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Miximal

By cheshyr

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Coolness1100
Audio843.65
Innovation4053.31
Mood4523.02
Graphics6522.91
Theme6643.43
Overall6743.06
Humor8391.86
Fun10392.42

Comments

stustuthebloo 2013-04-29 03:53

I like this take on the theme, and the fact you're making your own minimalistic piece(but in an interesting way).

ecool377 2013-04-29 03:53

awesome

ctatz 2013-04-29 03:56

Love the concept!

thomasbowker 2013-04-29 05:19

I managed to 'solve' two of the sections before realising what I had to do.

Otherwise nice!

artifex 2013-04-29 05:20

Very nice concept

mikebolt 2013-04-29 05:26

Really cool, I like the way the theme was interpreted..

josefnpat 2013-04-29 17:31

Perhaps this could have been a puzzle game of some sort? match the tracks with the right tempo and genre perhaps? If you got all three tracks right, open the door?

rpgwhitelock 2013-04-29 17:50

I'm interested in audio mixing, so was pleased to see how this worked out. Nicely tied into the theme too.

kewry 2013-04-29 21:14

That was quite interesting would love to see some more.
The controls on my end were quite annoying, the walking would slide too much and the mouse would turn way too slow

eteeski 2013-04-29 21:19

i like how it ended. cool music. this was a nice well put together game.

phnxphire 2013-04-29 21:35

Cool idea and nicely executed.

ovenchips 2013-04-29 22:37

Difficult to figure out what to do (even after reading the spoiler), but ultimately, it's a great looking game. Nicely done!

cheshyr 2013-04-29 23:15

Thanks for the feedback so far! I've updated the Notes to include Instructions and Caveats. I'm glad to hear that people are enjoying the game. :-)

gilmore606 2013-04-30 00:25

Great idea, but why not fix the terrible controls before submitting? Just that small issue made it very difficult to enjoy.

cheshyr 2013-04-30 00:41

@gilmore606 Can you clarify about the controls? For me, the controls were fine. If they didn't work I wouldn't have submit it that way. Some people mentioned mouse sensitivity. Is there something else?

deathray 2013-04-30 01:27

I really like octagon-shaped rooms and pushing buttons, but I couldn't understand this game.

cheshyr 2013-04-30 02:06

Mouse issues should now be resolved. Sorry for the issues.

gokuhd 2013-04-30 04:20

Yeah! I did it :D haha it was hard but finally could escape. Really nice concept.

cwilloughby 2013-04-30 04:47

This is great. Liked the narrative. The graphics were good. Great on theme. Music was awesome too. Controls got stuck a few times for me, but no biggie. Great work.

matrixbai 2013-04-30 05:34

Solve puzzle is my weak point...
The game is very good.

alvivar 2013-04-30 06:16

I love what i chose. thanks!

omaromeir 2013-04-30 06:26

Fun stuff, I really liked the resulting music too :).

spierek 2013-04-30 08:51

Wow, I didn't expect that one.

At the beginning it took me some time to get what you meant by "remove noise", but after experimenting a bit, I got the idea. I think that it would've worked much better if the player was able to turn on/off the samples and hear the changes in real time, instead of having to press the red button again.

shines 2013-04-30 11:39

Really enjoyed the concept. It may be helpful to clarify in your instructions you need to re-press the red button to get a new sample. I clicked the wall buttons to try to make a change happen and the music shut off. Took me a few tries to realize the button pressing and music turning off was coincidental.

cheshyr 2013-04-30 12:06

Thanks again for the great feedback! Found the glitch with the controls and fixed it. All the other suggestions are wonderful, and they'll go into a non-LD version. Enjoy your music. :-)

samoojamies 2013-04-30 15:24

I beat the game. Not sure how I did it tho :P. Nice job!

umu 2013-04-30 15:54

Took me a moment to figure out what was going on, but that's really cool! This feels so much like something out of Myst.

