Was not expecting some of the 'deep truths' - they made my day haha. Well done.

that got deeper than i expected, in the trippiest way. fantastic game lol

@thomas-higgins
Hahaha well worth the insanity it almost caused me to make them!

@noodlehoof
Thank you!

this was a lot of fun to play! great visuals. appreciate the health packs too lol

@slow-chaz
Thank you so much for playing our game! Here, have two health packs for the road: [ :heart: ] [ :heart: ]

A lot of fun! We played it together with friends and we constantly laughing! I like the voicing and minigame in between, could have been longer !

Haha, "mini-game in between". So true. It's all about the voice lines.

I have an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti. The game sucked so much juice it kicked off my UPS.

It looked like it might be fun but what ever engine you are using may need a bit of tweeking

@vangrail
Hooray! Super glad you enjoyed our game!

@beebster-games
Sorry to hear it, yeah UE5 is a power sucker.

Damn, now that was a good game! Started with middling expectations, but once it kicked off into the first run, I was really impressed with the visuals - once I died, I thought "That's neat, pretty good for a jam" - and then the dude started rambling off his theory. Full ear to ear grin moment right there, went right back in with "OK, But" because I had to get it a second time. And yes, it was just as good second time around, props to getting all that stuff voiced, and voiced well!

As far as detriments go, all I'd say is that its a bit hard at times to tell if you're actually going to hit or miss, and gets worse the farther off center you go. I suppose I could say there's some thematic consistency to things getting less stable the farther off center you go, but I don't think that was the specific intent there lol.

Overall really impressive, I don't often give out 5 star overalls but this came together perfectly! Entire team should be proud of this one.

@profugo-barbatus
Dang!! Thank you so much for those kind words! Happy you loved my deep thought generator!! It took over 10 hours to make with everything that went into it!

@profugo-barbatus wow thank you so much for that! Yes I totally agree with you point about the player position. We use a pretty big FOV on the camera, which sort of sells the depth better, but that makes the parallaxing when coming up close even worse. The reason we have those circle coming once in a while, that you cannot hit, is to sort of frame what you are seeing in front of you, but it still a bit lacking :)

edit: thinking about it a little bit longer, what we could have done is to have basically a long stick sticking out from the characters stomach to show where straight down from the character. Or even better a laser pointer beaming forward and drawing where the actor mid will hit upcoming objects.

Just great! :D

@mamboman Thank you!

when im in a "ramble like a dumb nerd about laser pointers competition" and my next opponent is @bjornstenlund

lol

@bjornstenlund :heart:

rly good!

I had a hard time hearing the audio.

What the heck did I just play? Haha! I feel like I should keep away from pot and beer after this 😅😅

It was a little difficult for me to, I don't know how to say it properly in english, hard to find where to stand to not get hit or to get the pick ups. It's a good thing the hit boxes are kinda forgiving!

Nice game! Very original! I really like the madness coming from the background!

@ssakuray Thank you kindly!

@genesis That's a shame to hear, hope you had some fun anyway

@broco One must embrace madness and burn it as fuel on your journey for truth. Pot and beer will merely guide you.

I like that cool idea!!! especially the meme inserts in the bar. The gameplay is also fun, I'm just stuck, so far my maximum is with rang C, but I'll keep trying.

That was fun and trippy man
Random drank rant really makes you want to try again)

Lol. The concept is hilarious. Had some good time listening to crackpots mumbling. Liked how you guys made this "deep thought" generator's voiceover! The runner gameplay section is visually cool and impressive, but the gameplay itself feels a bit clumsy and irritating - too hard to navigate through all those surreal 3d forms floating around. Never made it better than "D" ;( But I had a lot of fun anyway, thank you for this experience :D

Very trippy... I liked it lol. It does match with the theme as well and fun to play. The humor on this one is good as well.

@karenchik
Wow! Thank you! I think you can probably get an S if you keep going, I believe in you!

@scoobysnacks
I'm so happy everyone seem to be enjoying them haha I thought I was going insane myself for a bit there

@kamuniaft
Yes, the gameplay can feel a bit clumsy, I kind of agree, but you should have seen it before haha, our own @bjornstenlund made it feel ten times as good as its first iteration

@hernandack
Thank you! We wanted to do a unique take on the theme!

Really great ! I'm usually really bad at this kind of game and ... it's still the case but the ranting between the two friends made me want to play several games in a row :smile:
The only downside is sometimes it's a bit unclear of what is a obstacle or not and some bonus seems impossible to reach without taking damage (or I'm just very bad).
Overall it's was a really great experience ! Thank you for your game :)

@ezard94
Wooho! Glad you loved the conspiracies! I do too!

