This is one of the most insane games I have ever played. The concept, the visuals, the sounds are all perfect and truly portray such a deep, intense concept of time. I originally played this game for something to do out of boredom, but it completely captivated my attention. It's ability to portray such strong characters and stories in a short time is incredible. I hope all that worked on this game feels incredible pride and accomplishment. Thank you for sharing your work. :)
This game is perfect, both verbal and visual concepts are impressive, I loved the dialogues, especially the one in the second frame, its short duration makes it even more enjoyable, definitely recommended.
One of the better written games I have played on this site. Fantastic; very unique, very captivating art direction. Really cool bits where the game talks to, you? about you? It really made me think, and I related to many concepts brought up. Loved it! really inspiring.
I already left a comment before, but I have returned to the page to do it again. I can't really describe what a deep effect this game had on me. It's incredibly sad, terrifying, deep, engaging, and simply beautiful all at once. It's the only game that's ever made me cry, and if it weren't such a small game, I might call it the best I've ever played. It's truly up there though. I thank you from the bottom of my heart for this incredible experience you have allowed me to be a part of.
I am incredibly touched by your words, you are too flattering! I don't think my game could live up to such words but it means a lot nonetheless. Please look forward to my next title!!
I've LOVED this game so far, but I think I need some help. I had to quit the game early, and when I loaded it back up and continued my save, it seems to completely freeze the game after about 5-10 minutes. I tried minimizing it, etc and even when I reloaded the game (tried 4 times), it'll let me play a bit longer, and then it does the same thing. Is there something I'm doing wrong? Or, do I just need to start over from the beginning?
does an error message pop up when it happens? does it stay frozen forever? also what operating system are you playing on (is it a modern version of windows or an old version)? I haven't seen this error before, but I hope I can figure something out to help. If nothing helps, could you try playing the HTML version on your mobile device if you have one?
Gosh. It feels like my mind-dreams and thoughts just gathered and shapeshifted into a game. Not something I expected to see actually, but the only thing I can be sure in, is that I will pass plenty of time thinking about it. Never was I so sure that I can the right things as I am now.
this game was just wonderful. i loved the art, the very well-writen story, it looks like you're good in everything. the end was kinda confusing but everything in this game is on a whole other level. glad to see you have another game. going to play it. its sad indie games dont get much recognition but thats what makes them "indie" or special. i loved your work so keep it up.
I loved the ending, just take a step back and look at what you had to do. (SPOILERS AHEAD!!!)
You helped people move on from a place where only a small piece of themselves could interact with the world. They used what little connection they had to explore every inch and option possible in their world, leaving them trapped in a "dead" world. The music reflects the scene; Beautiful songs with a steady beat, but eventually they become endlessly repetitive. After a while, the music seems tragic, the steady beat has been the same for minutes, hours, and what was once beautiful begins to dull. But then you find another piece of the world, and another, and the track changes, and the game seems beautiful again. But it's that same, steady beat. You are trapped in a finite world yourself, you know, exploring the world with just a character you move around on your screen with arrow keys to represent all that you really are. After helping 3 others leave this world to find the next, it should be a simple task to help yourself... But instead, you wander hallways, you look in the paintings and old, fully explored worlds again... when all you had to do is simply move on to the next room over. There were no directions to tell you to go there, but it's such a simple and obvious path. You trapped yourself in a simple world, listening to the same beat, over and over. Maybe you left the game and returned, but your character was still stuck in the same place. Only when you moved on were you able to beat the game. Congratulations you beat the game, there's nothing left of the game to explore except your own memories. How long will those last until your mortal life ends, or your finite memory betrays you? It doesn't matter, it's something beautiful that you fought and won for, and it's yours to treasure until it's time to move on yourself. Or at least, that's how I interpreted the ending.
I'm floored by your analysis Joseph! I feel like your analysis is more detailed than my own game haha. Nevertheless I feel like it was spot-on, you hit on a lot of the ideas I was thinking of when I made this :)
Yes! It is called Project Obelisk and the announcement can be found here. For updates (and access to any alpha/beta builds I release), please join my Discord and follow me on Twitter!
this game, good god this game. I've never been so emotional I swear. This is so captivating and I would love to just experience it for the first time again. many props to you
Enjoyed this game a ton. The use of ai art for characters reminded me of how fuzzy things I see in my dreams can be recalled at wake, just like how Charon mentioned. Although the use and development of modern ais disturbs me, I am honestly in favour of the early stage ai art. Those creepy and disturbing tastes they created were something unachievable by human hand.
