"One New Message From Sam" puts you in the shoes of a young lover waiting for a train. While waiting for the train, a message arrives from a significant other: Sam.
Our protagonist is plagued by battery devouring bacteria. These bacteria prevent our hero from reading all the texts that Sam are sending. If the phone runs out of battery, then how will we know what Sam has to tell? Help the protagonist get through the wait, and tap away those pesky bacteria that show up on the screen!
CHANGELOG:
14th November 2014:
Attempted to fix lag issues by: - Removing some Debug statements. - Limiting amount of objects on screen without sacrificing difficulty
If you still experience lag like my other lovely playtesters/fellow jammers describe, then please give me the details!
The graphics are lovely and so are the sounds but I think it's lacking quite a bit in gameplay. Half the time I'm reading a text and half the time I'm waiting for a new one, maybe I'm missing something?
Cool idea, nice visuals, but gameplay is not that great tho. Plus the game starts to drop framerate like crazy after a minute or so. 3 minutes in, it went to like 4 fps for me.
I tried keeping the instructions as subtle as possible (which Matthew cleverly noticed). You have to mash the bacteria on your screen to prevent your battery from running out. This is also very likely the reason why you have issues with the framerate. As you break the bacteria, the framerate stabilizes. But I'll still have to look into how to prevent that altogether.
Ah, and it might freeze up shortly after you go to the "Messages" screen. Just wait it out, it unfreezes after a couple of seconds.
I love this game. The gameplay was simple and allowed the player to appreciate the narrative. Also, good job engaging with the theme in a different way.
The lag mentioned earlier was annoying and it would have been nice to see progress on an incoming text (e.g. 'typing' notification).
Also, the green button was a little distracting after the beginning. I'm not sure if it was useful for something, but I kept wanting to push it.
This game was pretty emotional, if anything. I liked how you could choose to either close your phone or answer. The graphics style looked pretty nice and the idea was original.
I'm so glad to hear the narrative kept you intrigued despite it being a "clickfest" (great phrasing btw). Oh, and Frozen Fractal, thanks for the heads up, the links are now fixed!
Not really a game, it's more of a story being told. It does have a good mood and the story is nicely presented. The major problem though is that a a certain point it becomes unplayable due to FPS issues
I was unsure about the LD rules, but it seems I was allowed to fix lag issues, so I tried to do that. If you still experience lag like my other lovely playtesters/fellow jammers, then please give me the details!
Thanks for all the nice comments! I am so happy that you enjoy the story, it was probably my biggest leap of faith in this game production.
The graphics and idea were good, but it seemed to just boil down to mashing your thumb against the phone while Samuel blathers on about things that sure aren't sex.
Also, when the "r to reply" text shows up, hitting both Q and R just restart the game.
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Short and sweet.
Only complaint was that sometimes the thumb moved unpredictably. But it would probably be too easy otherwise.
I look forward to seeing more!
As you break the bacteria, the framerate stabilizes. But I'll still have to look into how to prevent that altogether.
Ah, and it might freeze up shortly after you go to the "Messages" screen. Just wait it out, it unfreezes after a couple of seconds.
The lag mentioned earlier was annoying and it would have been nice to see progress on an incoming text (e.g. 'typing' notification).
Also, the green button was a little distracting after the beginning. I'm not sure if it was useful for something, but I kept wanting to push it.
Good job with this
BTW, the "Linux" and "Mac" links seem to be reversed. I used the Mac link to download linux.zip and it worked on my Linux system :)
Oh, and Frozen Fractal, thanks for the heads up, the links are now fixed!
If you still experience lag like my other lovely playtesters/fellow jammers, then please give me the details!
Thanks for all the nice comments! I am so happy that you enjoy the story, it was probably my biggest leap of faith in this game production.
Also, when the "r to reply" text shows up, hitting both Q and R just restart the game.