Safety Blanket by SimonLarsen 2014-04-29T11:43:00
Simple but really fun! Graphics and sound go creepily well together. I urge you to publish this on touch devices! :D
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| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Rank | Ov | Fu | In | Th | Gr | Au | Hu | Mo | Co | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 35 | Shapeshift | Virgin Blood | compo | 281 | 3.42 | 3.31 | 3.06 | 3.42 | 3.92 | 3.34 | 3.27 | 70 | ||
| 2014 | 31 | Entire Game on One Screen | Voyage | compo | 614 | 3.14 | 2.81 | 3.06 | 2.67 | 3.27 | 2.44 | 2.62 | 3.26 | 61 | |
| 2014 | 30 | Connected Worlds | outhack_ | compo | 724 | 3.05 | 2.70 | 3.05 | 2.42 | 3.35 | 3.47 | 3.47 | 30 | ||
| 2014 | 29 | Beneath the Surface | Growth | compo | 1136 | 2.50 | 2.55 | 2.49 | 2.35 | 3.29 | 2.77 | 2.50 | 2.84 | 69 |
Simple but really fun! Graphics and sound go creepily well together. I urge you to publish this on touch devices! :D
I really like the mood of the game - that panic factor. Also, interesting take on the theme! Graphics style and audio go well together. Needs a bit of proofing here and there.
Gotta love the humour :D The game is a serious mega-troller! PS: totally fell for the Ctrl+W, I usually Ctrl+F4 my way out of tabs, hahah.
I really like the idea of combining guitar hero with a platformer! I felt a bit stressed while playing because I constantly tried to focus on the fretboard, while getting distracted by the right-side of the screen. Cool graphics, And really fun to watch someone else play.
The game feels very atmospheric. Totally digging the art style. The squinting mechanic is fun!
Salut!
The pipe rush mechanics go really well with the theme! The peoples' mood part feels a bit weird though, as I didn't give too much effort in paying attention to the mood bar, I just kept connecting pipes. Still, fun fun fun.
Control takes a while getting used to. Other than that, crazy idea!
Really awesome! I've been playing it a lot. I have one question, though: What can you accomplish with an extra basic attack rune (green)?
Great voice acting and lines!
Really original way to traverse a treasure map! A bit difficult to control the car across the river. Twitch is heavily influenced by crazy physics. I often pilot the car vertically, pretty fun to watch though:D Good game!
Found the issue, thanks a LOT for the feedback! Will fix it as soon as I can. In the meantime, you can surpass the bug if, after getting the code for the Engineering Bay, you first pass through Captain Snow's room before actually opening the bay.
The camera effect was meant to relate to panic. Without going too much into detail, functionally it triggers progression. The teleportation is heavily related to the ending.
Will post a walkthrough and event explanation soon, just to clarify what I wanted to illustrate.
Thank you! Yes, The Stanley Parable is actually one of the games that inspired me to create this. I wanted a darker, less humoristic tone. Alas, I had no time left for the music and effects, so there aren't any other sounds in game except for the voice recordings.
@Tusim, instead of implementing the theme as a functional specification, I chose to bind it to a key element in the game, namely the main room terminal, where you see your progress on the map. Eventually, it will show the entire game area on one screen.
regarding making sense:
- the room is supposed to advance the timeline. There is no actual constant flow of time, because you are experiencing some sort of sequential memory access. You are initially clueless of what has actually happened, but you will find out once you progress through the game.
I wanted to make sure that:
1) the first time the player loops, he/she gets it that new clues MAY appear. Also the best time to learn how to interact with key objects.
2) the second time the player loops, he/she gets it that new clues actually appear because a TIME ADVANCEMENT happens, but only when you've found all the clues there are in that time frame.
3) the map gives the player a hint of whether the time advancement has actually happened.
regarding suggestions:
- Yes, pretty immersion breaking, the Textmesh component in unity4.6 is behaving odd. Will solve that one way or another.
- I've searched the web about that. Screen.lockCursor = true does not seem to work properly for some reason. I actually prefer 'E' for object interaction because I'm accustomed to it from pretty much every FPS that uses object interaction.
@Tuism*, sorry 'bout that :s
@mrexcessive. Thanks for the feedback! Will add that in the post-ld version coming up soon. That goes for the sounds and sfx as well. As I said previously, Captain Snow's room advances the timeline, so you probably just need to look around the corridor (hint) after you search every corner of the captain's room and find nothing (hint) :D Good Luck!
@duon44, due to the compo's deadline, yes. I initially wanted something more sophisticated instead of the big white nothing, but ended up cutting queues :P
@kruemelkeksfan, there was a temporary problem even after that update, but it eventually got fixed again.
I agree regarding what you said about the art being very repetitive. Had a couple of more things that I didn't finish.
The Engineering Bay was going to be something more than a couple of boxes stacked, and the final room, well, it would have looked like an actual deck :D Also, would have integrated the information you get (from the small message sheets) into more proper forms, like id cards, med sheets, pagers, mobile phones, etc. Maybe on the next occasion :D
Yeah, I feel really awful regarding the music and sfx, but I will have a post-compo version in a couple of days with what was intended, just for the sake of not letting the game be so silent :D
Thank you all for all your awesome feedback!
@GeorgeBroussard, interesting view. I have never looked at the keycodes as puzzles themselves, rather more as progression mechanics, along with the captain's room. The 'puzzles' would be the exploration and the object interaction. If I could actually call them puzzles. All in all, it's more like a visual novel of some sort (regardless that it lacks part of the vibe - effects, music; lol). Thanks for the feedback! :D
@DonovanWu, thanks for the feedback, I don't have any plans for it, or at least not in this form, maybe part of something bigger. It was more of an exercise :D
@MintArcade, @PapyPilgrim, thanks for the awesome feedback!
