Jesus, what is this game? Why did I spend half an hour playing it at 11pm on a work night. Controlling the camera with a trackpad somehow made it even worse. I gotta say though that this game nailed the feeling of conspiracy theory, in a weird way. It was when I was counting the amount of boxes on each shelving unit to figure out the keycode when it hit me. The feeling of anger and frustration that comes with a puzzle in an adventure game that you can't solve. Where I have to both rule out the obvious red herrings that the game puts in, as well as the red herrings that I fabricate myself, in the vain hope that the developer is as insane as I am, that somehow counting every lamp in the level will somehow result in a coherent solution. And the best part is that the real answer is usually something so stupidly obvious (although I can't say the same for this game). The stupid floor puzzle near the end of The Witness was another one that did it for me, I mean how the hell was I suppose to know that the orientation of the shapes in the small grids controlled the orientations in the big grid. For this game I put in about 50 brute force attempts before I gave up and looked at the store page for a clue, only to realize that I missed a tiny piece of paper in a random corner that had the actual answer. There goes 30 minutes of sleep, plus another 30 minutes writing this comment out. And here I thought "wow, that was a good H game, I wonder what else this developer has made". Fuck me.
In all seriousness though, this is actually decent for a 2 day jam, especially since it was your first 3d game. It did what you set out to do, so kudos for that.
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Jesus, what is this game? Why did I spend half an hour playing it at 11pm on a work night. Controlling the camera with a trackpad somehow made it even worse. I gotta say though that this game nailed the feeling of conspiracy theory, in a weird way. It was when I was counting the amount of boxes on each shelving unit to figure out the keycode when it hit me. The feeling of anger and frustration that comes with a puzzle in an adventure game that you can't solve. Where I have to both rule out the obvious red herrings that the game puts in, as well as the red herrings that I fabricate myself, in the vain hope that the developer is as insane as I am, that somehow counting every lamp in the level will somehow result in a coherent solution. And the best part is that the real answer is usually something so stupidly obvious (although I can't say the same for this game). The stupid floor puzzle near the end of The Witness was another one that did it for me, I mean how the hell was I suppose to know that the orientation of the shapes in the small grids controlled the orientations in the big grid. For this game I put in about 50 brute force attempts before I gave up and looked at the store page for a clue, only to realize that I missed a tiny piece of paper in a random corner that had the actual answer. There goes 30 minutes of sleep, plus another 30 minutes writing this comment out. And here I thought "wow, that was a good H game, I wonder what else this developer has made". Fuck me.
In all seriousness though, this is actually decent for a 2 day jam, especially since it was your first 3d game. It did what you set out to do, so kudos for that.
Thanks a lot for the lengthy review/story and sorry for torturing you like this :D
We like to experiment and it sometimes doesn’t come out as the GOTY of the genre ;)
Anyway, we had fun making it! (which is what counts when jamming)
Nah I had a good time playing it. I was just being a bit silly when I was writing the review.
Sup brendor, is me Shinu
Sup Shinu :D