Trailwork

This is pretty neat, I like floatin around like this, but I feel like I'm missing something. Either way, I enjoyed cruising around the little orbs.

I kept being pulled back to the first orb when I tried to move to another one, so I didn't make it very far xD. But I liked the vibe of the game!

@last-angle Thanks for playing! A lot of the level design was last minute, and some of it doesn't quite work as intended. But I added a hint in the description if you want a way to escape :)

Visually this is really cool, and I really want to see all the game has to offer, but the game just doesn't seem to want me to. If I understand correctly, I have control over the player only when standing on something and otherwise need to wait until I'm pulled over towards one of the orbs. The problem is that making it from one place to another almost never works. Leaving the first hallway typically gets me stuck at the short ramp thing with nowhere to go. Doing a running leap out of the hallway like you mention in the description *sometimes* gets me to somewhere new, but then when I try to go anywhere from there I either progress backwards or get stuck in permanent orbit and need to restart.

Super cool visuals and loved the vibe. I spent a while orbiting stuff till i mashed random directions and got to see new stuff.

Ugh I can't play windows or linux but looks cool

Honestly, I have no idea what's going on, but it looks insane! Those surfaces spinning around me create a really cool vibe.

As you mentioned, it's pretty broken, but the idea is interesting. I'd like to see post-jam version for sure.

You got me really interested in where you were planning to go with this entry. The way the world reacts to player movement, fractures and coalesces, and dances around you is quite mesmerizing.

I played the linux build inside a VM and I only use the WASD input. Mouse and controller didn't work.

Play-through:

this thing is broken as hell but in a pretty way love how the world just falls apart and spins around you wish i could actually get somewhere without getting yeeted back

very cool visuals!! I love were the backgrounds fallen apart!!omg

Very cool, i managed to get to a couple of different places before i read the description.
I just couldnt stop playing at first. Even though its quite simple scenes i still felt compelled to find the next one.

@henk -- Thanks for trying it out! The system of ramps (and really most of the level design) was added in the last couple hours, and I just didn't get enough time to make that system work. That first short ramp is completely non-functional (which is why I added the hint about the hallway).

There are only six unique "places" (including the hallway and short ramp), one of which is completely inaccessible, so there's a good chance you've seen most of them.

@local-minimum -- Thanks for the video playthrough! The controls were implemented through Godot's input system, so either something's funky with the Linux build (I've only tested it on my own Linux system), or there's something with the VM preventing Godot from seeing the input. I didn't mention in the description, but you can also use the arrow keys as a fallback for camera control.

There is indeed no way to control the character while floating through space. But normally you should at least be able to look around (and see where the game is sending you).

That's strange, I've played plenty of godot games in that vm... :thinking:

This is a really neat idea, but it clearly needs some more time to get polished. Its never easy in compo. I applaud you for taking such a big creative idea and bringing it to a playable state!

Trippy! I played with this for a surprisingly long time. My first run I was stuck and didn't understand, but pretty much figured out some of what's in your spoilers. I manually restarted and got into a better groove the second time.

I did end up finding two additional stable configurations:

But I also enjoyed just watching the space move when I was just drifting around, too:

I definitely felt the lack of control that you were going for!

Cool unique entry.

This was one of the best psychedelic experiences I have had on weed in a good while.

This is pretty inspiring, although I'm not sure how far I got along the intended path (I think I broke things and got to watch a few level transitions). The concept of this kind of "cinematic" gravity, where the level re-arranges like this, I don't think I've seen done before (or at least not in a way that had an impact on me like this game). I think there's something really interesting in this concept. I wonder if the 3D gravity towards the beacon could be removed, at least while the player is moving along the intended paths (like control the gravity while they're on the ramps, maybe like how Mario Galaxy has different shaped planet gravities?). The simple shapes and formations you made had a pretty big impact on me, like they felt very intriguing. I'm really interested in this cinematic gravity now

Very chill game, I like the atmosphere it creates. Just spinning and vibing until you hit the debris and can make another running attempt for one of the beacons. Orbiting around and jumping across the parts that make up the geometry to other places has is a cool mechanic, like others already mentioned it also looks great the way the level geometry pieces rearrange. I found four, I think, if we include the hallway from the start, I got pretty lucky with the running start from the hallway and went a couple beacons beyond. Couldn't find any way to reach further though, would have loved to see what it leads up to, but after reading the second hint, I guess this might just be as far as I could go.
But still, the intended vibes of the game got across extremely well, like I mentioned I love the chill spacey otherworldly vibe it created. Not just with the geometry rearranging, but also the sound design, with the signals the beacons send out, I think those were neat, as they got louder or quieter while you orbited. Made you feel like a satellite. Very cool!

You always make very interesting games and I'm happy I managed to play this one before the deadline. It felt like a unique experience.

It was very effective at provoking an eerie and mysterious, otherworldly feeling. I found it really beautiful. The sounds of the orbs added a lot to the mood.

The game could have turned out very disorienting, but somehow it didn't. Instead it was quite relaxing to play and I enjoyed watching the shapes rearrange themselves as I flew around.

I think I found four different stable configurations. It was great finding the ramps and throwing yourself off them with speed :laughing:

@pkenney -- I've seen several people play this in person, and I think you're one of few people to figure out what's going on without hints (so congrats). And thanks for the screenshots! All three of those are stable configurations, although the last one is harder to land on. The sixth configuration is actually at an orb way out in the distance in your first pic:

Not that it's possible to get there ¯\\\_(ツ)\_/¯ (although I know of a bug that could get you pretty close).

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@bonedaddy -- Glad you found it inspiring! Cinematic gravity is a pretty cool way to describe what's going.

Originally I had plans for invisible "anchors" (separate from the beacons) that would give me more control over gravity and how the player enters each area. There's still an object in the source for that. I had to scrap it part way through, though, because it would have taken a lot more play-testing than I had time for.

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@captaindreamcast -- Thanks for playing another one of my weird experiments! I originally had more goal-oriented ideas in mind for the game, but had to pivot at the last minute because most of the jam was spent wrangling with the gravity and movement mechanics. So I'm glad floating around space and watching the world reform itself is a neat experience for people (even if it's not a traditional sort of game).

If you've seen the starting hallway, the short ramp outside the hallway, the long curved ramp, the long flat runway, and the cube, then you've pretty much seen everything in the game.

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@vidarn -- Thank you! Means a lot that you think my stuff has all been worth checking out. And that this game was such a cool experience.

You might be the first person to tell me a game I made is specifically *not* disorienting (although I did try to make movement and transitions here feel as seamless as I could make them). Not a bad thing, but just interesting that different people seem to experience my games in different ways, and it's hard to tell what that will be beforehand when I already know the game inside out.

It's a very interesting game. The interaction method is very complete and the gaming experience is great! The game's setting is also very interesting. I also really like this style of art, as it clearly conveys the content you want to express. I think it's really great that we were able to create such a game in such a short time. It was not easy at all.