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Sail Away

By phaed

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greasemonkey 2013-04-29 03:44

Alright, voting.

I got bored during this. But I pushed on and... well, it has a nice story. It DEFINITELY has a story, a nice, simple story. You just need to give it a bit more... drive, I guess.

5 stars for theme... because you went with an obvious lock-and-key puzzle, so this also takes a bit off your innovation score.

The graphics are quite nice, and it DOES look pretty good considering the "minimalism" you've decided on (coloured polys are superiour to black and white boxes).

There's no audio. Perhaps you could add some nice sounding sounds? You don't even need to do music if you're not good at that, just do ambient sounds. The plus side of that is it'd make the game feel a little less empty.

The plus side of NOT doing that is you're not likely to make the mistake of having a 20MB wav in a 200KB game. To avoid this schoolboy error, either use vorbis-tools and apply oggenc to everything, or use VLC, open the .wav, right click and then click "Stream" (then stream to a file with the Audio / Ogg Vorbis profile).

Overall, a somewhat boring but nicely polished art game.

linuus 2013-04-29 12:13

Haha kind of cool :)

ysty 2013-04-30 14:00

Nice. Could have used some sound, but it was enjoyable nonetheless.

jorjon 2013-05-06 10:57

I finished it. Nice story.

cardboard 2013-05-12 03:34

That was enjoyable. Sound would have made it better, but it certainly still feels complete without it. Also, I really like your minimal art style (which is why I clicked on your game to begin with).

pinothefrog 2013-05-14 17:57

I gave a flower to a dragon and put a dog in a barrel!

uhfgood 2013-05-15 22:42

That was great. Managed to do a full on point'n'click (okay hunt'n'peck keyboard) adventure, as minimally as possible. And I agree with others, the colored poly shapes is preferable to plain boxes, and black and white. Also like others you should have added sound. Well done!

greasemonkey 2013-05-21 07:56

ARGH. You didn't get enough votes ;_;

That happened to me in LD24, and yeah, it totally sucks.

I suggest you play a few more games next time - trust me, it helps. I use Linux and you'll be suprised at how many games ARE playable.