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Dreamless

By depp

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Coolness1100
Mood1443.55
Audio2233.31
Fun2603.42
Overall2813.49
Innovation3283.45
Graphics5453.12
Humor5952.26
Theme6433.14

Comments

endurion 2014-08-26 19:33

Waiting for a Windows build.

teamquadratic 2014-08-27 05:18

Loved the idea, and the levels were very well designed!

stepwise 2014-08-27 05:24

Hey, this is great.

I played all the way through to the end, and I was curious to see how the relationship between the girl and the shadow would turn out. Missed one of the dialogue boxes, though.

Great game and content.

endurion 2014-08-27 05:25

Thanks for the Windows build!

Very nice game, I like those place-command games. Even comes with a bunch of stages.

tehskull 2014-08-27 05:40

"XML Parsing Error: unexpected parser state Location: jar:file:///B:/Program%20Files%20(x86)/Aurora/browser/omni.ja!/chrome/browser/content/browser/aboutneterror/netError.xhtml Line Number 305, Column 54: <div id="ed_netTimeout">&netTimeout.longDesc;</div> -----------------------------------------------------^"

hundredhundred 2014-08-27 05:44

Interesting mechanics and well presented to the player. I would have liked to see what you could have done with all 3 jump, reverse jump and drop actions in play together though. Lots of potential there. I'm not sure why you need a gate for the player to activate the knights, assigning that to a key press would have made it less tedious to retry puzzles. Art-wise I like the wavy effect you got going on for the dream world. Animations would have added some nice polish though.

landosystems 2014-08-27 05:51

Nice work, this is a great puzzle game! The mood is spot on between the art style and the music. The puzzles are clever but not impossible. I love the shimmer effect during the planning phase that turns solid when you set the guys going. Great job!

phaix 2014-08-27 05:52

Great! Was really fun to play. Just the water like effect wasn't my favorite ;)

ninjascript 2014-08-27 05:56

Extremely awesome. Great visual effects. Loved the dialog. 5 stars. Would play again.

njord 2014-08-27 07:08

Very nice ! I like the gameplay, and the mood of the game is great :)

soulgame 2014-08-28 01:34

Some good ideas, nice arts, i like the dialogue between the two main characters.
Maybe you should add some animation to the characters.
Good work, very pleasant game.

ajayajayaj 2014-08-28 02:36

Great Game. Cool how the Shadow talks. Awesome music and cool fog effect!

nerd-burglars 2014-08-28 02:51

I loved how you put the power in the player's hands. Very creative. Very cool :)

tanser 2014-08-28 04:12

Such amazing atmosphere! Good job! I am really impressed! The graphics effect is so nice! The music is amazing!

whilefun 2014-08-28 04:12

Unfortunately, this crashes for me as soon as I open the executable. Windows 7 64-bit. Might have to do with intel graphics card? It's a fairly crumby laptop.

depp 2014-08-28 04:28

whilefun: Sorry to hear that. Unfortunately, the error handling in this game is mostly done by calling the abort() function whenever an error appears.

lolshouse 2014-08-28 05:39

Great ideas. - Flurkin

soupwithbits 2014-08-28 06:51

I like me a good puzzle.

eruiz00 2014-08-28 16:40

Inspiring ambient is what lacks in modern games. Think a minute before going to develoop, too. I did not see these problems in this game. I'll save to play on night.

dcampos 2014-08-28 16:41

Waiting for the Linux port.

andrewkennedy 2014-08-28 20:17

Good atmosphere - the music really helped it along! Nice way to tie in the theme too. A little bit of animation would have gone a long way.

chaoslab 2014-08-29 02:35

That was fun. Well rounded and interesting. Good effort! :-)

hypnohustla 2014-08-29 07:08

Great game! It ended just as I was getting to the taste of it. I need more :)

kingbolonzo 2014-08-30 20:21

Nice work especially in 48 hours

chuigum 2014-09-01 04:37

Awesome! Really fun! Cool idea and awesome job overall!

oinkiguana 2014-09-01 04:40

Very well done in every way. Ending was a bit anticlimactic but excellent overall.

bluesky 2014-09-01 08:21

Nice game Love the gameplay.

crefossus 2014-09-01 08:26

I love the sound fx and audio, they really helped create the mood. The writing was also very strong and humorous. I actually solved a level before talking to the guy and replayed it just to read what was said :D

I think the level before last was a little frustrating because of how accurate the level design made you be. I had solved the puzzle in theory but had to replace them like 5 times to get it perfect.

Obviously could use a walking animation to go with the nice sfx.

jprogman 2014-09-02 06:55

The actions took me a try to get the idea on what each type does. A little trial and error, but nothing too concerning.
Is there a way I could remove the actions I have just placed?

yodamaster 2014-09-02 10:53

Great game! I like the concept and mood. If you improve the gfx and add some animations for the characters, you can easily sell that.

munkeebacon 2014-09-04 01:23

The sounds are all really nice! And clever game idea!

mach60kas 2014-09-04 01:40

Very atmospheric, I loved the puzzle mechanics and music!

rehacked 2014-09-05 11:05

Good game but what happened to the story ?? i thought it had abetter story at end !anyway good job!

teesquared 2014-09-08 04:52

Great game. Very complete. Graphics and audio are top notch. I like the wavy effect in dream land. Really sets the mood.

mystakin 2014-09-08 05:24

Really impressed by the wavy dream effect and mood. Gameplay reminded me a bit of Lemmings, which I adore, so that was also rad. Wish it explored multiple abilities more, but it is a short time to make a gamer after all. Great work!

larzan 2014-09-09 08:05

Nice one, i like the idea. Good effects too :)

klianc09 2014-09-09 17:46

The music and fog effect create a great mysterious atmosphere.
Liked the puzzles, I just don't understand why I have to control a player character, and can't simply drag and drop the actions where I want?

p4nurge 2014-09-10 15:25

Really nicely planned puzzles and a lovely, mysterious mood. The challenge and the story were pitched just right to keep me playing. Good work!

puppetmaster 2014-09-10 17:37

I like planning games, and this one is very cool! There is a bug withe dialog window when you are in the real world you can't press it away with space.

rfgpfeiffer 2014-09-10 18:36

I could not run the binaries on my ubuntu 14.4. When I try to build it from source, it says

/usr/bin/python3: can't open file './sglib/script/config.py': [Errno 2] No such file or directory

depp 2014-09-11 07:35

@rfgpfeiffer: Whoops, you downloaded the source code! Here is a direct link to the Linux release: http://www.moria.us/ludumdare/ld30/Dreamless-1.1.0-Linux.tgz

depp 2014-09-11 07:38

Er, I didn't read your comment well. I'll at least say that distributing binaries on Linux is a bit of a crapshoot: I tried to make the binary as portable as I could, but obviously something went wrong. If you get that error message when compiling, it's because you didn't check out the git submodules, or you downloaded a tagged release from GitHub. Can you tell me what went wrong when you tried to run the program? Any console output when you run it from a terminal?

apiotrw 2014-09-13 15:28

Nice game