simon-parzer 2025-04-07 16:20
Does the game end at "Leave me alone." or am I missing something?
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD57 → Depth Self - A narrative game
By flokami, Butterflan, Ay_den and Abymajesty
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 164 | 3.90 | 50 | |
| Fun | 236 | 3.68 | 49 | |
| Innovation | 3 | 4.54 | 50 | |
| Theme | 303 | 3.89 | 50 | |
| Graphics | 305 | 3.92 | 50 | |
| Humor | 499 | 2.65 | 40 | |
| Mood | 173 | 3.98 | 48 |
Does the game end at "Leave me alone." or am I missing something?
Really cool take on a narrative puzzle game! Loving it!
Nice narrative experiment! Time to think about some things.
@simon-parzer
UPD: as i was asked, i place this link to the solutions for this nice developers ^_^ https://flokami.itch.io/depth-self
Extremly creative and cool idea! Love it! :D
@xpoho Hey ! Thanks for giving the clue to unlock him ! We hope that you've enjoyed the game ! We've uploaded a guide on the itch page containing the solution, so can you please edit your comment to link to the itch page guide instead of giving it here ? Thank you much !
@sayeg Hey thanks ! Glad that you enjoyed it !
@thisisspy Thanks ! We tried our best to have an original take on the theme or in the game design of the game !
@simon-parzer Hope you will give it another try ! The solution can now be found in our guide available on itch.io
looks rad!
very cool, i like these games that play in windows! innovative! was difficult to figure out at times, some things didnt open/react and it was a little awkward shuffling between windows and file folders. but very cool game!
Multi-window games are unimaginable to me, you're amazing!
@yibirabbit007 Haha thanks, it was for us too at the start of the jam but Godot power is fantastic to manage this. But if we could make another similar game I honestly think that we would build a fake OS screen to make things easier to read and understand.
@flokami Ok, no problem! Updated my comment for you ^_^
Such a unique idea, absolutely loved playing this. I really like how you play with the windows, already can tell how long it probably took to get it working just by playing lol, and the art style on top of this along with the angling, 10/10 job!
ОЧЕНЬ КРУТАЯ ИГРА потрясающее исполнение суперр
cool idea
cool game!
Great idea ! Loved this one
I like the idea of transferring the topic about depth, it looks unusual.
Wow! I can't imagine how much effort it got to bring this all together, but it really paid off. Great job!
Very creative! This was fun to try to puzzle through. The walkthrough guide could use a little more detail though. If someone is stuck enough to read the spoiler/walkthrough, they probably want more than just hints.
@happytrollangus Yeah, I will update the guide to include puzzle solutions.
The game is pretty cool with the multiple windows and files, but I'm stuck in an infinite open/close loop when she does not want to remember.
@andriybyelikov Don't forget to check out our guide (we've included the solution for this exact case). Or you can contact me in private (on socials) I can help you !
cool idea and visual 💗
Experimental narrative game that pieces across multiple windows. Puzzles were well designed.
Woah, really awesome and unique idea, haven't seen this kind of weird interaction with desktop since Windowkill or Oneshot, but anyways, really cool game, some of the image puzzles felt a bit really hard and tricky to line up, but other than that they were pretty fun to do! Good game.
Super creative and cool idea but I sadly couldn't get past the first puzzle despite trying for quite some time - everything looked correct but it didn't seem to count. Probably a bug, as two of the screens borders got stuck being complely green while the other borders were stuck being gray after a while. I hope you can fix it as I really want to give it another try but it was still a cool experience already
What an amazing amalgamation of art! 2d illustration, voxel art, and, of course trippy and totally unique visuals! The window usage and file editing remind me of 'One Shot' - if anyone wants to check out games with a similarly deep use of your PC. With a little help from the guide, I did get to the end (I was trying to create the file in the wrong folder) - but still uncertain if the 'last 3' jpngs are openable? Either way - fantastic stuff, great story - a truly unique and amazing artistic work!
I love games that flirt with the system. You bribed me with this
Oh - also I coouldn't delete the folder in the windows explorer as the subfiles were created with system permissions (I think?). (had to use powershell `rm`)
NBD, just something to consider
@bene-labs Hey thanks for the feedback ! To clarify what you have to do with the windows. First I would recomend to rotate each windows view in the good angle. To do that just click inside the window and move your mouse. When the central border become green, you're good. Then each border have a bar that become green when well-placed, the four windows form a single picture so at least two borders of each should be green (sometime it can require a bit of manipulating before getting the border green because of tolerance of detection). It can be a bit hard to have the good angle sometimes but it exist just try to move a bit around. Please tell us if that helped you or if you need more help (or maybe a bug report) feel free to contact me at mail at contact@titangstudio.fr.
