loved the end music. Lots of fun

hgouveia 2013-05-20 10:50

took me a long time to realize where to go but besides of that, very creative

geepit 2013-05-20 12:04

Really really cool! Enjoyed this a lot

misfit 2013-05-20 13:56

Great game!

georgebroussard 2013-05-20 22:38

Interesting game and a lot to it for 48 hours. I really liked the structure of moving from map to map and getting items. Good work!

namuol 2013-05-21 07:50

I'm literally crunching numbers right now and it makes me so happy.

jackdw31 2013-08-31 16:31

AMAZING!