Peter Padder Pauleypop

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.80
Fun★★★★★★★★★★2.65
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.23
Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.25
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★4.81
Audio★★★★★★★★★★4.10
Humor★★★★★★★★★★2.83
Mood★★★★★★★★★★4.60
Coolness★★★★★★★★★★70%
Peter Padder Pauleypop is a love poem to SNES Final Fantasy games and the fishing sequence in the Illusion of Gaia.

Consider the experience the sashimi version of a video game.

Controls: Arrow keys, exc to exit

Tools:
Engine: Unity 2D
Code: C# Language
Visuals: Photoshop
SFX: Audacity and a microphone
Music: http://www.abundant-music.com/, SynthFont2, and Audacity
Font: FFF-Tusj - http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/FFF-Tusj

Comments38

ENDESGA
ENDESGA8 Dec 2014, 04:21
Interesting game :D love it
ChronusZ
ChronusZ8 Dec 2014, 05:18
Holy crap this game is beautiful! 5 stars is not enough!
SarahFrisk8 Dec 2014, 05:24
Seriously, I love that art. Great job!
jrap8 Dec 2014, 05:53
This is so pretty its making me angry. I wish there were six, seven or maybe eight stars to give you. I also think its a really neat compartmentalized emotional experience, like this triggers a response from me.
Tasteslikefuture8 Dec 2014, 05:55
Very beautiful game! Amazing atmosphere. Great work!
deathray
deathray8 Dec 2014, 05:56
Mood +100000 The beautiful art and music combine with the simple gameplay and surreal world to create a really unique experience. Well done!
tielbyrd
tielbyrd9 Dec 2014, 00:19
What a fun little game! The graphics are absolutely beautiful--I love that hand-drawn look. It's very artsy, poetic, and sets the mood perfectly. Fantastic entry, well done.
ponk
ponk9 Dec 2014, 00:21
Beautiful .. ! BEAUTIFUUUUUULLLL...!!!
Rene Damm
Rene Damm9 Dec 2014, 00:33
Amazing. Beautiful graphics and animations, great audio. Overall just great presentation. Nice simple mechanics. Pretty cool when you first hit "Feed" and you realize that thing is alive. Great stuff.
barryrowe
barryrowe9 Dec 2014, 05:02
This game looks sooo good. It's also a challenge to make doing the same thing multiple times interesting, but I never thought about quitting. I had to see what was next. Awesome entry.
Hellequin9 Dec 2014, 07:38
Beautiful game... eveything is great! well done!
rabbit
rabbit9 Dec 2014, 07:44
What wonderful art, atmosphere, and a unique experience you have created here. Very enjoyable.
Nuclear Napalm9 Dec 2014, 10:13
Art and mood just fantastic! Gameplay is simple, but anyway this is really good entry.
MaddeStudios
MaddeStudios9 Dec 2014, 14:01
Wowzers. The art and that music, amazing.
Mike Mezhenin9 Dec 2014, 19:49
A beautiful experience.
Wertle9 Dec 2014, 22:34
Great job on the mood. The art all fit together beautifully, and I liked the way the poetry(?) was integrated. Overall, a nice little experience.
Anshul Goyal
Anshul Goyal12 Dec 2014, 16:50
very melancholy! Art and music is awesome! Great work!
ilokimo14 Dec 2014, 00:30
Wonderful yet could have gone further, I wish this had went in as a Jam as it is ambitious yet simple.
Grindstorm14 Dec 2014, 01:35
Lovely aesthetic setup!
spotco
spotco14 Dec 2014, 02:10
Quite pretty, couldn't read all the text.
ciaodavinci
ciaodavinci14 Dec 2014, 02:28
A very complete experience. The way you used artwork and text is really nice, I liked the life of contemplation this eyeball lives in.
Robber
Robber14 Dec 2014, 02:57
looks really gorgeous, but needs more game
janovbyrnisson14 Dec 2014, 07:03
Beautiful artistic game. I love the graphics and the music. Congratulations! :)
brainstorm
brainstorm14 Dec 2014, 09:39
Innovation 3/5: I've seen some games like this, but it isn't a common genre.

Fun n/a: It doesn't have exactly gameplay.

Theme 5/5: Great use of the theme!!!

Graphics 5/5: The best graphics that I've seen on the Ludum Dare!!!

Audio 5/5: It made me sad (in the good way)

Humor n/a: It doesn't have humor.

Mood 5/5: The combination of graphics, music and history is perfect.

Overall 5/5: It's not exactly a game, but it's great.
Night
Night14 Dec 2014, 12:22
Great and really very atmospheric! I like this short story.
AlbertoSM
AlbertoSM14 Dec 2014, 17:16
Not really suitable to the theme of the LD, but the artwork is really good nonetheless.
terrytheplatypus
terrytheplatypus14 Dec 2014, 17:59
Wonderful. Thanks for making a post, otherwise I might never have found out about it
MrShoestore14 Dec 2014, 21:34
beautiful and inspiring... and short. :P wish there was more!
khahem
khahem15 Dec 2014, 04:59
Beautiful and amazing mood. I'd love to see more.
cmdr
cmdr15 Dec 2014, 05:04
Awesome! The art style was amazing and I didn't mind that the gameplay was simple because the story was interesting. And what a design for the building! I enjoyed this thoroughly.
Rick Hoppmann
Rick Hoppmann15 Dec 2014, 21:31
I feel like I can't show the game the appreciation it deserves ._.
tudd
tudd16 Dec 2014, 01:07
Interesting, *really* good sound and visual design. It wasn't very fun, and it felt like a chore catching the "fish", but I can see that that's totally the point!

Funny concept and interesting story. You're a great artist! Can I buy the music anywhere?

My ratings -> http://puu.sh/dwpEY.png ;)
tudd
tudd16 Dec 2014, 01:09
Oh, and double thanks for not hiding the Unity graphics config which everyone else is doing for no real reason. Unity does a horrible job at detecting my screen resolution, and thanks to you leaving it up I was able to play with crisp graphics, and without the game horribly stretching itself to fit my weird monitor.
pjchardt
pjchardtauthor16 Dec 2014, 04:53
Thanks for all of the comments! This has definitely been the best response to an LD game I have made :)
@tudd - you can have the music. message me @pjchardt on twitter
DonovanWu
DonovanWu18 Dec 2014, 01:33
Beautiful game! But I think I shouldn't judge it by the standard of games. It is more like a piece of art than game.
But let's speak in terms of game standards first anyway. The graphics is extremely good. Audio is awesome, too. In terms of art... The art is kind of abstract for me... And I'm not an art student so I'm not sure what I should say about it... But I'd like to think of it as a piece of poetic modern art. Nice work!

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