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Awe

By oddly-shaped-pixels

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Innovation74.37
Audio84.40
Mood224.10
Coolness278
Overall294.05
Graphics374.45
Fun1293.53
Theme3723.18
Humor4372.30

Comments

hyoga-3d 2014-08-26 00:38

Nice game, but I think that the game keeps giving me Always the same colors.

oddly-shaped-pixels 2014-08-26 08:33

Thanks for the feedback.

Sadly the game is definitely buggy, I rushed it too much I think... I'd like to know more about your bug cause I haven't experienced it.
Is the color always dark blue?

I know there's a bug between Chrome and Unity WebPlayer that forces you to switch tab or to resize the browser window for the game to work properly...

crocantidepollo 2014-08-26 09:31

Beautiful and relaxing. I tried the multiplayer mode but I didn't notice any other player, probably there wasn't many people playing at the same time... I'll try again later cos I want to know what that last line does! :D

seriouslycrunchy 2014-08-27 10:05

This is beautiful. Multiplayer worked for me and was an experimental joy. Brilliant.

ludipe 2014-08-27 10:11

Great game, the multiplayer experience and the overall gameplay was very interesting and stimulating. Both graphics and sound design were awesome.

What I didn't like about the game is that it was supposed to be stimulating and relaxing but ended up being frustrating. I understood the mechanics and knew what I had to do, but the game requires too much precision to complete the tasks. So there's a conflict there, music and art tell me to take it easy and think camly, while gameplay keeps frustrating me.

¡Te ha quedado genial el juego! :D

headmade 2014-08-27 11:41

Nice and relaxing. Audio and visuals work very well.

dustyroom 2014-08-27 12:04

Loved it!

vctr_seleucos 2014-08-27 12:45

Really beautiful and nice, loved it. The concept the graphics and the feeling. Really nice entry!

leafarz 2014-08-27 13:45

very beautiful and soothing game. tho i had some issues clicking some parts that gave a wrong color.
even so, the look and the music very much made me stay to play the game a lot more! didn't care about the bugs actually lol. the game still made me want to play more! :D

somepx 2014-08-27 15:11

What a game! Experimental, extraordinary, well executed.

roguenoodle 2014-08-27 17:52

Really nice concept - I had a hard time registering certain colours which made the longer patterns very tricky, but the presentation here was incredible. Awesome job.

igoramendola 2014-08-27 22:14

Really interesting and relaxing. Nice graphics and good music.
It's a promising idea and I want more items to play/create :P haha
Good work ;)

dohan 2014-08-27 22:45

Very beautiful and relaxing entry :)

lekochen 2014-08-28 03:03

Very beautiful, I loved it!

georgebroussard 2014-08-28 04:23

Great entry. Clever. took a while to figure out the mechanics but once I did it was fun. Neat idea. Good mood.

oddly-shaped-pixels 2014-08-28 08:03

Thank's a lot for all the comments!

Sometimes picking up the right colors may be a bit tricky and I'm still looking for a better color recognition algorithm. What helps is spawning lots of the same objects so that you can have different light exposures and be able to easily pick the color you want.

deepnight 2014-08-28 12:00

Very good experiment! I totally love the blurry/depth of field effect. It took me a lot of time do get the color-based mechanic. At first, I thought the tone was related to the height of the triangle. Then I noticed the clue you added in the upper-left corner :)

canyon 2014-08-28 12:13

5 Stars for everything but humor. One day I will make a game this good. :)

dickpoelen 2014-08-28 14:11

That's just amazing!

nuclearnapalm 2014-08-29 08:24

Beautiful sandbox! Love the music and mood!

GreyShock 2014-08-29 15:40

I've built a lot of semen extractors but the planet never runs empty, what's the matter?

Also, MOUNTAINS http://i.imgur.com/TKUMuRm.png

GreyShock 2014-08-29 16:00

MOAR: http://i.imgur.com/F9OC7D4.png

incd021 2014-08-29 18:03

WOW!! And then some. :) Almost ran out of stars to give... ;)

yodamaster 2014-08-29 18:51

Nice concept, but I could get only trees, no other combination of colors worked.

nonentheless 2014-08-29 20:34

Very nice idea and amazing execution. Great job :)

wdebowicz 2014-08-29 23:30

I completely agree with Ludipe. Idea is simply great, but it's very hard do place something other then a tree. I ended up with possibility to use red, blue, and dark blue colour, but I can't get the green colour (well I get it 2 times but with completely random clicking 100 times). Anyway, one of the most interesting Idea I saw this LD. If you like fun with colours, you may try my entry.

kaa 2014-08-30 00:16

Very nice game. Sound and graphics are beautiful! Thank you!

vidd 2014-08-30 00:51

Excellent. The graphics were lovely and the concept was novel.

dragoninstall 2014-08-30 02:25

Love the graphics and sfx. Very relaxing game. GG!

robotfriend 2014-08-30 02:50

beautiful.. took me a minute to figure it out

alvivar 2014-08-30 03:36

I love it.

tmpxyz 2014-08-30 03:55

nice game, hope to have more things to add

shivur 2014-08-30 06:12

Original and relaxing game.

zazery 2014-08-30 08:01

I spent a long time just playing with it creating music before actually trying to figure out the patterns. It was a bit frustrating with everything rotating to hit the correct colours sometimes. Great job overall!

