blomster is an exploratory game with pretty colors and stuff. I really struggled with the theme this time, but a short bit into the game you get a sphere you need to carry with you to progress, you only get one. I didn't really have time to flesh out the story as I pictured it.
Blomster means flower or flourish in Swedish.
New Linux builds are up, both the original and the postcompo version! Huuuuuge hugs and kisses to Kaleb (@belak51) both for contacting me, doing the linux port AND fixing a disgusting graphical bug in the game! <3
Post-compo version is UP!
This ludum was crazy, I've slept ~6hours during the 48 hour compo time. I also have some fun figures to show
Time spent / keys pressed, in application: 19.6h / 116684, Visual Studio 8.1h / 14209, in Google Chrome 3.8h / 18092, Photoshop 2.9h / 27320, in Sublime(text editor) 1.5h / 11631, in Skype 5.7h / 68433, in blomster while debugging! this adds up to 41.6h during the competition, I may have been afk atm ~2h of that though. Kindof shows why I am so damn tired now! Anyways, I am very proud of the game, I hope you enjoy it as well!
Second place, wow! A bit overwhelming, I don't know what to say.. wow.
Special thanks to: My wonderful GF who actually made me food, my dishes and stuff. SonnyBone, @phantom_green for being my rolemodel and friend during jams! Belak @belak51 for porting the game to linux AND fixing some bugs while doing so! of course all of you who played and rated my game. wow thankyou speach, I've let this go to my head.. gg guys, cya in april, I'll be doing LD from China! :D
Holy crap, man. There were several moments where I legitimately stopped and thought, "OH WOW" or "HOW DID HE DO THIS" or "THAT WAS CLEVER". The sphere you collect... the first time I threw it and it bounced... then I looked at the animation of it kind of 'rolling' and just stared at it. It's so simple but just beautiful. And the music. OH MY GOD THE MUSIC. Everything about the audio just really sucked me into this world and made me want to know more. I wanted some kind of connection to this little guy and I was pushed and pushed to get through some tricky puzzles (good job on the puzzle design!) and then I was rewarded by a genuinely moving ending that nearly made me shed a tear.
This is a very, very fine accomplishment.
Yeah, it's a puzzle platformer and there isn't much innovation going on, but you gotta look beyond that and see that what's here is pretty much perfect. And in 48 hours? Are you kidding me? This is a fucking triumph.
This game is one of the most impressive I've seen so far. I want to play more but I have to go to sleep. The light as a puzzle mechanic is not only technically impressive but visually fantastic.
(Also woo hoo for a fellow SFML crazy person! Mine wasn't nearly as impressive, but I've also not done C++ for 2+ years :P)\
Wow! Incredible game! The design in this is really, really good. The learning curve was gradual, and the puzzles made me feel pretty smart for solving them. Will definitely recommend to people.
Pretty great game! Didn't get very far because I gave up after the second time I managed to lose my sphere. That's my problem though, not yours. Also, the "bug" you experienced in my game isn't a bug, it's a feature. There are invisible walls around the map to stop you from leaving the level. There are better alternatives I could have (and should have) implemented, but didn't due to lack of motivation. Hope that clears things up, ping me on IRC if there's anything else you didn't like/understand about it, using same name!
I liked those affects with the colors ,very well made game .
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Jiggawatt19 Dec 2013, 22:20
It's so well designed, it didn't even feel like a 48h game. Heavy mood as usual with your games. Some clever stuff going on, while still being taught in an implicit way. Pretty impressive.
Really lovely little platformer. Really tight physics, the lighting effects are beautiful, it requires a fair bit of thought to complete. I really enjoyed the flower bit at the end. Am I right in thinking it showed exactly the number of flowers I picked?
Really nice ending too. I look the afterlife asthetic too. Good job man.
wow this was seriously beautiful :O the subtle change in music + walking speed while you're walking through the plants at the end just feels so relaxing, like the entire game is slowing down and exhaling :D
and all the extremely subtle visual effects really help this feel like more than just pixel art - the way the character rotates his head when you look up and down, the way the lights fade in and out when you enter and exit rooms, it all just feels really smooth and ghostly. the actual size of the game window was great choice too :D
and the puzzles at the end! wow! so many cool uses of the ball of light as a mechanic, it was all really fresh!
definitely one of my favourite games i've played so far :)
Really haunting and immersive game, the audio just draws you in! It works kind of subliminally - very creepy, what exactly were those things you were harvesting? Sadly too difficult for me to work out the puzzle as I kept coming back to that one "you are lost" place :/ The presentation was excellent
csanyk, see my earlier comment on this, you need to install VCRedist, I posted links to this in the comments earlier, hope you get it to work, please tell me if you do, further questions can be asked on @dittomat or thedittozaur on skype!
Super awesome game, love the graphics as well, one of my favorites :) I included it in part 20 of my Ludum Dare 28 compilation video series, if you'd like to take a look :) youtu.be/O9M3TIYW4UU
Well I FINALLY got around to playing it! As a matter of fact it's the first thing I did after getting back home from the holidays and I'm just in time to rate it too :)
This may sound stupid, but it reminded my of a Zelda dungeon haha. Not just having a new item and solving clever puzzles with it, but also the entire mood surrounding it. The puzzles were great, but not frustrating and the story was a really fantastic addition to it all, making it a beautiful, perfect little game :) And before I quit typing I have to mention that the music was brilliant!!
Finally came back around to give this a try again, and I'm glad I did! I *really* like the controls. The subtle camera shift from pressing up and down is a great touch. And I love the ball physics. The platform puzzles gave me a fun challenge. Congrats on placing 2nd!
This is a very, very fine accomplishment.
Yeah, it's a puzzle platformer and there isn't much innovation going on, but you gotta look beyond that and see that what's here is pretty much perfect. And in 48 hours? Are you kidding me? This is a fucking triumph.