Dawn Experiments

by ekilibr
Overall★★★★★★★★★★4.05
Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.74
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.55
Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.87
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.84
Audio★★★★★★★★★★3.89
Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.92
Coolness★★★★★★★★★★74%
It's a day like another. At dawn, the sun starts to rise up. 42, a tiny robot, awakes. It's time to get out now. Well, at least try to.

Dawn Experiments is a puzzle game in which the simple goal is to go out of the Room you're locked in.
Solving puzzles will always bring exit forward, but you may to use 42 as a piece of the puzzles, or even unsolve some of them to be able to solve some others.

Controls :
- Arrow keys to move
- Space Bar to interact with objects

Credits :
Mathieu Clavel - Game Design / Art
Louis Denizet - Game Design / Programming
Arthur Dos Santos - Sound Design / Music (artist name : Cinetiq)
Genres: puzzle

Comments29

stupidmindlessf
stupidmindlessf14 Dec 2016, 21:57
wow! What a great entry! Why doesn't it have more comments?
Fantastic atmosphere, groegeous art and affects, clever puzzles and really great sound design. I also loved the use of lighting and how it brings in the connection to the name of your game.
Great job!
Ekilibr
Ekilibrauthor14 Dec 2016, 22:55
Thanks a lot for the feedback! Glad that you liked it!
We haven't voted yet for entries, as we had to go back to work as soon as we published the game...That could explain the lack of comments for now :)
But for sure we'll do it (starting tomorrow at noon!).
MrErdalUral
MrErdalUral15 Dec 2016, 11:56
Sokoban with lazers! I love it!
reheated15 Dec 2016, 12:24
Innovation: Definitely original gameplay, even though there are similarities to other block-pushing style games.
Fun: Great! I was frequently kicking myself when I realised the right thing to do (after doing something dumb). It's not very hard - actually the difficulty is just nice.
Theme: I think it's an excellent take on the theme, the way the puzzle builds up over time.
Graphics: Excellent.
Audio: Very excellent!
Humor: N/A?
Mood: Great, especially thanks to the sound.
Overall: A very enjoyable experience both thanks to the gameplay and the presentation. Just the sort of game I like, so thanks!! I feel relaxed after playing it.
Avon15 Dec 2016, 12:32
Great entry. Love the cute sound effects the robot makes, the music is very atmospheric, and the art is beautiful.

The puzzle is fun to solve as well, though I think I broke it the first time, on the last puzzle the upper door on the right stopped working, and I found no solution but to restart.
Vadim Ivshin15 Dec 2016, 12:34
Interesting puzzle with neat graphics
Drkr15 Dec 2016, 12:45
Took me a while to understand the puzzles and figure out what I was trying to do but once I got it, it was fantastic having all the symbols light up. Only thing that annoyed me a little was it felt too slow dragging the blocks around. Really great game, congrats guys, and big props for the art and sound too.
#gmdsgn15 Dec 2016, 13:37
Nice logic puzzle !
Swingularity15 Dec 2016, 14:15
Very nice game with a simple mechanic that's well executed. Nice audio and mood :)
wowa_u15 Dec 2016, 14:29
A very nice puzzle game! Not to easy and not to hard, i had fun :)
Khaoz_Fang15 Dec 2016, 15:58
stuck on lv 5. The graphics and audio are really beautiful
phoenix198715 Dec 2016, 23:23
That was an incredible game. You and your team did an absolutely fantastic job. This is one of the best games I've played in a while and I hope you pursue this as full game. Once again well done 5/5
Ekilibr
Ekilibrauthor16 Dec 2016, 05:50
Hello there! First of all, thank you guys for all your feedbacks. We're glad to see that you enjoyed it (really)!

@Khaoz Fang, please do not hesitate to watch the YouTube video, in which you'll find the solution for each symbol.

@Avon, I'm curious about the breaker you found in the game. If you ever have any screenshot of the situation, we'd be very happy to look at it.

@Drkr, we wanted to give some weight to the blocks, in order to make the pace of puzzles a bit slower, more on the peaceful reflexion side. Maybe we pushed it a bit too far...! Thanks for the feedback :)
Almax2716 Dec 2016, 12:58
That was excellent! A not too difficult but very satisfying puzzle :)
liquidmedia16 Dec 2016, 23:56
Good game, just a bit slow on the movement for me. cool puzzles, I need more time to play all of it, thanks
iamkraya17 Dec 2016, 00:35
This is a great entry, the puzzles are well designed. Good job - Joey
Diplodino
Diplodino17 Dec 2016, 16:06
Really nice game guys ! Puzzles are clever, graphism, music and soudn design make a really neat atmosphere. 42 is really cute, I love the sound it does when you hit space bar and the little antenna to grab cubes. Well done, thank you for the game :)
Meta-link
Meta-link17 Dec 2016, 19:09
Great puzzle game ! The core mechanics is working very well, the art and the music are really neat !

Goob job guys :)
Quetzakol
Quetzakol17 Dec 2016, 20:18
I did not manage to finish the puzzle. But except that... amazing ! The atmosphere is perfect : the graphics, the sounds and the music are all great and create such a unique sensation ! Congratulations !
BoltKey18 Dec 2016, 00:14
Wow, great all the way. Best puzzle I played this LD. Very good difficulty scale.
Pierrec19 Dec 2016, 14:49
Really nice puzzle. There's nothing really new here, but the only fact to set the whole puzzle in a single room makes it great. Plus I didn't feel the need of any tutorial and understood everything by myself, which means the design is top-notch! I finished it and really enjoyed it
Ekilibr
Ekilibrauthor19 Dec 2016, 15:03
Hello guys! Thanks a lot for the great feedbacks!
Balancing the difficulty was one of our biggest challenges during this LD (previous LD game was far too difficult), so we're glad most of you felt we placed the cursor at the right spot :)

@Pierrec, special thanks for the comment about the design, meaning big from l'Oujevipo-guy ;)
SmokeNMirrors
SmokeNMirrors21 Dec 2016, 03:20
I was looking forward to trying this out, but the .exe doesn't do anything when I run it :( :( :(
Ekilibr
Ekilibrauthor21 Dec 2016, 10:36
@Smokenmirrors, could you try to download it again ? Then extract the eqqxe from the rar archive and launch it directly from your computer.
I just tried to redownload it and didn't had the issue (nor other players it seems)
Miziziziz23 Dec 2016, 22:27
Hey avast is blocking this file when I try to run it
Ekilibr
Ekilibrauthor23 Dec 2016, 23:14
You may want to ignore the warnings of your antivirus. It's an exe file that is not verified as it's a custom executable (like others submissions I guess?)
Maffew24 Dec 2016, 01:25
Clever puzzle game, nice sound and art, well done
aeveis
aeveis27 Dec 2016, 06:00
solid entry! I think perhaps some feedback with the dotted boxes (perhaps collision effects if you try and drag boxes through them) just to make it more clear only you can walk over them. Other than that though, I liked the puzzles and the ending.
mirta000
mirta00027 Dec 2016, 06:10
didn't get very far in, but it's a very cool entry. Took me a while to figure out that you press space to hook to objects and not necessarily push them.

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