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Mr Moore's Last Seconds

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Audio54.25
Mood84.22
Coolness1100
Overall433.81
Graphics654.20
Innovation1713.26
Humor2362.63
Fun2742.98
Theme3792.90

Comments

hardscore 2013-08-27 11:57

Great audio and nice graphics, the collisions in the wedding scene are a bit weird but other then that its great entry :)

mikegbrown 2013-08-27 12:39

Very nice. Platforming on the doves was a little less fluid than I'd have liked for the theme of the piece.

robotparking 2013-08-27 12:42

Dat artstyle.

gre 2013-08-27 12:43

Where is the theme?
Otherwise, Nice and touching story. Congrats for your game.

arcturusdeluxe 2013-08-27 12:51

Love the graphics and music, and the voice-over. Interesting stuff done with the narrative and linking it in with the theme. Can't think of anything bad to say really!

tainted_code 2013-08-27 12:58

Thanks guys! The theme, is the fact that you're reliving his life, fixing memories that are embedded in his mind. Then he can die in piece. The reason you push the car at the end is to make sure it doesn't hit anybody.

syner_d 2013-08-27 13:05

perfect!!! i love your art!

nizan 2013-08-27 13:54

Nice. The controls were a bit glitchy in places - especially when jumping on the doves.

The graphics were nice, but the audio was exceptional (and great voice acting & script too!). So created a really good mood. Nice work guys :)

mental-atrophy 2013-08-27 13:58

Great art, music, and narration.

jellyman64 2013-08-27 14:01

Good audio, great graphics for the audio. Nice game for the jam.

larzan 2013-08-27 14:05

Beautiful, great music, grafix, only the dove jumping was a bit difficult.
Nice one.

ithildin 2013-08-27 14:07

Beautiful audio, and great graphics. A nice match for the story :)

xgor 2013-08-27 14:07

Great game. Makes me thing that this would be it if To The Moon would be a platformer.

marcellus 2013-08-27 14:08

awesome graphics, voice acting and sound. Very poetical, I had a great time playing this and cried a bit inside of me.

tainted_code 2013-08-27 14:10

If anyone would like to hear the standalone music you can do that here: https://soundcloud.com/paulfredericksmusic/sets/mr-moores-last-seconds/s-FJeSw

villhest 2013-08-27 14:21

Fun game! The art is fantastic!

tainted_code 2013-08-27 16:30

Thanks guys! :D

lordjosephdeburg 2013-08-27 21:13

played it through.... very good dialog and story.

dcolgan 2013-08-27 22:14

Excellent storytelling and graphics and music you guys. The mood was excellent too. Thanks for letting me voice act in it!

thermite 2013-08-27 23:25

Beautiful, and quite moving.

johnfn 2013-08-27 23:26

Lovely art and storytelling. I really liked the concept of platforming with doves, even if the execution was not 100% perfect. Great entry!

keeper 2013-08-27 23:26

Simple but moving little story. Very simple gameplay with little innovation, but still enjoyable.

boneloaf 2013-08-27 23:29

We enjoyed the narrative and how it frames the gameplay (and jumping on doves)

themushroomsound 2013-08-27 23:29

I had this weird glitch playing the web version (haven't tried the others), where most of the levels weren't centered in the frame - also, I got big black squares on top of everything during level changes.

I really enjoyed it apart from that! :) Loved climbing the doves.

andrewshouldice 2013-08-27 23:29

Cool game! I quite like the idea of exploring a moment in time. The platforming in the wedding scene especially.

kad 2013-08-27 23:30

Why did mr Moore had to die ._.;?
It's hard to believe that such a short time can be enough to create a truly piece of art.
Your voice actor is really cool too.

garethiw 2013-08-27 23:31

It was a clever idea with the theme, I liked the approach of telling a short story over any serious game mechanics too.

tainted_code 2013-08-27 23:33

Thanks guys, means so much to us :D

arezita 2013-08-27 23:44

Very nice game! Congrats!

farmergnome 2013-08-28 01:03

Awesome story, nice art also.

endermath 2013-08-28 01:49

Fantastic in all respects! Very impressive :)

lustdante 2013-08-28 02:21

Wow, such a haunting story. I really really love how you have to push your car away from other potential victims in the end. That was definitely best thing I had to do in LD. Excellent!

tainted_code 2013-08-28 02:26

Thanks! :D

mrroboman 2013-08-28 03:07

Really nice production! Love the art, sound, and voice acting. It wasn't really a game in the traditional sense, but then again, neither is my entry :) Good job!

adventureislands 2013-08-28 12:39

Whoa. That was very well done. Very emotional. Nice sound and voice work and great pixel art! Touching ending.

kristof 2013-08-28 12:44

Very good story telling. I like the art style.

dancingflame 2013-08-28 12:50

This is incredible! Everything is perfect! If you put more gameplay in it, you got a champion!

rawani 2013-08-28 12:57

Nice game guys ... great mixture of story and player interaction ...

tainted_code 2013-08-28 13:17

Cheers people! :3

cryogenesis 2013-08-28 13:26

Happy to see Colgan doing the narration!

