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One Heart

By wisegamer

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Coolness362
Mood1243.36
Audio1913.11
Overall2623.11
Theme3132.64
Humor3532.04
Fun3842.55
Innovation4302.37
Graphics4632.42

Comments

ihateatmfees 2013-12-17 03:43

Interesting game, nice job. At some point, all of the collider boundaries on the game objects were all visible, intentional?

wisegamer 2013-12-17 09:17

It was a debug problem, we fixed it as soon as we saw it. Thank you for your opinion.

lolshouse 2013-12-17 13:32

Nice theme, and I liked the mood that was set. A little simplistic in terms of gameplay, and some of the "Press down arrow rapidly" bits were tiresome rather than fun.

danbo 2013-12-17 13:35

Got stuck at the boulder room about facing fears.

hypermagical 2013-12-17 13:38

More checkpoints, please! Repeating sections in the first level is annoying, partially because of the long walking at the start.

I liked the use of the mechanics to tell us something.

bcadren 2013-12-17 14:11

Glad to see another LD entry that used Kongregate for the Web version. Other than webhost; I think our works couldn't be more different though. Yours has a focus on level design puzzles and theme, which works strongly, where I had more of an art and technical focus. My only complaint is at the 'Press Down Rapidly' requests. I gave you a 5/5 on Kong. I particularly like the theme and storytelling you used.

wisegamer 2013-12-17 14:29

danbo : Face your fears! that is the the answer , just face it :)

xezko 2013-12-17 15:53

You really nailed the mood and that music is so good!
great work!

van-noctar 2013-12-17 18:36

I like the sounds and the collision management, congratulations for your work!! A long story and a good game mechanics

robhor 2013-12-17 22:11

Nice story, good mood and music!
"Pressing down rapidly" isn't very fun though, especially since there wasn't any feedback that indicates anything's actually happening.

pighead10 2013-12-17 22:42

Nice, easy-ish platform with some quirks. Great music.

nickw 2013-12-18 00:21

There were some leaps of faith where you couldn't see what you were jumping to. Otherwise, nice relaxing music. Cool game.

anachron 2013-12-18 00:54

Nice mood and FX. I got stuck after getting the bandage of Hope...

jellycakes 2013-12-18 01:52

Nice game! I had to come back and review it after the level changing bug was fixed. I liked the take on theme and the puzzles that were presented. Nice job!

syawqy 2013-12-19 01:41

I like the story and the music really set the mood

dray 2013-12-19 21:59

really smart game. I liked the way you tell the story trough gameplay. good job

sanguine 2013-12-20 14:33

The jumping could be worked on, but the mood was good.

kgs0142 2013-12-24 05:46

Nice mood and good story :)

pkenney 2013-12-26 18:41

A lot of creativity here. But you did some things that really frustrated me as a player. I felt it was unfair of you to make me jump in the dark and establish that if I messed up I would die, and have to start all over. This established the rules of the game.

Then those rules were broken. I had to faithjump into a brick wall hoping it was secretly passable. Next, you put me next to some spikes, but they also didn't follow the rules. I nearly quit three times missing jumps and having to restart, so it seemed really unfair to make me faithjump and faithspikewalk, risking a brutal restart punishment.

Later, in the bandage area with more fogiving restarts, it was more okay to bend the rules... but you still forced me to jump blindly into a pit to get a bandage.

I understand this was an artistic manipulation of the player and his expectations, and you're expressing the trials the heart may make you go through, and I did play the game to the finish, but I felt unfairly manipulated and abused. Perhaps that was the artistic goal, though.

At any rate, it was pretty interesting and I did finish it all, so good job even if I personally disagree with the treatment.

cappelnord 2014-01-03 14:18

I had some collision problems. I also thought the choice of music was a little odd, I was thinking about watching a romantic movie where two people are about to have sex too often. Checkpoint system would have been great as well.