Interesting experiment. I didn't saw any dark clouds at the beginning, so it was confusing as hell :D Like the others stated, the controls feel a bit off, especially because the player character automatically aligns, which makes it difficult to get the orientation back after making a little pause. Any yes, some music it missing!
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Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
Stayed true to the source material | #4 | 4.000 | 4.000 |
Innovative use of source material | #8 | 3.706 | 3.706 |
Theme | #15 | 2.941 | 2.941 |
Graphics | #17 | 3.412 | 3.412 |
Polish | #18 | 3.176 | 3.176 |
Overall | #21 | 3.017 | 3.017 |
Fun | #32 | 2.412 | 2.412 |
Sound | #43 | 1.471 | 1.471 |
Ranked from 17 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
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Quite a unique and entertaining experience! The surreal atmospheres complimented the poetry nicely, job well done!
@Nathaniel Nelson - Great! Glad you enjoyed it, and point well taken about the beginning. There are dark blue clouds in the distance to give you some spacial awareness, but I'm realizing too late that my gamma is set fairly high, so players with lower gamma settings can't make the clouds out well, or at all, making the first few moments even more disorienting than intended. Oh well; more knowledge for next time, right? Thanks for the feedback, and again, glad you enjoyed the rest.
Very interesting entry. Learning the controls at first is confusing, even with the help overlay, because the player starts in a formless void and really can't tell where they're moving to because they have no landmarks to compare their position with. However once I figured it out I really enjoyed the rest. The poems are great, and fit together well. The character model and animations are very detailed, and very well done. The environments you created really connected with the emotions of the poetry (even the confusion in the beginning can be seen as fitting the poetry - an
"unconquerable soul" will figure it out and keep playing till they get it. :)
So good work on a more experimental entry. I liked it a lot, just wanted to give helpful and honest feedback based on my experience.
Interesting game, love the look of it. I included it in part 1 of my Public Domain Jam compilation video series, if you'd like to take a look :) http://youtu.be/FT-bP4jDHz0
I really liked this. The two poems were wonderfully put together and the game play made it seem surreal, and like I was on my own internal-cosmic revelation.
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