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The Dead rest Beneath Us

By flrn

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Mood134.32
Coolness281
Innovation584.03
Audio623.77
Overall703.89
Graphics764.18
Theme773.91
Humor1353.35
Fun7242.84

Comments

2014-04-28 10:21

Is it possible to save any of them? I liked the art. Couldnt save any of them

viza 2014-04-28 10:34

Wow. The first game I rated 5 stars here...

lantto 2014-04-28 11:02

Very nice graphics and physics but I wasn't able to even get close to saving anyone. It felt like I was missing something.

mikedirl 2014-04-28 11:02

I love your idea. The game is very atmospheric, the music and the visuals are very haunting.

hexagore 2014-04-28 12:23

I played this game last night. Took me a while to understand what you were doing :) Beautiful and interesting. :)

dylanigan 2014-04-28 12:24

Very hard!

thegamefather 2014-04-28 12:30

It's awesome! The camera movement, the environment, the music, the rag doll characters, and even the skeletons in the menus and credit scene, all of these elements blend extremely well.

Sad thing is I could not save any of them. May be that's what the creator wants I guess :)

sanguine 2014-04-28 12:38

Great mood! Loved the audio and graphics :) It felt very cinematographic

flrn 2014-04-28 12:39

Thanks for the feedback all! :D

xerohuang 2014-04-28 14:06

Is it designed to be that you can't save anyone?

zedutchgandalf 2014-04-28 15:20

Oh God, that last one D:
I though I finally saved someone, and he gets run over by another train :(
Really cool, atmospheric game!

mutuware 2014-04-28 20:10

Great stuff!

lonewookie 2014-04-29 00:20

Awesome ending! Great graphics and physics!

raroadkill 2014-04-29 00:22

So sad, but so great. I replayed the first chapter several times before I realized what was going on.

kmakai 2014-04-29 00:23

Fantastic job, everything had a really nice look to it too!

crawler-studios 2014-04-29 00:44

Love the music, kind of a hard game though. Still, nice work.

conormn 2014-04-29 02:33

Geez, impressive! Really really well done!!

rylgh 2014-04-29 05:05

funny as hell

hypnohustla 2014-04-29 12:18

Wow this was great! One of the best I've played here, even if it was hard as hell! ;)

helopol 2014-04-29 16:09

I feel bad now :< the two last chapters were particularily well made. That's a really good one !

nizar89 2014-04-29 16:37

Interesting game. Quite sad but intelligent. I felt it as a poetry.

pierrec 2014-04-29 18:03

Superb! And why would you choose a take on the them when you can have four! Is the audio yours?

secret_tunnel 2014-04-29 20:48

I don't think you were intending for this game to be as funny as I found it, but it had me laughing my ass off. Any game is a sort of communication between the developer and the player, and the variables in this little exchange between us lined up just right. It being your first submission, me having a very grim sense of humor; the wires in our conversation got crossed in the absolute perfect way that lead me to really enjoy this game for all the wrong reasons.

I'm not making fun of the game by any means; I just have a very grim sense of humor. The train scene? Hilarious. Thank you for making this.

oddly-shaped-pixels 2014-05-01 13:56

Really clever and impressive execution! The models and the physics are just great!

notnasiul 2014-05-01 21:35

Brilliant. Simply brilliant.

andrewshouldice 2014-05-02 11:35

This is powerfully evocative. Even when I knew what was happening, I could not stop myself from trying.

Normally Humour and Mood are kind of mutually exclusive, but this manages both.

Really fantastic work.

lowcade 2014-05-02 17:06

Bro!!! Every one die! And I try so hard...
But nice game ^^ Good use of theme and graphics is very nice.
I like the skull

cruelmotivator 2014-05-02 19:47

You, sir, are the puppeteer of souls. I tip my hat to you.

romko_pidstryhach 2014-05-04 10:04

Amazing! The ending is just awesome.

baykush_figtree 2014-05-04 18:15

This is the vilest game i've seen.
Not it Ludum Dare, in my entire life.

