Essense by Jorjon
** POSTMORTEM (AKA READ MY MISTAKES!): http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/2013/05/02/essense-post-mortem/
** IF YOU CAN'T FINISH IT: At least watch the walkthrough (in the links)
Summary:
*Essense* is your surrealist first person puzzle game.
Have you enjoyed Kairo? The Witness? Well... then maybe you will like this.
Controls:
WASD and MOUSE.
From 1 to 0 in keyboard to change mouse sensitivity.
Nothing much I can tell you, you have to experience it by yourself.
Stuff Used:
* Paul Stretch
* Audacity
* Unity3D
* HOTween
* Fraps
* FastStone
* Photoshop
* Chronolapse
* MonoDevelop
* SVN
** IF YOU CAN'T FINISH IT: At least watch the walkthrough (in the links)
Summary:
*Essense* is your surrealist first person puzzle game.
Have you enjoyed Kairo? The Witness? Well... then maybe you will like this.
Controls:
WASD and MOUSE.
From 1 to 0 in keyboard to change mouse sensitivity.
Nothing much I can tell you, you have to experience it by yourself.
Stuff Used:
* Paul Stretch
* Audacity
* Unity3D
* HOTween
* Fraps
* FastStone
* Photoshop
* Chronolapse
* MonoDevelop
* SVN
Ratings
| Coolness | 100% | 1 |
| Overall | 3.23 | 491 |
| Audio | 3.44 | 143 |
| Fun | 2.73 | 786 |
| Graphics | 3.42 | 300 |
| Humor | 1.97 | 748 |
| Innovation | 2.90 | 739 |
| Mood | 3.81 | 57 |
| Theme | 3.56 | 533 |
Then begins puzzle, it was really interesting to reveal game mechanics.
And music greatly fits "cloudy" mood
Very impressed with the atmosphere.
Beautiful and relaxing scenery and music!
A few criticisms: like I said, the jumping mechanic felt just a little too tight, especially for being in first-person where it's not always easy to time your jumps quite right. The visual effect on the platforms, while really cool, was a little too distracting and made it tough to tell where the platform boundaries were. Perhaps instead of the surface being 100% reflective, it should have some slight discolartion/lighting of its own so that you can clearly see the platform boundary. Other than that, the game is basically extremely well done. More levels maybe? :D
Oh, the title screen did have me wondering. The title had the last 'e' in a different color, is there a meaning to that? Essen[s]e
Good job!
And the first level is a pain until you figure out what's going on.
The overall atmosphere is great even if I found the textureless objects a bit out of the world.
Simple graphics and lovely music.
Great, great game!
Thanks
Very pretty atmosphere and mood though! Very difficult.
The "problems" are scary! It's very menacing hearing them approach.
I think you will like out game too. It speaks about minimalism in a different way. Try it :)