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I Dream In Color

By evilseanbot

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Coolness1100
Innovation1123.47
Humor1412.75
Mood2023.16
Fun2682.90
Overall2993.05
Audio3532.57
Graphics3752.82
Theme5002.46

Comments

raimonds1503 2013-04-29 14:14

Nice mechanics.

mrspeaker 2013-04-29 14:18

Damn, that's awesome. Eerily like my actual dreams.

psenfilip 2013-04-29 14:36

Pretty weird creatures ... I like it!
I couldn't get past the Blue Level though. The one where The Mouth is on the bottom left.

gertjohnny 2013-04-30 01:17

I found I was beating some of the later levels by just using my mouse and not placing anything down. Since I only need to rescue two I end up saving the first and last critters, and let everyone else die. They probably didn't taste as good anyways.

flashrocks 2013-04-30 01:17

This is simply an awesome game. I can honestly only think of one bad thing to say about it: It makes me question the sanity of anyone who can come up with something like this. :)

mark_hildreth_ld 2013-04-30 01:24

I would've liked bit of a larger gap before the first guy comes out, though. Tested fine in Chrome Linux.

tiagoair 2013-04-30 01:25

Nice game, amazing mechanics and the art style is also quite unique!

berjah 2013-04-30 01:30

Nice graphics. The game gets tough and I couldn't get past the flying shark level. Good work!

seanatr0n 2013-04-30 03:47

I sacrificed many creatures to save just two, oh well what do they care how they die :) (or is my mouth some sort of sanctuary for sad creatures)

jacklehamster 2013-04-30 08:25

This is the game I've rated highest so far. Both original and fun to play. Simple music that fits well. Even the sketchy graphics contribute nicely to the mood of the game.

mrshoestore 2013-04-30 22:17

this game was pretty sweet. awesome mechanics. One little gripe, the sfx. The music was awesome, but the game show sfx took me out a bit. But then again it is your dream, so maybe those are the actual sounds you hear... which in that case, perfect!

lansiir 2013-05-01 01:22

Lemmings meets Closure.
Not original, but the gameplay was pretty solid.
I'm not certain how it tied into "Minimalism" though.

lansiir 2013-05-01 01:25

Forgot to mention - there's a rap for the red and green colors here: => https://github.com/evilseanbot/ld26/blob/master/Music/color%20raps.txt

evilseanbot 2013-05-01 01:45

The game took a couple of twists and turns through development. For most of Friday, it was going to be more of a metroidvania game, with the colors unlocking stuff through out the entire game (I kind of want to play that game!) and a rap soundtrack. Later on we discarded the rap idea.

evilseanbot 2013-05-01 01:50

I think the core idea of the game was very attached to the theme, which was "What if you could only have things of a certain color and everything else was gone?". I think there's a lot of things in the game that go beyond that core idea, such as flying pickle dogs, which I think are pretty awesome, but it doesn't really surprise me that some people won't see the theme in it, its definitely not as straight forward as most other entries.

jorjon 2013-05-01 03:21

Interesting mechanics, interesting graphics :)

tnovelli 2013-05-01 03:52

Yep, fine in Chrome on Linux, performance problems in Firefox.

tyro 2013-05-02 01:45

This game was like Lemmings and the Incredible machine rolled into a glorious, surreal package of splendiferousness. My favorite part was illuminating the shoes to reveal their skeletons and keep them from walking to their doom. I'd kill for a full version of this; there's at least a million ways to expand upon its remarkable concept.

justinmullin 2013-05-02 01:47

Very creative. I think you win the award for most bizarre entry I've seen so far. ;)

thecze 2013-05-02 01:54

Wow very interesting to play, nice mechanics and weird graphics. I enjoyed it.

kali-purr 2013-05-02 07:09

Hey, thanks for the nice words! I've never played Killer 7, so I'll take that as a compliment! XD

HelkeGames 2013-05-02 19:56

Like the concept, well done!

cemelusine 2013-05-03 07:02

Surreal as fuck. Love that.

tanius 2013-05-03 09:58

Lemming's style: i like it.
Unfortunately on my browser (Firefox - mac) was a litte bit slow.

ludipe 2013-05-05 18:59

Fun game with original graphics(and a bit spooky). Well done!

thesarcastic 2013-05-05 19:08

Good gameplay. I just felt the resolution was a bit small, like the text was unreadable and all. Solid ideia though.

enzo 2013-05-05 23:54

I like it! clever puzzles, and not too frustrating, because you only have to get two in! There is some physics wonkiness, though, mostly with the appearing and disappearing platforms...

also why did you discard the rap idea. That sounds like the greatest

joe40001 2013-05-08 02:07

Reminds me of lemmings, wasn't crazy about the art though, sorry.

aaron9000 2013-05-08 02:29

Love it.

stqn 2013-05-09 16:59

Cool idea but I played in Firefox 20 and pressing the right mouse button showed a menu, which made playing this more difficult than necessary :). Also jerky animation (low fps) and poor reaction to mouse clicks. But I really like the idea of placing light to show/activate only the required elements in order to create a path.

stqn 2013-05-09 17:12

Ah, I had Firefox set to disallow javascripts to change or disable the context menu. Much more playable without this problem :p.
In the level with the boots, I win without doing anything, the boots just change direction on the first hole. I stopped at the flying shark level.

evilseanbot 2013-05-10 01:42

stgn: Thank you very much for the detailed and constructive feedback.

I didn't do much playtestng with Firefox in general. I've got a relatively slow computer, and there's a lot of newish html5 games that I couldn't run in firefox so I gave up on making it run on FF on my machine. Its worth thinking about, though.

You're correct about the skeleton boots level. I must've changed the level at the last minute, and never caught it because I just always instinctively placed a light there.

Jeremias 2013-05-11 09:20

Very strange art :D I like the mechanic but you should improve the interface and show the player, when he finishs a level, what he must do to solve it, how many creatures to save are left, if he lost the game because a creature died etc.

pacifistgames 2013-05-13 13:18

Didn't perform too well in Firefox, but loaded it up in Chrome and had no real problems. Really interesting mechanics, and I loved the weird art style, but it felt like there was a lot that was left unexplored... Great job though! :)

cardboard 2013-05-20 02:18

I enjoyed it. Neat graphics and interesting concept, although the story is a tad bizarre.