Alone, the Game by Colinchocolate 2011-12-18T06:35:00
Small thing, but pressing ESC should really give players their cursor back.
Big thing: got to the lava level and unlocked the door... but saw no door.
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| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Rank | Ov | Fu | In | Th | Gr | Au | Hu | Mo | Cm | Co | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 27 | 10 Seconds | Mahayana | compo | 864 | 2.73 | 2.40 | 24 | ||||||||
| 2013 | 26 | Minimalism | Different Games: A Ludum Dare Entry | compo | ||||||||||||
| 2012 | 25 | You are the Villain | You Are The Level Designer! | compo | 669 | 2.39 | 2.50 | 3.28 | 1.56 | 2.06 | 2.08 | 39 | ||||
| 2012 | 24 | Evolution | Dhp129: HF | compo | 725 | 2.07 | 1.36 | 2.50 | 1.64 | 28 | ||||||
| 2012 | 23 | Tiny World | Epic Scale Warfare | compo | 891 | 1.71 | 1.24 | 2.19 | 1.94 | 2.13 | 1.61 | 1.74 | 1.98 | 100 | ||
| 2011 | 22 | Alone | Expecting a Call | compo | 422 | 2.55 | 2.31 | 2.39 | 2.45 | 2.69 | 2.75 | 1.60 | 2.17 | 1.91 | 20 |
Small thing, but pressing ESC should really give players their cursor back.
Big thing: got to the lava level and unlocked the door... but saw no door.
does the game have to be so tall? my macbook pro is at max resolution and i can't fit the whole game into a chrome window.
and how do i win? or is there just a score counter that i can't see?
I'm very surprised that anybody is unsure about its connection to the theme. Each of the tenants is alone, despite how close they live to one another, and the telephone, despite each of their excitement to answer it, does not remedy their loneliness.
I feel like explaining it may do it a disservice. :( I want more games to be open to interpretation, and giving my own view of what the game means is unfortunately closes that kind of thing off, to some degree.
Oops! Too many verbs!
To help lonely people answer their phones. :)
By the way, I never acknowledged all of the positive feedback in this thread, which is actually very encouraging. I very much appreciate it.
I try to make games that are fairly conceptual (and proceduralistic, to (mis?)use Ian Bogost's term), and I recognize that sometimes this is at the expense of fun. Those are the pitfalls of exploring games as an expressive medium, though! I'm not afraid to fail a little here and there if I can simply provide an alternative to games that don't really try to say anything about anything.
Why am I shooting that Arab-type gentleman in the face? Because it's fun? Eh, it was kind of fun when I was in high school and playing Counter-Strike, now I'm just not interested.
Why am I jumping on these platforms and/or solving these puzzles? Because they're there? Eh...
[end arguably pretentious and defensive games-as-art mini-blog :P]
I appreciate your feedback, but I think it's a little... presumptuous, to be honest. I'm sorry it's not what you think an 'art game' is, but I think you're overstepping bounds in proclaiming what it is or isn't.
Is it a game? In the sort of classical definition, maybe not, but calling this out for not being a game isn't relevant to me. It looks like a game and feels like a game and was made like a game, and I believe that all definitions are ultimately stipulative, so I really don't think it's an interesting conversation to have.
The game mechanics are deliberately unsatisfying. The thesis of the game is that technological communication is unsatisfying. I'm still not at all convinced I didn't succeed in expressing this. This game was and continues to be exactly what I wanted it to be. I don't see anything lacking from it in the context of what I wanted to implement. I am completely open to the idea that it could be better, but I haven't heard any convincing ways to improve it.
So is this art? Of course it's art, if only because I say it is. People trying to demarcate art and non-art are stuck in the 19th Century. As soon as someone presents something as art, it's art. You could even argue that objects not presented as art can be art.
The following isn't directly aimed at you, but it's just a few things that I do find relevant:
Games don't begin and end at their rules. All games include sensory or fictional elements, which the audience uses to contextualize their actions.
I don't think I'm a talented visual artist, but I think the visual art in this game is completely sufficient. It communicates everything I want it to. I really like low-resolution art. Not only is it the only art I'm comfortable making, but it places the onus on the audience to interpret pixels into recognizable symbols, which is what we do regardless of resolution and manhours. Also, low-res art isn't necessarily easier. It's quite restrictive, and each pixel's worth of decision-making is even more important.
I'm on a bit of a tangent at this point, but I really think Rez and Minecraft are two of the most beautiful computer games ever made, despite their lack of expensive, high-polygon-count art assets. I digress.
Nobody has commented on the use of sound in this game. I'm not lamenting it; I'm not so proud that I'm offended. However, I spent considerable effort and attention designing the sound in this game, and most people are treating this like programmer art on top of whack-a-mole. I mean, feel free to think that, but did nobody play this with the sound on?
