I absolutely loved this one. Its a silly little game that mixes a bunch of different types of aberrations, such as stuff suddenly changing places and even a way to fit in chromatic aberrations. In the end it gives to a wonderful experience with awesome everything, although sometimes it may become a bit repetitive, or even the themes of aberration seem to be very on the nose, with the characters literally saying "Oh look, im doing an aberration, LOOK at me, look, look". I guess that was kind of the point, but i personally found it a bit annoying. Another part that had me feel weird were the animations of the models with arms and hands. Even though most of the environment is cool, I cant help but feel that the character animations are very... human like. I have a feeling you did motion capture to create the animations, which is not necessarily a bad thing if you did use it, its just not necessarily a animation style i love. Overall, even though it wasn't a perfect experience, i still enjoyed it, and the boss against the security bot has to be my favorite boss fight in a game, PERIOD.
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Thanks, glad you enjoyed it. Yeah the idea was to be very in your face with the whole Aberration theme, that was the plan - so much so, that the theme itself is ‘Unwanted’ as an ironic twist. I hope some people got it 👍 That’s the thing with doing a comedy/parody game, it’s going to be a bit hit and miss I think…
Good point on the characters 👍 Yeah, I did mo-cap them using a system I made using a VR headset. I wanted them to be really characterful, but you’re right, I could’ve definitely made the movements more robot like - not sure how a robot looks when sneezing, but that would’ve been funny!