Thank you! Though I don't believe in the technology anymore, back in the day I felt it was an interesting way to make something unrecognizable as human
this was SO sick. similar to other commenters i'm able to forgive the usage of ai, considering it was the weird fucked up early stage ai and it was used as a base with which to make something absolutely incredible. there is so much good here. the soundtrack, the writing, the gameplay.. ughhhh. the third painting genuinely made my heart beat SO fast, especially when the monster showed up for a second time. i really deeply enjoyed this. i could talk to charon about monster trucks forever i think
Honestly, at first when i saw the ai imagery i almost quit the game, but decided to give it a try and im glad i did. I loved how this game used ai ''art'' to create actual art, as to add into the concept of something inhuman and surreal but didnt let that be the art itself', as the art is not the images but the concept, the story, the game, its so raw and so human. loved the story, (tho i believe it would be better if it was an actual artist making the images.)
yet, since it was early-stages ai, it was kinda cool how you dealt with it. (sorry for my english btw)
I have such a genuine love for this idea and the music is out of this world, but AI art always sits bad in my mouth. I know getting the look of AI art is more difficult but that's honestly the whole point of art in general, the skill of it. It's not my place to really ask, but please consider commissioning someone to do the art for your next game, or just trying it out yourself! I want to love this and anything that comes next in its entirety so bad :)
UPDATE: You inspired me to make a blog post and post it permanently on top of the descriptions of both of my games, talking about my stance on AI art and how these games do not represent me anymore. You can find that blog post here.
I'm considering making a notice or something on the game itself because I feel like this doesn't represent my current opinions on the subject. When I made the game, the most early AI art models had just released, and had this imperfect, surreal look to them. As a computer scientist, I was fascinated by what it could do, and since this game (along with Cohabitation) was made for a school project with a development cycle of only a couple of months, I decided to use that art because I felt it complimented my surreal game quite well. Since then, it has become much more clear that these models are trained by stealing art (and the models that have came out after the one I used are much more obvious about that).
So now I am left with some options. I could delete the game, since I feel like it doesn't represent me anymore, but from some of the comments and private reviews I know it means a lot to people, so I don't want to do that. I think my current decision is to never use AI art again, a decision I made clear whenever this discourse has come up before. I am an artist (my second side hobby is making webcomics) and my next game will be worked on in conjunction with many of my artist friends. Because I am an artist the concerns about stealing art matter a lot to me, and I understand the worries of you and everyone else who has commented here. Between these ethics concerns, which were not made clear to me back in the day, and the complete lack of anything interesting from new AI models, I don't think it has anything to offer to my work anymore.
Thank you for your feedback, I agree with you that oftentimes the point of a piece of art is the skill that goes into it. I hope to bring that point across in my next game :)
This is an excellent response. I second that you shouldn't delete the game, but it's good to acknowledge what happened and how you'll change that going forward.
I can see this truly means a lot to you and the response is very appreciated. I definitely think that you should leave this game up as well, I look forward to what's to come!
Wow. That is the dumbest thing I have read in a long time. AI just like cameras, programming languages, digital art softwares, are all merely advanced science that allows us to create cool art. I’m not gonna write more than this. It is so dumb to hate on AI anything when it’s
not
harming anyone. This is ART. If you don’t get it just leave.
It's harmless because it doesn't actually harm anyone, but art is beautiful because it is made with hard work. A landscape in nature isn't made by anyone, but it's still beautiful. But a landscape isn't art, because it wasn't designed by us. A painting of a landscape IS art, because the colors were carefully designed to match the artists observations of nature, and that is beautiful. AI is designed by humans, but the work it produces was not made directly by humans. If someone used an AI to recreate the Mona Lisa down to the exact atom of the wood canvas, it still wouldn't be a true piece of art like the original. If a person made a sculpture to resemble Mona Lisa, that would be a testament to the original, and although it is art it shouldn't replace the original. Does that make sense? I don't want artists to replace their own work with using AI as a tool, I want to see works created with their own hands, created by going out into the world and observing it for themselves.
