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Midlands Noire

By ysty

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Coolness1100
Mood433.79
Humor3142.69
Graphics4073.13
Overall5293.08
Innovation6742.80
Audio6742.32
Theme9122.72
Fun9722.37

Comments

adekto 2013-08-26 09:05

mac version wont run

archaeometrician 2013-08-26 09:09

Great job for your first polygonal game. It's kinda short but it was fun to realize there is no way to win. Good work !

customphase 2013-08-26 10:39

hm. This look very promising. I just not quite fully understand where is the "10 seconds" theme here. And i like how statue's shadow doesn correspond to the statue itself :) And the text is quite hard to see when youre upclose to the store.

rave-radbury 2013-08-26 10:40

Fantastic atmosphere! I especially enjoyed the commentary on the storefronts. Congrats on your first polygonal game.

p4nurge 2013-08-26 10:43

Nice atmosphere and thought-provoking text. A few more sound effects would have gone a long way to deepen the mood but otherwise I really liked this.

withoutpillow 2013-08-26 10:44

love the aesthetics, the setting and the way you made me feel small and vulnerable. good implemented writing too.

spaceoff 2013-08-26 11:37

Great atmosphere and dialogue, pretty engaging.

flai 2013-08-26 13:53

Great mood! I'm not sure either where the "10 seconds" is in this though :| The graphics were a bit rough too but still pretty good. Great job :)

randomelginguy 2013-08-26 13:55

Very atmospheric, reminds me of "they live" as you walk about then as you get close the text changes.

gikdew 2013-08-26 16:33

3d atmosphere is really good, you should improove the graphics !

beardbotnik 2013-08-26 16:46

Great game, the way the text shows up on store fronts is a really neat idea, and I feel like it's a pretty deep/educational message given by the game, got a little confused at times when I was "earning money" and it went back to zero. Also when I click at the end and it says Click to End nothing happend, is it supposed to do that? Or is that just for the non-web versions? Great job either way!

xgeovanni 2013-08-26 17:27

Brilliant.

carlsommer 2013-08-26 18:12

Great environment and an interesting pseudo-commentary. I also really enjoyed how the statue didn't correspond with it's shadow.

ysty 2013-08-26 18:49

@Beardbotnik Thanks! Yeah, the "click to end" thing is from the non-web versions. I'm pretty new to Unity and I didn't end up building the game to a web version until after LD48 had ended, so it didn't feel right to change the text (although I probably should have).

dkilford 2013-08-27 12:40

Interesting idea, I was very confused throughout the game which I assume was the intention. I'm interested to see what you would have done if you were planning to add later on.

frogcheese 2013-08-27 12:53

Atmospheric, though it wasn't easy to spot the theme. The storefront effect was pretty neat.

alvivar 2013-08-27 19:57

a w e some.

zillix 2013-08-28 04:55

beautiful and morose. great entry!

gsmproductions 2013-08-28 12:08

Great atmosphere, and some nice detailing (statue's shadow, the second ending, ...). The mood was really eerie, excellent job for your first 3D game!

almightyzentaco 2013-08-28 12:08

Interesting game. I really liked the mood. Though if in real life you ever find yourself actually starving to death because you lack money, you can always eat grub worms. They are freely available under rocks and cost no money!

kristof 2013-08-28 12:09

I like the mood of this game. At first I thought I found a bug, when I accidentally fell out of the world. I was positively surprised that you had that in mind. Nice entry.

timothyolt 2013-08-28 14:42

The Linux version is not running for me, and it looks like the same is for the Mac version

ysty 2013-08-28 15:02

@timothyolt Yeah, sorry I screwed those up. I've redone them and they should work now!

ratalaika 2013-08-28 16:38

good job

blennosoftgames 2013-08-29 02:04

Interesting game. Definitley had a very strong point to make, though as a non-European I had to do a bit of research to understand it.

Overall a respectable first foray into the world of 3D games :)

edocentrique 2013-08-29 18:07

Nice entry, interesting and strange, and also good mood !

sengi 2013-09-01 08:54

look nice) Shadow have some idea)

savethejets1 2013-09-05 04:29

Reminds me of old doom levels I used to make back in the day.

Story is pretty cool.

paulmcgg 2013-09-06 17:29

Wow. Really like how you get the thoughts across. I feel awkward saying I love this game though (I do), tough stuff. :/

capro 2013-09-09 11:03

Nice game with an interesting theme. Good job!

cosr 2013-09-12 02:06

It's simple, but reasonably effective for what it tries to convey. The use of the money counter to sort of show what other have and then take it away from you was compelling.

The storefront text was pretty cool too.

jwolf 2013-09-14 05:04

Interesting and very moody piece. I think your message could be even more effectively presented it you built game mechanics around some of the examples...however, that would be a far more lengthy and ambitious project. (...and an entirely different sort of game, probably. Just an idea.)