Paints of Mind by Onizik
This is a story of an artist who cannot finish his picture for a long time. It doesn’t matter how many tries he got; every sketch is thrown into a trash bin. The artist decides to go deep inside to find his inspiration. However, he is carried away by his conscious and is locked inside it.
After multiple failed tries to get out a darkness appeared inside which is going to devour everything. Our hero decided to overcome darkness and wants to understand what helped him to be creative for this time before.
Genre: Quest
You need to move between the levels to find three light which opens door out of this place.
However, it needs to do it quick because shadows thicken around, create arms which tries to pull you away. When you find the first light there will be displayed above the character. You will be able to click ‘Space’ to take an action (move to the level, suppress the shadows).
We place one "Easter egg" in our game. Can you find it?
| Youtube | https://onizik.github.io/Build/Paints_of_mind |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/paints-of-mind |
Ratings
| Overall | 2148th | 3.026⭐ | 21🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 2279th | 2.667⭐ | 20🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 2043th | 2.833⭐ | 20🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 2293th | 2.921⭐ | 21🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 582th | 4.053⭐ | 21🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 1253th | 3⭐ | 20🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 1805th | 2.267⭐ | 17🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 982th | 3.5⭐ | 20🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 24🗳️ | 4🗨️ |
I can tell it took quite some time to create! Great job guys!
One of the main drawbacks, in my opinion, is that when you enter a new "room" you always spawn in the same spot. This makes it difficult to determine where you came from if there are multiple portals in a room. I feel this made navigation unnecessary frustrating.
Apart from that the music and the graphics are phenomenal for a gamejam, so really well done. Give it a little more polish and this will be great!
However i have no idea what i'm doing or where i'm going in the game so i got completely lost and ended up just randomly jumping through portals in the hope of making progress. Maybe that's the idea though.