Connected Sphere

by mess110
Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.17
Fun★★★★★★★★★★2.70
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.29
Theme★★★★★★★★★★2.50
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★2.58
Audio★★★★★★★★★★3.79
Humor★★★★★★★★★★3.52
Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.33
Coolness★★★★★★★★★★100%
wasd to move
space to jump
r to restart

jump next to objects to interact

meet the little sphere. it strives to survive.

ps: please enable sound

screenshot

Comments58

McFood25 Aug 2014, 08:38
Does the Prize mean I win?
I loved the opening poem, that's a great idea.
The faces on the cube made me care about him =(
John Drury25 Aug 2014, 08:40
So lost, Made me lol though ahah
nonetheless25 Aug 2014, 08:59
Confusing, but narration in neat :)
Tanner25 Aug 2014, 09:28
Haha, nice narration :)
bogdan.tana25 Aug 2014, 10:51
Great voice acting and lines!
Vallar25 Aug 2014, 11:46
Hahaha, that is definitely one of the most hilarious games I have tried in this LD.

Definitely gives an air of Portal here with the narration -- it was excellent and the poems are really cool. I liked them very much.

The concept was really easy to grasp on and the clues were spot on. Except at the jumping point I believe you are meant to fail? Not sure but haven't figured out anything else.

Definitely would be cool to see this as a complete game outside of LD. :D

Well done!
Ekilibr
Ekilibr25 Aug 2014, 11:48
Nice adaptation of the theme :) But the "no-wall" thing made me crazy haha !
Good job
simileinchen25 Aug 2014, 11:56
What a great storytelling! Fresh rhymes greatly combinated with the game! Also like the lightbeam very much!
simileinchen25 Aug 2014, 12:02
What a great storytelling! Fresh rhymes greatly combinated with the game!
fcpfoof
fcpfoof25 Aug 2014, 12:15
This storytelling is A GLOROIUS idea <3!
mess110
mess110author25 Aug 2014, 12:26
I am glad you enjoyed it and you picked up on what I was aiming for. Would love to improve on the voice acting. Lesson learned: voice acting before 48 hours of coding :)
panurge25 Aug 2014, 12:33
A really cool experience. The voiceover worked beautifully with the simplicity of the visuals. This would definitely bear expanding into something longer.
JetL33t25 Aug 2014, 12:48
the cake is a lie :(
TD5
TD525 Aug 2014, 12:55
Wow. What a beautiful game! The narration is excellent :)
Doubstract
Doubstract25 Aug 2014, 13:15
Best voice acting so far.
clofresh
clofresh25 Aug 2014, 13:31
Pretty cool Alice in Wonderland vibe. Couldn't figure out the timer level
snooze82
snooze8225 Aug 2014, 13:32
uh, a new portal test chamber? :)
smbe19
smbe1925 Aug 2014, 13:36
Great voice acting and interesting gameplay!
I just wasn't able to get past the timer ;(
dhargan
dhargan25 Aug 2014, 13:39
weird game. I like the riddle-like narrative tho :D good job!
Makio
Makio25 Aug 2014, 13:46
Nice idea !

