So beautiful. Got the biggest shock I've had since I played Amnesia: The Dark Descent. I would have liked it even more, if I it felt like there was a point to it somehow, other than just looking at cool effects and listening to awesome/trippy ambiance.
I am blown away by this entry. It's amazing how you managed to blend beauty and a sense of darkness to create this experience. The interactions were creepy and interesting, and the last stage (I'm 95% sure) becomes an incredibly chaotic yet gorgeous conclusion. Very deep interpretation of the theme. Do you or are you planning on making full games like this? Because I'd totally play them. For what it's worth, this is the first LD game that I've ever compulsively taken screenshots of. Bravo.
This was astonishingly beautiful - even better than I expected after your pictures on Twitter! The soundscape is also pretty great, although a bit spare at times - but man, those shaders. The colors!
(I'm not sure I did everything I could ingame though.)
You have the right to be here ! Maybe you've found the trick, or maybe it was unintentionally, but in fact if you get here, you are close to the second ending !
While I was not able to find either of the endings in the time I played, I was content just following the sun as it floated around the island. The skybox and colour use are beautiful.
I don't know whether I missed something, but as far as I could see all there was to do was walk up and down the same hill repeatedly? Beautiful visuals & great sense of atmosphere though!
Walking through the two sidse of the same island is part of the experiment indeed, however there is a sequence of actions doable in order to reach the first end of the game. The second end is a bit trickier, but findable enough for a curious player :)
Yesterday, I played this game at night. I found the man sitting on the stool and completely freaked out when .. it .. happened. I told myself- I'll play it tomorrow, I'll try to make more sense of it. Oh god. My conclusion is that I'm fucking scary. Thank you for this game.
Very, very good! Really more of a poem than a game, but a great and unique experience! Didn't think I'd find something like that here... Really awesome!
So freaky. I enjoyed exploring around. Not really certain what I discovered. I often couldn't be sure something was intended vs a bug. I think the game glitched out on me at the end. I found a stool. I found a silhouette of a person. That person got all freaky in the vertxes when I interacted with them. I was eventually swallowed by the sun.
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jerombd4 May 2014, 20:13
Very great mood thanks to an original contrast between an ominous sound landscape & rich vibrant colors (and a creepy guy too)!
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DDRKirby(ISQ)4 May 2014, 22:13
This is so artsy...man. Also, slenderman vibes. Nice job going for it and really taking it out there.
Some parts really gave me the creeps, which is very good for the mood in this one. At the end, I don't know if it was my gpu glitching away but I got a bit of a seizure-inducing triangle storm :P I'm not sure I played it 100% either. Really nice work!
Wow, I wonder what's the meaning behind this short story o_o It reminds of Slave of God and Proteus (with a totally different atmosphere of course xD) for the contemplative exploration aspect.
Amazing experience! I totally missed what to do the first time around, might be better to be a bit more directed at the beginning. Awesome sound design by the way.
Well I beat the game, I'm glad the ending wasn't just "the ending" but instead you could get a more proper ending (hopefully that doesn't spoil it).
This game was all about mood, and it did that well, generally games like these aren't things I like, and this one too seemed a bit self-indulgent, but the fact you called it a "(not)game" seems to me to show that you know what you are making and just like making it and that's cool, and what you made was great for what it was trying to be.
Your style is different than what I'm into but I can tell you executed your style quite well and it was a good looking game with excellent mood.
Also interesting rendering.