Mind Over Matter

by mza

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.62

Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.17

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.66

Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.89

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★4.13

Humor★★★★★★★★★★2.58

Mood★★★★★★★★★★4.11

In Mind Over Matter, you will venture through an eerie forest avoiding all sorts of dangers.

From time to time you may need to sacrifice a piece of your mind for new abilities or to stay alive...

So that you can get to the end.

PS: The game gets harder and harder the more you progress. It is normal to die multiple times and this is how I intentionally designed it.

If you do get to the end --> Let me know in the comments.

Controls:

A/D = move left right

Space = Jump

Q/Enter = Special buttons that you'll learn to use in-game but not at the start.

--

About Me:

I work in Opticians full-time. Other times I'm either playing or (trying) to make games.

My Itch

#### Engine: Unity
#### Art: Photoshop
#### Animations: Spriter2D
#### Sounds: A bit of Ableton Live 9 and a bit of FreeSounds.Org

#### And a few cups of :coffee:

Tags: #dark, #difficult, #procedural generation, #runner

Genres: platformer

Comments21

Cincerteri30 Apr 2019, 02:25

I really liked this game. It had an interesting twist on the the theme, and the graphics were beautiful. It had a great atmosphere as well.

MZAauthor30 Apr 2019, 07:03

@cincerteri thank you. 😁

NotSoEpicGames30 Apr 2019, 16:17

Absolutely beautiful! The mood was incredible and the way you based the entire game around the theme was genius. The one thing that would improve it is less camera wobble when jumping. I know this is meant to enhance the mood but I found it hindered me a lot when judging jumps. Overall an incredible game and, with a bit of polishing, could very happily end up on Steam!

MZAauthor30 Apr 2019, 16:25

@notsoepicgames Thanks for the kind word + feedback. I have been honing my art skills over the last year or so - So im glad.

Akand30 Apr 2019, 16:32

I liked this game so much! I think there was an issue with the trees behind (it moves wasn't fluent) but after few minutes in game I've got used to it ;) Graphic was fantastic, mood was brilliant.
P.S. Ye I died many times but it were some kind funny xd

Belea30 Apr 2019, 18:55

Thank you for playing my game! if you want to have both endings... just turn your back on your fate ;)

About your game, I liked it. Great atmosthere and beautiful graphics. Well done :)

humnyn30 Apr 2019, 20:04

almost got to the end but couldn't figure out how to get past a large jump, sad times but lovely game still!

it is very atmospheric and well made! simple, enjoyable and appropriately difficult imo

No Grapes Games30 Apr 2019, 20:29

Overall this was a good game. Got to the end but ended up walking across the bottom when I got to the ring platform parts because it was too much of a hassle to try to scale those. The atmosphere was greatly implemented. Not sure what disorder did what but it was a pretty neat punishment. Good job!

Daniel Michaeloudis1 May 2019, 11:58

This was really great. the graphics where amazing and everything was so good. I had a lot of fun playing this game

CodingNinjaJoas1 May 2019, 12:41

Graphics are really good, and it is a very nice concept. By far one of the best games i've seen

Lamossus1 May 2019, 12:43

I really like graphics and the idea of the game, but to be honest gameplay just didn't feel fun at all. The main issues were awkward controls and camera. But I still enjoyed the game a lot, great job!

Poffle1 May 2019, 12:47

Nice style and interesting idea with the death, the one where you have to press Q all the time was a bit annoying though haha, but surely that's the point! Unique and atmospheric. Great job!

JofersGames1 May 2019, 12:55

Mood and art through the roof :D

sbeif1 May 2019, 13:22

Nice idea but I got to the point where I was almost constantly stopped by the Q thing and it got a bit annoying. Also it was a bit weird that the camera jumped faster than the character. I liked your take on the theme, the graphics and the mood was certainly spot on. Nice job overall!

MelanieE1 May 2019, 13:41

The mood is well set up and the art is beautiful!
There are some issues with the way things move, like when the camera moves up when the character jumps... It's hard to see where to land ^^'

Again, really good job for the mood and the art!

randomphantom1 May 2019, 14:12

This game was really hard to play for me - which I guess is the point? I think it does capture that feeling as I'm down with a bit of dizziness at the moment but the game really does exacerbates my dizziness.

There are a lot of blind jumps in this game I feel.

The camera needs to update in a LateUpdate I think, as it felt really jittery, and felt too wobbly at times - maybe having the camera vertical axis fixed in some way would help.

Great atmosphere and mood though, and I could identify with some of that anxiety feeling (as I recently had :P).

nebulousHarmony1 May 2019, 20:21

This game is actually incredible. I'm not able to get to the end, but I feel like you've definitely captured what you were trying to. Thank you for making this. It's cute, it's dark, it's an incredible start. With a bit of polishing, this could easily be a game on Steam.

MZAauthor1 May 2019, 22:13

@sbeif @poffle thank you and I'll try to make the Q pressing less annoying 😋

@randomphantom I agree, theres only a few games that tackle this all to common subject matter.

@nebulousharmony @melaniee thanks for the kind words.

Hans12033 May 2019, 07:21

What a nice game! I love how the game changes every time you die. A little problem though, I seemed unable to get through this hole , I don't know if it's a bug or just me being a terrible player.Anyway ,love your game.

MZAauthor3 May 2019, 07:31

@hans1203 thanks you. I realised that those sections are very difficult. I'm gonna make the hole bigger in a future update.