Keeper by sparkleswirl

made by sparkleswirl for LD27 (COMPO)

Keeper is an "art game", I guess? It's about love and life and loss. Unless you play Arcade Mode which is all about getting a high score with none of those silly feelings.

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INSTRUCTIONS

Click to select menu options.
Press and hold spacebar for "ten seconds" to complete each level.

Kongregate version has high score support, but had ads.

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NOTES

This game was made in under six hours* with Stencyl 3.0 beta. Sounds were made using OpenMPT and edited using Audacity. Royalty free ocean wave sounds were from soundjay.com.

* I was way overbooked this weekend having spent my entire Saturday doing needlework demos at the county fair. The game (at least the arcade mode mechanics) was designed while I was pooping at the fair after eating too many fried bacon mac and cheese turnovers. I am not even kidding.

Kongregate	http://www.kongregate.com/games/wingie/keeper
Dropbox	https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/32373/Keeper.swf
Source	https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/32373/Keeper.stencyl
Original URL	https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-27/?action=preview&uid=22944

Ratings

Coolness	49%	1129
Overall	2.74	860

Audio	2.97	309
Fun	2.11	1085
Graphics	2.09	1023
Humor	1.63	896
Innovation	3.05	492
Mood	3.17	252
Theme	3.77	92

Feedback

Croze

26. Aug 2013 · 02:36 UTC

It fit the theme, has nice audio, and has a good mood, but that's about it. Everything else is a 1

Waave

26. Aug 2013 · 02:38 UTC

I liked the central mechanice, though I think you should have eased the rate at which time was slowing more.

Ciaran54

26. Aug 2013 · 02:39 UTC

I was sort of interested in the story, but i'm afraid it couldn't keep me interested enough to wait holding the spacebar for ten seconds over and over again. I like the atmosphere though, and a pretty good attempt for six hours ;)

Ravetcofx

26. Aug 2013 · 02:40 UTC

Doesnt feel like a true game :(

lulzfish_4

26. Aug 2013 · 02:40 UTC

I'm stuck on "We kept laughing" I held it for 100 and it still wouldn't let me pass.

Interesting idea, wish you had more time to build a game around it.

superjoebob

26. Aug 2013 · 02:40 UTC

I was worried this was gonna be really bad when I saw the mechanic, but I played arcade mode and I'm surprised how fun it actually is! I got 234556.

Alexander

26. Aug 2013 · 02:41 UTC

Great use of the mechanic, very cool and innovative!

nathanhoffer

26. Aug 2013 · 02:41 UTC

Awesome. I like the creativity involved in turning a simple game into a deeper story.

zzForrest

26. Aug 2013 · 02:42 UTC

This was very... Interesting. The gameplay wasn't the best, but I was honestly very hooked. The simple graphics and incredible audio made this game more of an experience. This was incredible. No doubt, 5/5

Snail_Man

26. Aug 2013 · 02:43 UTC

Very nice entry! I liked how it was so simple on the surface, but was really much more complex.

🎤 sparkleswirl

26. Aug 2013 · 03:06 UTC

@lulzfish_4: When you say "100" do you mean 10 actual seconds, or until the timer reaches 10.00? The game measures time by the timer and not actual time, and that stage has the biggest time offset.

HardScore

26. Aug 2013 · 11:26 UTC

Great sound, after a few tries it felt slow and i just quit, but i like what you tried to do there with the story.

chrisamaphone

26. Aug 2013 · 16:53 UTC

i love this. wow. a perfect little meditation.

pythong

26. Aug 2013 · 16:54 UTC

lolololol nice story, nice atmosphere, but still feels like a trolling entry :D

Unept

27. Aug 2013 · 02:58 UTC

Pretty fun. Interesting take on the theme too. Well done on the mood created with the words and audio!

withoutpillow

27. Aug 2013 · 17:15 UTC

the simple mechanics, writing and soothing atmosphere works really well together. the game makes me calm, contemplating. i like it.

N427

01. Sep 2013 · 15:28 UTC

Pretty neat and fun! Apparently I have an unfailing internal clock.

matthias_zarzecki

05. Sep 2013 · 09:13 UTC

This is a fun structure. Nice work!

Christina Nordlander

06. Sep 2013 · 16:00 UTC

The writing is excellent, and the gameplay gets reasonably challenging. I like how you made both a Story and an Arcade mode. On the whole, though, this game felt a bit minimal. (Maybe you should have made it for the last Ludum Dare.)

Good use of the theme.

Jarcas Studios

07. Sep 2013 · 01:44 UTC

I didn't have the patience to wait 10 seconds for every new sentence... there's like 2000 other games to play! Nice audio though.