Jen graphics were cute, and the zen sequences were mesmerizing. A little bit more guidance at the beginning would have been nice, but I got it figured out.
I loved the little touches of "I'm not really hungry" and the end. The gameplay is a bit simplistic but the narrative-through-gameplay makes up for it.
@Troma: what? It's just a love file with the dlls to run it in windows! It's definitely a false alarm, but if you'd feel more comfortable, grab love from love2d.org and run the .love file instead. That's just a zip file. Sorry if it scared ya!
I loved how this game pulled you in and got your focus, and broke focus in exactly the way it wanted.
I loved the first time when it gets too much and you start to get distracted from playing pressing the button in the entire way that the distractions are piling up in the first place.
I didn't however feel the theme (either growth or two button controls) if it's personal growth then I didn't see that in the gameplay, and if it's two button controls that works until you need to stretch or get food or whatever in the standing segments and so you'd need to press more than two buttons for that.
Fun little game but really good atmosphere and feel.
Not much of a game, but certainly some piece of art! I totally dig you take on meditation. reading the distractions actually distracts. and focussing on catching pixels is calming. i could have need this DURING the jam a few times :)
This game was pretty zen. Nice audio and atmosphere. I liked the little Jen segments, I think the game would have been less memorable without them. And the theme is in there, it's just not obvious which is fine.
Didn't manage to get to the ending but I did meditate several times and I felt myself get better! The atmospheric soundscape and graphics were a real strong point, they made a compelling mood.
Regarding the controls I had some trouble understanding when I could quickly re-press to expand the square again, and when I would have a cooldown. So I wasn't sure how to plan when I saw multiple waves coming. At first I thought I always had the cooldown and some of the patterns were just impossible... but by the end I knew I could often press z rapidly if I was on target.
Still I never got through a meditation without missing at least a couple of those really fast sets.
It was a nice relaxing atmosphere though, and I liked that the patterns were pretty well mixed up.
Zen all the way, like it. The Jen part feels a bit off, and I tried hard to hit all them white boxes, but wasn't successful :( Will try again later, though!
That was the first meditation simualtor I ever played. And as a meditation simulator, this game awesome. It feel like I'm really trying not to think about anythink, but I can't keep away every thought. But with practice I can do better.
I loved how the game play and audio set the mood for a very zen experience. I'd like to think this is how meditation is like, trying to catch those distracting thoughts. Also figuring out how to capture as many white dots as possible was pretty fun.
The music is very good, calm and soothing. The gameplay part is part confusing part relaxing... It's hard to tell at all when I'm allowed to press the button, and in the beginning the assumption was to press on all dots. Then, how do I know what the "hit area" is that would pick up the dots? Without those information the player kinda just hit randomly to hope to catch as much as possible.
You could argue that meditation is not a precise activity, but this is a game :)
Last exam of the year coming up tomorrow, seems like I picked a good entry to relax/procrastinate with! Liked the atmosphere, although the switch from zen to Jen was perhaps too sudden. I don't know if that was just because I was meditating badly.
I feel I went to some sort of a meditative state while playing the meditation sequences! Well done with those. Also the abrupt ending to them is great how it wakes the player up too from that "zen-like" state. It does well in what it aims to do, good job!
I really like the mood you created with the game. The meditation sequences are well done and meaningful, using the mechanics in an interesting way. Very soothing and relaxing game.
That was so nice. The ambiance was absolutely superb, the feeling I got playing this was just so cool. I really loved it. Something about the way you'd hit the dots, and the sounds, just so cool. I liked how the words would appear, but you shouldn't focus on them, a cool 'proxy' for meditation, but it kind of became meditative in itself.
When taken out of that scene and stretching, it was an interesting contrast. I loved that there was no direction at the beginning, and very little context. It lets us bring ourselves into it.
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Describe controls somewhere (at least tell about arrow keys). Trying to press Z only is a bit confusing.
Solid job!
The gameplay is a bit simplistic but the narrative-through-gameplay makes up for it.
I loved the first time when it gets too much and you start to get distracted from playing pressing the button in the entire way that the distractions are piling up in the first place.
I didn't however feel the theme (either growth or two button controls) if it's personal growth then I didn't see that in the gameplay, and if it's two button controls that works until you need to stretch or get food or whatever in the standing segments and so you'd need to press more than two buttons for that.
Fun little game but really good atmosphere and feel.
Regarding the controls I had some trouble understanding when I could quickly re-press to expand the square again, and when I would have a cooldown. So I wasn't sure how to plan when I saw multiple waves coming. At first I thought I always had the cooldown and some of the patterns were just impossible... but by the end I knew I could often press z rapidly if I was on target.
Still I never got through a meditation without missing at least a couple of those really fast sets.
It was a nice relaxing atmosphere though, and I liked that the patterns were pretty well mixed up.
The music is very good, calm and soothing. The gameplay part is part confusing part relaxing... It's hard to tell at all when I'm allowed to press the button, and in the beginning the assumption was to press on all dots. Then, how do I know what the "hit area" is that would pick up the dots? Without those information the player kinda just hit randomly to hope to catch as much as possible.
You could argue that meditation is not a precise activity, but this is a game :)
When taken out of that scene and stretching, it was an interesting contrast. I loved that there was no direction at the beginning, and very little context. It lets us bring ourselves into it.
Awesome job. ^^
I'm not sure what is the point of all this medidation, but whatever, I feel relaxed myself.
Good work! :)
I liked your art style!