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Editor: Sublime Text
Platform: Javascript, HTML5, CSS
Libraries: Pixi.js, Mousetrap.js, howler.js, dat.gui
Sound: Otomata, Audacity,
Graphics: Photoshop, Inkscape
Power ups: Potato chips

Personal base code – some stuff for displaying HUDs and branched dialogue in HTML5  can be found here (as well as the eventual game):

https://github.com/brutopia/ludumdare26

I wake up on the day of the competition and find out the theme is Minimalism. A bit hard, considering I had thought I’d be doing a heavily dialogue driven, photography based, adventure game.

After some contemplation, I’ve decided to honor the great, late, comrade film director Andrei Tarkovsky and his greatest minimalist film: Stalker.

Based on the book Roadside Picnic by the Strugatsky brothers.

So in line with Tarkovsky’s style there will be:

• Black and white (with a touch of color)
• Panoramic landscape pictures
• Slow camera movement on only one axis
• Super natural elements
• Post apocalysm

Too much time on code and running around like a headless chicken and too little time on content creation.

Time to knuckle down with some help of creativity sauce

It’s still happening. Slowly but surely.

Need to photograph a dog tomorrow. The dog is important…

What about this poster for my game?

If anyone has some time over, perhaps you’d like to be the first playtesters for Stalker

http://brutopia.github.io/ld/26/stalker.html

All feedback is welcome!

Hi,

here’s a list of some great games I’ve played and enjoyed a lot. They still seem to have undeservedly few votes, so I thought I’d link to them.

Feint Signal

Circles

Zip

Better Triangle

Kriok

And while you’re at it, why not play my post-apocalyptic homage to minimalist cinema: Stalker

I can’t claim to be a huge fan of the theme this time. Minimalism seems too broad and very much something that people implement every LD.

I was at first going to be paying a tribute to some minimalist writer (I read a Raymond Carver short on the first morning of the compo) but  I had planned on a point and click adventure since before the compo so I ended up with an homage to fine minimalist cinema instead with Stalker – referencing the Soviet Sci-Fi classic with the same name. If you haven’t seen the movie, make sure to do so. It’s one of the all time greats.

After rating a grand total of 100 games, I found very few takes on the theme Minimalism that I felt were great. But here comes a rundown of them:

Minimalism

Steve Can’t Zen

The world is in your hand

Auraline

Please tip me off if you have found any other games you feel are impressive takes on the theme!