I understand you but I don’t think AI is replacing human art, if anything it is enhancing it! And as you said AI was created by humans and the art it creates is not a single human’s art but the collective artistic hive like human mind that creates it. Not the art of 1 human but the art of humanity. That’s what is amazing about AI art to me, and I believe it is art. To me at least. The concept of art is relative. To me anything that exists through a human perspective can be art. Just like the colours of galaxies, stars, quantum physics, animals, etc. Nothing cancels anything. Art can be A, but it doesn’t mean it can’t also be B, or C, or &, or *648H, etc. I hope that makes sense.
After reading this 4 times, I just realized something new. I was mixing beauty with art. For something to be beautiful it doesn’t have to be art. Good example with nature. I need to rethink my stand on art. Although the topic was AI Art.
I generally dislike the idea of AI art. and was not impressed by the game at all, up until the 3rd painting which hit a deep personal chord (growing up in iraq I knew exactly was the soldier was talking about, the "pyramid of flesh" picture is something ingrained into deep primal parts of my brain, which totally saved the game for me). also was disappointed the 4th painting wasnt really a painting :) but generally nice idea. 3/5
That was indeed the inspiration, its incredibly striking and haunting imagery that should never be forgotten. Additionally, I completely understand your concerns about the AI art, I feel like these games do not represent me or my opinions on that subject anymore, and have attached a blog post about that subject. Thank you for your criticism as it helps me grow as a creator, and such growth wouldn't be possible without people like you.
I love love love this game so much, the worldbuilding and concept are so interesting to me! There's so much rich storytelling in such a brief experience, I wish it could've been longer but honestly? I think stretching out the game would have almost been a disservice to its messages. Beautiful work and I can't wait for more content from this creator!!
I posted my playthrough on my YouTube channel!! It's two videos :)
Yet another ass pretentious art game but this time its AI
the pathfinding doesn't even work and no one talks normally, people say they cried well I fell asleep if your gonna make a story or social game don't add a maze zone where you read notes.
If you focus only on AI art (…which was in the early stage, which no one would have found that it was stealing from actual artists), obviously it’s a chore for you. If you decide to sit down, look past it and understand the story itself, it would be much more emotional as the story itself is not thrown into AI garbage anyway.
The artist also doesn’t really plan to engage with it so there’s that too.
the story wasn't ai! just the images. but honestly, i liked the ai images in the game. it added a level of surrealism which i enjoyed and thought fit the theme well! it was just the sadness of the second story that made me a bit emotional. it may not be your kinda game, but it's definitely many other people's kind of game!!! nobody is forcing you to play it :)
I feel weird after finishing it, i loved the vibes and the use of ai to make you feel like you are in a dream, thanks for the expirience, keep making more!
I really really liked this game, but the ending was slightly underwhelming for me. I don't know why? I guess the rest of it felt so deep and thoughtful but, by the nature of this being a game and not really knowing about me, the generic guesses about me (clearly based only on the information I chose to play this game) and the implication that I had to move on didn't quite sit right with me. I'm honestly not sure what would've made the ending better... Maybe some semblance of choice (leaving the hotel (limbo) vs going into the painting vs leaving in a boat with Charon etc.) at the end? Maybe an ending scene? The ending scene might involve the saved characters from the other paintings? I'm honestly not 100% sure. But other than that this game was very hard hitting and deeply meaningful, props.
True, I think the ending part is the part I was the most disappointed with when it comes to the story, though I'm not sure how else I would end it. By the time we were making the ending, the game was due within an hour (this was for a class project lol) so maybe we got lazy haha
This is a truly stellar game with a lot of excellent themes and stories. Each painting has something for someone, gameplay-wise, and each of the characters' tales of their lives are amazing, albeit very tragic. The first painting had me a little miffed at how annoying it was to traverse, but I'm sure that was intended. The second painting was easily my favorite, with interesting thought-provoking puzzles to solve. And the third painting had my heart practically beating out of my chest due to the sheer terror I felt (Excellent use of sound design btw!). And all of this is tied together with a unique AI artstyle to really sell the strangeness of this new dimension. I highly recommend this game to anyone looking for a taste of a few spectacular flavors!
This is a beautiful game. Right after I had finished it on Wednesday night, I had gotten a call from my best friend's husband telling me that she had been in a car accident. She did not survive the incident, but throughout this game I kept thinking about how much she would've enjoyed it.