Awesome concep, what a wild ride, haha! I really enjoyed the sound effects, voice clips, and the music, especially that deep BASS sound when hovering over buttons. The only thing I found a bit tricky was keeping track of my position in space, it got a little disorienting at times. Still, a very cool entry. Keep up the great work!

I'm super curious about what was the bug. Can't wait to play the game too. :laughing:

@anderson-job-loeffler
Thank you!!

@mestrerothld
We accidentally set a value wrong and spawned a gajillion geometric shapes in a row instead of say "four" haha

Very interesting game, interesting style! I also invite you to experience my game ^-^

@pppppppp
A trade! This sounds perfect for my minion @bjornstenlund as I'm currently in Japan on a phone network desperately updating my own gamepage for new comments.

I SEND THEE.

waw, what the crack. I like the integration of the music a lot. Is it just me or sometimes the character moves on its own when I go to the sides? but did you know- shwww

once again, lol. But, sure! @pppppppp

edit: Damn, you did the start menu right? It looked amazing :smile:

@gamurmakesgems
Woo! Thanks for that! Yes, the music is a little cool system that I keep remaking whenever we make a game!

Essentially you have a couple of random arrays of instrument stings that all go together - and then you just have level one play one instrument randomly looping its segments and adding another instrument on top for each level. It's so much bang for the buck, honestly!

Visually interesting and the theories were funny. Not sure if the game is hard or I'm just bad.

@jormundly
It's a hard game and / or we all kind of suck at it aswell. I reached S-tier once out of lots of attempts.

Xdxdxdxddxdxd this game really feels like LSD experience like you wanted i ithink. I dont' understand why pressing space damage me

@on100ruykajop haha yep some debug input snuck in there

Ok, man, that's some crazy shit you made xDD

@on100ruykajop
Oops haha - but also part of the trip, no?

@xpoho
Thank you for the magnificient compliment, we aim to please

A very interesting concept of the game, as if instead of throwing dice in Disco Elysium they added falling to depth in order to get the most twisted thought :D

I really like the change between a calm conversation and such abstract action.

Unfortunately, because of the camera it is not always obvious whether you will crash into an obstacle or not. It would also be nice to increase the size of the first aid kits to pick them up for sure.

I don't know what could be done, but the tunnels that I need to go through to increase the depth of a thought block the visibility of what is further, and this, on the contrary, interferes with the progression of the flight.
Perhaps it is possible to distance the obstacles from each other, since sometimes they are very close in height to each other, and due to visibility, this imposes additional complexity.

I can say that the game has a very good balanced game loop. And the visuals in the bar give the right mood and attitude to what will be said by one of its inhabitants :D
A cool deep game!

@surweaver
Thank you for the lovely comment!

I agree that the gameplay becomes a little bit muddy when the game throws everything at you, but then again, there's kind of where our difficulty lies, haha

@bananplyte I completely agree :D The difficulty is basically quite good, so that it feels challenging and doesn't feel too easy. You need to have some kind of challenge so that the player gets to know the game and its mechanics properly.

lmao. Did some dude just shout "carl sagan" at me?? This game is gold, absolutely loved every moment. Perfect difficulty, great humor, voice acting... a powerful combination. Great work on this one, the extra bit of context and character the bars scenes add around the "endless runner" style gameplay really makes this one feel unique and worth experiencing. Gonna get super stoned and try it again to really see how deep I can go....

Love this take on a dropper style game! super funny, the commentary is hilarious.
One thing I might add is some sort of visual indication of where the player is in the Z space. Sometimes it's a bit hard to tell how far/close an object is from you. Maybe some post process effect to blur or distort objects further from the player would have been cool!

Lol, I love how the ramblings are randomly stitched together (I assume?) to make them even more "ramble-y". Really cool trippy visuals.

@silkworm-sweatshop They are indeed randomly stitched together. @Bananplyte was the genius behind that idea, without which the game would be pretty mid.

@floppynub Damn, so much praise. Thank you! Haha, if you ever do that leave another review, please xD

@braeden So true, and maybe some indication of where in the horizontal plane you are - a shadow falling straight down the vertical axis perhaps.

Now those are some wild theories lol

Even if the graphics were pretty simple, there was lots of charm on this one. The randomized "deep truths" were a nice touch to incentivize retrying to see what would come next. It did feel like sometimes you just got unlucky with the obstacles and they all lined up in a way that you couldn't avoid, but it wasn't too much of an issue since it was so quick to retry. Also the 3D perspective made it a bit hard to tell where you were in relation to the obstacles as they were coming at you... some kind of distance lines or something similar to help gauge the depth (no pun intended) would be pretty helpful. Overall, a very fun entry regardless!

