I was confused at first at what impact my actions were making but then I went back and read the description and realized that was the point! I enjoyed it then after realizing that. I would say make it clear to see which train is which (the colors of each of the trains) while you are in the drone view/birds eye view, and have more options beside "fix this", and "ignore this," it will make the game a lot more fun considering they have no effect on the gameplay, besides those minor things I really enjoyed your game once I realized what it was about, really good job for your first entry! Good job!
@collin-thompson Thank you! I was trying to balance between "too much of the gameplay" and "no gameplay at all". I think I need to take some rest and play it again with a fresh eye.
Really solid entry. The concept is neat, and you use the visuals and music to establish a lonely feeling very well.
This should definitely have been a Jam entry given that you used outside textures and sound effects, but I've tried to give a fair rating on all categories other than Graphics and Audio. The work you did do in these areas was very good, especially the design of the city.
What a powerful experience. The world design is amazing and seeing the monotonous ruins around you really invokes a feeling of loneliness. The music takes this further.
I think that's a game that your already made and that you just add the problems. But else it's beautifull.And it's dont correspond totally at the theme.
Thanks for the experience. I have to say that it really got me in to the mood (just before starting work today) that "what is the point of anything"? - I like the fact that you can do nothing - it would have been cool if you were making the illusion bigger - more choices, more tweeking, and yet, same result.
This was something different. Hm its a hard one to give feedback. The mood is brilliant. Sound and graphics working nice together here.
'Meaninglessness' was a nice topic. After playing and thinking about it (while watching the screen) I felt a bit like a kid again. Playing with my toys and imagine stupid stuff to enjoy my time.
@joaquim-2009 Do you mean that I made it beforehand? No, it was made during Compo. The city is generated procedurally in Houdini, train cars are modeled by hand, music is written in an hour or so. The only things I didn't make are listed in the description - those are textures and some SFXs, and I've already got my portion of hatred for it.
@bereg It's not all hate, it's just against the rules to post this in the compo. As a game though it was quite nice, I'm not a huge fan of games where your decisions don't do anything. The mood was really good and it did make me feel.
Great mood. Fun to look around the city. The best part was seeing the collapsed trains as you rode by on a different one. If you expand on the idea I would say focus on that feeling of slow collapse. Maybe make the buildings crumble too. I'm also always a fan of skyscrapers, so I'd also make some much bigger buildings that tower over the rails.
As stated above, your entry didn't follow the rules, which is a bit of a shame because it was pretty nice. I tried to rate it fairly anyways, but maybe see if you can switch it to the jam. Nice work all the same.
Great atmosphere combined with the music really helped with immersion. Not really sure what to do at first. Nevertheless, I really love the camera work and transition between the trains, it's quite cinematic. Nicely done!
Cool atmosphere with great models and music! Nice camera movement. I felt quite lonely while playing it. And I do agree that you should opt out of graphics and audio, since they were not made by you.
I really liked the atmosphere and the contemplation of this, at least I got a message of the tragedies of life and the natural path of the Earth and the little to nothing that we can do.
My LD game is very similar in the context of being just an atmospheric narrative of you not being able to change anything in the way of the universe - that's it, it's either tragedy or flow. That's why I really liked your entry.
I don't think people is being fair with you in regards of the audio. You said in the description that you made the music, and I would vote 5 stars for it, because it is very atmospheric and relaxing.
Nevertheless, this is a very beautiful game. I love how the camera moves from one train to another.