I love games that flirt with the system. You bribed me with this
@ugly-robot Big thanks for the feedback ! The 3 images was planned to be openable as a way to see them again, but we didn't had the time to include it ! Very strange for the permissions things, none of us had a similar case. Have you opened the game with elevated privileges xD ?
really creative way of narration!!!
The narrative is so cool! I will pley it again and again, amazing work!
I would have loved to get into this since I love games like this and the concept seems really good! However, I just wasn't able to piece together my first image, no matter how hard I tried, even with the guide. It took me a while before I realised I could drag inside the windows, and then I realized it's actually a perspective camera and not just a 2D image. However, I just didn't know what part of the images I was supposed to overlap, since all showed the entire scene. I'm guessing I'd have to line up the angles of the cameras, but I unfortunately wasn't able to. The art looks really cool though and the way the game controls is awesome. Really good job!
Nice execution of the multi-window idea! I appreciated the green lines confirming when things were lined up as well.
I'm so glad there was a guide! I wouldn't be able to reach the ending on my own. I'm glad I got to see how it ended. Have never played such an interactive, meta game before, so this was a very interesting game! The puzzles were a bit tricky when it comes to trying to fit all the windows together precicely, but figured out in the end. Great work!
very innovative gameplay! unfortunately, game crashed several times, when i almost complete first puzzle. but i think game is still pretty cool and i liked playing it, good job!
I loved the game but i couldnt get through the first puzle.Can someone tell me the game story? Im very curious about it
Very nice game ! Loved the gameplay, it was unlike anything I had played before and the art was great ! Really nice experience overall, I'd love to see more games like this one
Nice entry, I enjoyed the communication with the operational system. Keep up the good work!
@aniretti Hey I'm really interested to get more data about these crashes. Can you send me your computers specs, your setup (one or multiple monitors ?) and some detail about the crash (we're you making something specifically ?) by mail at contact@titangstudio.fr ? A big thanks to you if you can do that for me !
@bydado Hey ! I've updated the guide on the itch page, feel free to read it !
HOW- Just, like, HOW
it is interesting
Bravo!! le gameplay original avec la manipulation de fichiers, les graphismes nous mettent dans l'ambiance, il y a une petite histoire vraiment sympa pour une jam. Je verrai bien ce jeu aller plus loin et carrément devenir une perle indé. gg!!
Really good game, interesting concept. Trying to align things through multiple windows is such a cool idea. Interesting take on the theme too. The story is also really good, but damn I did not expect it to get so sad. I know that was the idea tho so good job on capturing that emotion through this game!
Incredible idea, I've never played anything like this! I had a hard time figuring out what to do at first, and also hard to figure out how to get to the ending, so more hints and a basic tutorial would have been nice. But that's a small thing, I had a great time playing this game, good job!
The game’s thematic presentation is quite innovative.
I was really looking forward to playing your game, since the concept is so cool! However sadly it keeps crashing on my notebook, making the game unplayable :'') If I use 2 screens (my normal setup), it crashes as soon as it loads, if I use 1 screen, it crashes once I open the image files. From what I've seen in the comments, this seems to be quite a rare problem, but you were asking for specs in order to look into it, so... In my case, I'm on Asus Vivobook K6502HC, Windows 11 Home, Intel Processor i9-11900H, 16GB RAM, DirectX 12, GPU Intel UHD integrated 8GB + NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4GB, 1920 x 1080 resolution. I'd be happy to send any other necessary specs here or via e-mail, just tell me which ones you need heheh
If you have any tips on how to work around this or if you release a version with a fix, I'd love to come back to play and rate!
@borabee Hi thanks for the specs, can send me your crash logs too ? It should be located at C:\Users\
Interesting solution! Looks pretty nice!
Really cool game. I liked the interaction with the files and multiple windows, and the feedback of getting closer to the solution (border colors).
- I had a problem solving the first puzzle, I might have accidentally resized the window while trying to move it (you should probably make them non resizable), the bottom-right window's top border was green, but top-right window's bottom border was not and I couldn't get them them both green at the same time, I could only have 7/8 green borders. I restarted the game and had the same problem and fixed it by resizing the window. - Accessing the ending was too difficult, I went to the guide but still took me a long time to figure it out. I have read the clues, but didn't think of checking them again, and even with them I still wouldn't have come up with the solution to it on my own, and it feels really bad to have put in a lot of effort into solving it, getting to the interesting part and then having access to it blocked.