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mindgrid

By robochase6000

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall19102.2623
Fun18732.2522
Innovation9283.1925
Theme15813.0022
Graphics17352.3824
Audio12721.8317
Humor13731.9719
Mood17762.3020

Comments

kiwi1281 2021-04-27 17:44

It seems like a neat concept but its missing quite a lot and it's a bit confusing how everything works.

lepoulet 2021-04-27 17:46

The idea sounds great and you implement a lot of thing in your game. Too bad you cant finish it in time. I hope next time will be the good one.

chimp 2021-04-27 18:15

It is unfortunate that you ran out of time, the concept of jumping between enemies sounded really interesting. It would've been nice if other parts of the game had been finished, such as taking damage from the robots, so that there's a bit more to the game to play.

Good effort

robochase6000 2021-04-27 18:21

yeah for sure! thanks for checking it out :)

cninja 2021-04-27 18:41

I was a bit confused at the beginning but whole concept sounds really interesting. I would really like to check this project while it's done, are you planning to continue working on it?

PS: I think that's one of the coolest use of theme so far!

robochase6000 2021-04-27 18:55

thanks @cninja I'd like to keep working on it I think.

the plan with this is to add a Safe in each level that you can plant an idea into (like inception). this would basically just change the robot's behavior to like ignore you, guard you, enrage, etc. it's a really strange idea and tbh Idk if it would actually 'come together' very well lol, but It's worth a shot I think. I'm just happy I got to work on some new stuff/mechanics :)

cninja 2021-04-27 19:14

@robochase6000 just remember to update your itch.io site, I'll probably check in a while if you did any progress because I got actually interested in your idea. Well, good luck!

beardmage 2021-04-27 20:06

Hi there, the game just crashed every time I hit an enemy for some reason. Concept looked nice though, hope you can finish it someday !

robochase6000 2021-04-27 20:29

huh interesting @beardmage ...thanks for checking it out at least. what kind of computer do you have if you don't mind me asking? there's a few cameras, and some threading involved, but nothing super crazy

beardmage 2021-04-27 21:06

@robochase6000 The weirdest part is that I have a very good rig (3070 / 5800x, 32Gb ram), so that should not be an issue in any way..

xxatrain223 2021-04-28 00:52

Interesting concept, i'd be interested in playing it when there's more to play.

robochase6000 2021-04-28 01:57

@beardmage i uploaded a new build to itch.io that adjusts the pathfinding threading, if you want to try it again to see if it makes a difference. thanks either way!

beardmage 2021-04-28 07:44

Sadly it is the same for me. As soon as the second window appears, the game fully freezes.. :<

robochase6000 2021-04-28 13:36

darn. thanks for checking!

cvetk0 2021-04-28 17:57

I didn't really grasp the idea behind entering minds at first, but was able to figure that you can switch between different states of game time. It would be interesting to see this developed further, it is an interesting concept! Good luck with your game dev journey, keep it up :slight_smile:

alchemic 2021-04-28 18:31

Interesting idea, it's too bad you ran out of time.

amar-ravi 2021-04-28 18:44

This looks really interesting! But I can't quite figure out how the different timelines interact with each other? Do my actions in one after the other?

And to the folks above who experienced crashes, did you press Enter after the second window appears? It appears like the game has frozen but its actually waiting for you to pick a timeline to enter.

robochase6000 2021-04-28 19:37

@amar-ravi there isn't any interaction between the timelines right now. it will probably be something like 'if you die in one timeline, you die in all of them', and probably also a shared inventory

thanks for the tip about pressing enter btw - I forgot that it's paused by default when you switch. maybe that's what you're stuck on @beardmage ... I meant to add some UI here, but hadn't gotten to it yet

cjgammon 2021-04-30 00:40

yeah i was stuck on the pause on enter a new mind. hitting enter works. would be neat if you could go back between them and things changed somehow. clever idea!

jormarysky 2021-05-02 16:39

I give you rating for innovation and graphics, cant really much else because it crashes

ryan-dotsikas 2021-05-05 23:31

Wow very clever idea! Unfortunate that you werent able to finish it up but I really like the application of the inception-style gameplay. Definitely very different. Keep working on it, I think this could be super cool if pulled off correctly!

vixenmink 2021-05-08 00:26

Definitely cool idea. Maybe try to still complete it how you want it