I get a warning (chrome/mac) :
gl.getProgramInfoLog() WARNING: Could not find vertex shader attribute 'position' to match BindAttributeLocation request.
hoyt hoy
hoyt hoy25 Aug 2014, 14:08
Nice narration, but the game is confusing... (maybe some bug?)
yodamaster25 Aug 2014, 14:46
Weird, psycho. Especially the van. (that's meant as a compliment)
Anshzinc25 Aug 2014, 14:47
One of the best games I've played this LD.
ViliX25 Aug 2014, 15:49
Unfortunately it doesn't work on Chromium :(
TaylorAnderson25 Aug 2014, 16:26
This was super weird :P I liked the poem, I've never seen another game do something like that. The rest of it was...not very original, but the concept itself kept me going.
43iscoding
43iscoding25 Aug 2014, 16:28
Bravo! That narration is incredible ;D
Andre Blyth25 Aug 2014, 16:34
Very clever, love the dissonance (that's not a sphere!). My only quip is how starkly different the narrator says 'restart' compared to the rest of the lines.
local minimum
local minimum25 Aug 2014, 17:44
I didn't get the timer part but this was surely a unique and interestingly narrated entry! The space for selecting door was a little unintuitive (why not just collision?). That aside, this is the most inspiring game I've played so far.
dadman25 Aug 2014, 17:48
Good fun, very stanley parrable-esque. I'm not sure if it was just short or there was a route I didn't find, but if you have to take the time to think up the rhyme I could guess what would bless your time!
... Did that make sense? Rhyming's hard, yo.
Posva
Posva25 Aug 2014, 17:59
Good voice. Very original game!
Tomker25 Aug 2014, 18:14
Haha nice work :D Love this narration.
SenorDiablo
SenorDiablo25 Aug 2014, 19:33
Really nice! for me I feel like this is very unique and the exact reason that ludum dare is awesome. Fantastic work:)
cstudios25 Aug 2014, 22:21
I like the voices :D
Geckoo1337
Geckoo133726 Aug 2014, 05:36
Poem poem ? he did a poem. I knew LD is a crossroad in order to find artists. Well done ++
monsterkillu
monsterkillu26 Aug 2014, 12:09
Good narration .. wish there were more levels :)
JaJ
JaJ26 Aug 2014, 12:47
Couldn't figure the timer out. I liked the poems, but after having to restart 5+ times, they got kind of old :p
Always good to see something different!
Nylonica
Nylonica26 Aug 2014, 15:54
Love the narrative!
Satyre
Satyre26 Aug 2014, 16:20
Neat idea. I like your narration.
psychonull26 Aug 2014, 16:44
Good stuff. Good voice acting and the game looks very good aesthetically.
The feeling it leaves reminded me a bit of stanley parable.
JoJoyX26 Aug 2014, 17:39
Very original game and nice concept ! Made me think about Portal.
hogtrick
hogtrick26 Aug 2014, 18:32
Gameplay is confuse. Narration was nice.
MechanicMoon
MechanicMoon26 Aug 2014, 18:43
I did not understand the game xD
MyougaHiroshi26 Aug 2014, 20:11
Could you upload the windows version please, the source's is too high, and the web doesn't load in, as i have limited 12 kb/s net
Please, it looks so nice and i wanna try it so much :)
Linus123xbb26 Aug 2014, 20:54
Quiet a cool game, funny and enjoyable, a bit confusing though.
mess110
mess110author26 Aug 2014, 21:15
@MyougaHiroshi unfortunately, there is no windows version. One option to try it, would be to download the source from github and open it with a modern browser
pjimmy
pjimmy26 Aug 2014, 22:43
very cool concept
LemmingSurvivor27 Aug 2014, 02:09
But... But... It said to exit stage right! I exited stage right and I lost!

Confusing theatre theory aside, that was a pretty neat idea, and good execution.
LaFleur
LaFleur27 Aug 2014, 19:08
Very cute!
goerp27 Aug 2014, 19:29
Quite original this. The third level had me stumped though. I can't complain about teh game being to hard though, my game is virtually unifinishable.
Very good narration, good rhymes.
I also like the way it looks.
The interaction is a bit unintuitive. And it would be nice that falling to tour death would end the level.
bluemaroo328 Aug 2014, 16:04
Really enjoyed this. Great narration. Reminded me very much of the Stanley Parable. Couldn't get past the jumping level (3), and couldn't figure out if that was me or if the game ends there?
Kayelgee28 Aug 2014, 23:06
I smell Portal inspiration :D
I liked the game. Are there more than 2 endings?
Yoni
Yoni29 Aug 2014, 14:28
I didn't understand how to solve the game :(
The narration is great, but could use subtitles.
klianc0930 Aug 2014, 18:18
Great story-telling, impressive job on doing all the rhymes.
The visuals did not really appeal to me, but besides that it's a shame it's so short.

Just one thing about the audio though, with Audacity you can cut away your mouse-click at the end and do some noise reduction. But that's really some minor nit-picking.

And it's not a sphere. (But I guess you just said that to annoy people like me, so it's okay.)
jukimv198631 Aug 2014, 07:47
Great audio!! The puzzles reminded me somehow of stanley parable, though there is no visual connection. Very amusing and curious. Great job!!
mrexcessive31 Aug 2014, 14:52
Hi there. Love the black box theatrical presentation. Got the prize. More of an art exhibit than a game. Good job on that!
vividhelix
vividhelix6 Sep 2014, 15:46
Good idea, is the black screen after the timer level where the light goes red the last?
erdnuss12 Sep 2014, 17:37
I don't think I 'got' the game, but it was interesting nevertheless! I also liked the poems.

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