December 13th-16th 2013 :: Theme: You Only Get One
[ Real World Gatherings | Ludum Deals | Warmup Weekend ]
In a relaxing world of hot air balloons and clouds, you have 80 years to find your one and only soulmate before you die old and alone.
Featuring an infinite procedural cloud generation system and an original ukulele score.
(Known bugs: Occasional cloud pop-in, extra NPC balloon duplication.)
Media:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jP0-AR3OUes
https://vine.co/v/h2dmTEWVxxJ
https://vine.co/v/h2wrpBVhUWD
https://vine.co/v/h2FWq9lKDjw
Downloads and Links
Ratings
 | Coolness | 59% |
| #17 | Mood | 4.00 |
| #24 | Audio | 3.79 |
| #92 | Theme | 3.68 |
| #212 | Graphics | 3.55 |
| #306 | Overall | 3.25 |
| #368 | Innovation | 3.09 |
| #555 | Humor | 2.12 |
| #851 | Fun | 2.31 |
Comments
Sweet.
Very relaxing scenario & soundtrack.
No challenge or real gameplay, but then again, it's not trying to be that kind of game, so that's cool.
The music's great, and swooshing around in the air is pretty nice. Clouds sometimes pop in/out which breaks immersion a bit. Same for balloons. It'd be even greater with that fixed.
Overall 4/5 for great mood!
Very pretty game, a test of patience (much like finding your soulmate in real life I suppose), but in the end I found my soulmate.
Very meditative, very deep, and music is a perfect match for graphics! :)
I think i found 3 soulmates at once. Not sure if possible but i bumped all of them. Good job on the clouds =)
I didn't find my soulmate, much like real-life. Awesome ambiance and very existential :)
A very calming and peaceful game. Very open ended interpretation of it. Good work
Really beautiful to play after playing so many other games; lovely song and relaxing. :)
Great mood, love the art style.
There were some "solid" ballons I could crash into.
Found the one! Great take on the theme(unlike me). Nice relaxing experience.
Nice game, the music really matched the soothing gameplay and visuals. I did not find my soul mate sadly though. =[
Such a nice and relaxing game. Loved the ukulele. :) The balloons popped in randomly on the screen but I didn't let that bother me too much. :)
So great. My dad flew hot air ballooons so I flown quite a bit. This takes me back!
That was absolutely lovely! Great ambience with the music and overall atmosphere. Great graphics, great bendy balloon rope physics. Awesome creation!
Nice ambiance. I sadly wasn't able to find my soulmate after quite some time, but it was still an enjoyable experience. Keep it up dood!
That music is beautiful! Although I found that popping to be a little bit annoying, it was a great experience.
Nice relaxing game, found my soulmate with 66 years left.
I like the idea, though I think that I wasn't laying it quite right. The physics on the balloons are awesome
That was.. interesting. I felt a bit pointless on the other hand, but it was calming. I stopped searching after 5 year though.
Didn't find my soul mate, mostly because I found something much more awesome to do. Screw soul mates when you can do FLIPS in a BALLOON. FLIPS. That soul mate should be finding ME.
So yeah I found it quite fun, even if the main thing didn't entice me too much. Loved the audio though, really set a nice mood. :)
Really nice entry! I found 'The One' at about 65 years. I really liked the Art and I think the game's strong selling point was how relaxing it was and the strong meaning behind it. Really well done, nice work.
I really like the mood of this game. The art, the music, and the slow pacing were all super effective at making it feel like it was an accomplishment to find the one. Great work.
I like it! Great mood!
My only criticism is that when you're playing you can't tell how much longer it'll take to find the other balloon, and there's not really any sense that you've progressed, so I was unsure whether I should give up or not... Still I persisted and managed to find it!
The flexibility of the elasticity is very pleasant. Sometimes i met groups of balloon stuck to each other. Superb music. Nice start :)
Weird, good weird but still quite strange. Music was great and the visuals are good. It does't have much of a purpose but sometimes it's nice to just have a relaxing float about.
Relaxing. I spent 7 years and some days to find my soulmate. Meanwhile I was thinking of all this year 2013. A year full of changes for my team. Thank you for make this "therapy" game
Nice and relaxing. The first go-around I did not find The One, but the second time, they were right there when I started. Maybe that means something? Dug the music, as well.
Great mood, art and sound, moving the ballon it's like a therapy, very relaxing.Good work.
This game is probably the most charming of this Ludum Dare, that is... if you support POLYGAMY and RACISM. Grrrr..
Just kidding Plooglez, it seriously made my heart go awwwwwwwww. Well done!
very sweet idea. Loved the art and sfx. Thought the totally lack of direction actually really fit this design. It definitely got your point across. Nice to play a more contemplative game.
Amazing mood. Was very relaxing too watch. If NPCs somehow gave you an idea where your SO is would be great, because i didn't have any idea how to find it :(
Bumping baskets to find the one. At first, I found myself asking the question: How do you know when you've found "the one"? And knowing the answer is: you'll know. Sure enough, found it! Great serene soundtrack; really evokes drifting.
I'm getting an error message when trying to unzip your download file :-(
error: attempt to seek before beginning of zipfile
(attempting to re-compensate)
inflating: The One.exe bad CRC 25461c01 (should be 6e60a68a)
Super pretty (I LOVED how the clouds looked), good-feeling (movement felt nice, the music was a good fit). I feel like you didn't give me a lot to do-- it was literally "hold any button until the right balloon shows up". I liked some bits of the framing (the very slow countdown measured in "years") and I feel like with some tweaking it could have felt meaningful even if you didn't find "the one" (like, what if time ran out much quicker, and you realized that your experience lasted 80 years and felt beautiful the whole time but you never did find that one special person). As it was tho the problem was after about forty seconds it was like "ok, now what?". I tried making trying to invent my own little "game"s on top of this one to kill time, I kept trying to bounce my basket up on top of my balloon or swing the basket around in circles, I at some point decided my goal was to try to reach the ground (if one existed) and held down. I found a couple minor ways to glitch your physics engine into making the balloon move quicker than it would otherwise… :D none… of this felt like it was really part of the game tho.
As a queer person, I spent most of the game just going "but why CAN'T I date red balloons?!"
What happens if you run out of time completely btw?
Pixelbear's review stated my feelings exactly (I think I found my soulmate! at least in terms of playing this game): "Screw soul mates when you can do FLIPS in a BALLOON. FLIPS. That soul mate should be finding ME. "
I spent most of my time seeing how far I could stretch the ropes on my balloon. I managed to get my basket to go off the top of the screen for a bit. Finding my soul mate otherwise was kinda boring. Also, my soul mate totally interrupted the shoving match I was having with a couple green balloons, so I wasn't entirely thrilled about finding them haha.
Overall, not really my kind of game. I'm find with the calming, do almost nothing kinds of games, but this one just didn't click with me. However, it was well made. Fitting soundtrack, relaxing atmosphere, just not for me.
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So nice game, found my soulmate at 75yo left
great experience!