First of all: god this is pretty. The music is also awesome. It took me about 10 or 15 runs through the game before I figured out what I was doing. It seems to be that if I stay near all the people, I slowly turn into them. The 3 faces on my life bar accumulate, then I "conform" and then lose. If I stay away from them, though, my life bar runs out. But I can turn my photographs into auras which I can always come back to to regain my life.

Wicked awesome, I would say experiment with making the levels a bit larger so that it's not so easy to just run and collect all the photographs before my life runs out.

Also, there wasn't an "accessibility" category, so you're ending up with a pretty high rating from me. (:

This. is. beautiful.

Super hard to understand what's happening, unfortunately. But you nailed the atmosphere perfectly!

Short but detailed and very well though out. I like it very much :)

Very pretty! And good ambiance.

I guess standing in the aura built health back? But I still died :(

Congratulations on your first Ludum Dare.

Very confused by the aura/photograph... enjoyed the style both look and sound though. Nice job.

Looks wonderful and the music is pleasant. It takes a bit to figure out how things work, but the game is set up in a way that you can finish it without understanding how to play.
Rather than explain everything in a blunt way, though, it would probably be better to make things longer (maybe expand level like mentioned previously) to give the game more time to sink in.

Haunting atmosphere. Beautifully animated sprites, too. The suits with masks on are creepy. Could use more cues to indicate how the mechanics work, as even after finishing I still don't really know what I was doing. I'd play more of this...

So far (about halfway through all the games) this is the best interpretation of the theme I'm seen. The haunting necessity to stay in the limbo between isolation and conformity combined with graphics and music that instantly took me back to the desolate dystopias of Future Wars and the less humorous parts of Space Quest. To tell you the truth the hairs were standing up on my nape. Incredible.

I gotta try this a couple more rounds before moving on. An absolutely excellent piece of LeafThief.

I'm quite confused. Both failed and "won", but I'm not sure what separates the two. Apparently it's good to make a few auras while you go collect the pictures/things, but I don't know the mechanical or story reasons behind this. Graphics are nice, there's a pretty cohesive "weird" atmosphere with the audio as well. Player animation is very good as long as it works, but apparently it glitches out in some situations/directions. So yeah... I'm stupid, and/or this game needs a better explanation. Or maybe it's just indeed very weird! :)

I agree with the others about the objective of the game is a bit hard to understand, I was playing and didn't know what I was doing until I played three or four times.

However, you made a great work in overall, both graphics and audio nicely done, also all your posts and time lapse.

Good luck.

Wow, impressive. Just the kind of game i love to play in LD, the atmosphere, the graphics, the relatively simple but yet fun and challenging gameplay.. Excellent!
Cons: its hard to understand what you have to do, i had to play several times.

Another thing, you should make this game longer now the compo ended, you have a real jewel in here, it would be nice to add two or three more levels and see how it may diverge..

I had no idea what was going on, and I loved it.

For the love of all that is holy, MAKE THIS INTO A FULL-BLOWN GAME !! With a bit more polish gameplay-wise, you've got a masterpiece with this one. The aestethics are just incredible. The gameplay, if a bit obscure at first, is an extremely well tought-out interpretation of the theme. And this music... Honestly, you really did something great here !

beyond beautiful graphics. beyond beautiful audio.

I was also confused by the gameplay. I think that you could potentially solve this by labeling things in the first level (stay near this, stay away from this, press x now, etc). I wonder too about some other things, like it seems like I can never remove the faces from my hit bar, even if I am in an aura... maybe changing the aura to recharge both your bars not just the aloneness bar.

overall, beautiful, amazing first LD.

I too found the gameplay confusing, not sure exactly why I died or how I managed to get to the next area. There is something about it that compels me to keep playing in spite of that though. The art style and general feel of the game as well as the music were very good. Nicely done.

I found figuring out the game to be part of the game. But the opening comic-style documentation, while beautiful, did not adequately communicate the rules. The visual style, the pixelated graphics and especially the way you muted the color tones, all were awesome. Make more. It appears you're an artist who codes. With your artistic abilities you're ready to set up us the bomb.

I felt literaly in love with this game. I needed few tries to understand well, because nothing is really explained (even if the tutorial is brillant!) but it's perfect like that, it's great that we have to try many times to understand. I wrote a review about entity (http://oujevipo.fr/5-minutes/entity) but it's in french. Maybe Google translate do a great job : http://translate.google.com/translate?js=n&prev=_t&hl=fr&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&sl=fr&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Foujevipo.fr%2F5-minutes%2Fentity&act=url

Maybe I haven't understood well, but I don't care, because what I understood is awesome!

I don't fully understand this but I know beautiful pixel art when I see it. The music is awesome like people mentioned.
Yeah, it is difficult to understand what's going on..
I tried reading the code but I still don't really understand what is going on.:)

Anyhow I am impressed with the atmosphere.

I also did not understand this game and also enjoyed it a lot.

Very beautiful if a little hard to pick up at first.

Thanks everyone for voting AND thanks to all of you who took the time to comment this. Entity made #6 Community (together with Clone Wolf) and #10 in Graphics.

I see now that the gameplay was indeed hard to understand and that I should've eased the player into the game. On the other hand - as JosephKnight.com pointed out - figuring it out was part of the game - but I suppose the timespan before loosing was too short.
I'm currently busy with my master thesis, but as soon as it's done, I'd like to polish this: with a proper tutorial and a proper length this can be what it intended to be in the first place: A game "commentary".

Thanks again - if you want to keep in touch: @leafthief (twitter)