Congrats with victory on GamesJam! Really good metaphor about "passing of time". The only pity is that not all western people can understand this aesthetics.
Yeah, I agree about aesthetics. At the last day we had to make a choise: to finish "Act 3: 2014" or to remake the game for Europe or North American aestetics. And we decided to finish 2014.
Though, we are thinking about making source code for this project available so anyone can make the story of his own. I'll make a post about this (on LD) if we decide to.
Great job, guys. I'm glad you decided to finish the third act rather than try to cater to Western sensibilities: there's a lot of charm to the Russian aesthetic!
@goodbadokay Yeah, she is cute =) We've added her literally in last minutes and I'm not sure that I've placed her where she intended to be. Though, maybe this is not a bad place for her ;-)
@Code Medicine The file for unity Web Player is 51 Mb, but sometimes it stucks when loading. Don't know why =( I'll try to make downloadable version to solve this problem =)
Привет, ребята! Я ваш сосед Макс, с первого дня хакатона. К сожалению, здоровье не позволило приехать в воскресение. Очень рад, что вы выиграли в номинации лучшая игра! Пытался найти ваши контакты, потому пишу сюда. Вв отличные ребята, был бы рад поддерживать с вами связь. Может даже смогу быть чем-то полезен.
As for aesthetics, I think they're perfectly fine the way they are: even though some of us may fail to fully grasp or appreciate them, the exposure always has the ability to pike our interest enough to start looking to learn more. To me that's more valuable than trying to cater to everyone.
Oh wow, what a beautiful concept. Took me a little while to get the idea, but once I did, I realised how fantastic this game was. Great aesthetic, great idea, and kinda fun, in its own way.
Really interesting idea, very nice art and sound direction! It's nice to see something so diffetent - both in game mechanics and in spirit to most of the games here. Great job!
I'm giving quite a few 5 stars for this one. Really liked it - although I could only see two family members? Are there more?
I'm an English speaker and the Russian(?) voices added to the mood for me and I think works better than if I could understand it, and detect the looping in the audio easily.
Great use of Theme. You should run with this further, go for other ideas, objectives etc: eg making kids leave the room to play outside by changing from cartoons to news, or switching to a medical story when a family member starts choking on food, all sorts of crazy stuff like that. And I'd probably go with objectives that are not spelled out - keep it unsaid, so that the player has to observe and work it out themselves. Just some random thoughts.
Not a particularly "fun" game, but very innovative and one of the best interpretations of the theme for sure. Very good work, and I don't think there's anything wrong with the artistic style whatsoever. It's nice to see something different once in a while. :)
Это гениально. Сделать объединение семьи перед телевизором игрой, причем интересным пазлом, — просто гениально. Атмосфера трех десятилетий прекрасно передана в звуке передач и обстановке. Отличная работа!
Really sweet little game! I like how you get to explore how it works by playing, making you feel better when you actually get it. Would have been interesting to see other elements in the game but maybe that would make it too complex. Beautifully made!
Excellent job on this, and a very creative approach to the theme. I really liked the overall concept of needing to balance out the channels with family interests so that you can bring them together. It's pretty well executed for the time limit also.
The transitions that characters showed went a long way to help determine what programs would work for the different members. I also liked the turn-based aspect, and how it became more of a puzzle than a real-time juggling act.
Great job on the visuals also. Though I tend to dislike extra screen clutter that isn't completely relevant to the game's mechanics, I appreciate how much work went into this visually in such little time. The sound was also handled very well, coming up with audio for each channel I can imagine was... difficult.
This whole project just has a really nice charm to it. Excellent job on nearly all aspects of this entry.
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Thanks! =)
Thanks!
Yeah, I agree about aesthetics. At the last day we had to make a choise: to finish "Act 3: 2014" or to remake the game for Europe or North American aestetics. And we decided to finish 2014.
Though, we are thinking about making source code for this project available so anyone can make the story of his own.
I'll make a post about this (on LD) if we decide to.
Thanks for warm comments!
@goodbadokay
Yeah, she is cute =) We've added her literally in last minutes and I'm not sure that I've placed her where she intended to be. Though, maybe this is not a bad place for her ;-)
@Code Medicine
The file for unity Web Player is 51 Mb, but sometimes it stucks when loading. Don't know why =(
I'll try to make downloadable version to solve this problem =)
К сожалению, здоровье не позволило приехать в воскресение. Очень рад, что вы выиграли в номинации лучшая игра! Пытался найти ваши контакты, потому пишу сюда. Вв отличные ребята, был бы рад поддерживать с вами связь. Может даже смогу быть чем-то полезен.
I'm glad you liked it! =)
@zhookevil
Привет, Макс! Мы живем тут: terranivium.ru Будет скучно - пиши =)
Выздоравливай!
Thanks!
@OldMonstr
=D
As for aesthetics, I think they're perfectly fine the way they are: even though some of us may fail to fully grasp or appreciate them, the exposure always has the ability to pike our interest enough to start looking to learn more. To me that's more valuable than trying to cater to everyone.
Nice job :D
Gracias!
It's nice to see something so diffetent - both in game mechanics and in spirit to most of the games here. Great job!
I'm an English speaker and the Russian(?) voices added to the mood for me and I think works better than if I could understand it, and detect the looping in the audio easily.
Great use of Theme. You should run with this further, go for other ideas, objectives etc: eg making kids leave the room to play outside by changing from cartoons to news, or switching to a medical story when a family member starts choking on food, all sorts of crazy stuff like that. And I'd probably go with objectives that are not spelled out - keep it unsaid, so that the player has to observe and work it out themselves. Just some random thoughts.
Great job.
Это гениально. Сделать объединение семьи перед телевизором игрой, причем интересным пазлом, — просто гениально. Атмосфера трех десятилетий прекрасно передана в звуке передач и обстановке. Отличная работа!
Good game in many ways !
The transitions that characters showed went a long way to help determine what programs would work for the different members. I also liked the turn-based aspect, and how it became more of a puzzle than a real-time juggling act.
Great job on the visuals also. Though I tend to dislike extra screen clutter that isn't completely relevant to the game's mechanics, I appreciate how much work went into this visually in such little time. The sound was also handled very well, coming up with audio for each channel I can imagine was... difficult.
This whole project just has a really nice charm to it. Excellent job on nearly all aspects of this entry.