IT IS NORMAL THAT YOU GET STUCK ON ACT 3, SCENE 1. YOU MUST SOLVE THE ENIGMA TO GO PAST.
Pronounced 'Eskaton', a greek word meaning End Times.
A child, helped by a man, will try to accomplish a journey through his own mind. I composed (and played) the music especially for this game.
Text selection bug fixed. Tested in Firefox and Chrome.
HINT: Read that only if you're stuck. When confronting your mind, the action you must execute isn't made with the mouse, but with the browser.
SOLUTION: Read only if you really don't find the answer : you must quit the game and relaunch it. You will continue at act 3, scene 2. The meaning is metaphysical and "meta-ludic', if I can say so. If you are completely immersed in the mind's world, you lose. It can do anything it wants to you. You must show to your mind that you control this world, by sending it back to where it belongs: the non-visible world.
Very nice interactive fiction submission for this jam! I liked how you made your game mechanic relevant to your story and used it to help you with the narative of the game. The narative itself was a nice compact and interesting mix of sci-fi, dystopia and metaphysics. The music was fine and it set the mood perfectly and I didnt really notice anything wrong with the sound quality.
An unexpected game and genre, definitely up to the theme. I like the piano music, the control and the game generally, although I'm not sure I won or lost :)
whoa, looks inspiring! loved the idea and how you implemented it. one problem occurred to me though all the text kept highlighted while clicking on the screen which slightly distracted me from time to time. still, very decent job overall! :)
Love this. Aesthetics and the story hit the right notes for me to the point where I was happy to overlook any frustrations with the interface. Great work!
Amazing entry. The story, music, and theme lined up perfectly. I skipped through some text too holding the mouse too long, but other than that I loved the game idea. I got drawn into the story immediately. Nicely done!
Great game and so innovative! I personally don't think quit and re-launch the game is a good idea for "restart" or "going back to the checkpoint", it forces the player to realize that they are "playing a game" rather than really inside the game world you created.
I bet this game mechanism is of great potential. Looking forward to any future expansion of this game!
@Team Flashlight: Your thought is interesting. The meaning of the solution of the Enigma, from my point of view, is that if you are completely immersed in the mind's world, you lost. It can do anything it wants to you. You must show to your mind that you control this world, by sending it back to the non-visible world. Anyway, thank you for your comment, I find it very enriching.
Nice aesthetics. Nice music (sometimes it could do with better sound transitions but you didn't lost any stars from this from me). Nice story. I couldn't find something that I don't like about this game/story.
The clean design worked so well in letting the story speak for itself, really enjoyed seeing the story unfold and liked the way the player was able to choose what to say, which actually did seem to have an impact on what occurred. One of my favourites so far.
Nice game, but the image in the middle is all messed up on my machine. I'm using Safari. The words aren't in the circle and it never rotates Like in the screenshots.
@OddballDave What a shame! Native HTML5 applications have sometimes cross-browser compatibility issues. If you want to experience Eschaton without bugs, you can try Firefox or Chrome!
I can't say that I fully understand the story, so I don't want to praise/critique it. That said, I was very impressed with how well it was told given the time restrictions and the very minimalistic presentation. A lot of the text reminded me of the sort of writing you would hear in an old radio drama, alluding to things that just aren't visible but the audience accepts as being there anyways. It's a very neat trick and it works stupendously well for game jams like this.
Very artistic quality to your game. By only critic is a design one, don't have the white text cross over the white circle design, it seems a bit cluttered that way and kind of just through there without any thought
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Seriously, great job ;)
I bet this game mechanism is of great potential. Looking forward to any future expansion of this game!
Awesome game, i love its minimalistic aesthetics :D