As long as the game is running at a reasonable framerate, the background music and non-interactive sound effects are both in key and in time with each other. It was meant to be somewhat synaesthetic, and I deliberately used MilkyTracker and SFXR to make an aural environment that directly ties in to the game's fictive elements.
The phone ringing is a classic chiptracker arpeggiated sound that sits somewhere between a ringing phone and what I felt fit the background music. These arpeggiated chords are played back in stereo based on the apartments position in visual space, so I meant it to be an audio-visual experience as well as a ludic one. The background music itself could be heard as the echo of phones ringing. Finally, the sound made when a player successfully answers a phone is meant to be an abstraction of a person saying "Hello?" It's a two-syllable sound effect (if a non-verbal sound effect can have syllables) that is meant to mimic a human saying "Heh-lo". The sound design then becomes a concert of phone rings and "hello"s, and the one-sided representation of these phone conversations feeds into the theme of Alone. For all the audience knows, these tenants never actually get spoken to by anybody on the phone.
Maybe it's my failing that people ignored these elements that I thought seriously about. However, the aesthetic considerations that I took, as well as the interpretability of the piece, would certainly push whatever this is (software toy/game/bullshit) towards art.
When people in the games community act like they have some authority over the metaphysics of art, these people never strike me as people who actually have an education in the arts. Setting things apart as art and non-art is such a boring, if not dead, issue. I think Marcel Duchamp proved as much.
In this "game", not every click feels the same as the first. The first click holds a promise of meaningful interaction. The player's final click is a punctuation on an unsatisfying system.
I think Expecting a Call is an unsatisfying game. I also think this makes it successful as a work of art.
I won't apologize for being pleased with my work, but I do feel tremendous regret over involving myself in such explicit conversations about it. More games need to be open to interpretation, and–- while I'm allowing myself to do it-- I don't think it's good for me (the author) to be explaining my work.
Correction: one way to improve it would be to make it an iPhone app. I think that would add a wonderful new dimension of context.
I'm not convinced by your alternatives, but thanks for the feedback.
Ultimately, I just read this game differently than a lot of people are. Sometimes that happens.
Hm. I'm interested, but I'm also having trouble completing the first level.
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i read the How To Play, then clicked Play and it didn't go (macbook pro trying to run it in google chrome)
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pretty funny.
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absolutely no instruction whatsoever, and the resolution is too tall for me.
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i have no idea why you decided to make the controls like this. i don't like it.
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resolution is too tall for me and you didn't provide any instructions. also don't see much connection to the theme.
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very amusing. the walking controls took a minute to get used to, but after that they were oddly compelling to use.
cool little simulation kind of thing. can't help but feel like it's a bit lacking, though.
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i appreciate minimalism, but i found this kind of confusing.
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funny concept, but i couldn't really get into it. very simple and not especially rewarding.
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beautiful sprites, but i found the mechanics and controls off-putting.
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i love minimalism, but just a *little* more context would have been nice. i didn't have any clue what to do for a good few seconds. having the controls on this ludum dare page would've been nice.
all that said, i LOVE the concept and minimalism of it. it would've been nice to be able to reset a level, because i'm not sure i didn't drive my organism out of the view and i didn't want to completely start over.
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i think what's already here is really well-made and it's a neat, minimalistic space trading game... but i found it really easy to stop playing. didn't see much reason to continue.
love the sprites, but i didn't feel like i was doing anything.
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really, really cool. it would've been nice if i didn't have to launch a probe *again* to colonize a planet i'd found earlier. if that stuff had been saved, it'd have been a little less frustrating when i lost :)
i'm not sure i understand how it fits the theme.
very simple, but very amusing concept!
agh! some of these are maddening (and uncomfortable to look at)! i don't know that this was a *good* idea, but it's certainly a bold one and i applaud that!
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When hundreds of people make non-browser games, that means that, to play all of the entries, I would need to download hundreds of games to my computer. I typically use OS X, so Windows-only entries are particularly inconvenient.
Please consider making a browser game next time.
***I'm posting this on all non-browser games I bring up in an attempt to encourage folks to make browser games next time around. Do not take it personally.***
When hundreds of people make non-browser games, that means that, to play all of the entries, I would need to download hundreds of games to my computer. I typically use OS X, so Windows-only entries are particularly inconvenient.
Please consider making a browser game next time.
***I'm posting this on all non-browser games I bring up in an attempt to encourage folks to make browser games next time around. Do not take it personally.***
When hundreds of people make non-browser games, that means that, to play all of the entries, I would need to download hundreds of games to my computer. I typically use OS X, so Windows-only entries are particularly inconvenient.
Please consider making a browser game next time.
***I'm posting this on all non-browser games I bring up in an attempt to encourage folks to make browser games next time around. Do not take it personally.***
When hundreds of people make non-browser games, that means that, to play all of the entries, I would need to download hundreds of games to my computer. I typically use OS X, so Windows-only entries are particularly inconvenient.
