Imagine falling into an abyss with no way out. Darkness and silence. In the shadows magic is waiting. Your light will guide you to curious colors, collect them all and you'll see them again.
One Way was designed in Montpellier, France at the 27th Ludum Dare contest (24th -26th Aug '13) by Marie Saby, Maxime Labate and Flavio Perez. Sound by Peter Vacz.
Mac version working well; Windows version works now but NEEDS java installed on your computer (java.com) Linux version not tested yet; Web version is loading slow (7mb) and has music and sound issues (not even playing in some cases) -> Prefer one of the other versions.
Can you tell me which browser/OS you are using ? I might put the web version somewhere else than Dropbox tomorrow morning in case it's making issues :/
Using Web version in Chrome on Windows, apparently no major problems. Sound seems a little glitchy, sometimes the collect sound wouldn't play, and there were other strange sounds playing (randomly?) which may be a bug, or might just be the oddities of a very artistic sound designer.
Thanks for coming to our event, we really enjoyed having you guys around. I hope moving in to your new studio goes along well!
Windows download doesn't work at the moment. Since the web version works, I reckon you can do without, but if you need a Windows version, I'll see if I can get a moment and compile one for you guys.
The game has a sound running all the way. This is the main issue with the web version, it's randomly playing part of it. I had no time yet to see why. I'll try to fix it tonight. I'm removing the windows version for now and I'll build a new one from a PC in the next hour ! Thanks for the feeback !
Windows version is back. The exe is working now but you need Java installed on your machine. You can download it on java.com The game is also easier in the windows version, I'll fix that issue tonight. Thanks !
It works almost good on my Linux desktop, I'll have to try it from the Windows side! It runs quite slowly, and the sound is therefore jerky, but I can imagine what it sounds like. The game was great when I tried it before you left on Sunday, it became close to perfect with the sound (despite the problems that I encounter here) and the fact that the "fireflies" (?) are collected slightly faster. The graphics are really beautiful. Exactly the kind of game that I love. Eventually I think the game really fit the theme well. Congrats!
Wow, just wow. Short, simple, sweet, and interesting. It is not too complex and such, but it very well put together and very engaging. not to mention that you nailed the presentation.
Fantastic atmosphere guys, really great job pulling that off. Exploring the scenes with the light was a really nicely executed mechanic. For the atmosphere alone (visuals/sound) the game is definitely worth checking out. Extra nice compliments and such go out to the sound guy, nice job. I really liked getting to see this game.
Plutôt sympa notamment l'ambiance. Au départ je n'avais pas bien compris les contrôles, en fait c'est simple...mais ça reste plutôt difficile. Bien joué.
@sgehlich : Neither do we know we could do it on processing ;) But I've never tried other framworks and for our first game we look to be able to finish it. So I went back to Processing.
@optimality : It's fun, other people said it was like a submarine. But to be honest... we never think about being underwater. But indeed, it works very well thinking of it as a diving. :)
UPDATE : Windows version updated. A bad calculation made it way to easier than mac version because of the framerate going low in some cases (don't ask me why). Tried to make the game run smoother also, but it's hard to fix now without rebuilding part of the game. My "Raytracer" is not optimized at all ^^ I'll update linux/mac version tonight with the same fix. Looks to be more an issue in windows anyway.
Fantastic! I wish it filled the full screen though. (I'm on Windows 7 if that's unintended.) I also wish that the font in the end credits was better, it kind of tears me out of the mood when I see a bad font. But the gameplay was quite good and well designed. You get high marks!
@Puzzlem00n : Yes, in behalf of my team, I take full responsibility for the font ! I started programming it, put a basic Helvetica while working, and we completely forget to change it even if it was in our TODO list. So it's my fault to use that placeholder and it does not give respect to the rest of the work :( Thanks for the feedback ! I'll fix that soon And about filling the full screen, I tried some stuff, but I wasn't even able to change the grey by a black screen. Still trying solutions.
This is a lovely game, very poetic. I could have play for 30 more minutes, seriously. I have the feeling some fireflies are uncatchable, but I might be wrong, and it doesn't rellay matter in the end. Congratulations!
Cool, cool, cool!!! That's definitely one game I'll get to keep on my hard drive, mainly for the atmosphere and the mood it creates! Nice graphics and very good sound! Great job guys! Please continue developing this title! :)
My computer doesn't like your game, but then again, my computer is an idiot, because it is awesome, really. The mood is very well done, and even a little oppressing at times. You guys have done well, it the " other room ", like actual work, while we were just procrastinating :P
Very nice :) I'm guessing this'll be one of the best ranked for mood and audio, and it's nice to look at too :D Not much in the way of gameplay, but then that's not really what you were going for I don't think. Again this shows the limits of "games" as a category. Not to bring up that debat then, as a interactive experience in general this has some serious merit ;)
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Maybe it's just the upload that hasn't finished though.