Great graphics and really good story-telling. Reminds me of Bastion. Good work!

valerien 2013-08-28 13:32

The audio is really clean and the visuals are good overall. However, the game doesn't feel related to the theme and there isn't much gameplay to enjoy there. I think it's a nice try, but you could have had a gameplay centered around changing the character's fate or wife's fate at his own expense in 10 seconds (even with time stretching in his last moments), with different endings for example. The game design just needs a clearer relationship with the "10 seconds" thing.

spitfire87 2013-08-28 13:40

Nice idea, writting, sound and voice acting. Good job!

reaperguy 2013-08-28 13:49

Took half an hour to load and when i clicked play i just got a black screen :(
Froom the screenshots, tough, it seems very nice.

tainted_code 2013-08-28 13:55

@Valerien, you do, the details are in the description.
@Reaperguy, yeah, that's why there is a 'backup' link, and you're supposed to get a black screen for about 10 seconds.

vaalen 2013-08-28 14:34

It's a game really orginal. They're some collision problemes sometimes and it's a bit short. Good work, though !

rezoner 2013-08-28 15:29

Great voice acting and assets. Have a spare handkerchief?

erhune 2013-08-28 15:43

Very beautiful and emotional. The writing and voicing was top-notch, music perfect, really I cannot think of anything bad to say (even the length was just perfect to convey your message I think).

urfoex 2013-08-28 15:53

Great entry.
Visuals - audio - story - very well fitting together.

tainted_code 2013-08-28 16:00

Thanks guys! ;)

ratalaika 2013-08-28 16:18

good job. entertaining game

snemanden 2013-08-28 16:27

Very nice thing with voice-over! The graphics were absolutely stunning.

jalgames 2013-08-28 16:56

Nice idea to combine a platformer with a story. I don't know if it was that I hadn't got any speakers avilable but I didn't understand how the game was based on the theme.
I personally don't like these quite high-res pixel-art, but as said that's my personal opinion.

tainted_code 2013-08-28 17:08

@JALgames, You have to play it with sound, otherwise, you wouldn't get it. It has a narrative.

diptoman 2013-08-28 17:10

This is a wonderful piece of art.
Depressing games usually don't depress (from my point of view at least), but this hits the nail on the head. Wonderful graphics and audio, and excellent mood created. Hats off, sir.

zkenshin 2013-08-28 17:27

Nice to see a story game. :)

tainted_code 2013-08-28 17:48

Thanks guys!

cwkx 2013-08-28 18:26

This was a fantastic entry with some very talented work on display. Congratulations on working together to produce this. My first 40/40 :)

tainted_code 2013-08-28 18:38

Wow, thanks!!

encryptedcow 2013-08-28 18:51

Amazing game.

nerlin 2013-08-28 19:46

Perfect game atmosphere, graphics and audio are awesome! Well done.

pighead10 2013-08-28 19:57

Not really much of the theme present in the game. Fantastic mood with graphics and sound.

zlowrance 2013-08-28 20:25

Pretty great art and a good concept. Platforming felt fairly solid. Did not see a strong connection to the theme but I thoroughly enjoyed it

martin_monosys 2013-08-28 21:02

Good graphics and sound, nice enough gameplay. Story was spoiled a bit by the narrator, as it was supposed to be a sad story (it was, wasn't it!??), and he didn't make it sound sad in any way, at least not to me. The rest was nice! :)

flamecow 2013-08-28 21:19

Interesting concept and neat game! Very nice art style, too.

ellipticaldoor 2013-08-28 21:29

0_0 good and nice storyteling. I really love this one.

tainted_code 2013-08-28 21:38

@Martin_Monosys, well, it was rushed last minute for voice acting. Cheers guys!

joedev_net 2013-08-28 22:21

Very good narration and the music tied in perfectly to the mood of the game. I also thought the dove level was really well done! Great job.

pinktreeleaf 2013-08-28 23:52

simple, but awesome graphics, looks like you put a lot into it. Cool music and points for VO

crazi456 2013-08-29 00:05

Absolutely amazing visuals. Great narration, good job!

murilo 2013-08-29 02:09

After the starting narration the screen goes black and it stays there forever :( I tried more than once. Very nice audio and graphics, from the little I could see!

ghribacki 2013-08-29 03:10

This is actually the first game I play where "10 seconds" is the theme (OK, not exactly "10" but...), not a mechanic (including my own game). That was really nice!

The story is interesting and the music is splendid! Graphics are really cool and detailed, I liked especially the first/last scene!

