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Two Sided by Daskaund

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made by Daskaund for LD29 (JAM)
The world of "Two Sided" is like a coin, two different but related to the same surface worlds. you will start the adventure beneath the surface of the world in an oppressive atmosphere. You must finish at least one labyrinth and use a teleporter that will take you back over the surface of the world in a completely different place. In the underworld, you might fall into trap on the ground, or get stuck by invisible walls ... hope you will enjoy the game, if you have any question do not hesitate! :)

Developers:

Scripting: Jordo76
Level design and texture pack: Swipeshark, Nast, Hedjin, Daskaund
Software used: CraftStudio [ http://craftstud.io/ ]
Sounds used: Lustmord - Black Star [ http://rutube.ru/video/1a77224867f72e79a1d1949e87d176dc/ ] Hiroyuki Sawano & - Ad Lib � [ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvIhOFbXfpA ]
Special thanks: GamePortos, Xiden, Poltergeist and LucasRo7
Link to the Windows / Mac / Linux / HTML5 downloads https://www.dropbox.com/sh/s71abccmlae8upj/zzCotLJ-dZ
Original URL https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-29/?action=preview&uid=37437

Ratings

Coolness 73% 3
Overall(Jam) 2.79 603
Audio(Jam) 3.25 282
Fun(Jam) 2.33 655
Graphics(Jam) 2.71 611
Humor(Jam) 2.16 531
Innovation(Jam) 2.54 589
Mood(Jam) 3.46 196
Theme(Jam) 3.00 444

Feedback

DanDias
29. Apr 2014 · 04:05 UTC
Nice work! The cramped, oppressive feel of the maze linked me to the theme immediately. However, first person maze navigation got a bit tedious. Just a suggestion, something that let you see the traps for a limited period of time or something would up the fun factor a bit. Maybe some features of the world I could look at as a reward while progressing. It just seemed really plain. The mood and the dual world concept was what I enjoyed.
eowindil
29. Apr 2014 · 10:19 UTC
What an oppressive atmosphere ! Good choice of music and my heart thanks you for not adding screamers.
The traps really are frustrating, it's difficult enough to find the good way. But you should have added more features beacause it gets repetitive quickly.

Good work anyway !
🎤 Daskaund
29. Apr 2014 · 17:45 UTC
Hello ! first of all thank you for your support :)
During the 3days we had to create Two sided, we looked for stuff that could make the game a little bit less boring but we don't know yet how to make npc or foes neither moving blocks.. in fact, the only "fun" stuff is the parkour field in the top world : if you jump while being on a slope you can go further into the air..
Hope you'll have fun with this minigame, if you have ideas for more content i'll be glad to try to put it in the game :)
Boodog
30. Apr 2014 · 14:32 UTC
Nice job and good music :D
🎤 Daskaund
30. Apr 2014 · 14:37 UTC
thank you :)
Kragnir
30. Apr 2014 · 14:47 UTC
Ran around in the first maze for about 10 minutes before finding the exit and then another maze. Needs something to make the mazes more interesting. The mood was nice before the music stopped. The maze got dull pretty quick.
skymen
30. Apr 2014 · 15:01 UTC
It's nice to see some craft studio games :D.
Games made with it are generally beatiful (for voxels).
Good job.
skymen
30. Apr 2014 · 15:02 UTC
Really good game :D. Really beatiful. The atmosphere is extremely well made. I love it. Like all the other craft studio games submitted since LD23 or LD24, it's awesome
brogrammers
30. Apr 2014 · 15:09 UTC
Even if other said you should have added other features (and they are not wrong), I love the game even as it is, especially the mood it puts into you (creepy as hell). Great job!
Kwrky
30. Apr 2014 · 15:15 UTC
Was I meant to fall through the floor? I just kinda fell into blackness forever and the game didn't restart...
🎤 Daskaund
30. Apr 2014 · 15:19 UTC
@Kragnir : as i said before, we didn't had any other ideas to make things at a time fun and respecting the theme... for the sound, we couldn't put a sond that was more than ~5min long
🎤 Daskaund
30. Apr 2014 · 15:24 UTC
@Kwrky : in fact, the world beneath the surface is in a bix black box so you can't see the background & the top world.. and since you don't have HP, you can't die so the only way to retry for now is to altf4 and re-launch the game :/
Moosefly
30. Apr 2014 · 17:37 UTC
Hm, those audio files make the download quite large. And the audio just stopped after Black Star played once. Took me probably over 10 minutes to get out of the maze, can't navigate at all when everything looks the same. Maybe paint the tiles the player has already walked on or add something to the walls to help with navigating. Not much to do at the moment either, like others have mentioned. The surface world looked pretty nice, but you probably shouldn't make the skybox from voxels :P.
Solifuge
30. Apr 2014 · 17:39 UTC
Hi, this is Vector from the Victory Garden team! (posting under Solifuge's account)

I don't know what went on, but I actually didn't run into any traps or invisible walls the whole time I was in the maze. I also didn't realize that the warps would keep sending me back and forth between the worlds, so I wound up in the maze quite a few times, hehe.

