FoonLudum Dare ExplorerLD37 → the room

the room

By roguenoodle

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall204.25
Innovation94.42
Theme224.44
Mood434.13
Audio813.89
Fun953.82
Graphics1644.16
Coolness79049

Comments

xenosns 2016-12-13 01:38

Very cool concept, looks great!

plaw 2016-12-13 02:57

I love the art style and the level design with the shifting walls. Very well done!

bonedaddy 2016-12-13 12:58

Very stylish, and very interesting. I am really glad you decided to finish this. We hear stuff like "fail faster" so often that we sometimes end up scrapping stuff before we put in enough effort to realize what the concept could be. Spending that extra day to finish this and putting in the needed effort was a good decision.

siridakis 2016-12-13 19:54

Beautiful little game! The narrative has a "Thomas was alone" vibe to it and the visual effects are gorgeous :) I only missed a background music to make the mood perfect.

local-minimum 2016-12-13 19:54

I like the way you actually made a simple game for once without all the stress and rage and "Just one more try". Really cool mechanic this warping around thing and the way the character kind of melted into the floor. I very much enjoyed playing it through to the end. And I think it fit the game very well to be easy to complete.

ludipe 2016-12-13 22:48

Liked the minimalist looks of the game. The main mechanic is fun and original. Would probably play a longer version, there might be some cool puzzles with this concept.

I love your usual hardcore arcade games, but seeing something different was also pretty neat :-)

madmarcel 2016-12-13 23:22

That was cool. Very stylish. Pity the audio didn't work for me (Chrome)

dunin 2016-12-13 23:48

Really cool mood and clever idea!
Too bad it is so short...

jungle 2016-12-14 01:39

Nice concept! Great job!

dragonzbw 2016-12-14 02:03

Awesome if a bit short! I love the aesthetic and the music's pretty good. The character controls are super tight (even though they don't really need to be considering the type of game this is). The ending was cool too: PLOT TWIST!

2016-12-14 02:27

nice!

beardogames 2016-12-14 02:37

Really elegant and well designed.

keckles 2016-12-14 03:30

great game nice concept i suggest you add more levels onto this in the future and post it somewhere :)

darthdeus 2016-12-14 03:31

Excellent design.

ciaodavinci 2016-12-14 03:53

Really beautiful design, mood and music (I used Chrome and it worked fine). I loved how simple it is and smoothly it plays. Also thanks for sharing on Twitter how this was done. Very cool!

mrevilguy 2016-12-14 05:18

Amazing! as others have stated, only problem is its length! But I really liked this. The idea that the room and horizontal movement move together, but verticle movement is character body only opens many interesting possibilities.

seadads 2016-12-14 05:39

Awesome concept and pulled off really well, loved it!

the-vall 2016-12-14 07:59

Unique graphics. The audio set the mood well.

egordorichev 2016-12-14 08:19

Awesome!

foreverip 2016-12-14 10:22

Nice game, although slightly short and confusing. And what are the R and T buttons supposed to do? Seems to me like there's no ending as well. However, some of the puzzles were fun to solve. I loved the simplistic style of the art as well.

warmlemon 2016-12-14 10:48

Cool! Enjoyable! So when finish it goes back to the beginning?

albert-viader 2016-12-14 10:51

The concept is cool, I like this class of puzzles.

roguenoodle 2016-12-14 11:17

Thanks for the comments/feedback!

@foreverip - oops... it looks like you stumbled across an easter egg that effectively breaks the game ;)

I originally played with the idea of being able to move time independently of the character, but as you found out, it doesn't work well. I guess I didn't remove it - sorry about that! There is actually an ending (sort of) but you might not have been able to reach it.

roguenoodle 2016-12-14 11:25

@WarmLemon - Thanks and yeah. It's pretty subtle, but the two o's in the logo are actually an infinity symbol. Symbolism! ;)

cesisco2 2016-12-14 11:27

Great concept, one of the the best entries so far.I couldn't finish it though...

roguenoodle 2016-12-14 11:52

@cesisco - Thanks! Out of curiosity, where did you get stuck?

jakebooyah 2016-12-14 13:07

Nice one!

jupitron 2016-12-14 16:25

This is a freaking genius work of art. Incredible.

calcitherin 2016-12-14 17:16

I LOVED it soo much . Please do make more levels . Great Job !!

limmmmm 2016-12-14 18:36

uh... wow. just wow. some really brilliant effects you've got going on there. had a lot of fun with this one. props on the execution!

robert_steiner 2016-12-14 18:48

Nice one. Took me a while to realise it's one room. (and then I fell into the floor and got stuck)

oskardevelopment 2016-12-14 19:35

Great game! Cool mechanics and I loved the music! Could've been nice with some kind of choice within the game. I liked the story.

leondryaso 2016-12-14 20:01

The concept is great, I like the style and especially the mood music. Could be longer though :)

geckoo1337 2016-12-14 20:07

Interesting concept with clever mecanic. Minimalist aesthetic. Well done ++

michalidis 2016-12-14 20:34

Simplistic graphics, fitting music, nice story and an awesome mechanic fitting the theme perfectly
I totally enjoyed it and I could play the game until the end without encountering any bug. Great Job! :)

junber 2016-12-14 20:36

The audio was awesome and the graphical design was pretty great too. It would have been nice if you knew what was going to happened when you walked in which direction. Also the red "key" didn't seem to serve much purpose because you got it immediately after the blue one. Except from that I really liked the level design too.

cesisco2 2016-12-14 21:04

@rogueNoodle Hi, I can’t remember exactly , but it was around 10 changes in the level in the bottom left corner, there was a open path but I couldn't pass through it.

griseouslight 2016-12-14 23:44

I might be a little biased towards platformers, but I absolutely loved this.

tartlegames 2016-12-14 23:53

one of my favorites so far. This is awesome. The graphics are unique and I appreciate the tiny, mysterious story. really good work

kamranwali 2016-12-15 00:09

Wow what nice game. This game has potential. I love the art work and the gameplay. So unique. Well done and keep it up!

awesomerex 2016-12-15 00:20

Great concept, oozing with style! Would love to see more complex puzzles, but I imagine that designing the levels is really tough.

mrshoestore 2016-12-16 18:11

this was rad. loved the look and the mood created. a very well designed game

split82 2016-12-16 21:50

Perfect! Everything is great. Did you do music yourself?

obvious_san 2016-12-17 12:16

So stylish, and the mood is perfect! I really enjoyed the main mechanic, I think there is a lot that could be done with that in a longer game.

- randomhuman

axoona 2016-12-17 20:52

very cool puzzle game, I loved it!

oddly-shaped-pixels 2016-12-29 12:53

So cooool, great minimalist concept, perfect execution. The narrative is a neat plus, really impressed by your work.
It kinda reminded me of Braid's levels where going right makes time goes forward and left backwards.
Congratulations, that's one of the best entry I've played1

kato9 2017-01-02 01:26

Wow! Really well done, very technically impressive. And great use of stylistic minimalism. Definitely deserves a longer version!

siryakko 2017-01-02 10:11

Nice minimalistic graphics and great concept