Thank you for playing, @guitarbro ! Appreciate the detailed feedback. We're starting to see a pattern here. :D

@floppynub
"[Did you know that] [I once read on a mongolian fabric forum that] [Carl Sagan] [Always used to rant that] [the Spotify Shuffle Algorithm was actually made by the NSA to measure global mood loops?]"

Thank you for the lovely review and best of luck in your stoner mission!

@braeden
Yes I would kind of agree haha, turns out making a dropper game is kind of hard. It really does work in first person, but then we wouldn't have the funny green-haired dude which is ultimately just a prize too high to pay

@silkworm-sweatshop
Haha yes they are actually modular so they're built up in [Intro] + (50% chance)([Pre-Character-Sentence] + [Character] + [Post-Character-Sentence])([Pre-Writing-Sentence] + [Writing] + [Post-Writing-sentence])) + [Argument] + ([Therefore] + (50% chance)([Pre-Character-Sentence] + [Character] + [Post-Character-Sentence])([Pre-Writing-Sentence] + [Writing] + [Post-Writing-sentence])) + [Argument])x[how-many-extra-paragraphs-you-want]

I then had to break this down to a binary format and parse it through a meta sound file where it plays about 30 minutes of my voice acting. I think the vast majority of our filesize is just my crazed late night rambling

@guitarbro
Open your eyes to the truth, bro, it aint theories, them's facts.

That being said, super-valid criticism

Hell of a trippy game. Sweet spot on the balance and good sound design!

From the first picture I thought it would be visual novella on mushrooms instead I got an arcade on meth.

And now I have become transcended, entering entirely new state of being, a substance-made god with the body of a swollen potato :dizzy_face:

~Xp

@empyreans
Right on, brother, you've seen the light, welcome to Nirvana and the REAL world Neo.

Thank you so much for that lovely review!

Hahaha awesome I had a lot of laughts with that one XD I didn't really expect the gameplay but I guess that's not the most important here...

The music is very trippy, and voice acting hilarious. This is gonna blow your mind but there is a secret key in that game that allow to travel after death and reach the wormhole level and also do some other odd funny things during other screens, that's a secret David Lynch told me between 2 pieces of salmon.
In term of game design well it's very colorful and trippy as mentioned, but a bit hard and punitive sometimes :) I've reached almost 500 (without using the magic thing) ; I stayed longer in between retries listening to these truth than in the "game" loop XD That was really funny well done mixing all these sentences together that's great, it took me awile to understand it was generated and that blewed my mind. In term of gameplay for the 3d game part, well as I said it's a bit hard maybe it could be nice having more health/bonuses ?

This is a very nice educational game, congrats !

@knarf
Thank you so much for your lovely review! I love that you cracked how we did the deep truth system haha, it's definitely the one system that has the most potential for the [Unnecessary-Black-Hole-Of-A-Development-Time-Sink] haha!

Cool that you liked the trippy music too! That's also on me messing around with side-quests before we even had a game loop lol

I absolutely agree that if we had more time some more bonuses would have been super cool, but as for the difficulty I think we made it somewhat hard on purpose to have you play more short runs rather than one long round

Cool game! Great music and theme use, I wish the camera followed the player but aside from that I had a lot of fun here, it was certainly perfect for the 4/20 stream. It seemed like some obstacles were totally unavoidable but maybe I'm just terrible! I did manage to get an S though so that makes up for all my floundering. It's a lot of fun hearing the pseudo-randomly cobbled together psychedelic realizations after each fatal faceplant. Thanks for stopping by the stream!

https://www.youtube.com/live/wu_09x7tuLk?si=BpXa_A9ByzLZjhKr&t=5808

@deadroach
Haha thanks again for playing! The critique is super-valid, and you were definitely not terrible getting an S and everything!

Hah! A real trip, man! ✌ Let me tell you - I once heard that making a game like this is similar to the practice of voodoo initiation, as Frank Herbert put it, wormification, for you know that imbibing psycho-active radiation cubes while listening to some peaceful deep insight can be as gratifying as sitting down on a really nice fluffy chair, or so Danny de Vito said on the radio-tv. But like, the cubes, or more likely compound BA-3542, by NASA codification, can be quite hard to touch consistently - the wigglies, they like, wiggle, and take you back out of the trip a lot. They can be real downers. But then the beat and the voice just drag you right back in, like a concert of the Grateful Dead.
So you know, legit. Peace ☮

@joror
Right on, man. Your eyes are open.

this game made me learn things about Julian Assange, Keanu Reeves and IKEA that I never knew I needed to know, and now my toenails are receiving malevolent signals from CIA

it also made me play bass with the button sounds, 10/10

very funny to play, nice work!
Could not get to the end of the game but will definetly try later.
The music was :fire:

@outstar
Hahaha, thank you! Good luck with those pesky toe nails!

@antoine-bodin
Thank you!!