The One - A Tale of Bliss or Sorrow by ploogle
In a relaxing world of hot air balloons and clouds, you have 80 years to find your one and only soulmate before you die old and alone.
Featuring an infinite procedural cloud generation system and an original ukulele score.
(Known bugs: Occasional cloud pop-in, extra NPC balloon duplication.)
Media:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jP0-AR3OUes
https://vine.co/v/h2dmTEWVxxJ
https://vine.co/v/h2wrpBVhUWD
https://vine.co/v/h2FWq9lKDjw
Featuring an infinite procedural cloud generation system and an original ukulele score.
(Known bugs: Occasional cloud pop-in, extra NPC balloon duplication.)
Media:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jP0-AR3OUes
https://vine.co/v/h2dmTEWVxxJ
https://vine.co/v/h2wrpBVhUWD
https://vine.co/v/h2FWq9lKDjw
Ratings
| Coolness | 59% | 3 |
| Overall | 3.25 | 306 |
| Audio | 3.79 | 24 |
| Fun | 2.31 | 851 |
| Graphics | 3.55 | 212 |
| Humor | 2.12 | 555 |
| Innovation | 3.09 | 368 |
| Mood | 4.00 | 17 |
| Theme | 3.68 | 92 |
great experience!
Very relaxing scenario & soundtrack.
No challenge or real gameplay, but then again, it's not trying to be that kind of game, so that's cool.
The music's great, and swooshing around in the air is pretty nice. Clouds sometimes pop in/out which breaks immersion a bit. Same for balloons. It'd be even greater with that fixed.
Overall 4/5 for great mood!
There were some "solid" ballons I could crash into.
So yeah I found it quite fun, even if the main thing didn't entice me too much. Loved the audio though, really set a nice mood. :)
My only criticism is that when you're playing you can't tell how much longer it'll take to find the other balloon, and there's not really any sense that you've progressed, so I was unsure whether I should give up or not... Still I persisted and managed to find it!
Just kidding Plooglez, it seriously made my heart go awwwwwwwww. Well done!
error: attempt to seek before beginning of zipfile
(attempting to re-compensate)
inflating: The One.exe bad CRC 25461c01 (should be 6e60a68a)
As a queer person, I spent most of the game just going "but why CAN'T I date red balloons?!"
What happens if you run out of time completely btw?
I spent most of my time seeing how far I could stretch the ropes on my balloon. I managed to get my basket to go off the top of the screen for a bit. Finding my soul mate otherwise was kinda boring. Also, my soul mate totally interrupted the shoving match I was having with a couple green balloons, so I wasn't entirely thrilled about finding them haha.
Overall, not really my kind of game. I'm find with the calming, do almost nothing kinds of games, but this one just didn't click with me. However, it was well made. Fitting soundtrack, relaxing atmosphere, just not for me.