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Break the Limits!

By volute

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall204.07
Mood94.38
Coolness367
Theme854.15
Innovation863.97
Audio1053.57
Humor1263.35
Fun1483.61
Graphics1663.78

Comments

absor 2014-12-08 03:44

Very, very interesting game. Too bad the sound loop gets a bit annoying.

tyty5949 2014-12-08 03:47

Really good game. I don't think the sound gets that annoying because if you play fast it changes. Very nice concept and execution of the game.

hd_ 2014-12-08 03:48

This is really cool !

Not sure if it's a bug, but thoughts started running on a loop.

volute 2014-12-08 03:51

Thanks for the comments!

@hd_ It's normal, that's what the "Think better" upgrade does :)

nuclearnapalm 2014-12-08 03:52

Really fun game. And I felt the mood. Like I'm in a prison and I can't understand what's going on. Thanks!

noahm 2014-12-08 03:54

This was fun! It reminds me a lot of Drowning in Problems (http://game.notch.net/drowning/) except it has better music!

pastry 2014-12-08 04:00

Interesting concept, good mood and atmosphere, but overall the clicking mechanic isn't very fun or engaging, and can be a distraction from the rest of the story. I found myself reading the dialogue while randomly clicking around the bottom.

mopz 2014-12-08 08:52

Set's the mood alright.

2014-12-08 14:33

Really awesome concept! love it.

pjimmy 2014-12-08 18:58

wow, very nice, it succeeds in conveying lots of emotion

domicuc 2014-12-08 19:27

Hello mate,i must say it.. you make a very good game x) congratulation.. you got it bro ! :)
If you have some 1/2 minutes check my project too x) thanks mate. Have a good night :) or .. i dont know where are you from XD.

bthedestroyermc 2014-12-08 19:30

I played something like this for another LD by Markus Persson. Really liked the idea ;)

bcole99 2014-12-08 19:41

I like the idea, and there is probably a very interesting puzzle game in there somewhere. I tended to ignore the story elements while I was trying to craft the correct items to advance the story. Overall though, it's very slick! Love the concept and the art. Be interesting to develop further.

iaknihs 2014-12-08 19:52

I've seen a similar concept before, but you did a much better job on it than i've seen so far. Very neatly made.

professorrekyl 2014-12-08 21:17

Nice idea! Good concept and fun "clicker".

benmcnelly 2014-12-08 21:18

Nice! Well rounded game all around.

businessclient 2014-12-08 21:19

Very interesting design

po8rewq 2014-12-08 21:21

Nice concept, but the buttons distract you from the story ...

tasteslikefuture 2014-12-08 21:21

Really awesome game! Very original... almost like an rts/visual novel mashup. Art and sound design are solid. Awesome work!

mattias-wargren 2014-12-08 21:24

Really good!

marthmadness 2014-12-08 21:24

Loved it. Couldn't help but scream at him to cry harder.

nuiguy 2014-12-08 21:26

Wow, this is truly an amazing game! The mood was just amazing and the art style was very fitting

+1 Kudos for falling space invaders!

-Nuiguy

beerman 2014-12-08 21:28

Nicely put together - if anything it's a bit too easy to get caught up in the mechanics and forget to watch the main screen, but it's a great idea, well realised.

snemanden 2014-12-08 21:30

Wow, really great experience! It's more like an interactive story than a game. But it was really awesome: and with a really sweet and motivating message!

panda 2014-12-08 21:33

Wow! Awesome! That was really impressive. The end left me hanging a bit, but the game's very well done! I like how you get this whole story in there using only basic elements.

tmalicet 2014-12-08 21:53

Really nice atmosphere and story-line.

gaspard_ 2014-12-08 22:09

Great entry! Liked the mood shifts allot!
I didn't grasp the story entirely which gave it an additional mysterious feeling...

alpha_rat 2014-12-08 23:07

Great entry! I loved it

nobuyoshi 2014-12-09 02:05

Awesome, I love it.

lukezaz 2014-12-09 03:42

Great game - very interesting. Definitely achieves a good mood.

plauk 2014-12-09 07:45

The feels...

lissar 2014-12-09 08:26

I really loved this one! My favorite that I've played so far. Didn't expect someone could make me enjoy what's essentially a clicker.

feizenbara 2014-12-09 08:39

Cute :-)

simonchauvin 2014-12-09 10:37

This is a nice take on the clicking game genre. Very very weird too but in such a cool way. Bravo I love your game :)

codecranker 2014-12-09 17:18

super awesome! Just LOVED it. Excellent work!

meedoc 2014-12-09 21:38

Wow! That was a really nice experience! Great job!

joshua_burr 2014-12-10 19:26

Very interesting concept. I enjoyed it at first but it started to feel repetitive towards the end.

egos 2014-12-10 19:33

Nice game. I have fun.

adventureislands 2014-12-10 19:36

This was really good, it was interesting to see how the buttons changed and what kind of things you could create. Great atmosphere and mood.

lmt 2014-12-10 19:38

Super awesome game. Very surprised this was made in 48h. The best entry I've played yet.

seraphki 2014-12-10 19:52

Really like the concept =D
I kept missing the text because I was focusing on what resources I needed to unlock other things, would it break immersion too much to somehow disable clicking during his new thoughts?