My mind keeps going back to it in times of grief, and I think the irony of it all would've made her laugh too.
I am incredibly sorry for your loss. It's incredibly touching that the game had that affect on you, it's exactly what I was going for when I made it. May she rest in peace.
If you get the question wrong on the second paintings second question it kicks you out but when it gives you a new riddle the keyboard still has the answer from your old guess and you cant delete it. Is this normal?
That is normal, in the background, the variable used for your guess is the name of an actor, and I use the same actor for the same round of questions. I should probably have fixed that, my b
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This is one of the most insane games I have ever played. The concept, the visuals, the sounds are all perfect and truly portray such a deep, intense concept of time. I originally played this game for something to do out of boredom, but it completely captivated my attention. It's ability to portray such strong characters and stories in a short time is incredible. I hope all that worked on this game feels incredible pride and accomplishment. Thank you for sharing your work. :)
thanks!!! you are too kind omg
This game is perfect, both verbal and visual concepts are impressive, I loved the dialogues, especially the one in the second frame, its short duration makes it even more enjoyable, definitely recommended.
thank you so much! I'm flattered :))
God... I don't have words, damn. I 100% recommend playing this!!! I LOVE IT
Thank you so much it means a lot :)
One of the better written games I have played on this site. Fantastic; very unique, very captivating art direction. Really cool bits where the game talks to, you? about you? It really made me think, and I related to many concepts brought up. Loved it! really inspiring.
Thank you so much, you are too kind!
I already left a comment before, but I have returned to the page to do it again. I can't really describe what a deep effect this game had on me. It's incredibly sad, terrifying, deep, engaging, and simply beautiful all at once. It's the only game that's ever made me cry, and if it weren't such a small game, I might call it the best I've ever played. It's truly up there though. I thank you from the bottom of my heart for this incredible experience you have allowed me to be a part of.
I am incredibly touched by your words, you are too flattering! I don't think my game could live up to such words but it means a lot nonetheless. Please look forward to my next title!!
I've LOVED this game so far, but I think I need some help. I had to quit the game early, and when I loaded it back up and continued my save, it seems to completely freeze the game after about 5-10 minutes. I tried minimizing it, etc and even when I reloaded the game (tried 4 times), it'll let me play a bit longer, and then it does the same thing. Is there something I'm doing wrong? Or, do I just need to start over from the beginning?
does the download version for Mac or windows work?
I downloaded the windows version
update: it happened searching through the trash again, in a brand new save.
does an error message pop up when it happens? does it stay frozen forever? also what operating system are you playing on (is it a modern version of windows or an old version)? I haven't seen this error before, but I hope I can figure something out to help. If nothing helps, could you try playing the HTML version on your mobile device if you have one?
One of the coolest weirdcore games!! I loved every second of it. Amazing use of AI, super creative and innovative. Super inspiring.
Loved the video but side note: YOU RUN YOUR GAMES FROM THE TERMINAL???? love the old internet aesthetics haha
thank youuu yes lmao
Gosh. It feels like my mind-dreams and thoughts just gathered and shapeshifted into a game. Not something I expected to see actually, but the only thing I can be sure in, is that I will pass plenty of time thinking about it. Never was I so sure that I can the right things as I am now.
Thank you so much I'm honored!!
A very unique and fun experience that I was not prepared for! The soundtrack is insanely good had me dancing!
I loved your jam sesh and sound effects LMAO
I'm glad you liked it lmao! I already got cohabitation in my list of games to play next!
Very fun! I didn't plan on completing it on the first playthrough, but it kept me hooked
Thanks :))
this game was just wonderful. i loved the art, the very well-writen story, it looks like you're good in everything. the end was kinda confusing but everything in this game is on a whole other level. glad to see you have another game. going to play it. its sad indie games dont get much recognition but thats what makes them "indie" or special. i loved your work so keep it up.
I loved the ending, just take a step back and look at what you had to do. (SPOILERS AHEAD!!!)
