April 26th-29th 2013 :: Theme: Minimalism
Ludum Dare 26 — April 26-29th, 2013
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In the year 20XD7, Steve is stuck in a dead-end job, but he's about to quit and seek the fruit of spiritual enlightenment.
His journey is... NIRVANA QUEST
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Ratings
 | Coolness | 91% |
| #25 | Audio(Jam) | 3.98 |
| #71 | Humor(Jam) | 3.19 |
| #154 | Fun(Jam) | 3.22 |
| #179 | Overall(Jam) | 3.36 |
| #208 | Graphics(Jam) | 3.45 |
| #220 | Mood(Jam) | 3.12 |
| #307 | Innovation(Jam) | 2.84 |
| #555 | Theme(Jam) | 2.06 |
Comments
The most interesting platformer I have ever seen. It was a completely different idea and very interesting.
Really really cool. One of my favourite games I played here so far :)
I really like the art for this game. The design of the levels made it pretty hard at times but still a good game.
- I can't see the theme anywhere but I liked the game.
- Nice opening screen.
- The controls are a little awkward.
- The parallax city at the background of level 1 looks pretty cool, reminds me of Canabalt.
- I didn't finish level 3. That level had my favorite music in the game.
I really liked the music, and I really missed it when it stopped playing. Then I realized that I'd grown an attachment to the music and that it was standing in the way of my ascendence.
I never completed my quest to Nirvana. I never managed to pass the spot with the rocks falling to knock you off the clouds. In the end, I think the game-over screen says it well.
Good job!
Love the "meditation" mechanic, though it took me a while to figure out I was actually controlling the game's speed. That said, the first level is really a pain, design-wise - and I think it would've made more sense to start at the top and work your way down.
Welp this is one of the best Ludum Dare game's I've played, and one of the better flash ones on top of that. Very good work to everyone involved
Not sure how it fits the theme. But I enjoyed the effort that went into this. Amusing audio too. Good job all!
Haha, i loved the settings, it's a very original platformer, and the music is very good!
Fun game... i very much liked the music. The meditate mechanic was a nice twist to the gameplay.
That game is kinda cool. Really like the meditation mechanic, that slows time, it's really smart.
Music is absolutely amazing and that start screen was pretty hilarious.
Nonetheless graphics are sometimes really good (canabalt like background in level 1) and sometimes absolutely MEH... (foreground in level 2 and 3, animals sprites in level 3).
There is also that level 3 (that i finally finished), wich is pretty ambiguous :
The game is kinda slow, i mean that there is a lot of waiting time due to the meditation mechanic and when you have to wait the plateform you want to jump on is near enough. Especially in level 3, it's nor good nor bad, just a choice you made.
But in level 3 wich is very long you decided to put a lot of waiting time couple with a lot of hard move that lead to immediate punition on a failed jump.And if you failed a bit much you have to start at the beginning. And that really long Anti-loose cloud isn't a viable solution, to let a chance to the player to win.
Here is the ambiguity, if you want to make a slow plateformer game with long levels like Mario, you HAVE TO place checkpoints and way to win more lives (after the level 1).
And if you want to make a Ultra speed and Hardcore plateformer game like Super Meat Boy, levels needs to be pretty short and there must be no lives and infinite restart possibiity.
Game reminds me old-style games in '90s. Thanks for that feeling :)
Good job supporting the concept behind the game!
I think the part that could use the most improvement is that the first stage requires a lot of waiting for platforms to move into position.
I liked it alot, one thing you need to fix though:
If you are like me when you get to the end you want to meditate so you press space bar, trouble is the game starts loading the ending and pressing space bar skips the end. I don't want to play through again just to see the end so I'd recommend having a delay or something so people can't accidentally skip the end, otherwise enjoyed the game a lot, music was awesome.
Hilarious and fun, love the audio and the meditation meter!
Eh, cool intro, but then the screen wents black and I just hear the sounds.
@kddekadenz, we thought we had fixed that bug... it might be possible that your flash player is out of date? Could you try again and let me know if it works for you?
@dremelofdeath: Yes, my version of Flash is outdated. Adobe dropped Linux support and the packages they provide are hard to install. The bug still occurs.
Really great music and i love the health system. i found the platforming to frustrating at times though, and i didn't think it went with the theme as well as it could have. Really great game though!
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Love the audio. Great game!