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O.N.E. Says by NightShadow0

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made by NightShadow0 for LD28 (COMPO)
Update: Added a post-jam version with a few more presents and 3 minutes of play time. Aside from that the versions are identical, but please rate according to the 48h version. Thanks for playing, happy holidays!

It's Christmas eve and Santa's busy with all the kids' letters. Since he can only read English, he acquired a robot translator named O.N.E. (Objective Noun Exchanger) to translate the foreign letters. However, O.N.E.'s translations are rough at best and Santa has to decode their meaning. Because no matter how bad the translations are, Santa doesn't get the letters; he only gets O.N.E.!

ActionScript 3 + Starling in FlashDevelop.
Quotes from http://ackuna.com/badtranslator
Artwork hand-drawn and edited in Photoshop, plus TexturePacker and BMFont.
Music made in SunVox; it was meant to be just a christmas song but i was having so much fun that it got a bit wild, for better or for worse.
Web (Flash) http://onesays.gabrielveiga.com
Source http://onesays.gabrielveiga.com/LD28/src
@NightShadow0 http://www.twitter.com/nightshadow0
Original URL https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-28/?action=preview&uid=20302

Ratings

Coolness 100% 1
Overall 3.02 488
Audio 3.15 187
Fun 2.75 577
Graphics 3.35 284
Humor 3.02 218
Innovation 3.00 427
Mood 2.98 347
Theme 2.49 712

Feedback

AdventureIslands
16. Dec 2013 路 17:14 UTC
Ha, Funny idea for a game. I dig the game overall, but there are so few different gifts, that it becomes very easy to rapidly pick the right presents after you have figured out each's description. perhaps items could have multiple descriptions to throw the player off a bit?
馃帳 NightShadow0
16. Dec 2013 路 17:21 UTC
Yeah i did intend to make more presents to break the repetition but ran out of time. Multiple descriptions never crossed my mind, that would've been quicker to make. Thanks for playing!
MRvanderPants
16. Dec 2013 路 17:52 UTC
Maybe you could show a selection of items per question. Really liked the game!
carlsommer
16. Dec 2013 路 19:10 UTC
Sweet art! Good sound and plenty of fun descriptions.
capnramses
17. Dec 2013 路 10:05 UTC
ha! a really nice idea for a game. i wasn't sure why there were 3 people on the side though...does it make any difference which one you click on or can you just click on one guy every time?
馃帳 NightShadow0
17. Dec 2013 路 19:07 UTC
@capnramses Each kid asks for a different present, but since there aren't that many you may have gotten the same.
Thank you all!
Nazariglez
17. Dec 2013 路 19:30 UTC
This game is quite original, i love your music and your art graphics!
Jago
17. Dec 2013 路 19:30 UTC
Nice adaptation of the theme! Funt to play.
Keith Evans
17. Dec 2013 路 19:31 UTC
Funny idea, really liked the music and pencil sketch art. Biggest complaint would be that after awhile it became easy to pick out the gifts. More presents please! I dug it, good job!
StMatn
17. Dec 2013 路 19:34 UTC
Awesome work!
TIL the actual name of google translator is O.N.E. :P
I really like the handdrawn graphics. My final score was -1, but it was really fun anyway :D
doctorscientist
18. Dec 2013 路 17:26 UTC
It would be cool if you could procedurally generate content using google searches or something.
drkrunk
20. Dec 2013 路 05:44 UTC
I like the idea behind this, making the theme your own interpretation of it. Great work!
rojo
20. Dec 2013 路 15:46 UTC
Fun concept!
occash
20. Dec 2013 路 19:07 UTC
Funny game, very nice and suitable Christmas theme!
NiceAlexanderAS
20. Dec 2013 路 19:07 UTC
hahahaha fun little game , just in time for christmas n_n the music was very happy :D also my score was -5 :c xD, great work :D
ZYXer
20. Dec 2013 路 19:12 UTC
Great game idea, absolutely hilarious! Too bad there are so few translations, I would have loved to play further...
馃帳 NightShadow0
21. Dec 2013 路 15:08 UTC
Thanks for playing all! Glad people liked it, i'll see about making a version with more presents :)
Andreas Brandt
26. Dec 2013 路 04:50 UTC
Excellent music, cool graphics, nice game, good job.
GarethIW
26. Dec 2013 路 14:21 UTC
Quite fun, amusing translations!
badlydrawnrod
26. Dec 2013 路 19:48 UTC
The pictures are cute as hell.
tommakesgames
27. Dec 2013 路 18:35 UTC
Fun idea, not sure how it relates to the theme really. But it's an interesting and enjoyable mechanic in short bursts and would be good for educational minigames. Great music and graphics for 48 hours!
Conflei
28. Dec 2013 路 04:17 UTC
Cool graphics haha, a lil hard but cool game :)
ViliX
28. Dec 2013 路 12:40 UTC
Nice and moody game :)
sekaru
28. Dec 2013 路 20:05 UTC
Pretty cool concept. Loved the hand-drawn art too!
Xanjos
29. Dec 2013 路 20:54 UTC
Pretty amusing game. Loved the hand-drawn art and the Christmassy music.
Grafter
01. Jan 2014 路 20:57 UTC
Enjoyed it! Well done!
stefan
04. Jan 2014 路 19:58 UTC
There at not that many presents, so the gameplay is quite limited. Nevertheless, graphics and audio are awesome, nice job!
psc1997
05. Jan 2014 路 19:38 UTC
Nice concept ;)
Good sountrack and graphics. I like it ! ;)
cptalbertwesker
06. Jan 2014 路 18:33 UTC
Very cute, but the game did not display correctly on my web browser, could still play but was missing a bit. Awesome music!
Jedi
06. Jan 2014 路 18:37 UTC
Very cute game :)
馃帳 NightShadow0
07. Jan 2014 路 04:01 UTC
Thanks for playing and rating, everyone!