April 26th-29th 2013 :: Theme: Minimalism
Ludum Dare 26 — April 26-29th, 2013
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Create a rich world with your words.
Build minimalist works during a 10 second engagement. After 10 seconds, you have the opportunity to view the piece. You can start typing again to reset the clock and create something new.
Each keystroke brings something new to the creations. Experiment and discover your own expressions.
Have fun :)
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Ratings
 | Coolness | 89% |
| #21 | Innovation | 4.17 |
| #71 | Graphics | 4.05 |
| #89 | Theme | 4.12 |
| #96 | Audio | 3.59 |
| #97 | Mood | 3.63 |
| #238 | Overall | 3.51 |
| #663 | Humor | 2.08 |
| #667 | Fun | 2.85 |
Comments
Great music and sense of style. It's interesting to watch and see what happens. Slick presentation.
This is a really nice idea! I kept trying to make pictures by typing in the same word over and over.
This was a cool little toy, I had a lot of fun figuring out what keys did what and how you were drawing things.
Its a really cool experimental art maker. Exploring the key presses to understand what they do and how they interact is delightful.
Oh wow! What an awesome idea! I'm super impressed. Innovation = 5 stars for sure.
Love the music and graphics. It's interesting what you can me with it.
Ha, creating stuff randomly/haphazardly is fun :) . Although I have no idea what's going on in the grand scheme of things.
Very interesting. Liked the concept and the toy. I am an artist! Mood, art, and audio are outstanding. Keep it up!
Awesome man! I saw your tweets all weekend and couldn't wait to try it out. It is more of an experiment than a game, but it's perfectly executed. Only thing I could possibly suggest is an infinite stream of text. Sometimes it's therapeutic to just type and see this image change, instead of getting an image and restarting. But great work!
Thanks for the kind comments everyone, I really appreciate the feedback :)
Favourite one so far has been "ON", sadly when I went to take a screenshot it reset the painting :(. Very cool stuff. Literally the theme.
I looooove random creation. :D
Although the patterns are a bit repetitive...
This thing is curious, I try to find pattern but each world are unique making differents thing. I thing you can turn this in game like find the correct word.
Fun game. Like the music, and wordds with lots of "B" makes some nice patterns :D
no idea what is happening but it's super dreamy in the best way! :)
Oh man so soothing! I love this thing.
I can do this forever
why do I keep creating worlds
oh what would this word look like let's try
oh god please let me stop
(accurately sums up my playthrough of the game forever)
Abstract and beautiful. I'd love more concrete rules for each keypress - something completely predictable. Harsh sounds making sharp edges, soft ones making rounded ones... then again, perhaps this is already the case! Interesting. Great work.
A very nice game! The music was great and the outcome of your text was very cool to see! Good job!
Spent a lot of time seeing what typing in different things would do, had a lot of fun with this one XD Thank you for making this.
Really really cool! This is a pretty great interpretation of the theme :)
This could make for a nice contemplative afternoon working out sequences and combinations. Very nice work.
nice experimental entry, not really a game but a good effort on the theme
Really love how tight and cohesive this feels! As a fan of things that play with frequency analysis, I think this is really cool.
Hard to rate. Really nice look/style (visual and sound impression), but for me the "experience" will be better with some game mechanics.
You already have won the compo because of the title :). It's more experimental art then a game now. I wonder how could it be expanded into something where you slowly explore the inner workings of the this picture generator.
Interesting. Good work!
Crazy stuff. I think I might be seeing those colors even though I've closed the game haha.
Interesting game. Cheers
I love how it's randomly generated based on input! I can only imagine so sweet enviro-effects if it had some sounds w it too. Although, I still got a boat. Is that supposed to happen?
CORRECTION: I love how it's "NOT-randomly-generated-but-still" based on input! So, basically, I love it. That is all. You may now return to your regularly schedule gaming.
You cool commenters you, thanks so much for making this Ludum Dare so fun :)
This is amazing. Blogged it here:
http://videogameartstyles.tumblr.com/post/49304582092/10-second-language
I hope you win!
Fantastic experimental game idea. Looks good sounds good. and quite engaging. Overall very well done.
Cool! I find myself trying to suss out the system underlying system, but maybe that's missing the point.
He he. Feels like I have control over the world.... I have no control...
Wonderful idea.
The idea of translation from a tactile form to visual form is a really cool idea, I could spend all day typing in quotes and such. Great work.
Really enjoyable just to watch the piece grow - the idea that I can learn what effect each key had and perhaps learn to purposely create a world is pretty cool!
I loved it! The colors and shapes are amazing, it really has a nice mood! Really nice!
Awesome, had fun conversing and then just jamming keys as fast as possible.
Someone needs to try this hooked up to voice2text
I really liked this. It was almost soothing, with the music and sounds you added. Really nicely done.
I like keyboards. There are lots of "create art from a strange input" things, the "canonical" example I can think of is otomata. But this one uses the keyboard! Something about the way I understand keyboard makes this feel more like I'm exploring a giant space of possibilities rather than painting random stuff with the mouse or whatever.
Watching the colored film overlay interested me. If you continue to develop this, I did not pick up on the mapping between the grammar and the graphics.
Fantastic stuff. Lot's of fun to mess around with it. Also, if you write "pointy birds" you actually get a picture of pointy bird that appears to be inflating a balloon. Go figure.
Nice looking web toy and I liked the audio. Not a game though.
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Curious experiment! Love the aesthetics and the randomness of every creation.