Sonnet 49

by 65c816
Overall★★★★★★★★★★2.44
Fun★★★★★★★★★★1.73
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.00
Theme★★★★★★★★★★2.43
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★2.88
Mood★★★★★★★★★★2.67
Coolness★★★★★★★★★★40%
Something between exploration and game to illustrate the william shakespear's poem "sonnet 49" which talk about elapsing time.

ps: Currently it's not finished, I don't have time to finish it today (because I cannot work on it), I finish a version with sound and interactions bugs fixed as soon as possible.

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Comments13

devwil
devwil26 Aug 2013, 03:54
Inspired by Jason Rohrer's Passage? :)

This is interesting!
Tainted_Code28 Aug 2013, 21:54
Ooh, that was pretty interesting.
larb28 Aug 2013, 21:57
The death screen takes a really long time to display. Not sure what I'm doing.
NiceAlexanderAS28 Aug 2013, 21:57
I don't know if is a problem with my browser but when i die i need to wait a lot time to show a message D: .... but anyways good job :D i like the concept of the game! looks interesting.
zlowrance28 Aug 2013, 21:58
Really like the visuals and the passages were cool but they took an excruciatingly long time to fade in! Other than that though I liked it
angrygeometry
angrygeometry28 Aug 2013, 22:01
i had slow text too, but the game itself was interesting enough.
Pinktreeleaf28 Aug 2013, 22:03
throw up a link to the finish version when your done :D
udo
udo28 Aug 2013, 22:05
Holy pixels, batman! That was interesting. However, I couldn't quite figure out what I'm supposed to do there. I'd say it's worth expanding this into a full game.
Dark Acre Jack28 Aug 2013, 22:13
I love the aesthetic, reminds me a bit of Rohrer's "Passage".
Would definitely benefit from some player introduction to controls & the death timeout is far too slow for my liking.
65C816
65C816author30 Aug 2013, 15:35
Sorry, I currently have many problems, I'll make a free bug version as soon as possible. But thank you very much for your encouragements.
blay09
blay0931 Aug 2013, 12:33
The graphic effects were nice and I liked the gameover screen apart from the extremely long fade-in. However, I had no idea what I was supposed to do. I just kept dieing when walking around.
withoutpillow
withoutpillow31 Aug 2013, 12:41
definitely remind me of rohrer's passage. it's a very interesting game, but i would like to be able to read trough the text two times before it dissolves (which is a fantastic thing for it to do actually; when time go by the world some into existence but then then disappear again, with the flow of time).

good use of the poem, but as i said, i would like to read it through and at least get a glimpse of what it's about, so i can contemplate on this when i play the next segment.
Andresh15 Sep 2013, 02:04
Didn't quite understood what I was supposed to do, liked the art style.
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