Of Void by Finn_Tr

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made by Finn_Tr for Ludum Dare 48 (JAM)

Manipulate space and gravity to navigate through the depth of the void to reach the bottom of everything and uncover its secrets.

Of Void (Gravity Wells Demo).gif

Of Void (Rotate Demo).gif

Controls:

​WASD: Movement

Space: Jump

E: Interact

R: Restart Level

Credits:

​Music: https://freemusicarchive.org/music/SergeyCheremisinov/TheHealing/FarOutThere

Sfx: freesound.org

Ratings

Overall 88th 4.17⭐ 46🧑‍⚖️
Fun 81th 4.114⭐ 46🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 139th 4.023⭐ 46🧑‍⚖️
Theme 1646th 2.898⭐ 46🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 110th 4.455⭐ 46🧑‍⚖️
Mood 20th 4.535⭐ 45🧑‍⚖️
Given 19🗳️ 42🗨️

Feedback

Holly
26. Apr 2021 · 20:34 UTC
Awesome puzzle game! Really loved the theme, music and puzzles especially when the room rotation came in play!
ZazaB
26. Apr 2021 · 20:56 UTC
Nice style and atmosphere !
Choppers
26. Apr 2021 · 20:59 UTC
This is really polished. The mood was great, and I liked the music and art. The game was overall fun to play.
syrsa123
26. Apr 2021 · 21:00 UTC
Great game with good puzzles and mechanics with great music and visuals to match.
Almighty Games
27. Apr 2021 · 09:24 UTC
beautifully designed puzzle game. I will definitely be playing through the rest of the levels when I am feeling a bit more leisure. Great job! you're going to score very well in this jam.
Bauke Regnerus
27. Apr 2021 · 09:26 UTC
Beautiful aesthetics and great use of simple shapes. A very wholesome experience with satisfying puzzles. Definitely one of the best games I've played so far.
Webox
27. Apr 2021 · 12:50 UTC
Super moody game!! Loved it, the grunt of the player was a bit disconnected with the rest of the game and kind of broke the atmosphere. It's a really cool entry, the rotatinf mechanics are really cool and the entire game is a journey. Congrats!!
Flaterectomy
27. Apr 2021 · 13:01 UTC
What a clever way of making simple shapes look good. And a solid puzzle mechanic too! I must admit, it's a little bit beyond the scope of my puzzling abilities. I managed to get the blocks on the buttons and then realized I was in no position to get to the door. In trying to then get to the door, I ruined everything.

But while I suck at this, I fully appreciate smart puzzles. Good job!
Rujum
27. Apr 2021 · 14:32 UTC
Ty for the game !
AndideBob
27. Apr 2021 · 15:53 UTC
So I kinda threw my box into Orbit!

![ofVoid.png](///raw/1bf/8/z/40b71.png)

This was such a cool game, the graphics are on point and the subtle soundscape fits nicely. The addition of a retry button is apprechiated as well. I could see this game working really nicely on mobile, so maybe that's something to consider.

All in all a really solid entry!
st00nsa
27. Apr 2021 · 19:19 UTC
Nicly polished game. I love how you used glow/bloom effect and how music keeping it all together.

I haven't really noticed a how used theme of jam here, but probably I'm loosing something.
Phillip Scott
27. Apr 2021 · 20:43 UTC
Love this, really sad when I finished it
AutoGibbon
27. Apr 2021 · 20:53 UTC
I love chill games like this. The music is great, the look and feel is great, and the puzzles themselves very well thought out. Super nice, this would make a great full title.
Togis
28. Apr 2021 · 16:09 UTC
I uploaded our gameplay of your game on youtube, you can find it here: https://www.youtube.be/watch?v=KLwrzc7DkDo&t=4480s

Thanks for being part of the stream, yesterday was amazing! :smile:

This is definitively one of my favorite game so far! Wonderfull design, well crafted puzzle and game mechanics! I just wish I could have a button to destroy the world at the end ^^
Doot
28. Apr 2021 · 16:26 UTC
Nice game!

