The Chromatic Window

by egawag
co-authored: @nobongo, @thepiratenun
Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.76
Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.47
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★4.03
Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.55
Humor★★★★★★★★★★3.50
Mood★★★★★★★★★★4.18

Take a Stroll Through Time

*and a little bit of space*


Welcome to The Chromatic Window, a walking sim about exploring our history as a team of 3 game developers.

We invite you on a journey through 7 years of our lives, and 10 whole Ludum Dare game jams.

A game by Gage (egawag) Johnson, Noah (Nobongo) Matheu, and Zach (ThePirateNun) Northrop.

Bug Fix 1.0.1 4/7/25 - 7:22PM - Fixed lagging voice over audio.

_Note: It might take a sec for the files to download and extract, it is 10 games in 1 after all! Thanks for your patience :)_

Comments15

LDJam user 298496
LDJam user 2984968 Apr 2025, 20:00
I really love the concept, but unfortunately wasn't able to play with Wine on Linux. Would love to play a Linux build if possible!
LDJam user 4080738 Apr 2025, 22:34
this was awesome! it's wonderful that you guys have been able to create so much together, and this was a beautiful tribute to that work. keep it up!
Aynu
Aynu10 Apr 2025, 04:59
Nice entry graphics are best suited for it!
Trevor Lentz10 Apr 2025, 05:19
The walking simulator with the discord call style commentary is great. As the player, it feels as if you've stumbled across an old school DVD commentary. Being able to experience all the old assets in first person really gives you a different view of the previous works. Well done. :)
basekeet10 Apr 2025, 05:23
Hard to call it a game, but it’s absolutely amazing.
I didn’t make it to the end (was expecting it to be a quick 5–7 minute experience), but I’ll definitely set aside time to finish it properly.
You guys did an awesome job — I’ll be keeping an eye on your future work!
Aynu
Aynu10 Apr 2025, 05:36
Love it!
Tetracold
Tetracold10 Apr 2025, 05:55
This was a fantastic! it's clear you guys are very passionate about making games and it shows trough the way you talk about your experience together throughout the years

I can honestly relate with this as an artist with a love for games and a dream of one day making a big project that will mean something to people, it makes me feel inspired to keep working and improving, I am looking forward to see your future work

thanks for sharing your experience
PPPPPPPP10 Apr 2025, 08:51
Very interesting game, interesting style! I also invite you to experience my game ^-^
cluster7ck
cluster7ck10 Apr 2025, 19:34
Normally walking sims are really not my jam, but this one looked weird enough that I wanted to try it out. Now here I am half an hour (40min?) later having taken a trip down memory lane with some random a dudes from the internet and I can't say I haven't enjoyed myself. Kind of endearing how long you've been doing this together. Friends are pretty cool huh. Hope you'll get to make a ton of other games together in the future.
mhorth
mhorth10 Apr 2025, 22:36
Nice touch at the end, having the Discord channel names appear :wink:

I think I had a smile on my face the whole time, this really was an awesome mood. I would not have expected to enjoy a trip down someone else's memory lane, but that was a great time! Thanks so much for putting this together.
Constance
Constance11 Apr 2025, 11:55
This is not a game, it's a movie, or more precisely, it's an interactive playback of one's memories. I can't believe I just sat there for half an hour listening to 3 random strangers talking about their life, their struggles, their "memories". As a fellow game developer who self-taught himself over the year, trying to get better everyday, I relate so much about this.

I liked how you guys interpreted the theme as the depth of emotional, the depth of one's memories. It really adds the uniqueness and difference. At first I was surprised about the size of the download, but then I realized you guys put all your previous jam entries into it to make a "credits" to stroll through each of them as you talked about how it was done. That is very clever and cool in my opinion.

But overall, this entry might not be the best in most people's eyes, but for those who enjoy listening to deep stories being narrated thoroughly, like me, it's just good y'know, in its own way. Well done to all 3 of you!
JamesGames100011 Apr 2025, 13:34
I love it, this is a great idea, I loved going through a lot of your guys' memories and playing all the games, I didn't finish it right away but I will be coming back to play more. Great job :)
I couldn't find an exit button though.
Eugenik
Eugenik14 Apr 2025, 07:41
Really great idea!.
X2SHADOW
X2SHADOW16 Apr 2025, 16:43
I agree that it's more of an interactive story than a game, but it's quite beautiful and even touching in places. I liked it very much, I even felt like I lived a little story myself. I would like to note the innovative approach, interesting idea with the discord call, and also that you go through small worlds, each of them is a game that you can play. There is of course a small technical disadvantage that when you start the game, you literally start a second game, which includes its own soundtrack while the first sound is not turned off. Also you have to switch between the two games, but I think it would be very difficult to do otherwise. But these are minor things, it didn't stop me from enjoying the game, which gave me a rather unique experience. Thank you guys, great job!
Jorgen22 Apr 2025, 01:33
Very touching experience, it was fun getting to know your story!

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