You helped people move on from a place where only a small piece of themselves could interact with the world. They used what little connection they had to explore every inch and option possible in their world, leaving them trapped in a "dead" world. The music reflects the scene; Beautiful songs with a steady beat, but eventually they become endlessly repetitive. After a while, the music seems tragic, the steady beat has been the same for minutes, hours, and what was once beautiful begins to dull. But then you find another piece of the world, and another, and the track changes, and the game seems beautiful again. But it's that same, steady beat. You are trapped in a finite world yourself, you know, exploring the world with just a character you move around on your screen with arrow keys to represent all that you really are. After helping 3 others leave this world to find the next, it should be a simple task to help yourself... But instead, you wander hallways, you look in the paintings and old, fully explored worlds again... when all you had to do is simply move on to the next room over. There were no directions to tell you to go there, but it's such a simple and obvious path. You trapped yourself in a simple world, listening to the same beat, over and over. Maybe you left the game and returned, but your character was still stuck in the same place. Only when you moved on were you able to beat the game. Congratulations you beat the game, there's nothing left of the game to explore except your own memories. How long will those last until your mortal life ends, or your finite memory betrays you? It doesn't matter, it's something beautiful that you fought and won for, and it's yours to treasure until it's time to move on yourself. Or at least, that's how I interpreted the ending.
I'm floored by your analysis Joseph! I feel like your analysis is more detailed than my own game haha. Nevertheless I feel like it was spot-on, you hit on a lot of the ideas I was thinking of when I made this :)
Thanks for reading! I love your work (I'd be happy to work with you...), and I'm looking forward to your new PROJECT! 😉
(PS: Oh cool, you have a discord!)
Thank you so much! I feel so flattered by your words
I just want to say that this is an artistic master piece. I hope you get the appreciation that you deserve.
Thank you so so much!
are you working on a new game?
Yes! It is called Project Obelisk and the announcement can be found here. For updates (and access to any alpha/beta builds I release), please join my Discord and follow me on Twitter!
This... is such a good game.
thank you so much :)
this goes in my favourite rpgmaker games folder fr
this game, good god this game. I've never been so emotional I swear. This is so captivating and I would love to just experience it for the first time again. many props to you
your words mean so much to me, thank u!!! <3
Absolutely loved the game, the use of art, soundtrack and different reactions to trauma.
thank you!!!!!!! :)
Enjoyed this game a ton. The use of ai art for characters reminded me of how fuzzy things I see in my dreams can be recalled at wake, just like how Charon mentioned. Although the use and development of modern ais disturbs me, I am honestly in favour of the early stage ai art. Those creepy and disturbing tastes they created were something unachievable by human hand.
Thank you! Though I don't believe in the technology anymore, back in the day I felt it was an interesting way to make something unrecognizable as human
this was SO sick. similar to other commenters i'm able to forgive the usage of ai, considering it was the weird fucked up early stage ai and it was used as a base with which to make something absolutely incredible. there is so much good here. the soundtrack, the writing, the gameplay.. ughhhh. the third painting genuinely made my heart beat SO fast, especially when the monster showed up for a second time. i really deeply enjoyed this. i could talk to charon about monster trucks forever i think
Thank you so much! I hope to give more Charon content in the future.
Honestly, at first when i saw the ai imagery i almost quit the game, but decided to give it a try and im glad i did. I loved how this game used ai ''art'' to create actual art, as to add into the concept of something inhuman and surreal but didnt let that be the art itself', as the art is not the images but the concept, the story, the game, its so raw and so human. loved the story, (tho i believe it would be better if it was an actual artist making the images.)
yet, since it was early-stages ai, it was kinda cool how you dealt with it. (sorry for my english btw)
Well said and I agree with your statement.
Thank you very much, I agree with your sentiment and I plan to never use AI art again -- I want my future project to be a celebration of art instead.
lovely game!
thank you :)
I have such a genuine love for this idea and the music is out of this world, but AI art always sits bad in my mouth. I know getting the look of AI art is more difficult but that's honestly the whole point of art in general, the skill of it. It's not my place to really ask, but please consider commissioning someone to do the art for your next game, or just trying it out yourself! I want to love this and anything that comes next in its entirety so bad :)
UPDATE: You inspired me to make a blog post and post it permanently on top of the descriptions of both of my games, talking about my stance on AI art and how these games do not represent me anymore. You can find that blog post here.
