"The world is in your hand" is an adventure game with simple graphics and minimalistic controls. You play the entire game with the space bar.
Edit: I added the posts compo versions of the game, for Android and executable Mac and Windows. I needed to make performance and physics improvement for the post-compo versions, because it was hardly playable on mobile. Note that the Android version also lets you play the post compo versions with the phone as a remote (see link for detail: http://www.dobuki.com/the-world-is-in-your-hand.html)
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asdfzxc92027 Apr 2013, 16:09
I find that I keep getting stuck in a certain vertical wall in the orange area.
I almost cried.. No but seriously that was cool, I only got the girl to do something/help the girl, wish I could help more of them <3 Maybe I could just couldn't figure out how.
Great story and very original gameplay. A bit slow-paced sometimes but that's ok. Well done!
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acatcalledfrank29 Apr 2013, 10:41
Really lovely game - it'a a nice concept (I would have played more even if it had been a dialogue game in which you could only blink yes/no) although flying through small gaps can be frustrating. Good stuff!
I really enjoyed the presentation and the mood in this entry, but honestly I was completely lost with the gameplay. I managed to pick up one of the people and put them on the chair with me but I was completely at a loss as to what I should do with this person.
Charming game... but if I didn't read comments, I wouldn't know I can help people. Bumping into walls wasn't really nice. I liked how detailed graphics are.
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messiano4 May 2013, 18:01
Graphics and exploring around makes the game very enjoyable. A bigger world, procedurally generated would be very nice :). Loved the cat.
Really liked the theme here and that you can totally botch the intro if you don't answer questions "correctly". In fact, it feels like there's two games here and it's kinda neat. If you expand on it, you can alternate between the two using the Captain Pike yes/no for dialog and the super flying wheelchair man for the superhero part. I do feel there was some guidance missing from the flying stage. I'd pick someone up and other than the girl and her kitty, it was random and non-obvious as to where I had to take them.
In most games I do not feel sad or pity. Here the silhouettes and piano melody along with the story of a quadriplegic man touched me. If you continue to develop this, those tender feelings were conflicted by bouncing off the platforms and flying, which seemed to nullify the plight of the victim.
This is a really cool concept that deserves to be expanded. As others have said, it is easy to get stuck in corners and the bouncing off objects behavior is jarring. I didn't realize that I could help people until I read the comments because of the amount of time it took for them to react to my avatar and because they ignored me otherwise. At least at first, I felt powerless to change anything. I think this would work better if the people would take notice of you as you pass them and the first person you could help was very close by.
Other than that, pretty good.