The Wind Rises

by jryzkns
Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.50
Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.00
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.00
Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.00
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★4.00
Audio★★★★★★★★★★3.50
Humor★★★★★★★★★★3.00
Mood★★★★★★★★★★4.00
:cherry_blossom: A bit more of a short and sentimental piece. Click and drag your mouse to control where the falling petals go (wee harder than it sounds, and that's where the "unstable" part comes in), and maybe, they will reveal something that's out of sight.

It's likely that when you click and drag a lot you end up clicking out of the game window and lose focus. This is why I set up a tiny convenience key left ctrl for you to lock your mouse inputs to the game window, and you can press left ctrl again to toggle off this behavior.

I suck at drawing xd

I am aware that this game does not perform well (60+ fps) on older/weaker machines (ex. my decade old laptop) and I am planning on devising an optimization to fix this if and after I get some suggestions about other things I can improve on so I can apply it all in a post-submissions build. Currently no plans on making a web port because I don't know if I have time to migrate the game to a new engine.

Thanks for dropping by! If you rate my game feel free to leave a comment and I will come check out yours too :smile:

A post-hoc note on how to play if you are stuck: In order for the bar to fill up, try to have as many petals stay in the location of the memory, try to not just have petals pass through, but also try to keep it there (hint: maybe have the wind blow in the opposite direction on the other end so the petals enter and bend back)

Comments9

SuperGamersGames
SuperGamersGames4 Oct 2021, 15:58
I can't seem to be able to download your game. Can you post a release link on your github?
jryzkns
jryzknsauthor4 Oct 2021, 16:14
this is very strange. Thanks for letting me know I will investigate
LDJam user 236404
LDJam user 2364044 Oct 2021, 16:45
@jryzkns Thanks, it worked for me. The graphics, sound design, and narrative were great! I think I can vaguely tell what I guess you were trying to portray. I also liked the inclusion of the left-ctrl option.

My main issue with the game seems to be that I have no idea how to get the bar below to fill up, for me it was a lot of blind trial and error before I somehow manage to get the bar to fill. On the third "level" I got it close to the halfway mark twice, but it never seemed to cross it somehow.
jryzkns
jryzknsauthor4 Oct 2021, 17:37
@escapade thank you for your comments! There's a good amount of randomness associated with this game, the random initial velocities of petals and the underlying wind field, so it's hard for me to tune the game in terms of difficulty. After getting some proper sleep I think I have a better idea as to how to make the system better, I'll have a crack at it when I get the chance to
SuperGamersGames
SuperGamersGames4 Oct 2021, 19:07
Not bad, The music is a little loud, but it's fitting for the blossoms. :)

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