Nothilings

by reo

co-authored: @frigow, @jupperevie, @kaiton

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.84

Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.81

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.19

Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.49

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★2.95

Audio★★★★★★★★★★4.11

Humor★★★★★★★★★★3.21

Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.92

NOTHILINGS is a Narrative Shoot Em Up that retraces the story of Dave, an independent developer who decided to create a game.

Discover the evolution of his game during his life.
Many enemies and fearsome bosses await you.

Follow Daves' emotions with epic soundtracks and nervous gameplay phases that sublimates the narrative.

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CONTROLS
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Z, Q, S, D or Up, Down, Left, Right => move

Space bar or left click => fire

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CREDITS
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Hugo PEYRE as Frigow - Programmer, Game Designer

Alexis CHRÉTIEN as Jupperevie - Programmer, Game Designer

Guillaume ANGELI as Kaiton - Narrative Designer, Game Designer

Léo FENOLL as Reo - Sound Designer, Composer, Voice Actor, Game Designer

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MUSIC
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If you want to hear the music of the game in their entire versions, you can find them here : https://soundcloud.com/leo-fenoll/sets/nothilings

Genres: shooter

Comments23

Monish Vyas8 Oct 2019, 09:19

Liked the name and a good story narrative. Nice game

Ryano8 Oct 2019, 09:38

The name drew me in and I enjoyed the story as I was playing. The enemies were good, however I felt it was a bit slow to progress through the story/game. There seemed to be long pauses of no action or dialogue. Great effort though.

Ender78 Oct 2019, 09:52

For some reason when i read the description i though this game might be a parody of some kind, but I ended up getting really emotional for my poor little white square that just wanted to be a good game.
Really well done with the back story, I wasnt able to finish it unfortunately because I'm bad at bullet storm games :P

bobemv8 Oct 2019, 10:01

Really love the idea of feeling abandoned and then the game developer coming back. I liked this narrative style. Really, really like the gameplay feel. I feel some design decisiones were pretty good (enemy variety is on point, bosses are good), shooting is not in a straight line... Pacing for me it's fine. What it is important, I got hooked and reached the last boss. All the time I wanted to continue the game. Bravo!

Furraran8 Oct 2019, 10:13

God, I do love your game. Great idea of combining the story telling with gameplay. It also feels pretty balanced. Voice acting is amazing as well, it arises feeling of empathy. Game process is genuinely interesting and the plot is catchy. Wish I make it till the end, but square enemies combined with orange circles seem to be a bit too hard for me now, so I'м surely going try to finish it later. :3

DaniilN8 Oct 2019, 11:02

This is a very good game, but why did you make control on ZQSD?

Jupperevie8 Oct 2019, 11:35

We put the controls on ZQSD because we are omelette du fromage and in the land of the baguette we have AZERTY keyboards ; our WASD is ZQSD, and tbh we quite forgot about QWERTY controls x)
But you can play with the arrow keys !

gasgiant8 Oct 2019, 13:33

Okay, ZQSD games keep haunting me. But I love this one!

mimusangel8 Oct 2019, 14:02

This game is fun! Congratulations for this game!

QuanMao8 Oct 2019, 14:36

Nice game!

Torami8 Oct 2019, 14:52

Its really fun but its also very slow.

MKRaw8 Oct 2019, 15:08

maybe give the player a machine gun instead of one shot

Danilo Freire8 Oct 2019, 15:33

If you can upload a web or mac build it would be great for more people to play to give feedback!

o2o8 Oct 2019, 16:11

This shoot game is so exciting.And music are comfortable.The story...uhhh....I focus on shooting:|

Cornel8 Oct 2019, 16:19

I was amazed for the first few minutes but it all took too long in my opinion and the story wasn't good enough to continue shooting enemies all the time.
Music is awesome (let's say I didn't hear those bad cuts a few times :smiley: ) and the idea too but I think it just isn't my type of game :wink:
Congratulations for doing this game!

Fax8 Oct 2019, 17:37

Your game was perfect dude.
I play and finish him after 30 minutes.
Amazing works and beautiful story.
Even if games, we can feel the human behind.

Smackmet8 Oct 2019, 21:13

This game was soooo nice. The narration and the difficulty of the game made me wanna try really hard. Its kinda like DarkSouls, where you get a satifying feeling when you finish the game that you thought was really hard. It was totally worth it trying to beat the game for 25 min !

MrOmnomnoshka9 Oct 2019, 04:54

I spent 30 minutes playing your game in order to hear the story. and I did not finish to the end of it, because it is too difficult for me. Could you make the difficulty level in the following games? Thanks so much for this game :)

WilloXs9 Oct 2019, 13:21

I also wanted to know the end - but i didn't deserve to exist...

JengaMang10 Oct 2019, 04:43

The narration was a really nice element, super challenging overall!

Call_me_Nutty12 Oct 2019, 11:49

Really good concept and executed well. The simple geometric art style actually complemented the game and so did the sound work. I got some Portal vibes from the whole omnipotent narration part of it and since I obviously wasn't going to go in expecting masterclass voice acting, it was a really nice touch to the game.

Since the game was so long however I would have appreciated a pause button, otherwise there's not much else for me to point out. Good job! :)

dcrdro14 Oct 2019, 11:23

Fun narrative game in minimalistic style!

Syrapt0r24 Oct 2019, 12:28

I got major Thomas was Alone vibes from the narration, artstyle and music. The story is simple, but nice. Gotta be honest though, the part where he gets mad at me was too hard for me. I tried for like 20 minutes and just couldn't do it ^^

Maybe I'll go back to try to finish it. Super nice idea and a very good take on the theme!

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