Metal Petals

accatosh 2023-01-09 21:54

Plus: - Interesting story - nice music, graphics, mood - suits the theme well

Minus: - the grass sound effect becomes annoying after a while - I couldn't move anymore after picking up some flowers for some reason. Stop playing after this. (I didn't pick up flowers at first, so I went pretty far before I started harvesting them. Could this be the reason?)

Can be added: - animations to the character

pope-paf 2023-01-17 11:38

Getting some error, game wont start (html) Screenshot 2023-01-17 at 12.38.28.png

afe 2023-01-17 14:14

I really enjoyed the Atmosphere. The Story was written really good and the Music supportet it well! But unfortunately I couldn't move after picking up a flower (But before, I picked all of them in my way). I think the last thing i did was inspecting the ladder, story was about the main character making some experiments with the little he knew from books and his father.

The Story is pretty interesting, though it's a little annoying to just run around and pick up flowers just to read more of the story. Would there be more things to do if I did not crash the game?

Maybe you should release the Story as a Shortstory? In a Animation-Video or as a E-Book? Potential is pretty big I think.

big-cyckos 2023-01-17 14:32

The game seems to break itself after destroying some amount of grass, it is possible to finish it on the web version if you try to break as less grass as possible. Maybe the windows executables don't have this behavior, I'm on linux and couldn't open them through wine :( But hey, I really liked the game! Shame that it's not possible to know the whole story right now, i got really invested. Love the idea of gathering the metal flowers in order to fix the items scattered around the map. Visuals are consistent and set the atmosphere right. The story and writing is really impressive. Looking forward to play the fixed version and see it in its entirety :)

remco 2023-01-17 20:19

I absolutely got sucked in by the mood, possibly because of the excellent audio design. I did note a crash in the web-version, and at some point playing the other version, I noticed the audio doubling up, which _may_ be what caused an earlier comment here that I glanced over to describe the grass sound as grating, despite the original (un-doubled up) sound enhancing the atmosphere.

I really enjoyed this, but I do think the interactions outside of the story (tractor, ladder, end-area) could use some work (or maybe it's better to keep it 'pure' and leave that out altogether even?). Mostly in the sense that you basically need to check back on the ladder and the tractor, without any explanation as to why those suddenly _do_ work (from what I could see at least).

Something which is neither here nor there: I kept expecting a fake-out end where it would basically just go: 'Now do this again but only pick the metal ones.' ... or something like that, in order to get the best ending :sweat_smile:

animawish 2023-01-25 08:45

Excellent atmosphere, very evocative story. Nice job!