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Cold Remembrance

By gfm

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Graphics204.37
Coolness369
Mood313.94
Audio1133.51
Overall3243.43
Innovation6373.03
Humor6512.36
Theme7403.46
Fun11372.19

Comments

ilikescifi 2014-12-07 10:52

Awesome looking!

snuux 2014-12-07 17:09

Nice pixel art. It's very, very effective!

csaunders 2014-12-07 20:28

Are there instructions on getting this to build for Mac OS? I installed sdl2 but during the compilation I'm getting an error about assets missing.

gfm 2014-12-08 01:22

I never tried building for Mac. I'll remove those lines about the assets, since they were only useful during development.

I'm finishing to pack it for Linux, so the code won't change anymore. :)

sheep-co 2014-12-08 02:18

I love the art it is what brought me to this game

jupitron 2014-12-08 02:42

Hi!
Awesome art! Loved the resolution!

louisload 2014-12-08 20:43

a sad story represented by a beautiful game;
graphics, sound and mood are top, congratulations!

animegeek32 2014-12-08 21:11

What a tragedy, but good looking!

aglavra 2014-12-08 21:17

I liked the graphics ans the mood, but the game windows to small. I think game would only win, if the window was 1.5 - 2 times larger with same pixel resolution.

christopf 2014-12-08 22:14

I enjoyed your game a lot after having to restart it because it didn't work anymore. A restart button would been nice

drludos 2014-12-08 23:16

Beautiful art game - reminds me of Jason Rohrer early games. I love the GFX and music, it sets a very "sad but beautiful" mood. Works fine on my Android 4.1 Tablet btw :).

gfm 2014-12-09 03:22

@Aglavra - I feel divided... I knew that it's kind of small, but I also thought that it was the best resolution for this game...
I'm kinda too stubborn when it comes to pixel art. =X

@christopf - Where you playing on Android? Since I just made a direct port, so I didn't even notice that when you die (because you "left winter") and you have to restart the game it can be a pain in the ass to mobile users...


Thanks for every comment. It means a lot to me. =D

ainasg 2014-12-09 22:26

Sad story. Wonderfull Art. Maybe doubling the pixel size looked better.

Thanks for the wonderful game anyway. :)

papacheech 2014-12-09 22:43

Great! I like the art it was very well done. They really helped pull me into the world of the game. Awesome.

deepnight 2014-12-09 22:50

To be honest, I didn't understand the story, but I liked the game anyway. Especially the art, very good work :)

jupiter_hadley 2014-12-10 18:51

Really amazing art! I Included it in part 5 of my Ludum Dare 31 compilation video series, if you would like to check it out :) http://youtu.be/-qEX6yeW8uQ

someoneman 2014-12-11 00:29

Beautiful graphics, story and music, but unfortunately the gameplay is literally just "hold left until you win the game".

I was expecting the seasons to reverse directions so I'd have to go right to survive, but then the game ended.

razieliyo 2014-12-11 22:38

You deserve a 5/5 just because your framework! The game is so well built and warm, I loved it.

catwheel 2014-12-12 07:33

very awesome. Wish it was longer!

sanguine 2014-12-13 19:42

Very interesting mood! The game didn't end when I melted though, so I had to restart to actually get to the end

kddekadenz 2014-12-13 19:42

First impression from the screenshots: passage clone.
I tried to run it on my Linux Mint 64bit installation, here is an extract of the error log.

INFO: @src/gframe_assets.c:198 --- Failed to the file's length
INFO: @src/gframe_audio.c:28 --- Failed to buffer audio file
Pause audio...

ERROR: setpriority() failed
Closing audio...

gfm 2014-12-13 21:35

@someoneman I had one idea to add a little more interaction, but ended cutting it out. I couldn't think of anything within the story I had made to make it more interactive and fun...

@Rick Hoppmann You compiled from source, right? Unless you downloaded a corrupted package, (somehow) got the song corrupted when "untaring" or "deleted" the song (had it in a different directory from what was expected), I can't see how that would happen...
I didn't commit the song together with the game, I only committed the text file used to generate it. So, to actually run the game, after compiling it from the source, you must render the song and add it to expected folder.
I'll add the instructions on the README.

hexagore 2014-12-14 10:42

Hi GFM,

I saw your very detailed and honest feedback you left after finishing my own game (woo!) so wanted to say thank you for that. I feel like i can let go now. I have the truth! :)

I've played your game and... yes, I finished it. :P So different obviously. It felt like you've done something interesting with the theme, making it so that even when you're pressing left you're obviously not really moving at all, because you're a snowman, so why would you move?

Then you've just told a melancholy story with just beautiful pixel art. Difficult to rate as a game but overall it's a moving little experience.

Thanks again!

gagapete 2014-12-14 13:45

Well done, nice graphics and mood. Connection to the theme is not totaly clear, though.

jannesn 2014-12-14 20:12

Very well done great mood. Looks very polished!

Keep up the good work!

solifuge 2014-12-15 01:53

God, this entry is depressing. It's beautiful, though. I got very confused at first because I can go both left and right, and getting through a few years going forwards didn't seem to do any good ._. I think you have it at a good resolution, personally. It seems just the right size for this tiny view into a search for meaning.

Thank you for the game...

rjhunter 2014-12-15 05:41

I compiled and ran on Mac OS X with a few changes. Only one of them wasn't already mentioned in the README.

* Clone source
* Rendered music manually vmml to wav
* Renamed assets to include .dat
* Edited Makefile to look for GFraMe in Darwin folder instead of Linux folder
* make RELEASE=yes

gfm 2014-12-15 10:13

@rjhunter - Yay! Good to know it worked. I'll look up later about that folder difference... .__.


Again, thanks for every comment! =D
I'll write soon a "proper postmortem", talking about the game itself... Let's see if I can do this this evening.

slothmachine 2014-12-15 15:53

Wonderful! Good story telling in a form of a game.

tijmentio 2014-12-16 14:49

Really nice visual story. Feels polished and coherent!

maxmetallica 2014-12-30 00:27

nice work