Nice graphics, remember me Limbo. Nice gameplay in the begining, but when you die too many times it get very slow. (maybe too many polygones?) I liked the textbox too.
Love the story idea of everything off camera dies and seeing behind the scenes of the set in the cardboard world. I am a very biased player when it comes to crafty style games. They get me every time. I love the style and physics of the character. I like the simple ambiance of the audio but maybe a little bit more background music or sound effects would be nice. Fix the glitches and you have a great game!
This was rather novel. I enjoyed how the camera changed from atmospheric to cardboard-y. I also like how the player kinda just fell apart when they went off screen. Nice work.
@SpartanIceCream, we took the "screen" to be the actual camera view. If you fall off the "screen" then you die. Hence the taking place all on one screen. A bit of a stretch I know, but we wanted to do something different :P
@Everyone else: thank you so much! The physics are a bit wonky we know, we wanted to make it less sticky but couldn't get it in the time frame. If it makes you feel better, though, you can pretend it's a shoddily-implemented wall-grab mechanic.
Can't say it personally hit home on the theme. But, given the controversy on the theme, I'm guessing everyone's pretty split on the idea of the theme, and you should just interpret it any way you like, so that's not the biggest issue!
I liked that it changed from the "Limbo-esque" style to something colorized, and with quite some neat art-design. One flaw is the extremely unforgiving checkpoint, haha!
URGH! THAT CHECKPOINT!!! complaining aside, this was a neat little game. Definitely unforgiving though, but that's a matter of opinion I guess. Graphics pretty cool, controls nice and that death animation was pretty silly(in a good way). I could see this being a fun time killer at work.
I really like the art style both the LIMBO and the cardboard box. You may want to choose either “try not to die” or “die to get past an obstacle” and stick with it in your game design.
Really cool graphics. Simple but fun enough mechanic. Hey, at least you tried to do something interesting with the theme. Must people just limited themselves to do games in one screen without using the theme to make their games more interesting.
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brendonsteeleiu9 Dec 2014, 06:37
When I use the wall mechanic there is no pretending. I use it to control my descent in the final sections of the game.
@Everyone: Thanks for all of the awesome feedback guys!
The take on the theme was really creative and I loved the cardboard style to go along with it. I got a little stuck on some of the walls but I had fun playing nonetheless!
Great jam entry. The idea is very interesting. I had problem with the physics. The music is kind of repetitive, and could be more stressful during the stay on one screen phase. Here is my playthrough: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TIzW4zjd3M&feature=youtu.be
Very interesting gameplay, it's cool when you see your own corpses, but uncool when you begin to stuck in them, and level becomes too difflicult because of your previous mistakes. And in my opinion that's not a gameplay element. You should have thought about it.
Nice stylish game. Love the concept. Checkpoint is kind of far away for such a relentless camera. The exploding ragdoll is epic. Not sure how it's related to the theme though.
For those who are confused about how it relates to the theme "Entire Game on One Screen," It's because your character has to stay on the screen in order to live.
The graphical effect of the light is awesome, it was stunning when I discovered it was not a game with black and grey colors, great mechanic, I love it!
Great execution of a cool idea. It could use more forgiving checkpoints, and it would be nice to be able to perform a full jump while wall-clinging. Nice work!
I'm looking forward to this game, but the Mac download seems to be corrupted -- none of my unzipping programs like it. Is it meant to be 14,394,916 bytes or perhaps more?
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I liked the textbox too.
@Everyone else: thank you so much! The physics are a bit wonky we know, we wanted to make it less sticky but couldn't get it in the time frame. If it makes you feel better, though, you can pretend it's a shoddily-implemented wall-grab mechanic.
I liked that it changed from the "Limbo-esque" style to something colorized, and with quite some neat art-design. One flaw is the extremely unforgiving checkpoint, haha!
@Everyone: Thanks for all of the awesome feedback guys!
if you have some time also check my project mate x)
And in my opinion that's not a gameplay element. You should have thought about it.
The idea is nice too. Maybe you could've played a little more with the camera movements, to surprise the player.
Awesome ! Would love to play more.
I had to stop though, because the FPS went really low.
Various time I got stuck in a dead-body-pile in a difficult spot :O
Seeing from the serious atmosphere into cardboard, feel like seeing a behind the scene of the few color atmosphere ;).
@everone: Loving the feedback guys, and the honesty.
Visuals are also awesome!
Limbo-style meets Non-Limbo-style