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made by binroot for Ludum Dare 59 (COMPO)

Controls: Mouse click


Tools: Godot 4.6, Web Audio API, Blender 4.5, Gimp 2.10

Spoiler:

!> You've always known a cyber hellscape bustles beneath the network. Trace your only lead down the rabbit hole, and for God's sake be vigilant! Sku11 is a formidable self-aware crawler. You must neutralize it; but keep your distance, or else be crushed into bits. Some have survived by breaking free, while others... well, you know. Delete it with everything you've got!

Ratings

Overall 115th 3.579⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Fun 177th 3.184⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 5th 4.316⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Theme 230th 3.056⭐ 20🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 80th 3.806⭐ 20🧑‍⚖️
Audio 111th 3.444⭐ 20🧑‍⚖️
Humor 19th 3.921⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Mood 57th 3.842⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Given 15🗳️ 14🗨️

Feedback

LDJam user 373623
Apr 20th · 06:47 UTC
incredible experience, my only complaint could be that it was too short!
red-horde-games
Apr 20th · 09:24 UTC
Surreal experience lmao
mdotedot
Apr 20th · 09:45 UTC
Yeah TOO SHORT; What a trip. Good entry on those signals from the world.
Liam
Apr 20th · 15:48 UTC
Short and weird, real shame there's not more or much interaction, I can see the potential! Thanks for unleashing this onto the world!
graebor
Apr 21st · 02:43 UTC
The initial twist got me good, that was very cool! I think it got stuck though, after I flew through the layers, I ended up in this broken-looking state and I could hear shooting sounds (I think?) which made me think maybe there's more but it's not working.. not sure!

![stuck.jpg](///raw/c24/z/71c21.jpg)
🎤 binroot
Apr 21st · 02:57 UTC
@graebor keep shaking the mouse!
uvwar
Apr 21st · 03:48 UTC
Love the 4th wall breaking effect, very fun!
gamebuilder
Apr 21st · 23:07 UTC
A very bizarre, surreal game—I like it. I couldn't figure out what exactly I had to do, but maybe that's part of the experience. It takes imagination to make a game like this—it needs to be fleshed out, but there is a lot of potential here. I hope you develop this.
graebor
Apr 22nd · 01:42 UTC
@binroot oh geeze, I don't know why that didn't work before! I'm glad I came back to see the rest, there was a lot more chaos beyond that point :sweat_smile:
Tkap1
Apr 22nd · 15:25 UTC
Very cool intro
Emsea
Apr 22nd · 22:56 UTC
We had a great time playing your game [on stream](https://www.youtube.com/live/AsrUFSHAVx4?t=2144s). Check out the link to hear our feedback.
Ansible
Apr 23rd · 18:04 UTC
first go my mouth was open in gasp the whole time how cool!
LDJam user 371030
Apr 26th · 08:11 UTC
xD LOL! Definitely out of the box experience. That is not that often seen here. Unfortunately, from what I have seen, this is not the type of creation that is appreciated enough.

For the feedback, I wish it was longer, as anyone else. But also - I would like to believe there are some deeper references with the pages the skull went through. And ofcourse, more interactions. BUT AGAIN, I *do* know how hard it is to do all of this cohesively in a way that makes sense!

All in all, appreciating the meta-ness of the game! So congrats on the effort.
pkenney
May 02nd · 17:40 UTC
Twist at the start was fantastic. I probably got to the last part in a unique way: I was confused about getting past the first part (EDIT: same as graebor), and I still think maybe something is off-screen for me. I was trying to zoom, and ctrl-mousewheel didn't work. So then I hit ctrl-shift-+ but that didn't work, so then I tried ctrl-shift-0 to set default zoom just in case, and poof to my great surprise I was teleported into the battle scene. Later I found that 9 takes me to the second scene. After that, I figured out how to progress through the game normally (just wiggle the mouse and hold the key at the end of the first part, something seems to be happening but I don't know what).

So a wild ride. Love the crazy unique/experimental entries you come across in LD. Again, that first page is a masterpiece in misdirecting my expectations and then subverting them. Well done!
The Big Lost
May 04th · 11:30 UTC
Wow, what a trip! Took me couple of tries to fully grasp the gameplay and couldn't make sense of the "ratings" at the end, but those are minor nitpicks. Thoroughly enjoyed this! 👏