Please consider making a browser game next time.
i couldn't get past the second stage, but i still absolutely adore this game! reminds me a lot of The Marriage by Rod Humble. well done.
***I'm posting this on all non-browser games I bring up in an attempt to encourage folks to make browser games next time around. Do not take it personally.***
When hundreds of people make non-browser games, that means that, to play all of the entries, I would need to download hundreds of games to my computer. I typically use OS X, so Windows-only entries are particularly inconvenient.
Please consider making a browser game next time.
***I'm posting this on all non-browser games I bring up in an attempt to encourage folks to make browser games next time around. Do not take it personally.***
When hundreds of people make non-browser games, that means that, to play all of the entries, I would need to download hundreds of games to my computer. I typically use OS X, so Windows-only entries are particularly inconvenient.
Please consider making a browser game next time.
i clicked 'Web' and was prompted to download something. as such:
***I'm posting this on all non-browser games I bring up in an attempt to encourage folks to make browser games next time around. Do not take it personally.***
When hundreds of people make non-browser games, that means that, to play all of the entries, I would need to download hundreds of games to my computer. I typically use OS X, so Windows-only entries are particularly inconvenient.
Please consider making a browser game next time.
i LOVE the way this game looks. not sure if music would make this game better, but i noticed its absence.
***I'm posting this on all non-browser games I bring up in an attempt to encourage folks to make browser games next time around. Do not take it personally.***
When hundreds of people make non-browser games, that means that, to play all of the entries, I would need to download hundreds of games to my computer. I typically use OS X, so Windows-only entries are particularly inconvenient.
Please consider making a browser game next time.
***I'm posting this on all non-browser games I bring up in an attempt to encourage folks to make browser games next time around. Do not take it personally.***
When hundreds of people make non-browser games, that means that, to play all of the entries, I would need to download hundreds of games to my computer. I typically use OS X, so Windows-only entries are particularly inconvenient.
Please consider making a browser game next time.
***I'm posting this on all non-browser games I bring up in an attempt to encourage folks to make browser games next time around. Do not take it personally.***
When hundreds of people make non-browser games, that means that, to play all of the entries, I would need to download hundreds of games to my computer. I typically use OS X, so Windows-only entries are particularly inconvenient.
Please consider making a browser game next time.
this seems like it could've been much better with more time.
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Please consider making a browser game next time.
Everything you need to know is in the game. If you got through the tutorial, you know how to play.
thanks, hamburger!
i'll just say that i completely understand if it seems a little incoherent. i was trying to do a couple of different things with this game and perhaps they didn't converge as well as i may have liked. i appreciate the feedback!
triplevision, yeah: given more time, i would've made this game a bit differently. animations, for a start! :P thanks for the feedback!
nocturne: what do you think i tried to achieve?
refreshcreations: thanks!
susanthecat: i think making a non-browser game (especially if it's not cross-platform) for ludum dare is rude. if nobody made a single browser game for it, you'd have to download 1,400 games to play them all. isn't that at least a _little bit_ nuts?
"Some of us don't make browser games." how is this meaningful at all? there are so few games submitted to any given ludum dare event that couldn't have been done in a browser. and my message is an encouragement and a request, not a command:
"***I'm posting this on all non-browser games I bring up in an attempt to encourage folks to make browser games next time around. Do not take it personally.***
When hundreds of people make non-browser games, that means that, to play all of the entries, I would need to download hundreds of games to my computer. I typically use OS X, so Windows-only entries are particularly inconvenient.
Please consider making a browser game next time."
it's a harmless PSA. the ludum dare rules themselves STRONGLY encourage browser games.
however, since you said something, i won't post it on your game. i also won't play it, because-- unless something gets a ton of buzz-- i'm not downloading any games.
lukerissacher: i'm not punishing anybody, and i'm not telling people they screwed up by not making a browser game for Ludum Dare 23. i'm just leaving a note on games i'm not playing, asking them to consider making browser games next time. there's stencyl (as well as other tools, i think) for folks who aren't comfortable coding, and if you already know object-oriented programming, using flash via flashpunk/flixel has a trivial learning curve. i used this compo to learn how to make a game using only HTML and javascript, but if i was committed to having the lowest possible technical barriers for myself, i would've used processing.js.
regardless... as i said: my PSA is a gentle request about the FUTURE. it's not an admonishment about the past.
julian: i don't know why it wouldn't be working in firefox, but i'll see what i can do.
thanks, hume. i don't mind people not thinking it's a _fun_ game. glad you appreciated it on one level or another.
Chtulhu: if you know Java, you should probably be able to transfer those skills to any number of browser-oriented frameworks easily. furthermore, can't you make a applet to run in a browser?
uprightpath: i won't pretend there's more to the game than there actually is, but you're underestimating the mechanics at play.
