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The Last Memory

By lokarunith

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Coolness1100
Mood353.86
Theme1053.51
Innovation2743.02
Audio2922.83
Overall4112.84
Humor4511.71
Graphics4782.60
Fun5552.13

Comments

greenyuk 2013-08-27 02:20

Pretty short but great story behind what your doing. Solid graphics and sound as well. Good job :)

vile-smile 2013-08-27 02:54

Interesting. Not much content, though. I liked the mood it set.

shellfishgames 2013-08-27 11:49

I started playing, but after the initial monologue scenes it just made firefox crash. :/ The atmosphere so far was very nice though. Kind of relaxing, yet dramatic.

lokarunith 2013-08-27 13:02

@ShellfishGames: That's a shame, it seems to work fine on Chrome and IE though. Thanks for letting me know.

broxxar 2013-08-27 17:27

A surprisingly compelling story. Well done.

bipolarmike 2013-08-27 17:27

Nice story, enjoyed it :)

iiechapman 2013-08-27 17:28

Very sad when you think about it, we will all inevitably face this moment ourselves. A great memento mori.

blue-steel 2013-08-27 17:34

Makes you think what would you do in the last seconds of your life

ellipticaldoor 2013-08-27 17:42

Good storytelling ;)

paperblurt 2013-08-27 18:08

Interesting premise but too buggy to play.

jimmydelaney19 2013-08-28 02:40

Short, nice little memory. Wish it was longer.

l0gical1nsanity 2013-08-28 13:55

I think it was a little buggy or something. Nothing was really happening. I was just running on puddles and nothing went on. ThenI stayed still and I was at "1second" for a really long time. (Using Chrome)

lokarunith 2013-08-28 17:23

@L0gicaL1nsanity: It was not a bug, the more puddles you run into the more the time stretches, the last second is supposed to pass very slowly as you are deeply imersed by your memory, if you can stretch time enough you can win the game.

zkenshin 2013-08-28 18:44

When I played most of the time by the time the black faded away/I got to play I had already lost about 2 seconds, which made it incredibly difficult. Good use of theme though.

cardboard 2013-08-28 18:54

This game's mood is very nice; the kids jumping around in the puddles with you is a nice touch. The game is pretty laggy on my laptop, but I'll try again on my desktop and see if I can beat the game. The music is nice, but maybe a touch too repetitive. Nice work with this; I enjoyed it.

lokarunith 2013-08-28 20:05

@cardboard: thank you for putting so much effort in completing the game, I'm very sorry It's so laggy I should have tested it in other computers, noob mistake.

d-e-x 2013-08-28 22:22

Very moody, great audio, a neat little game!

pinktreeleaf 2013-08-28 22:25

simple, but touching. framerate got me though

chronusz 2013-08-28 22:28

I was really interested in the story, but I think it's a little too luck-based to win. The puddles disappear too fast for you to really be able to aim for puddles, and you just had to get lucky enough to have a puddle spawn next to you. That's just my opinion, though. Aside from how hard it is, I enjoyed it :)

koe415 2013-08-29 06:36

Unfortunately I couldn't get the sound to work on the web version but great use of the theme. Even though the game was short, you quickly sympathized for the main character and his situation. I think it's a theme anyone can relate to. The gameplay was simple and everything was polished. I did find jumping on puddles as something sad as it really did feel like an old memory. Very nice short story.

shellfishgames 2013-08-29 07:34

Thanks for your feedback on my game Lokarunith! I tried yours once more, this time in Chrome and Opera. In Chrome simply nothing happened after the post-monologue-fade out, in Opera after a while the actual game started but ran with ~1 frame per second (also, the dialog lines in the beginning didn't work well - often when I press space 1-2 new lines appear and immediately disappear before I'm able to read them). I then tried the Windows version which, sadly, didn't even start. But it still looks good.. :D

hypp 2013-08-29 15:39

Good story and mood!

1fir3 2013-08-29 15:55

)) that makes me smile

casimps1 2013-08-30 00:42

Great atmosphere, but for something so moody the writing is very important. I think you really should spell check your text because several spelling errors ("diying", "excape", "etternity") took me out of the experience.

lokarunith 2013-08-30 09:54

@Jarcas Studios: Sorry for that, I forgot to check the text, I will fix that right away.

lokarunith 2013-08-30 10:23

but most of the typos you pointed out were in the description and not in the game itself.

diogomuller 2013-08-30 17:06

Very nice game, pretty unique idea. The story behind the game is very touching.

thermite 2013-08-31 14:53

Intriguing story, nice idea for the slowing time mechanic.

loxo 2013-08-31 15:03

A really great concept and a relaxing game, because of the slowing down of time! But something seems missing. I played the web version and there is no audio for me.

tainted_code 2013-08-31 18:49

It was a great story, and idea. Well executed!

ratalaika 2013-09-01 10:39

good job

vaelzan 2013-09-02 22:52

Not a bad game. I couldn't get the good ending :( I liked the tone that the game had but I felt that the gameplay was a bit conflicting with it. Still, it was definitely worth playing, good job :)

murilo 2013-09-03 00:37

Nice story! pretty short but to the point! I like it!

drabiter 2013-09-03 08:14

I don't have Windows and the web version showed nothing.

purplescape 2013-09-03 21:48

The story is sad but sweet. Great mood and everything worked well together.

theholychicken 2013-09-05 02:24

This is surprisingly touching...
Simple and sad.
Wonderful job!

douglasv 2013-09-07 18:48

You gave me feels man

farfromsleep 2013-09-17 00:23

interesting interpretation of the theme, and it sets quite a nice atmosphere. This is great stuff for a first game.