I'm considering making a notice or something on the game itself because I feel like this doesn't represent my current opinions on the subject. When I made the game, the most early AI art models had just released, and had this imperfect, surreal look to them. As a computer scientist, I was fascinated by what it could do, and since this game (along with Cohabitation) was made for a school project with a development cycle of only a couple of months, I decided to use that art because I felt it complimented my surreal game quite well. Since then, it has become much more clear that these models are trained by stealing art (and the models that have came out after the one I used are much more obvious about that).
So now I am left with some options. I could delete the game, since I feel like it doesn't represent me anymore, but from some of the comments and private reviews I know it means a lot to people, so I don't want to do that. I think my current decision is to never use AI art again, a decision I made clear whenever this discourse has come up before. I am an artist (my second side hobby is making webcomics) and my next game will be worked on in conjunction with many of my artist friends. Because I am an artist the concerns about stealing art matter a lot to me, and I understand the worries of you and everyone else who has commented here. Between these ethics concerns, which were not made clear to me back in the day, and the complete lack of anything interesting from new AI models, I don't think it has anything to offer to my work anymore.
Thank you for your feedback, I agree with you that oftentimes the point of a piece of art is the skill that goes into it. I hope to bring that point across in my next game :)
This is an excellent response. I second that you shouldn't delete the game, but it's good to acknowledge what happened and how you'll change that going forward.
I can see this truly means a lot to you and the response is very appreciated. I definitely think that you should leave this game up as well, I look forward to what's to come!
Wow. That is the dumbest thing I have read in a long time. AI just like cameras, programming languages, digital art softwares, are all merely advanced science that allows us to create cool art. I’m not gonna write more than this. It is so dumb to hate on AI anything when it’s
not
harming anyone. This is ART. If you don’t get it just leave.It's harmless because it doesn't actually harm anyone, but art is beautiful because it is made with hard work. A landscape in nature isn't made by anyone, but it's still beautiful. But a landscape isn't art, because it wasn't designed by us. A painting of a landscape IS art, because the colors were carefully designed to match the artists observations of nature, and that is beautiful. AI is designed by humans, but the work it produces was not made directly by humans. If someone used an AI to recreate the Mona Lisa down to the exact atom of the wood canvas, it still wouldn't be a true piece of art like the original. If a person made a sculpture to resemble Mona Lisa, that would be a testament to the original, and although it is art it shouldn't replace the original. Does that make sense? I don't want artists to replace their own work with using AI as a tool, I want to see works created with their own hands, created by going out into the world and observing it for themselves.
I understand you but I don’t think AI is replacing human art, if anything it is enhancing it! And as you said AI was created by humans and the art it creates is not a single human’s art but the collective artistic hive like human mind that creates it. Not the art of 1 human but the art of humanity. That’s what is amazing about AI art to me, and I believe it is art. To me at least. The concept of art is relative. To me anything that exists through a human perspective can be art. Just like the colours of galaxies, stars, quantum physics, animals, etc. Nothing cancels anything. Art can be A, but it doesn’t mean it can’t also be B, or C, or &, or *648H, etc. I hope that makes sense.
After reading this 4 times, I just realized something new. I was mixing beauty with art. For something to be beautiful it doesn’t have to be art. Good example with nature. I need to rethink my stand on art. Although the topic was AI Art.
I generally dislike the idea of AI art. and was not impressed by the game at all, up until the 3rd painting which hit a deep personal chord (growing up in iraq I knew exactly was the soldier was talking about, the "pyramid of flesh" picture is something ingrained into deep primal parts of my brain, which totally saved the game for me). also was disappointed the 4th painting wasnt really a painting :) but generally nice idea. 3/5
That was indeed the inspiration, its incredibly striking and haunting imagery that should never be forgotten. Additionally, I completely understand your concerns about the AI art, I feel like these games do not represent me or my opinions on that subject anymore, and have attached a blog post about that subject. Thank you for your criticism as it helps me grow as a creator, and such growth wouldn't be possible without people like you.
I love love love this game so much, the worldbuilding and concept are so interesting to me! There's so much rich storytelling in such a brief experience, I wish it could've been longer but honestly? I think stretching out the game would have almost been a disservice to its messages. Beautiful work and I can't wait for more content from this creator!!
I posted my playthrough on my YouTube channel!! It's two videos :)
Yet another ass pretentious art game but this time its AI
the pathfinding doesn't even work and no one talks normally, people say they cried well I fell asleep if your gonna make a story or social game don't add a maze zone where you read notes.
