The Red Circle

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.38
Fun★★★★★★★★★★2.40
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.55
Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.71
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★2.84
Audio★★★★★★★★★★4.18
Humor★★★★★★★★★★2.93
Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.57
Coolness★★★★★★★★★★55%
*Update*
Removed an audio track that wasn't being used. This should make the file size a bit smaller than before.

*Before Playing*
I highly recommend you go through this game twice. It isn't very long, so no need to worry about time. It's more of a notgame than an actual game. I also suggest you go right the first time; trust me.

Okay, this game was meant to be something a bit grander, however, I have little-to-no experience doing something like this and I'm a fairly new programmer. So, I decided to cut out a lot of the game. The file size is due to audio files.

I hope that even in this butchered form, that is barely a shadow of my original idea, it still comes somewhere close to having the impact I wanted. If it does, then this will have been worth it and perhaps worth me actually taking the time to complete it.

I apologize for the bad audio. :)

Thank you.

PS
There's a chance the linux version might not work. If you can, post a comment letting me know if there are any errors since I don't have a linux pc set up to test.

PSS
Sorry about the lack of a mac version. I'll see what I can do, but like the linux version I can't promise it'll work.

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Comments22

DkCub2329 Apr 2013, 09:13
This is really depressing...
ella guro29 Apr 2013, 09:20
clever use of audio to frame the game. i really really like the scary noises later on. the idea kind of sounds like the game the stanley parable, though it's hard for this sort of thing to work effectively without much context.
dissonanceauthor29 Apr 2013, 09:22
Yea, I had a lot more plan, where it would go through the stages of the red circles life and have other options besides the one in the beginning. I'll definitely be working on a complete version. Thanks for the comments!
Ludipe
Ludipe29 Apr 2013, 09:25
Interesting game, it's really weird but that makes it more interesting. The background music is awesome and the voice-acting is a fantastic feature.
Sheep29 Apr 2013, 09:33
Good narrating. Depressing story.
Andrei Barsan29 Apr 2013, 10:05
Quite depressing actually, but still enjoyable. It would be nice to have more choices, as well as maybe the ability to skip certain audio parts you've heard before - it could make the choices easier to explore.
OysterKLAN29 Apr 2013, 10:06
Super depressing, but in a good way. The sound effects may not be great, but the music (and the occasional piano note on its own) and that voice are done really well.
juaxix29 Apr 2013, 10:07
I would like to have your pronunciation, but I doubt if I should tell such a sad story :O
Game is like a theatre, I miss the fun :)
dissonanceauthor29 Apr 2013, 10:12
I wish I could pronounce my words better, but sadly when I was a child and first moved to California they didn't offer any speech classes. I was never able to fix my diction issues, so this is the best I could muster. :) Thanks everyone!
KristianGibson29 Apr 2013, 10:22
Great story, reminds me of the stanley parable.
Destroyer40k29 Apr 2013, 17:51
Well that was intense. I love the simplicity and how well paced the narration is, though it was a bit of a pain to listen to the beginning again just to see what happened when I went left. This really has emotion to it, and in a good way. Great game.
dissonanceauthor29 Apr 2013, 20:06
Thank you. Believe me, I know how you feel. I had to listen to the entire thing every time I had a bug or added a scene just to make sure it all worked correctly. Haha.
Jan Marcano30 Apr 2013, 01:34
Holy God I loved this. Interesting story and sad/confusing story. Watcher both endings :) Liked your narration, good quality voice.
Jubjub.30 Apr 2013, 13:59
Hahaha. That was hilarious. The 'DIE YOU SHIT' part scared me...
kbm0
kbm030 Apr 2013, 15:15
Good job, interesting concept. Weird, but interesting!
fussycashew
fussycashew30 Apr 2013, 20:59
I'm so depressed now. :(
I'm a terrible red circle.
Sylvain.p
Sylvain.p30 Apr 2013, 21:14
Great storytelling, good voice...and a bit depressing game.
queader30 Apr 2013, 21:53
Hmmm...I've never seen something like this. Nice game(?) :)
Typedeaf
Typedeaf2 May 2013, 17:52
Aaaaaaaaw, it was soooooooo sad! felt really bad for that little red circle....
Norritt429 May 2013, 21:19
Grate work! I liked it a lot.
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