At first I thought my decisions on what I was going to invest in were going to make a difference in whether or not I escaped, and got super excited about that. I don't know if you plan to continue on with the game, but I think that'd be an interesting aspect to see if you did =]

Nice clean art, interesting story. Loved it =]

losttraindude 2014-12-10 19:56

Amazing take on the "idle" genre and a good concept! I was glued at it from start to finish :D

At first I didn't realize that the story elements (hanging from the top) were displaying one at a time and so I thought I was missing out something.

Also, I've discovered almost by accident that I could scroll through the "resources panel" on the bottom right with the mouse wheel. At first I thought that it was impossible for me to know how many "thought" units I had.

mase 2014-12-10 19:57

Like others, I ignored many of the written thoughts because I was too busy clicking buttons.

I love how the sound effects become more varied and whimsical as the game progresses.

dramentiaras 2014-12-10 20:04

Really nice story.

doitle 2014-12-10 21:09

I recognize that negativity sting anywhere! When you enrage the character, I'm pretty sure that sound is also in the game Deadly Premonition.

Anyhow, this is a really original take on the clicker type game. Good story, very polished and feels like a complete unit. Very impressive for completing in just 48 hours. Great work.

shadow64 2014-12-11 00:30

Really loved this. And I mean that. Loved. This. I had a lot of fun playing it. It's an original take on the theme. It has a lot to say about life. I think it's a very well put together title and one of my favorites so far.

Great work, thanks for sharing, and congrats! :)

themeorch 2014-12-11 01:53

This is really wonderful. The presentation is fantastic, and I found it very moving. I occasionally found myself focusing more on clicking the buttons than reading the text above -- maybe if you could only press 1 button at a time, players wouldn't get into the habit of just rapidfire clicking boxes. That's a really minor nitpick in a fantastic game. Great, great work!

kitch 2014-12-11 02:30

Really cool entry! Original take on the mechanics, and quite easy to get into. (Thank you for keeping the "credits" between states :) ) Good work! Thanks.

paperscraps 2014-12-11 06:09

This was great. I FEEL ENLIGHTENED!

seconddimension 2014-12-11 11:13

Love the atmosphere this game creates.

shampop 2014-12-11 14:53

That's really good. And amazing you did this in 48h. Congrats !

cosmologicon 2014-12-12 19:10

Awesome mood, awesome sound, awesome pacing. I would have loved requiring even a tiny bit of strategy or skill or thought. But I had a good time even so.

twick 2014-12-12 20:21

Great, really set a mood.

ethanwebster 2014-12-12 20:50

That's a very interesting concept, and a very enjoyable game at that. Well done ;)

ehtd 2014-12-13 02:16

Very nice, I really like how you interact gathering elements with formulas. Nice game

soulgame 2014-12-15 13:57

I didn't understand the ending, but everything else was kind of genius. I LOVE IT. You kind of reinvented idle games by inserting a psychological dimension.

volute 2014-12-15 19:20

Thanks for the comments!

About the ending, the way I see it:

----/!\ Spoilers /!\----
The key to understanding what's happening is given by what's written on the TV.
The person's in a coma. On the TV are broadcasts some words that are spoken in the room the person's in and leave a mark in their subconscious. The game is the person's path to waking up (stop being imprisonned in their brain).
------------------------

chuigum 2014-12-16 02:11

Nice mood, good job. Very innovative, fits well with the theme!

lereveur 2014-12-16 22:38

What a strange game... But fun anyways, so, good job. :)

Lucariatias 2014-12-20 16:20

Wow, nicely done. A lot of different scenarios here, kind of reminds me of Drowning in Memories (LD29), but this is a lot more polished. Good use of the theme. I think if you wanted to make something more, making a storyline that made a little more sense than a guy dreaming would be good, but the mechanic is good enough that you could do a lot with it.

okkolobr 2014-12-21 10:34

Good for a 48h compo :)
I liked the mood, and enjoyed a little less the mechanism as I was more focused on clicking than on reading.
Feeled more like getting an interactive story than a game where I can make decision (and mistake).
The overall is interesting.

job_ 2014-12-25 10:37

This is deep. How did you manage to do this all in 48 hours? :O
The gameplay is more like a story rather than interaction, which is a little boring than me. However, the story is awesome. The mood the game creates fits really well.
I don't know what to say. Well done.

chaoseed 2014-12-25 14:27

That was...interesting. The graphics are great; the gameplay is simple, but effective. i wonder about the 'point' of it all, though...Certainly I'm glad you made it, it's always good to have games that try new stuff like this!

jpmit 2014-12-25 17:55

Very cool game!

martial_cantarel_games 2014-12-26 00:48

))))))

dans17 2014-12-27 02:34

Very interesting game. I was expecting an ending where you would see him wake up from his coma.

amour-maternel 2015-01-04 21:31

Very great game and great concept. Love it!

2015-02-14 07:59

I really enjoyed playing this game because I felt a sense of wonder.