"One" is a story about... In this game you... Collect the greens to become pure and avoid the vicious reds, or not...
This game is what you make of it. Use your choice of WASD or Arrow keys to move. Music is key, and headphones are appreciated but was mixed with both in mind.
Enjoy (hate) a different experience each time you play. Appreciate (neglect) subtle differences has you do better (worse) each time.
In this game you always win (lose), and while endless (bounded), you do get a score after a point.
Feedback is encouraged.
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Notes: Load time: It's the music... "It's not a bug, a feature!": Sometimes a red will spawn on you and end the level. As is life...
Love the audio and the mood, but was a bit bland for me. I appreciate the minimalist approach, and like i say i enjoyed the atmosphere, but game play was a bit slow for my liking.
Awesome job with presenting a mood from such minimalistic visuals and gameplay! Impressive audio as well, I would say though maybe make the game place red blocks a certain distance away from the player at start, some times they instantly overlapped and that was slightly frustrating, unless....that's what you wanted to ad to the mood, then keep and kudos to you!
The music is beautiful, I wish it loaded faster though. Neat idea, with the story that develops depending on what you do. I am curious to see where you could take that. (oh, one nitpick: "appears" is misspelled in the game)
Thanks for all the great feedback so far, and I will play all of your games tomorrow.
@zulubo almost random. I wanted it to seam random enough while still keeping a solid learning curve.
@GreenyUk yea, it was a bit slow for me too and I'm kicking myself for that because I think I under-scoped this one a bit.
@Lynx yea I noticed that during testing, but decided to keep it maybe as a random analogy to something...
@panda yea... .wav files take a while... I thought about compressing but A. I ran out of time, and B. I thought it might make it not sound good enough because of all the small details I tried to put into the audio.
@Drtizzle stuck how? Once the game loads it should all good to go. or is there a bug?
Amazing mood for such a simple game. The audio is fantastic and the text really helps. Not sure if there is an end, I gave up after I got to 5 enemies.
To address the ending, I tried to be subtle in the description, but guess I failed. The game is endless so it will go on for ever and ever, however... There will be a max of 5 enemy's on screen, After 60 or so levels it will tell you how many green coins you got and this is your "score", I also made it so you almost don't want to finish it. Becoming grueling, almost annoying, as you slog along. Again, part of the commentary of this game, i think... and so only a certain type of person will actual get to the "ending" of this game before "ending the game" (by turning it off and choosing not to play). Sorry if my existential commentary got in the way of gameplay :P
One of the best musics I heard so far. Gameplay is simple but fun nonetheless. It was a bit slow to start in my opinion. Lack of graphics was both a pro (for the atmosphere) and a con (lack of fun / visuals)
I kept waiting for it to speed up or get more difficult, but it never really did. The only times I died was when there was an unfair spawn. The audio was pretty cool. I didn't check but I assume the words that appear between levels are just random or semi-random and don't really mean anything, but just provide a simulated sense of story.
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(oh, one nitpick: "appears" is misspelled in the game)
@zulubo almost random. I wanted it to seam random enough while still keeping a solid learning curve.
@GreenyUk yea, it was a bit slow for me too and I'm kicking myself for that because I think I under-scoped this one a bit.
@Lynx yea I noticed that during testing, but decided to keep it maybe as a random analogy to something...
@panda yea... .wav files take a while... I thought about compressing but A. I ran out of time, and B. I thought it might make it not sound good enough because of all the small details I tried to put into the audio.
@Drtizzle stuck how? Once the game loads it should all good to go. or is there a bug?
There will be a max of 5 enemy's on screen,
After 60 or so levels it will tell you how many green coins you got and this is your "score",
I also made it so you almost don't want to finish it. Becoming grueling, almost annoying, as you slog along. Again, part of the commentary of this game, i think... and so only a certain type of person will actual get to the "ending" of this game before "ending the game" (by turning it off and choosing not to play).
Sorry if my existential commentary got in the way of gameplay :P