Serendipity by AnnaGavaldaKedavra

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made by AnnaGavaldaKedavra for LD26 (COMPO)
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Beyond Jupiter and even further :
The Zebra in his essence,
The knowledge and the lights.
Is it Chaos, is it Order?
Or is it you?
One only thing remain,
Serendipity.
Serendipity.
Serendipity.





It's my second entry. I still hope for the WTF award.

Just one little bug : The blue light is really hidden (it shouldn't be).

Ratings

Coolness 87% 2
Overall 2.37 1242
Audio 3.22 249
Fun 1.96 1261
Graphics 2.37 1047
Humor 2.69 277
Innovation 3.02 640
Mood 3.07 420
Theme 2.96 1053

Feedback

LeafThief
29. Apr 2013 · 11:45 UTC
Huh. What just happened there?
Oddly enough I liked the music.
Split82
29. Apr 2013 · 11:48 UTC
wtf?? :)
Simon
29. Apr 2013 · 12:06 UTC
You should have called your game insanity.
omaromeir
29. Apr 2013 · 12:24 UTC
Lol this is definitely the weirdest one yet. I hope you win the award you're aiming for :p.
ZeroDivide
29. Apr 2013 · 13:03 UTC
I'm... not quite sure what I'm doing.
lucasncv
29. Apr 2013 · 13:07 UTC
Haha, amazing. 5/5 WTF.
🎤 AnnaGavaldaKedavra
29. Apr 2013 · 13:09 UTC
Thx. Did u manage to finish it? Does it return to the first screen? I changed the end and never tried it.
lucasncv
29. Apr 2013 · 13:23 UTC
I can't seem to get past "All of the lights"!
lucasncv
29. Apr 2013 · 13:27 UTC
Ok, now that I did I wish I didn't.
🎤 AnnaGavaldaKedavra
29. Apr 2013 · 13:58 UTC
It's the zebra structure. I Knew i should have playtested my game. :)
Logun
29. Apr 2013 · 14:24 UTC
Are you fucking with my brain ?
🎤 AnnaGavaldaKedavra
29. Apr 2013 · 15:16 UTC
SPOILER ALERT : There is an underlying logic and a Zebra.
Skywilly
29. Apr 2013 · 16:03 UTC
What the Zebra ! :)
danielcmessias
29. Apr 2013 · 16:24 UTC
Seriously confused, very deserved of the WTF award. If the aim was to mess with my mind you've succeeded! Nice
geepit
29. Apr 2013 · 16:28 UTC
Zebra zebra zebra. Interesting experience. Cool music!
Galvesmash
29. Apr 2013 · 16:28 UTC
Zebra is in my mind now! O.o
🎤 AnnaGavaldaKedavra
29. Apr 2013 · 16:30 UTC
DAMN! There is a small bug with the blue light, she's hard to see...Also i just played it and the end is More brutal than it should be.
saguaro
29. Apr 2013 · 16:32 UTC
The zebra cube is the soul.
🎤 AnnaGavaldaKedavra
29. Apr 2013 · 16:35 UTC
SPOILER ALERT 2 : This is not a game this is BLACK MAGIC, next time you see a Zebra you'll become black (well it doesn't work on black people plus it's not racist).
patrickward
30. Apr 2013 · 01:20 UTC
I saw the Zebra the first time, now it just stays on the word "Space" when i go back to it. Definitely belongs in the WTF category! Interesting experience the first time.
🎤 AnnaGavaldaKedavra
30. Apr 2013 · 09:31 UTC
DUDE!? Did you broke my game?
Sylvain.p
30. Apr 2013 · 15:45 UTC
???

I lost, against the dragon in the second stage.
peaveyj
01. May 2013 · 03:12 UTC
Haha. WTF indeed. I like the music, and I think you definitely achieved your goal ;). I liked the music as well.
Tater_hater
01. May 2013 · 03:13 UTC
It was... trippy. i liked it but the repetition was a little overused
Tozy
01. May 2013 · 05:45 UTC
I found all of the lights and then took the black exit... it works with real life zebras or pictures of zebras too?
🎤 AnnaGavaldaKedavra
01. May 2013 · 13:14 UTC
Dude! It even work with black stripes. BEWARE.
gre
01. May 2013 · 15:11 UTC
wtf
lekochen
01. May 2013 · 16:08 UTC
WTF mood 5/5
Chronodrax
01. May 2013 · 23:19 UTC
WTF did I just play ???
I don't even.
What has been played cannot be un-played.
This experience will remain in the subconscious part of my mind until the end of time.
And now I understand serendipity.
deepnight
02. May 2013 · 21:06 UTC
I can't honestly say I understood the underlying mechanic, although I have a really vague intuition about it. Golden WTF reward :)
🎤 AnnaGavaldaKedavra
02. May 2013 · 22:00 UTC
@chronodrax : lol ;), it can't be un-played but i just saw that it can't be played again when you press escape at the end.

