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Palette of the World

By black-flag

View on ldjam.com

CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall7693.2235
Fun5753.2336
Innovation2433.6235
Theme4663.4235
Graphics9802.5935
Audio4693.1734
Humor5162.8131
Mood7893.0435

Comments

excy 2019-10-08 18:55

itch.io link isn't working :(

black-flag 2019-10-08 18:57

@excy can you try again, it seems to be working fine for me! Thanks for clicking though!

mad-brokli 2019-10-08 18:59

Same here link isn't working. Make sure the link is set to public if it's working for you. Don't know much about itch.io but I've gone through a ton of games that had this issue :) Edit: Link works now. Its a fun game.. very random :P

excy 2019-10-08 19:01

@black-flag says it couldn't find the page, have you set your game to public and published it? :)

zsombro 2019-10-08 19:03

404 here as well!

cg-fred 2019-10-08 19:03

Yeah sorry the page is not published, make sure you set Visibility & access to "public"

hilvon 2019-10-08 19:04

I suspect this game might still be is Draft state on itch.io.

Please check if you can change the status to Published... Otherwise you're the only one who can access it.

nachtwitch 2019-10-08 19:06

The game looks absolutely great, sadly it couldn't run the game, but 20/10 for the hard work

robopossum 2019-10-08 19:09

Link still isn't working

pedromgdo 2019-10-08 19:09

Broken link, fix asap please.

igorosky99 2019-10-08 19:11

404 Not Found :(

lone-wolf 2019-10-08 19:11

This may have already been said *ignores all previous posts* but the itch.io link isn't working :P Please ping me if you get it back up again. I'm interested in playing!

hiro-e 2019-10-08 19:12

404 in itch.io :/ I'll come back later

seven-legged-table 2019-10-08 19:14

Broken link for me too!

black-flag 2019-10-08 19:17

@hivlon the link is fixed can you edit your comment if it works

black-flag 2019-10-08 19:17

@hiro-e link fixed can you edit your comment if the link works

black-flag 2019-10-08 19:17

@zsombro can you edit your comment if the link works

black-flag 2019-10-08 19:18

@cg-fred link fixed can you edit your comment if the game works

black-flag 2019-10-08 19:18

@lone-wolf can you edit your comment if the link now works

black-flag 2019-10-08 19:18

@pedromgdo link fixed can you edit your comment if the link works

black-flag 2019-10-08 19:19

@igorosky99 link works can you edit your comment if the link works

black-flag 2019-10-08 19:20

@seven-legged-table link fixed can you edit your comment if the link works

black-flag 2019-10-08 19:22

@excy link fixed can you edit your comment if the link works

black-flag 2019-10-08 19:25

@mad-brokli can you edit your comment the link is now fixed

excy 2019-10-08 19:29

@black-flag I can play! The resolution of the window is messed up on the site but fullscreen fixes it. I love that you (or whoever) voice acted, I'm not sure if it broke or you could only get so much in but it really added to the game! The Portal 2-esque idea you have is great and you've already started building on it. I noticed a lot of problems with general Unity physics stuff and jumping like sticking to walls and such but this is a pretty good start to something.

jakob-willforss 2019-10-08 19:30

The web link works for me! (Logged into Itch, dunno if that matters). Peaceful game, enjoyable atmosphere and voice. Was not able to see the palette until I found the full-screen, so in the beginning everything was purple. Had some issues getting hang of the movement, and pushed out two yellow boxes, but made it to see the end text. Particularly liked the transitions with color and music and nature. Would love to see an updated version of this in the future :)

joeshanahan 2019-10-08 19:32

This is really cool! It reminds me a bit of De Blob, with the painting the world. I love the atmosphere created by the music and text in the world. If you had time to slowly layer the music up as you got further instead of just cutting in, it could feel even better.

By using fancy shaders, you could have the paint effect spread out over time. I don't know exactly how to do it, but I remember seeing someone do a cool tutorial that had a shader effect spread out from a point.

https://twitter.com/minionsart/status/1005590210476900352

Also, for a 3D platformer you could benefit from having the shadow of the player directly under the player. Check out Mario Odyssey, where other characters will have shadows at an angle, but Mario has a shadow that is always directly below him.

smo_06.jpg

I kept missing jumps because my shadow was in front of me, so I couldn't line things up. You'd want to do some kind of double light setup, one for most the scene and another for just the players shadow.