(also, I couldn't find the problem with the dove collision)

Thanks for this awesome experience! =D

ossi 2013-08-29 03:21

Charming game! I really loved the wedding part and the narration was a cool touch. Pushing the crowd to use as a platform was also neat. I wish there were more things to do that used the environment like that and perhaps have the collectibles be more like the art style of the characters, they seemed a bit out of place. Excellent mood, good job!

hypp 2013-08-29 03:56

Very nice. Great graphics and great mood. It really felt like I could correct his "mistakes"

namrog84 2013-08-29 05:42

great music/audio, voiceover was beautiful.

Great story/mood

Loved the dove scene!!

Although the story is the primary goodthing. The gameplay does complement it nicely, but i think the gameplay aspect of it could be reworked slightly.

Just finished and overall it was simply brilliant

truiton 2013-08-29 08:56

But... But... It's sad! :(
Great mood, great graphics, great audio. It's uncommone. It's art. I like it. :)

tainted_code 2013-08-29 09:39

Thanks ladies and gents!

hd408 2013-08-29 12:47

Solid narrative, that's right. Impressive polish and art!

hyperbox 2013-08-29 17:06

Very nice and artistic.

almax27 2013-08-29 17:36

Nice story telling.

volute 2013-08-29 22:11

Very creative

capro 2013-08-30 10:54

Well realized and quite original. Interesting!

orni 2013-08-30 11:37

great entry - nice narration can improve a game a lot
loved it - the graphical style is amazing as well

finnegan2100 2013-08-30 18:47

Great story! Really nice graphics and voice acting was really good too! Easy, but excellent work!

xaizil 2013-08-30 22:09

Lovely story telling in this

koe415 2013-08-31 06:09

Like others have said, the dove platforming was not as intuitive as the rest of the game was but this is nitpicking. This game is awesome. Great story, great audio and great art. The complete package. And Moore's final act? Pitch perfect. Very high quality production. Please continue the great work. Looking forward to more from you guys!

triplevisiongames 2013-08-31 11:19

AWESOME. I loved playing through that sad little story. Great idea linking the goals of each little part with the narrative. Fantastic entry, just needed better controls and collision (and maybe voice acting hehe) but everything else was perfect and all fitted together amazingly well.

delca 2013-08-31 17:04

Audio and graphics were very good and fitting each other. The end made me kind of sad.
Overall, a nice game, although I do not see the theme very well. Did those flashbacks happened in the ten last seconds of his life ?

tainted_code 2013-08-31 17:06

@Delca, yeah :P

hbocao 2013-08-31 17:33

Very pretty art, dudes! I also loved the narration and the cute and sad little story. :'(

lokarunith 2013-08-31 18:34

Such a shame it's so short, very atmosheric and great storytelling, I simply love the aesthetic, that level with the doves was beautiful.

nezzhil 2013-08-31 19:20

I love the art style and the use of the narrator.

darkshadow 2013-08-31 20:20

Lovely story and by far the most effort spent on audio I've heard, really pays off well! Poor, poor Mr Moore.
5* for Theme, Audio and Mood.

jod 2013-08-31 23:47

Wow. I really, really liked what you did there. The combination between gameplay, sound and graphics was really good! Excellent voice acting combined with a really good (and really sad) story! The little scenario's underline all the beautiful little moments he has to lose. One thing to improve would be the final scene. I think I understood exactly what mr. Moore did (and well done to him!), but there's just a few steps that could be explained a bit better.

On the other hand, if I got it, why would we bother cheapening the experience by explaining it? Quite the little quandary. I honestly don't have an answer. Loving it all the same!

zyxer 2013-09-01 01:46

Wow! Just an amazing little game!

atridas 2013-09-01 12:22

Fantastic! The best entry I've found (for now)!!!!! Really, I am amazed.

graytest 2013-09-01 14:21

Very different from most other entries. Like the story but the game play was a bit trivial.

m-gryko85 2013-09-01 14:24

Great story, voice acting and art. This game has a great depth and emotional feeling. I'm amazed truly amazed how so short game make me feel. superb job!

pitzik4 2013-09-02 01:41

The gameplay may be lacking, but anybody who has participated in a LD will be impressed bu just how much content is in this game. The soundtrack is by far the best I've seen in any Ludum Dare game, especially. I like the dove-jumping level especially - it shows the player that Mr. Moore is really just fantasizing, since he can't really jump across a flock of birds to retrieve a ring. The concept reminds me of To the Moon.

andwhatnot 2013-09-02 18:35

A game driven by good narrative and simple interactions that reinforce that narrative - I like it!

01rafael 2013-09-03 10:15

cool, but too short))

psychomonster 2013-09-04 21:06

So much feeling in this game... maybe this games should win the jam... no other game touched me this way. Thanks!

teamwithoutlegs 2013-09-06 09:43

Awesome arts, music and narration, congrats

theholychicken 2013-09-15 23:22

This sent shivers down my spine. Truly amazing work!