ILLUMINATED

Relaxing, interesting game. I included it in my GM48: Colors are Important compilation video series, if you’d like to take a look. :) https://youtu.be/5oPza5MRAiY

Went out of the game to check the feedback/description to see if there was something I was missing, and when I came back to the game, the player instance was... blue? xD While I didn't figure how to change color it did it basically when I minimized the game lol

So, yes, not really much to add from what was previously said, not much to do, but it's an interesting start at least. It felt so gloomy though, most of the game is you in a near-black screen. But at least the atmosphere feels like it was your intention, so that's nice

Thanks for submitting a game!

Played it for ~a minute, as you mention in the description there wasn't really any challenge. It is not clear to me with god mode off if there is fighting or something like that with the other creatures you discover, so I cant really comment on that part.

Lets talk about what we can:

I thought the sound and music was very good and fit the game very well.

Visually I really liked the style. You didn't try to do too much, so even though we were looking at a combination of primitive shapes your avatar looked neat.

I liked that the instructions for the game were written on the background, I like that style, but you might have made them a bit easier to find.

Controls scheme, call me crazy but I feel like this might have played better as a point->click->move game. Not knowing where my cursor was caused me some problems for sure. I also kept boost held down the entire time, so not sure if this is something thats limited outside of god mode or not, but I would either take boost out and have you just move that fast, or make sure that there is some sort of a timer or cooldown to make sure i cant just use it always.

Overall a neat concept. Would love to see some of the bugs fixed, the "game play loop" outside of the god mode fleshed out and some narrative added to the entry.

Nice job and thanks for submitting!

Very interesting art-style. Too bad there wasn't much to do. Reminded me of the water-cell levels of Spore haha Well done! :)

Hi! This is a very cool athmospheric game, I think! It had some element of horror, to swim around in darkness. The art was cool, and I loved how the little guy danced around, following my cursor. And I loved the music, very misteryous!

But, as you wrote, you cannot die, what makes it a little bit too relaxing. But it's a bug, and bugs happen! Especially within such a strict time-frame,

Nice entry, keep it up!

Hey the sound on this game, specially the music was amazing for game jam, so well done on that.

There was a lot of strange bugs, I would have preferred to see my mouse as it coming outside the window and highlighting things on my start menu lol.

There was no real challenge here, but I've read god mode is on by a bug?

I thought the body trailing the head was nice and smooth, I liked this.

So yeah the music and fluid movement were my best parts of this game.

I thought that the theme was more of an after thought, really this game would work the same if you took the colors out, so aiming feed back would be aim more towards hitting the theme better.

very fun and looks good and sounds great

only thing i didn't like was it was a little bit to dark and i wish the movement was faster

oh so there is not a reply for gm48 but i can edit. the boost and it still was to slow :D

I fundamentally don't understand how you got that sound design done. It's so good.

I really appreciate the reveal of the deep creatures. They came out of nowhere and that's honestly really true to what I was hoping for. Do you think you would add a depth mechanic similar to Flow? Managing color and depth could be a really cool experiment in how we visualize a layered gaming world from above.

To bounce off the echo of gamification, I'm not sure honestly how you would gamify something this ethereal. It's easy to add the idea of an objective but there are some amazing art games where that takes a secondary spot (thanks, That Game Company). This would easily fall into that repertoire which is why I so quickly thought of flow. TLDR: I'm not mad about the lack of gamification. Sure, it needs some, but not much.

Killer job with this.

I loved the lighting, super smooth movement, the way it started, the little particles and other thing swimmin around. The atmosphere was ominous and I really felt the deep sea vibe. I would suggest maybe keeping the characters a bit darker and maybe use bio-luminescence patterns (now that I'm thinking about this it would be really fun to mess with and can maybe incorporate the patterns as another mechanic such as somehow copying other creatures patterns to lure them in or maybe have meters that tell you how much color you've obtained and can use until it's used up). Thanks I really enjoyed this one!

This felt really nice game, it had atmoshpere. Though did you make the music during the 48 hour period, as artistic content should be? Nevertheless, it really fit the game. I would see here some potential if you make some more gameplay here. Graphics were pleasing, but you should work on player design to be more unique. The geometric shapes don't fit the overall game, so maybe you should redo it to be more vivid, lifelike, wavy, or something.

Edit. Good to know, gonna check those :D Many times I have used AudioSauna for making short pieces of music, but I can't make any long melodies :P

I so wish this game had worked like you intended! I can see a lot of potential here. Very reminiscent of Subnautica, in a way!

I thought the game was beautifully rendered and the music was very appropriate.

I would have liked some indication of where the mouse cursor was, in order to help me control the character, but that's a small gripe. The character also seemed to do a wiggle motion if it swam too close to the mouse point.

I hope you work on this post-jam and make it as you imagined!

The artwork and the sound effects in this are really nice. This game has a great atmosphere and I'd be happy to play it again if all the bug were fixed.

The audio and visuals are very impressive. I would love to see this with more game play mechanics.

Really cool creature design on the fish and that presumably bad fish guy (even if he can't hurt you in this version he looks cool XD )

Really nice looking game, too bad there is no objective/loss condition but I can imagine what it could be like with objectives and progression.

the controls feel great and really interesting to play around with.

the sounds used are really nice an atmospheric and really add to the game