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Defrag by mediyaz

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made by mediyaz for LD 42 (JAM)

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Delve inside a decaying computer from 1995. Defragment the the files and free up some disk space.

— PLAY ON ITCH.IO

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Controls

— WASD / Arrow keys - Move around


— ESC -  Teleport back to the start (handy if you get lost or stuck somewhere)

— C - Toggle player coordinations on/off (also handy if you get lost)

— M - Toggle music on/off

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😱Uh oh! - this computer's hard disk is bursting at the seams, it can barely even switch on >_< Time to get into your miniaturised  Defragger ship and delve into the heart of this decaying computer to help free up some space.

Find all the pieces of the fragmented gifs to win - explore, solve puzzles, open shortcuts and plunge into heaps of tiny computer files as if they were dried leaves in the fall /autumn.

This computer is falling apart and large chunks of it are open to THE VOID  - enjoy exploring this terrifying, trippy, infinite, beautifully overdrawing domain! There's all sorts of crazy nonsense in this nightmarebox - keep an eye out for a foe from a bygone era of word processing 📎

— PLAY NOW

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Walkthrough >

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGodKsvpUy4

HTML5 (web) https://lukenofurther.itch.io/defrag
Original URL https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/42/defrag-1

Ratings

Overall 153th 3.849⭐ 45🧑‍⚖️
Fun 250th 3.605⭐ 45🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 124th 3.791⭐ 45🧑‍⚖️
Theme 353th 3.779⭐ 45🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 102th 4.302⭐ 45🧑‍⚖️
Humor 128th 3.615⭐ 41🧑‍⚖️
Mood 147th 3.732⭐ 43🧑‍⚖️
Given 46🗳️ 25🗨️

Feedback

LukeWaffel
13. Aug 2018 · 23:44 UTC
Overall great game. I love the intro screens. The music is a bit loud however, and I couldn't find a way to turn it down except for turning down my system's audio. It's definitely a challenge to collect all the fragments, I didn't manage to get them all.
bekovski
13. Aug 2018 · 23:59 UTC
Great stuff. Theme, innovation, and graphics are five stars each. Honestly, the only bummer in this one is the audio. More sound effects would have been nice. The music I found to be really annoying tbh, and not all that fitting to to 90's theme (as in old Windows). Had to play it with my audio muted.

Like Luke I also didn't get to manage all the fragments. I guess some of them need a bit of fine-tuning (like the one where you have to beat the mine in a race). But still a great game.
panda
14. Aug 2018 · 14:36 UTC
I must say, many games for this jam have some version of "the void", but this one is by far the best!
drdrdrpipe
15. Aug 2018 · 11:01 UTC
When I heard this game was in the pipeline I knew the final product would be piping hot. Pipe down, dissenters - you may think the premise is just a pipe dream but let me tell you it's as blissful as smoking a peace pipe. 5 Gs
Crafty mine
15. Aug 2018 · 12:43 UTC
Cool game
The graphics are nice
Keep it up
Good luck🍀
Laniph
15. Aug 2018 · 12:44 UTC
Really impressed by the graphics and the overall mood. However, the camera made me feel dizzy and I couldn't play for too long!
mrsylar59
15. Aug 2018 · 12:53 UTC
I liked the game but it's really hard to control with the physic. The fact that you bounce a lot on spikes trapes you in an endless loop of taking damages which ultimately kills you. Loved the effort going through the artstyle. Keep it up.
Fluffy_Kaeloky
15. Aug 2018 · 13:04 UTC
Love the art style and music ! The mood is also perfect, pressurizing you, the small defrag spaceship to plow through this computer that probably hasn't seen only cute gifs.

I had quite a blast playing this game, and found a dear foe along the way. :paperclip:

Only negative points are the camera which made me feel dizzy, and the ship that does turn way too fast for me when accelerating.

Overall, awesome game !

![Defrag.PNG](///raw/9f8/91/z/19bdb.png)
shujal
15. Aug 2018 · 13:50 UTC
Great game! I really liked the graphics, especially the 'Windows' effect. An overview would a good addition, to see which sections you have completed and if you have finished the game.
Tony Redmer
15. Aug 2018 · 21:31 UTC
The effects here are incredible! The whole look of it was very put together. Controls were pretty frustrating, particularly when you're just trying to get to the other side of the map.
WrenPirate
15. Aug 2018 · 21:47 UTC
Wow. The graphics looks super slick, although when I got blasted out into Nothingbutmotiontrails Land, I was a little overwhelmed. My personal preference would be for the WASD to control my motion directly. It was counterintuitive for me to use W for forward when I actually wanted to go south/down. I like @shujal's suggestion of an overview or map, which I supposed is not in keeping with the defrag theme. I scored 5 on theme for being on point without being literal about the walls closing in or whatever.
niterich
15. Aug 2018 · 21:55 UTC
The visual design was incredibly well done! I especially liked how the void looked - very trippy. However, I felt the physics were a big turn-off for me, especially how you don't keep your orientation when colliding with the walls. It made correcting my course a lot more difficult since I couldn't really plan for which way I would be facing.

