Ludum Dare #37compo

The Tortile Chamber

by nanolotl

Overall★★★★★★★★★★4.00

Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.96

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.71

Theme★★★★★★★★★★4.04

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.79

Audio★★★★★★★★★★2.60

Humor★★★★★★★★★★2.32

Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.71

Coolness★★★★★★★★★★54%

A game about exploring a strange room.

Controls (also explained in-game)

-WASD: Move

-Mouse: Look

-Left/Right Click: Interact

-Space: Jump

-F4: Fullscreen

-Q: Quit

-Esc: Free the mouse

Please let me know if you have any problems with crashes (especially vertex buffer related ones)

Update 1:

If you are getting an error message to do with a shader a failing to compile you might need to install DirectX Runtime (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=35)

Alternatively I have included an alternative download that does not use the shader.

Update 2:

I've provided a Black and White version of the game in case the regular cyan version is too bright. This version can also toggle the dither shader by pressing P

Update 3:

Added some optimizations to hopefully reduce any freezing issues (currently only the primary version)

Genres: puzzle

Tools: GameMaker

Comments19

pouls11 Dec 2016, 18:33

I like it!

Hvedrung11 Dec 2016, 19:57

Nice entry, very fun and thoughtful, just hard enough to make you feel clever without being stuck. Not sure the blue shader thing was necessary but it still looks good. Great job!

Zoglu11 Dec 2016, 21:08

I ran into this error :

"FATAL ERROR in Vertex Shader compilation

ShaderName: shader_dither"

batmagus12 Dec 2016, 03:56

Fun game, great take on the theme! The number blocks are interesting, some kinda mix of Sokoban and Minecraft.

eerongal12 Dec 2016, 04:37

Interesting game. It keeps freezing on me randomly, though. A little too heavy on the blue, though.

Serious Table12 Dec 2016, 04:50

I'm not going to lie, the shader is a neat effect but it really strained my eyes after a while, and quitting out of the game made them hurt more.

That said, I was impressed! The puzzles were really interesting and I like how everything built on one another. Everything to do with circling and the visual tricks was really cool, honestly.

I did end up getting stuck because I used a key before I think it was meant to be used.

Falkreon12 Dec 2016, 05:00

Pros:

* 4D Space

* Amazingly stylish aggressive dithering

* Very clear objectives with no explanation, partly due to all our prior exposure to Antechamber

Cons:

* After playing, everything not blue looked orange

* Short

* Some guessing involved

* Mouselook feels just a tiny bit slow

* Sometimes the hit detection on clicks felt a bit off, maybe a little mroe forgiveness on aim would help.

KadaDev12 Dec 2016, 05:04

The game will freeze every few seconds with or without shader

Great style though!

Broken Matrix12 Dec 2016, 05:09

Fun game definitely had some inspiration from antichamber

moomoomang12 Dec 2016, 07:33

i see no ships