Ludum Dare #58compo
Xenolith
Xenolith is a game that cannot be finished by a single person.
Your goal is to collect fifteen coins and brings four orbs to the gate from whence you came. However, the game has a strict time limit, and only allows you to play it once, making it all but impossible for a single person to complete it.
Instead, you must pick up the baton from those who have played the game before (by using the passcodes they leave and the findings they report), make what progress you can, and then add your own passcode and findings to the chain.
Please look to the comments thread below for a passcode to use when starting your playthrough, and remember to share your passcode and findings for the sake of those who come after you!
Your goal is to collect fifteen coins and brings four orbs to the gate from whence you came. However, the game has a strict time limit, and only allows you to play it once, making it all but impossible for a single person to complete it.
Instead, you must pick up the baton from those who have played the game before (by using the passcodes they leave and the findings they report), make what progress you can, and then add your own passcode and findings to the chain.
Please look to the comments thread below for a passcode to use when starting your playthrough, and remember to share your passcode and findings for the sake of those who come after you!
Comments24
(That B might be an 8?)
Extremely cool concept, but I feel like 5 minutes is just a little too short for me to get my bearings.. How do people pickup where I left off? Do they start where I ended in the cave? If so, keep going right, there's going to be another coin.
I'm excited to see the result of other player's work, but I would like to be able to play again from a different passcode!
Honestly a brilliant idea all around, makes think a bit about Animal Well's community stuff. Here though the loop is tight, and explicit and I loved every second of it. I'll finish it off later but wow, the idea, visuals, and sound are all top notch!
Anyway, this is such an awesome concept! I love this sort of games where you can't replay it & have to leave with your mistakes (or in my case, victory). It also works great as an LD entry using the comments as the community! I feel like you underestimated us though since we beat it before the Jam was even over :)
It does make it a bit hard to judge the game itself since uh, I only collected 3 coins & zero orbs and can't replay the game now. But the concept, graphics and SFX were all great! Overall definitely experimental, but it paid off I think!
By the way, I guess this shouldn' be happening? :sweat_smile:
It took me about 30s to figure out how to jump, 2 minutes to figure out what to do, and 5 minutes seems too short.
All in all, it's a really cool idea!
It reminds me of retro NES games and such that predated savefiles and used "passwords" too.
It's a great concept, and the art is good too. Keep up the good work :]
I'm speechless at what a genius concept this is for a jam. Excellent game!
EDIT: Nevermind I'm dumb the game can't be played a second time haha
EDIT2: I found a way to play it a second time actually, and I probably soft locked the game with one orb, or I missed something. Also, took me while to understand how to pick up an orb :P But otherwise it's a pretty impressive concept, well done!
Too bad, the concept is very interesting.