Sorry to everybody who had trouble with this game. I didn't realize it was such a mess outside of Chrome and Safari. Firefox completely mangles it.
i completely disagree, armornick. but then again, i would.
i appreciate your calm, reasoned response (not that i don't disagree with it).
i've certainly been discouraged by people's negative reactions, and i won't be surprised if it negatively skewed my own ratings. i wouldn't put it past certain people to have rated my game on the merits of my opinions rather than the merits of my work.
furthermore, i think the point's been made. i doubt i'll be posting that "PSA" again, but i'm also not sure i'll browse through any more entries. it became a convenient way to sort of "mark as played" entries i wasn't going to play.
oldtopman: that's not what it was.
boy, folks really enjoy exaggerating.
orni: no, the best "solve" would've been to make a game with better cross-browser compatibility. i wanted to learn more about JS+HTML, but flash or an embedded java applet would've been ideal.
***I'm posting this on all non-browser games I bring up in an attempt to encourage folks to make browser games next time around. Do not take it personally.***
When hundreds of people make non-browser games, that means that, to play all of the entries, I would need to download hundreds of games to my computer. I typically use OS X, so Windows-only entries are particularly inconvenient.
Please consider making a browser game next time.
***I'm posting this on all non-browser games I bring up in an attempt to encourage folks to make browser games next time around. Do not take it personally.***
When hundreds of people make non-browser games, that means that, to play all of the entries, I would need to download hundreds of games to my computer. I typically use OS X, so Windows-only entries are particularly inconvenient.
Please consider making a browser game next time.
i sometimes have issues with flickering when i run java applets, but this was unplayable.
***I'm posting this on all non-browser games I bring up in an attempt to encourage folks to make browser games next time around. Do not take it personally.***
When hundreds of people make non-browser games, that means that, to play all of the entries, I would need to download hundreds of games to my computer. I typically use OS X, so Windows-only entries are particularly inconvenient.
Please consider making a browser game next time.
***I'm posting this on all non-browser games I bring up in an attempt to encourage folks to make browser games next time around. Do not take it personally.***
When hundreds of people make non-browser games, that means that, to play all of the entries, I would need to download hundreds of games to my computer. I typically use OS X, so Windows-only entries are particularly inconvenient.
Please consider making a browser game next time.
i feel like you're on to something interesting, but it moves so slowly and it's very dry. the lack of audio doesn't help.
***I'm posting this on all non-browser games I bring up in an attempt to encourage folks to make browser games next time around. Do not take it personally.***
When hundreds of people make non-browser games, that means that, to play all of the entries, I would need to download hundreds of games to my computer. I typically use OS X, so Windows-only entries are particularly inconvenient.
Please consider making a browser game next time.
***I'm posting this on all non-browser games I bring up in an attempt to encourage folks to make browser games next time around. Do not take it personally.***
When hundreds of people make non-browser games, that means that, to play all of the entries, I would need to download hundreds of games to my computer. I typically use OS X, so Windows-only entries are particularly inconvenient.
Please consider making a browser game next time.
i couldn't not crash into the planet. the one time i avoided it, i was just floating around disoriented and the particles shooting out of me were going the wrong direction.
***I'm posting this on all non-browser games I bring up in an attempt to encourage folks to make browser games next time around. Do not take it personally.***
When hundreds of people make non-browser games, that means that, to play all of the entries, I would need to download hundreds of games to my computer. I typically use OS X, so Windows-only entries are particularly inconvenient.
Please consider making a browser game next time.
i'm glad you tried. i can't say i see any connection to the theme, though.
that was more interesting and enjoyable than i expected.
i didn't understand how i was evolving. one life seemed identical to the next.
I really want to understand it, but I don't.
Very hard, but pretty cool!
Very clever concept.
The keyboard controls didn't seem to work for me. I can't imagine why. I clicked on the game screen to get focus.
A pause button is a decent idea, but the tile you're holding being taken away is deliberate. Some of the levels were designed with timing in mind.
I figured if someone was buying a tile by clicking the icon, they actually wanted to buy and keep it.
Also, some of the levels have red herrings, but my fiancee was able to beat the final level without using half of the resources provided, so yeah: testing is good! I sort of ran out of time to do more things with all of the elements of the game, so yeah: some blocks are used better than others.
For those of you having issues running it, sorry! I just had Processing spit out all of the desktop versions it can handle, but I'll see if I can solve anything.
Finally, I'm really curious as to why this isn't an original concept. Like, where else has this been done? I'm not having a huge crisis over the originality of this idea, but if it's been done before, I should take a look at those games to make sure I learn from them and/or do something more original.
Thanks so much for the feedback, everyone!
I think the title is a *little* on the nose, but this is great.
Quite beautiful, but I had trouble discerning what I was supposed to be doing or if I was succeeding.