@deepnight : ABRACADABRANTESQUE, and the truth is that it's not black magic it's just the "Lost" Opening + Beyond jupiter from "2001: a space odyssey" plus a zebra. And even if the zebra is a plagiat, i'm pretty sure when you put together 3 plagiat it's not a plagiat ASK MY LAWYER!
🎤 AnnaGavaldaKedavra
02. May 2013 · 22:03 UTC
DAMN! i thought i was writing in my head, now the magic is gone.

BTW there is no overall stars so please feel free to put the WTF stars in the overall ones.
Aevek
02. May 2013 · 23:22 UTC
I don't even know what just happened...
sharbelfs
02. May 2013 · 23:27 UTC
Yeah... I don't get it at all!
AaronYip
02. May 2013 · 23:53 UTC
Uhhhhh. Uhhhh, ummmm. Uhhhhhh. Ummmmm, mmmmmmm. Uh?
Pierrec
03. May 2013 · 10:23 UTC
WTF award indeed.
I love the mood of this and I think I even got what I was supposed to do. But I think the game lacks some feedback, the player doesn't really know if he's doing right or wrong (unless I was doing wrong all the time^^)
🎤 AnnaGavaldaKedavra
03. May 2013 · 12:14 UTC
:) Yeah i think one more day could have been a good thing
GranaDa
03. May 2013 · 18:06 UTC
The WTF award is yours, for sure!! Nice entry!
Martin_Monosys
03. May 2013 · 21:32 UTC
Yeah, this is sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
DEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP!
Sorry I had a beer too many... XD!
rezzish
05. May 2013 · 00:01 UTC
I didn't figure out the mechanic but I enjoyed what was happening regardless.
mrexcessive
06. May 2013 · 17:04 UTC
Indeed "wtf" seconded. Feels a bit like a puzzle from Assassin's Creed, crossed with a light dose of Zoolander ;0)
Taro Omiya
09. May 2013 · 04:33 UTC
I strongly appreciated the forced perspective applied to the text such as "Zebra" and "Monolithe," providing a sense that you are falling. The darkness helps accent the critical gray block, providing a single, minimalistic point of interest that, despite its small size, forces you to move around the screen. The fleshed out colors appearing at "All the lights" provides a gorgeous commentary on the old RGB TV tubes. This, combined with the fact that the zebra photo looming in is not really black or white, but rather a mixture of the primary light colors is a fascinating meta-commentary on perception of art. Indeed, is that a zebra, or merely a computer screen imitating as one? A truly profound thought exercise. As you enter into each light, it helps the player realize that they, too, are the participants of this mind-trickery.

The audio embraces the silence, fitting with the game's emphasis on hollowness, and similarly, light. The fact that your action has no bearing what-so-ever on its speed or pitch defines the very importance of this game: the feeling of helplessness, the lack of hope. This thorough sadness is only added to the fact that even when the player has finally gathered all the light, instead of greatness, they're met with blindness. Only then will they truly realize the true meaning of this game...

It deserves the WTF award.
recursive frog
09. May 2013 · 08:11 UTC
Well, I collected the colors, and I made the world white.

Then I steered allllll the way over to the left as the blackness approached, and for some reason the little box started jittering uncontrollably. It drifted back to the right, endlessly.

I... Um...

I liked the audio, actually.
rainblade studios
10. May 2013 · 17:35 UTC
You deserve the WTF award. I'm so lost and confused :)
Roupette
13. May 2013 · 10:46 UTC
I looked
I do not remember who I am
I listened
I do not remember where I am
DST
16. May 2013 · 07:18 UTC
Very weird ^_^ A nice experience!
AestheticGamer
20. May 2013 · 02:59 UTC
...I didn't get it.
Jesse111
20. May 2013 · 23:01 UTC
Spoiler alert?
I made it to a white screen where a tiny flickering (version of myself? moved slowly from left to right and left the screen.

Was that the end?
I didn't seem to be able to control anything from that point on (unless I lost my cursor offscreen somewhere