(Also, I cheesed the gates by making the floor green and then jumping round the outside of them)

Enjoyed this one, great job!

black-flag 2019-10-08 19:36

@joeshanahan Thank you for that feedback, you have given me a lot to think about going forwards! Thank you for the links and tutorials, I will have to give them a look!

robopossum 2019-10-08 19:59

Thanks for letting me know the link was working. I'm glad I got to play your entry. I really like the concept, but the jumping wasn't always reliable and you can stick to walls ( I had the same issue in a previous entry when trying to do a platformer in unity ).

black-flag 2019-10-08 20:00

@robopossum Yeah, trying to program over the physics system was difficult, anyway thank you for playing!

zsombro 2019-10-08 20:08

This is a clever idea that adopts the theme very well! I was also reminded of Epic Mickey! The platforming mechanics could be better, but all in all, I think this is a solid entry!

lone-wolf 2019-10-08 20:08

It works. Amazing idea. Great game :thumbsup:

hiro-e 2019-10-08 20:11

OMG i really like this concept! But it's pretty easy if you paint everything with green. And also I find out by myself that there is no full-screen I cant see all color options, I was almost giving up when I realized ... Anyway, I loved the game, congratulations!

black-flag 2019-10-08 20:23

@lone-wolf @hiro-e @zsombro @robopossum Thank you all for replaying my game, can I just check that you all re rated my game as in the stars, much appreciated if you could!

black-flag 2019-10-08 20:34

@nachtwitch the link is fixed please could you re rate my game!

lone-wolf 2019-10-08 20:36

Don't need to ask us. If we liked it we'll rate it :P

robopossum 2019-10-08 20:46

@black-flag Yep, I didn't rate the first time when the link was broken, but now I have.

pixamentory 2019-10-09 16:45

really good game and new concept of colored balls!!

i love that green one:))

100th-coin 2019-10-09 16:56

This game could absolutely use a shadow directly under the player, it's a bit hard to tell where you are in 3D space in relation to the platforms you want to land on. Other than that, i loved the mechanics. Well done!

alphaden 2019-10-09 17:03

The link works fine now. I did play this game. It seems a bit difficult to understand but the graphics looks cool and the player movement feels great.

u-tsang-clan 2019-10-09 18:55

I think that there is a pretty compelling idea here but the execution leaves some want. I wasn't able to complete the game because after a minute or two it would completely lock me out jumping or moving. Plus on some play throughs I just started floating and was able to skip large parts of the game just by flying over them. Apart from the bugs, I also found that the input was a little over-sentitive and I had trouble telling exactly where my character was. I think that maybe the over-sensitive controls could be turned into a feature, making the red color useful for landing on a platform. Although maybe momentum could also serve this purpose without being quite as frustrating to the player. But there really needs to be some way to provide spatial awareness to the player. A shadow directly under the player could be one way, but some more landmarks to provide parallax would also help. I noticed that I had an easier time locating myself relative to my surroundings when the trees and bears started showing up. I get that the blank slate at the beginning is important to the theme and is a part of the game's narrative, it just makes it a little hard to have a sense of location. The last suggestion I have is some visual indication of what color is currently selected and a way to select colors and maybe color platforms with the keyboard.

I feel like this might come off as pretty critical, but I do like the game, especially for something made in 72 hrs, and I think with some improvements and some more time it can be a really solid game. I wouldn't have typed up this much if I thought the game was bad.

cmcoto 2019-10-09 20:13

Liked your implementation of the theme! I got a little trouble to get the guy to jump and land ok, but thats because Im in a very old laptop. Liked the voice over talking at you!

black-flag 2019-10-09 20:17

@u-tsang-clan thank you so much for the feedback- everything you said is something that will really help when developing games in the future, thanks for the support! @cmcoto thank you for the feedback, thanks to our studio voice actor for the voice over!

sirred 2019-10-10 00:54

Depth perception was really difficult and made some sections harder than they could have been. Not being able to move after leaving the red floor was also a bit weird and not intuitive. Nice job.

fax 2019-10-10 13:15

Congratulations. Nice concept.

sorlok 2019-10-26 16:39

Really clever idea, and I liked the build up. But the controls felt inconsistent (I kept short-jumping when I wanted to long jump, or sticking to platforms on the side). Good use of theme!

allbetsareoff 2019-10-29 23:50

The concept of painting platforms to have different properties is a cool idea.

The platforming of this game is a serious issue. The game desperately need a vertical shadow, or or some way to tell what hight you're at.

Even bigger is the issue that the game is riddled with bugs that make it difficult to play. We ran into many of these on stream. It was very unfortunate because we were not able to continue playing the game. We thought it was a real shame, we thought the game was interesting, and wanted to play more of it.

https://youtu.be/No9PjQTpi0s?t=8278