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| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Rank | Ov | Fu | In | Th | Gr | Au | Hu | Mo | Co | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 27 | 10 Seconds | Means to an End | compo | 1057 | 2.44 | 2.07 | 2.11 | 2.70 | 2.96 | 1.95 | 2.48 | 44 | ||
| 2013 | 26 | Minimalism | Life | compo | 1243 | 2.36 | 1.72 | 2.70 | 3.94 | 2.22 | 2.28 | 1.96 | 3.15 | 71 |
Thanks everybody! :)
It seems the speed is a problem, so I changed it... but it might still be a little (REALLY) slow. It's just not the same if it you can go faster.
The idea (*my* idea) is that you have to go through the whole "journey" and, let's be frank, it's not a really big one! x)
As for the limited gameplay, well... I went for "minimalism". My interpretation is maybe too literal? In the first version, you could walk around almost freely and look wherever you wanted to, but this result is much more... emotional? Well, I guess it's up to you to decide about that!
It's probably really abstract... sorry about that x)
I must admit I had this image of a platform leading to a big monolith, but then I started to add spheres (because it felt so empty...) and animations, to change one sphere to a cube... and one thing leading to another, I had this.
My initial idea was to symbolize life; not life as in "you're born, you do stuff and then you die", but moments. The cube is the symbol of physical things, knowledge or whatever, while the sphere symbolizes the feelings (you can hear heartbeats).
/!\ Spoilers(?) /!\
So here's my interpretation, knowing that you can totally see something else: when you play for the first time, the first sentence tells you what you can do, then you start walking and you get the message saying that you must leave, and then the one saying that you must forget. At the end, you're asked if you're ready (and you can only be ready xD), then you say you are and the title screen appears. You learn what the title is, and you can "press Enter to continue" and... if you do so, you start again at the beginning.
But, this time, you already know what you can do, and it can mean something else: "you have to move on". And you go through everything again, and again, and again... That's life.
So, after "playing" it, and reading that interpretation, I would totally understand if you hate it x)