Thank you for ruining my day.
You'll still get a bunch o' stars from me anyway.

javadocmd 2014-05-04 22:21

Very nicely put together and very grim, but with an evocative message.

dector 2014-05-04 22:31

Hm... Interesting entry. Real art I think.
Great job!

leparlon 2014-05-04 23:50

For some reason I found myself literally holding my breath on second chapter. Good job.

recursor 2014-05-05 00:40

Quite difficult but well done.

baykush_figtree 2014-05-05 00:43

Hey! Your torture-device-hidden-inside-a-game is featured on my "favorites" post

http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/2014/05/04/my-favorite-ld29-games/

framematt 2014-05-05 06:08

Couldn't make it xD,
but i really enjoyed!

juniorus 2014-05-05 15:31

Nice idea served by quick little interactions! Short but really well-made!

darkmeatgames 2014-05-05 23:49

Wow, really amazing! Loved the music, loved the art. Really great. Perfect mood. Fun was lacking a little bit, but it honestly didn't matter, I loved the art and music so much.

pinkmonkeyhead 2014-05-06 02:17

The idea was amazing but the execution was not.
I dont know if i was playing the right way but i couldnt save any of them.
Very frustrating

idovingx 2014-05-06 21:20

maybe my favorite game so far

idovingx 2014-05-06 21:21

do you have a website with other stuff you've made?

anoarith 2014-05-06 23:22

Didn't see that ending coming ahah !

jupiter_hadley 2014-05-10 01:24

I could not save them D: But, I love the idea and the game! I included it in part 18 of my Ludum Dare Compilation video series, if you'd like to take a look :) http://youtu.be/mAtRG2njZHE

paps 2014-05-10 13:50

this game is really hard. could not save anyone

phocker 2014-05-10 15:31

wow - creepy but awesome - there was real emotion there with me trying to save them - awesome

hybridmind 2014-05-10 15:44

I guess you can't actually save anyone. I tried awhile on the first chapter thinking I was doing something wrong. Kind of frustrating rather than poignant until you catch on. Also, the connection to theme is a bit thin besides the title and a few of the scenes. The wheel chair one isn't related at all. Funny how you want to save them (and try) even though it doesn't seem possible. Nice low polys and mood. Very morbid.

crefossus 2014-05-10 21:44

The dark values, blues, lighting, and overall graphics help keep up the dreary mood to the game. All of the modeling and the number of environments is very impressive for 48 hr to me.

The drawback is that it's not really "fun" nor is it meant to be I suppose...Although I did think of an achievements like "do a flip" for the underwater guy.

Also since you were going so much for mood I feel like sound fx/sound design could really have really pushed it even further. The music worked ok, but it could have been a little more depressing/moody. So little time though!

crefossus 2014-05-10 23:02

I also made a video/thoughts about this game :D http://www.twitch.tv/crefossus/c/4229741

hnjslater 2014-05-10 23:43

Ghastly (but it an amazing way!)

oye-beto 2014-05-11 00:50

I can see the experimental/artsy side of the concept "you can't beat death" that's why I'm rating you 5 in mood but this approach takes too much from gameplay (2 stars on fun).

I always like seeing experimental games in LD because they're more original (or at least try to be).

Oh and nice graphics :)
If you have unity pro you should experiment with camera effects like bloom, vignette or any of them.

chuigum 2014-05-14 06:55

Like the innovation

kristof 2014-05-14 14:25

Very good graphics and music. The controls felt frustrating, as the dragging lost its effect, when the cursor hit the border of the window. Also I was able to get the last person off the tracks, but the game still recognized it as a loss.

iambored2006 2014-05-19 04:59

Hey! I mentioned your game in this post- http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/2014/05/18/10-games-that-resonated-with-me/ , along with some feedback. I'd love to hear what you have to say!

pansapiens 2014-05-20 00:37

That's quite dark - but we need more games where we are helpless rather than all powerful, so it's a thumbs up from me (I'm assuming they can't be saved). You did well creating and animating all these models in a short timeframe too. Chapter 5 should be attempting tax evasion :)