Yes, something like a diary would have been completely fair, given just a little more time.
The camera effect was to be part of a mechanic through which your character would have actually died/lost the game if exposed too long (sort of like a sanity-meter). But I never got to implement it. Oh well :)
Never thought a laundry day could be so fun lol. Congrats! :D
The crawling zombie snowmen are a blast :D GG
Totally digging the polished graphics :D Really fun to play!
I always wondered when a surgeon simulator with PCs might hit the interwebs! Cool graphics, cool music, the physics feel funky enough, but maybe a couple of in-game hints would somehow make the game a bit less confusing.
Got 703 days! I like the idea that the "entire game on one screen" theme is actually explained by objects IN the game, and not just a functional specification. The graphics are nice, music creates a good space mood. Texts are sometimes pretty funny. Fun to watch the outcome in the logs. :D
Crazy fun stuff! Wish I could grab/throw the officers as well:P Good game!
Good graphics, good audio (although it feels a bit weird to hear all the people screaming over such a cozy harp:D ) Gameplay feels a bit monotonous, but it's definitely enjoyable because of the fast pace. Just a small suggestion of what I would add in terms of difficulty: Have more soldier ranks for the minotaur to slaughter progressively. Like having to slaughter every normal unit before being able to slaughter Thesee's second in comands, then him. Either way, gg! :)
Funky game :D Totally digging it! The "black-jack" element feels just right.
A pretty cool take on platforming :D Gets a bit frustrating at some point. Totally digging the level transitions!
Great one :D I felt really immersed for a text-based. Also, original take on the theme! TAB was a cool 'cherry-on-top'. I know this type of games isn't for everyone to enjoy, but it definitely caught me :) Cheers!
Really, really fun game :D Although pretty difficult, I think it feels just right for this kind of gameplay (thinking of Super Crate Box, Muffin Knight, etc).
Also, I find it really cool that you've integrated twitter for score sharing, it's something definitely worth doing for this type of games. Could get really competitive/viral. Congrats!
Seems there's a problem with the WebGL build. Will fix ASAP.
Removed shadows from WebGL build because they seem to cause some odd behaviour.
Some glitches still present, will update with a post-jam version soon!
@mutonizer: Regarding the bug... strange. collider is separated from actual geometry. I am unable to reproduce it. Regarding the theme, I appreciate the honest feedback. It's not a 'deep' take on the theme, indeed. But I do consider it a proper mechanic.
@Autodevelop: Thanks! :)
@apalade: Thanks! :D
Regarding the turn-based + real-time combination, I guess what I wanted to do is to have that kind of moment when you say: "This is the plan, I just have to wait for the right moment. Ready, set, go!". Happy you enjoyed it!
Well this sure feels uplifting :D Thank you all for your feedback! SFX and music will soon arrive in a postjam version of the game ^_^
Thank you all for the awesome feedback! ^_^
@Steve The guards always see you when you are in their 'cone of sight' which is very wide - 180 degrees. This means the guard will spot you whenever you're not even at least a bit behind them, or when you're missing cover. It's a bit punishing, I know. It was a choice, so that I would be able to design the levels faster.
Also, the guard turns to you automatically when you're detected (for an enhanced visual effect). Thanks for the feedback! :D
@PixelStuff You can also use arrows. Funny thing about WASD and AZERTY mismatch, it hasn't occurred to me until now :))
@Alphish Yup... Difficult times for the Count.
Regarding the control, tile-based keyboard movement feels pretty odd. Definitely learned my lesson there :P Guess I was so caught up in what I was doing that I completely ignored all the other (far better) alternatives. If I'd have done it again, probably it would have been tile-based point-and-click.
Short but worth it! Played both endings just to see what happens :D Cool art&graphics! Congrats
Well-polished, simple to understand and fun!
I think it needs a steeper difficulty curve. Pretty nice for 12h, though :D Congrats!
Reminds me of Doodle God / Doodle Devil, in a way, only way wackier :D
The logic behind the transmutations feels a bit random, but that's probably because the player isn't offered too much information about the process.
How I remember the people who made Doodle Devil handled it, there was a clear sense of progression based on the items you unlocked (i.e. from fire/earth/sin all the way to technology)
Curious where this is going :D
Congrats and good luck!
This is really fun! A straightforward, yet challenging set of rules. Audio and graphics define a proper atmosphere.
Wow. The mood, the graphics, the sound, the idea... Brilliant execution, guys :)
Really content-rich concept. I definitely want to see more of this.
Feels fun and even though this is the first review I'm wrinting this LD, I feel that it definitely is a different take on the theme than most of the games in this LD. Congrats!
Regarding the choice of graphics: First run I found it difficult to figure out why the bodies get stuck in mid air, until I managed to see that it's an object in the foreground that they're stuck on. My guess is that the edges of the shape are blending too much with the background image.
Anyways, congrats! :)
The level design is juicy! Fun to play, funny setting, great entry :D Congrats!
Digging the clumsy physics and the mayhem!
Cool sounds, also cool easter egg with the TV hahah :D
Pretty fun and definitely an exotic approach to dungeon crawling! Sound effects are cool and I feel they match the graphics properly :D
I came here - on my reviewer's page - with high hopes. Now how is THIS not a... ehm... "game with the theme squeezed in as a twist" :D :D Anyway, good job! And definitely great job for your first LD!
One thing's for sure... the character, camera & control feel proper. Would definitely give it another shot after you'll update it with extra gameplay. Congrats and good luck!
It's fun, but it feels like I'm getting 'blueballed' when I die.
I mean the first track is an exceptional choice for the mood it transmits, but it feels extremely punishing to one-shot-kill the music.
I'm surprised you've taken out the 'graphics' and 'mood' voting options.
Anyway, groovy take on the theme:D