cobrajs 2014-08-30 08:49

Beautiful and very unique. Nice job!

thegamefather 2014-08-30 09:36

Impressive graphics and mood creation! The gameplay is innovative too! Like it!

pa3kc 2014-08-30 10:08

Visually awesome!

beardaneerz 2014-08-30 10:45

One of my favorite game ! I love the sound design.

blizzardmuffin 2014-08-30 11:53

Beautiful graphics, amazing sounds, and incredibly smooth. Very well done! One of the best entries I've seen so far. :)

fil00dl 2014-08-30 12:04

excellent idea, very good realisation for this relaxing game

tomvert 2014-08-30 13:22

I love the art style.

alxr 2014-08-30 13:57

Awazing audio-visual masterpiece! Congrats!
5 stars!

hate-marina 2014-08-30 14:54

Quite complicated

stasss 2014-08-30 15:21

Awesome. Great idea, great rendition. And a very interesting technical implementation (if some tutorials, sources) available it would be great to see. I really really like this game, i think it should be at the top

ltyrosine 2014-08-30 15:32

Absolutely amazing. Player actions blends seamless with background music as almost part of it. Beautiful graphics, nice sounds. I can only complain about not so good theme link.

bluemaroo3 2014-08-30 16:27

Beautiful game and fantastic use of sound. Soon have my little world kitted out and wanted to build new things :D A lovely experience :)

cornedor 2014-08-30 16:59

Nice game with beautiful graphics and a great mood.

allusion 2014-08-30 18:13

Great game. I don't see the theme except the multiplayer, but that's not really a complaint or critique because it's still an awesome and beautiful game.

saphyre1306 2014-08-30 18:50

Very poetic, I liked it !

cardboard 2014-08-30 18:59

This game's atmosphere is grand; the sound effects and ambient music fit very well.

orangeez 2014-08-30 20:36

Very strong entry, the atmosphere and sound is really impressive. Lag and lack of communication shows though - me and my partner had big troubles playing right notes, while almost at the same time we both realised the way the mechanics worked.

christianeugenio 2014-08-30 20:50

very cool, i didnt know what to do at first to get new colors, but later on is fun and i like the atmosphere.

lokarunith 2014-08-31 10:55

Beautiful game.

rfgpfeiffer 2014-08-31 12:41

It's like the next step in the evolution of the genre after "Mountain". In this game, you can make more mountains. Brilliant!

hadesfury 2014-08-31 19:02

Great ... More pattern needed :D

stevesalmond 2014-09-01 08:12

Well, I was having a bit of a crappy day until now. Your game cheered me up! Thanks :D

oxyoxspring 2014-09-02 01:17

An absolutely exquisite experiment experience!

javadocmd 2014-09-02 05:07

A really cool experience! Nicely done.

oddly-shaped-pixels 2014-09-02 07:13

Thanks for all the nice comments, I' m really pleased to see that people also like calm and relaxing games :)

@Stasss I'd be glad to send you the source, although it's lots of "jam" code, that means not really commented and not really optimized :) Contact me by mail!

@Scott Baker The theme is indeed in the multiplayer aspect and the "connection" that you can establish with a stranger without any words.


@SteveSalmond That's maybe the best and most rewarding comment someone could ever make, thanks!

aquilicoco 2014-09-02 15:11

Good work! ¡Felicidades! ;)

foolmoron 2014-09-03 02:50

Incredibly good concept. The way the colors change as the planet rotates is genius. I couldn't get multiplayer to work though...

literal_games 2014-09-03 22:12

Nicely done! Personally I preferred playing without your description, figuring out the gameplay on my own after being linked to it by Rock Paper Shotgun (congrats!)

eatsleepindie 2014-09-04 06:33

Incredible entry. You did an amazing job tying the music and graphics together with the gameplay.

chadiik 2014-09-04 18:15

Amazing, I loved the mood in there! :)

fanttum 2014-09-05 21:37

Wow, a really cool experience. Took a while to figure out, but once I got it, a lot of fun

local-minimum 2014-09-06 16:08

It took me a little while to get started but once I realized it was a twist on mastermind and that the appearing features were usable (the last was the largest obstacle) it was really quite nice. I played solo, and nothing happened once I had solved all the four features possible solving, so if there was more to it, it should probably be made clear and if that was the end, a "Congratulations" would have been nice.

Anyhow, a really great entry and a great start for a larger game.

pythong 2014-09-08 08:11

has a nice atmosphere

flannelvindicate 2014-09-11 16:01

Psssst - you are in today's episode of Ludum Dare to Believe! Check it out at - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiOCPZZx_Fc

kddekadenz 2014-09-12 12:09

Super cool!
Love the art and the gameplay concept!
The audio is just awesome! :)
You had me with creating a world :)

leafthief 2014-09-13 07:09

I had a hard time finding the combinations. Still a nice experience! Good job!

jackyjjc 2014-09-13 23:20

Nice visual and audio! It is relaxing but it is a bit frustrating to try out all different possible combinations.

leftright92 2014-09-14 14:59

Lovely game (well, less 'game' more 'art piece') I really enjoyed it.

mechabit 2014-09-14 23:05

nice experiment, took me a while to realise that the shade of a poly is what mattered and not the position on the planet