cheshyr 2013-04-30 15:54

SPOILERS: @SamoojaMies thereisnorightanswerthegoalistoonlyhaveonesoundenabledforeachroomwhenyouleaveitplaysbackthethreesoundsyouleftactivethepointistobuildashortmixoflooptracksthatyoufindinteresting

nicojaujou 2013-04-30 17:22

Interesting twist, I expected some kind of puzzle and it gave me something special about keeping...I liked this surprise1

pereubu 2013-04-30 18:06

great :D
(minimalistic comment)

comrad_gremlin 2013-04-30 18:09

An interesting idea :)

minionstudios 2013-04-30 18:22

Tough to get it right, but great game overall... fun! love the quality of the sound clips

rmatey 2013-04-30 19:59

Couldn't figure out how to affect the mix, pressed all the buttons and never felt like I knew what the game wanted.

beldarak 2013-04-30 20:14

Take me some time and the spoiler to understand it but it was worth it ;)

kidevil 2013-04-30 20:31

Cool idea, but as others have mentioned I would have liked to hear the changes in real time.

cheshyr 2013-04-30 20:36

Thanks. I'll make sure to get that into a non-competition build. :-)

kbm0 2013-04-30 20:49

Kind of hard to grasp what to do in this. The idea seemed interesting, though.

prelucid 2013-04-30 21:40

Good concept

rubapi 2013-04-30 22:14

Really great concept!

richtx 2013-05-01 01:01

Love the puzzle aspect, but was a bit lost at first. Good game.

komradus 2013-05-01 02:56

I really like the idea of mixing the audio but would be nice to be able to tell what the buttons that I leave do before I finalize it.

magewalkr 2013-05-01 03:57

ahahha it was really fun though I had no idea how to open the door... I spent my time playing with the music really well done

monxcleyrproductions 2013-05-01 04:40

Neat mechanic - playing with sound is not done nearly enough in most puzzle design.
That said, I felt it was underutilized here. It would have been interesting to ask the player to match pitches or tempos, or create certain combinations of sounds. Might be worth exploring further. In any case, great job!

dr_soda 2013-05-01 07:31

I figured out how to make all the lights over that first door green, but I never got the door to open and overall was very confused as to what I was supposed to do.

I did however spend a lot of time just listening to and experimenting with various track combinations. I kind of just wanted to get into the groove, you know? The beats were fairly entertaining all on their own.

l3dx 2013-05-01 08:57

Cool game

juaxix 2013-05-01 10:17

Very good job with graphics, shadows, lights and sounds, you should gamify the game a little more, like adding goals, other people and more feedback, i liked it

purplescape 2013-05-01 11:15

Interesting concept. I was unsure of what to do at first, but it was fun in the end. It looks great, too!

meta87 2013-05-01 19:27

Love the audio and fits the theme really well, nice job!

quantumryan 2013-05-01 19:29

It took me a while to figure out to only pick one per room. Other than that, I enjoyed this a lot.

lightnarcissus 2013-05-02 04:10

Unique take on the theme and solid work on the visuals to make them descriptive enough while ensuring they remain minimal in style.

rafaelsales 2013-05-03 01:15

Good game. Congratz!

mrexcessive 2013-05-03 14:07

Like the concept... couldn't see how there was a "right" answer, other than what happened to be preferred. Escaped after a few minutes.... very short runtime in total.

euwaku 2013-05-05 20:20

Nice interpretation of the theme, 5 stars for the music!

colapsydo 2013-05-10 08:16

Nice play with music loops.
The mood is nice, since few story elements are given, we can imagine the one we like.

spiridion 2013-05-11 06:07

For some reason, when I played from Firefox there was no audio. Chrome worked.... Which is odd, since it's the unity player not the browser doing the work. :/ Liked the interpretation. The game was a bit short and could possibly use a bit more depth, but I liked that you get to hear the combination at the end.

cheshyr 2013-05-11 16:12

Thanks for the excellent feedback. I agree there is a need for more content. Due to the 48 hour limit, I prioritized the mechanic over almost everything else. I'll be sure to add more content to the non-LD version of the game. :-)