Finally, with all the throwbacks to 90's PCs, how could you leave out a killer MIDI soundtrack?
inateno
15. Aug 2018 · 22:17 UTC
Man, to me it's actually the best game of the Jam. Do a complete version, release on steam, success guaranteed lol

PS: A8N-SLI with an AMD 4000+, remind me my first config it was a M2N-SLI DELUXE with a 4200+ and a 8800GTS :D
Quite a good config for running win98 lol
BoopsGames
15. Aug 2018 · 23:04 UTC
This game was a trip! I liked it a lot, but I'm pretty sure you don't have the rights to all the graphics in this game. Don't worry, I won't tell :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:
It took me a while to figure out that you can push the blocks under the crossed out rectangles. I know it's basically the first thing you do, but Instead I bumped into the "door" block and thought "oh i can't go there i guess" flew around in a circle and then tried again and without knowing why I was able to continue... I found out half way through finding all the fragments (defragments?) and then i was able to complete the game.
Not sure if it was timed or just a win/don't win thing.
Anyway, it was fun!
![Screen Shot 2018-08-15 at 3.58.20 PM.png](///raw/d92/c1/z/19e29.png)
bobo_oh
16. Aug 2018 · 16:37 UTC
Wow that is beautiful ! I really enjoyed the graphics, also the music is nice !
But that's too the controls are kind of hard to get along with. It's maybe too slow ?
Also, maybe there's some troubles in the game design, I ended up in arrows that made me die, and then I took another path that made the game completly glitch. I'm pretty sure this was made on purpose, but you should give some key to let the player restart when it happens.
Anyway, this is was really good !
Angel Felix
16. Aug 2018 · 20:17 UTC
game is really beautiful loved the graphics. wish the controls were a bit tighter and there was a lil more to do maybe blasting viruses or something but really loved this entry.
EdwinGameDev
16. Aug 2018 · 22:15 UTC
Awesome, i liked the game very much. Rad concept, crazy stuff 10/10 :heart:
fivenamefivesocks
17. Aug 2018 · 09:09 UTC
The graphics and effects are TERRIFIC ! love the intro with the defrag shortcut changing into a ship, a bit bothered by the controls, but guess its part of the gameplay, really good work !
Darenn
17. Aug 2018 · 10:53 UTC
Wow very good game, graphics are awesome ! I like this kind of crazy games.
Team Trout
17. Aug 2018 · 12:50 UTC
This is great! A cool throwback, and an innovative concept. I felt like some of the arrows that send you into spikes were a little cheap but maybe I just need to git gud
t-mw
17. Aug 2018 · 15:06 UTC
Amazing effort for one weekend, the graphics and intro are perfect. I also thought some of the spike + arrow combos were unfair, but nothing that can't be fixed.
Roidz
17. Aug 2018 · 16:09 UTC
great job, perhaps a little overboard with the screen tearing effect.

if u make a fullversion i would love to see 2 player (local) multiplayer where players can open doors or defuse traps for each other.

great entry !
Kubenexion
17. Aug 2018 · 17:22 UTC
Really fun! A well polished game!
Graphics are awesome!
Good job
thegunmaster
17. Aug 2018 · 23:00 UTC
Very cool game, love the classic trail that you put in there :)
BloodJohn
18. Aug 2018 · 04:36 UTC
Platformer from my childhood. The effects and physics just make the brain. I was having fun from the heart.
camilovr
31. Aug 2018 · 21:29 UTC
Congratulations
Fantastic idea
I loved the logo, graphic style and music
knarf
03. Sep 2018 · 22:30 UTC
Awesome idea and atmosphere through the game. I really loved tha idea and atmosphere around this, introduction and the visual design nicely fitting the game with glitchs and raw icons and gifs. effects are looking good too, such as controls but I had some slowdowns that comes from the html export. Good job anyway ! Cheers !
acronaut
04. Sep 2018 · 07:24 UTC
What a trip indeed..
Clever idea of the Defragerator ship.. :ok_hand: