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Nirvana Quest

By dremelofdeath

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Audio253.98
Coolness291
Humor713.19
Fun1543.22
Overall1793.36
Graphics2083.45
Mood2203.12
Innovation3072.84
Theme5552.06

Comments

onlyslightly 2013-04-30 02:49

Love the audio. Great game!

phase 2013-04-30 02:55

Interesting concept, level design needs a bit more tweeking

super-hamster 2013-04-30 03:08

The most interesting platformer I have ever seen. It was a completely different idea and very interesting.

liannethy 2013-04-30 05:51

Really really cool. One of my favourite games I played here so far :)

thechris 2013-04-30 06:05

I really like the art for this game. The design of the levels made it pretty hard at times but still a good game.

oye-beto 2013-04-30 06:05

- I can't see the theme anywhere but I liked the game.
- Nice opening screen.
- The controls are a little awkward.
- The parallax city at the background of level 1 looks pretty cool, reminds me of Canabalt.
- I didn't finish level 3. That level had my favorite music in the game.

dr_soda 2013-04-30 06:18

I really liked the music, and I really missed it when it stopped playing. Then I realized that I'd grown an attachment to the music and that it was standing in the way of my ascendence.

I never completed my quest to Nirvana. I never managed to pass the spot with the rocks falling to knock you off the clouds. In the end, I think the game-over screen says it well.

Good job!

ryusui 2013-05-01 04:43

Love the "meditation" mechanic, though it took me a while to figure out I was actually controlling the game's speed. That said, the first level is really a pain, design-wise - and I think it would've made more sense to start at the top and work your way down.

leginar 2013-05-02 23:23

Welp this is one of the best Ludum Dare game's I've played, and one of the better flash ones on top of that. Very good work to everyone involved

jhelle 2013-05-02 23:24

Not sure how it fits the theme. But I enjoyed the effort that went into this. Amusing audio too. Good job all!

endesga 2013-05-02 23:27

very cool :D

atraxgames 2013-05-02 23:34

Haha, i loved the settings, it's a very original platformer, and the music is very good!

cakemonitor 2013-05-03 23:23

A lot of fun and really nice graphical style, Good work!

gertjohnny 2013-05-06 01:43

Neat idea - wish it had checkpoints in the level though.

therestlesstaxidermists 2013-05-07 09:37

Loved the music! Great game.

suese 2013-05-07 11:34

Kinda the opposite of sonic the hedge hog :p

brookman 2013-05-07 11:36

Fun game... i very much liked the music. The meditate mechanic was a nice twist to the gameplay.

ohsqueezy 2013-05-07 12:46

Nice backgrounds and sprites!

geoege 2013-05-07 14:27

That game is kinda cool. Really like the meditation mechanic, that slows time, it's really smart.
Music is absolutely amazing and that start screen was pretty hilarious.

Nonetheless graphics are sometimes really good (canabalt like background in level 1) and sometimes absolutely MEH... (foreground in level 2 and 3, animals sprites in level 3).
There is also that level 3 (that i finally finished), wich is pretty ambiguous :
The game is kinda slow, i mean that there is a lot of waiting time due to the meditation mechanic and when you have to wait the plateform you want to jump on is near enough. Especially in level 3, it's nor good nor bad, just a choice you made.
But in level 3 wich is very long you decided to put a lot of waiting time couple with a lot of hard move that lead to immediate punition on a failed jump.And if you failed a bit much you have to start at the beginning. And that really long Anti-loose cloud isn't a viable solution, to let a chance to the player to win.

Here is the ambiguity, if you want to make a slow plateformer game with long levels like Mario, you HAVE TO place checkpoints and way to win more lives (after the level 1).
And if you want to make a Ultra speed and Hardcore plateformer game like Super Meat Boy, levels needs to be pretty short and there must be no lives and infinite restart possibiity.

dector 2013-05-08 10:45

Game reminds me old-style games in '90s. Thanks for that feeling :)

evilseanbot 2013-05-09 03:06

Good job supporting the concept behind the game!

I think the part that could use the most improvement is that the first stage requires a lot of waiting for platforms to move into position.

joe40001 2013-05-09 08:29

I liked it alot, one thing you need to fix though:
If you are like me when you get to the end you want to meditate so you press space bar, trouble is the game starts loading the ending and pressing space bar skips the end. I don't want to play through again just to see the end so I'd recommend having a delay or something so people can't accidentally skip the end, otherwise enjoyed the game a lot, music was awesome.

samoojamies 2013-05-09 17:00

Great music! Meditation skill was interesting :)

kibertoad 2013-05-16 10:04

great looking and well-balanced platformer. awesome job.

minionstudios 2013-05-16 14:27

Hilarious and fun, love the audio and the meditation meter!

kddekadenz 2013-05-17 09:06

Eh, cool intro, but then the screen wents black and I just hear the sounds.

dremelofdeath 2013-05-17 09:18

@kddekadenz, we thought we had fixed that bug... it might be possible that your flash player is out of date? Could you try again and let me know if it works for you?

kddekadenz 2013-05-17 15:03

@dremelofdeath: Yes, my version of Flash is outdated. Adobe dropped Linux support and the packages they provide are hard to install. The bug still occurs.

dst 2013-05-18 22:48

Very interesting game!

cyberyeti 2013-05-19 23:29

Really great music and i love the health system. i found the platforming to frustrating at times though, and i didn't think it went with the theme as well as it could have. Really great game though!