The free-runner on top of the roof would have been a lot more fun with longer ramps and smaller jumps--as-is it was a bit more like a tilted "pixel-perfect" first-person platformer, which is a rough combination.

Excellent mood. To fix your audio problem, usually folks make some kind of loop. Might be difficult if you're using open-source music, but it'd also help your entry a lot.

Thanks for the experience! Those beast roars in the background freaked me out, haha.
🎤 Daskaund
30. Apr 2014 · 18:16 UTC
@Moosefly : thank you for this great idea, i'll speak about it with my mates and we'll try to put it in the game

@Solifuge : In fact, there is almost no traps in the maze but i wanted to warn people about it so they cannot think this is a bug or something. For the sound, we thought that it was looping but none of us played the game until the end of the sound but it will be fix as soon as possible ^^
JayPC
30. Apr 2014 · 21:00 UTC
This is really cool, as someone mentioned the maze navigation in first person is trealy hard. Honestly just make the hallways like 3 or 4 blocks wide instead of 1 block and that would be solved, my first try, I fell in a hole into an abyss. I figured that the hole was intentional so I waited to 'die' and have to restart but I just kept falling... so I'm no longer sure if the holes were intentional. Anyway fun game!
sudorossy
30. Apr 2014 · 22:54 UTC
Holy crap the music is scary! Really nice
Zerkruemler
01. May 2014 · 09:44 UTC
Hmm, what should I say. The first thing I did is to jump out of the window which somehow breaks the game. Then I wandered aimless through the labyrinth, but nothing happens. No hint what to do, no interaction with the world or other stuff. I haven't understood the game.
Unfortunately the first minutes where too anoying to give the game a real chance.
teambrookvale
01. May 2014 · 09:51 UTC
Haha the music is scary. Mood is really cool
whilefun
03. May 2014 · 17:18 UTC
The atmosphere was really great. The dreary audio helped with this a lot. I found the jumping to be very frustrating, as I kept sticking to the walls. Cool concept, and visuals. A little more control polish would make this good entry a great one! :)
Ragzouken
03. May 2014 · 17:28 UTC
liked the atmosphere in the maze. found some things i could jump around but the jumping seemed very unreliable!
🎤 Daskaund
03. May 2014 · 17:47 UTC
Hey everyone ! thanks again for your support and you replies :) I wanted to say that the jump is useless in the game, we just put it because my friends and I thought that a game in first person view is more boring without the ability to jump around ^^
jhrrsn
03. May 2014 · 18:22 UTC
I enjoyed the music and the art style was really interesting. Neat idea - good job guys!
hbocao
04. May 2014 · 04:10 UTC
Well done, guys!
The underworld was very creepy and whoever made the decision of using that "growl" sound can go... !! Dammit! hahaha The music really helped to set the mood too. The graphics are cool, but it remind me too much of Minecraft (not the cubic world, but the textures). Very interesting game. Is there an ending? Because I got wandering until I fell down under the world. Take a look: http://imgur.com/a/BmHVf#3
🎤 Daskaund
04. May 2014 · 04:26 UTC
@hbocao : wow how the hell did you end up there ? o_O
There is no end in Two Sided, because we ran out of time and skill in scripting, but you can considere that you have finished the game when you ends all of the mazes :)
Adrian
06. May 2014 · 21:20 UTC
Good job, music is really cool : oppressive and makes you want to leave this bad gray world. Which I found a little boring, even though I understand it's probably the aim of the game. I really liked the bright sided world, and found myself trapped again in this giant maze too quickly after that.
Other than that, the game is really smooth but I noticed a couple of playability problemes : Jumps have a few collision problems and mouse sensitivity could easily be lowered. But good work, great atmosphere !
arrogant.gamer
07. May 2014 · 20:35 UTC
I tried to run the linux version, but got the following error:

err:module:import_dll Library mscoree.dll (which is needed by L"Z:\\home\\zeigfreid\\Games\\LD29\\TwoSidedLinux\\TwoSidedLinux.exe") not found
err:module:LdrInitializeThunk Main exe initialization for L"Z:\\home\\zeigfreid\\Games\\LD29\\TwoSidedLinux\\TwoSidedLinux.exe" failed, status c0000135
Tosic
09. May 2014 · 19:15 UTC
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Nanolotl
10. May 2014 · 02:36 UTC
The audio created a really nice atmosphere, but something about the 3D graphics and movement just gave me a headache. Possibly to narrow a field of vision?
ElStevo
10. May 2014 · 14:54 UTC
Nice idea. Cool mood. I got lost very often. Maybe larger corridors and slower running pace would help.
Delca
17. May 2014 · 20:33 UTC
I really liked the atmosphere, especially in the mazes. However, controsl were a bit clunky (speed was a little to high, and jump had a few problems with collisions).
That being said, I liked the rest of the game. Good job!