If you focus only on AI art (…which was in the early stage, which no one would have found that it was stealing from actual artists), obviously it’s a chore for you. If you decide to sit down, look past it and understand the story itself, it would be much more emotional as the story itself is not thrown into AI garbage anyway.
The artist also doesn’t really plan to engage with it so there’s that too.
This game really got to me...it was a complete work of art. It even made me tear up a little. Incredible artists.
Bro really cried to AI art
not the ai images, but the story itself. the second one really got me.
Bro cried to AI story
the story wasn't ai! just the images. but honestly, i liked the ai images in the game. it added a level of surrealism which i enjoyed and thought fit the theme well! it was just the sadness of the second story that made me a bit emotional. it may not be your kinda game, but it's definitely many other people's kind of game!!! nobody is forcing you to play it :)
I loved its vibe, the music keeps you on the edge and if this was just a demo i would definitely look forward to an extended full version
This game was wonderful
This Game is so good it actually made me cry
Is it not working for anyone else?? says it won't load... I'm on browser btw
Hm, what error message shows up on your screen when it says that?
I feel weird after finishing it, i loved the vibes and the use of ai to make you feel like you are in a dream, thanks for the expirience, keep making more!
thank you! Stay tuned for my next game in development now, Project Obelisk!
https://itch.io/blog/708576/announcing-my-newest-game-project-obelisk
absolutley beautiful
thanks :)
Powerful and delightfully crafted. Thank you for this. Please make more game.
I'm working on a new, full-length game right now! Details are here: https://itch.io/blog/708576/announcing-my-newest-game-project-obelisk
this is just.. beautiful honestly..
that first story was so UGHHH like how could he do that to her???
im glad he's stuck there forever without her
im glad too :)
BRO WHAT HAPPENED TO US I'M HELLA CURIOUS
up to your interpretation :)
damn
Damn dude I cried from this. I felt fulfilled.
Thank you! It's incredibly touching that it had that effect.
I really really liked this game, but the ending was slightly underwhelming for me. I don't know why? I guess the rest of it felt so deep and thoughtful but, by the nature of this being a game and not really knowing about me, the generic guesses about me (clearly based only on the information I chose to play this game) and the implication that I had to move on didn't quite sit right with me. I'm honestly not sure what would've made the ending better... Maybe some semblance of choice (leaving the hotel (limbo) vs going into the painting vs leaving in a boat with Charon etc.) at the end? Maybe an ending scene? The ending scene might involve the saved characters from the other paintings? I'm honestly not 100% sure. But other than that this game was very hard hitting and deeply meaningful, props.
Real.
True, I think the ending part is the part I was the most disappointed with when it comes to the story, though I'm not sure how else I would end it. By the time we were making the ending, the game was due within an hour (this was for a class project lol) so maybe we got lazy haha
This is a truly stellar game with a lot of excellent themes and stories. Each painting has something for someone, gameplay-wise, and each of the characters' tales of their lives are amazing, albeit very tragic. The first painting had me a little miffed at how annoying it was to traverse, but I'm sure that was intended. The second painting was easily my favorite, with interesting thought-provoking puzzles to solve. And the third painting had my heart practically beating out of my chest due to the sheer terror I felt (Excellent use of sound design btw!). And all of this is tied together with a unique AI artstyle to really sell the strangeness of this new dimension. I highly recommend this game to anyone looking for a taste of a few spectacular flavors!
Thank you so much!!! :)
This is a beautiful game. Right after I had finished it on Wednesday night, I had gotten a call from my best friend's husband telling me that she had been in a car accident. She did not survive the incident, but throughout this game I kept thinking about how much she would've enjoyed it.
My mind keeps going back to it in times of grief, and I think the irony of it all would've made her laugh too.
Thank you for making something so touching.
I am incredibly sorry for your loss. It's incredibly touching that the game had that affect on you, it's exactly what I was going for when I made it. May she rest in peace.
Amazing experience!
thanks!! :)
If you get the question wrong on the second paintings second question it kicks you out but when it gives you a new riddle the keyboard still has the answer from your old guess and you cant delete it. Is this normal?
That is normal, in the background, the variable used for your guess is the name of an actor, and I use the same actor for the same round of questions. I should probably have fixed that, my b