I knew I recognized the graphics, I've loved Never End last year! Your art style is great 💕
There are some nice puzzles in this one, I like how well each mechanic is introduced.

I am NOT ready to destroy the earth tho.

Thanks for the game!
Szymon OGD
28. Apr 2021 · 16:33 UTC
I love the ambient, very relaxing. Sounds and graphics are very consistant, they match together. Very good game with a nice level of difficulty!
SirRed
28. Apr 2021 · 18:09 UTC
Great puzzle game. I really would have like some more harder levels. You introduced the mechanics well and I was hoping that you would do more with it in the end, but 10 levels is a lot. Some of the puzzles could also have been maybe a bit harder if you had to wait for all the blocks to settle before changing the room again because I was able to keep the blocks in place if I quickly did it which made the solution for one of the levels easier than I think was intended. I also made a puzzle game if you want to check it out.
KieranMontgomery
28. Apr 2021 · 18:11 UTC
Really nice graphics and audio! Nice idea too, seems like a lot of thought went into level design as well. Well done!
Aune
28. Apr 2021 · 18:15 UTC
Very clean art and gamelplay ! :) peaceful puzzle. Remembers me the last Gris' level. Well done !
batiali
28. Apr 2021 · 21:05 UTC
just when u think you have enough puzzles with gravity mechanics, u stumble upon an art piece like this which is made only in 2 days. kudos to you, love this. <3
Heiach
29. Apr 2021 · 02:18 UTC
Cool atmospheric puzzle game. Is each level meant to look like a floppy disk? It does to me!
Blue Pin Studio
29. Apr 2021 · 02:47 UTC
Fantastic entry! I loved the art and music. Also you did great job with the different physics mechanics. One small recommendation i would have is : let the player drop the box at their feet. The bulk of my time was spent trying to put the box i was holding onto the button next to me haha
ursagames
29. Apr 2021 · 04:21 UTC
Hello! Your game was played on stream ( https://www.twitch.tv/ursagames/videos ) on 4/28.

You can find the timestamp of when your game was played here: https://tinyurl.com/LDJAM48-ursa
2bitcrook
30. Apr 2021 · 03:05 UTC
Really neat and atmospheric puzzle platformer that is one of the most polished entries I've seen.

Really dug the atmosphere, the simple and effective artstyle was beautiful and calming along with the music that you chose perfectly to match.

Controls were solid and the physics were probably 90% without any hiccups, some parts of the movement like dismounting off black holes was a little wobbly/snapped a bit odd but nothing I think you couldn't iron out with more dev time. The boxes were also a little wonky sometimes, clipping through the othersides of platforms and pressing down the button but again, not a big deal.

I think if there's one crit I have it's that I would have preferred to been able to hold down and E to just, drop boxes instead of only being able to throw them. Very minor but would have been a nice addition. The other addition is because our character has no real "face" it was sometimes hard to know what direction I was looking in to pick up boxes. But again minor thing.

Overall an extremely well made game, felt very solid and had a great mood and atmosphere. Great job and entry!
Cinsynate
30. Apr 2021 · 16:10 UTC
Oh, that was a lot of fun! The atmosphere was wonderful, the music very relaxing, and it was very well polished! I think the gameplay was definitely interesting, and I found myself wishing there was more content, so I think that's a good sign you have a nice puzzle game here.

A couple things I noted that in some cases couldn't even be considered bugs: I found that whenever I landed next to a box from the air or climbed up into it from a ladder, I couldn't grab it, and needed to move and walk back into it. It's a very nitpicky point, but your game is so well polished that the smaller sticking points are more noticeable!

I also found myself wishing that I could use the w key to jump a lot, but that's just my personal preference for platformers, and I can see why it wouldn't have been included within the confines of a game jam.

Finally- I noticed when using the spacebar to try and progress the ending screen in any way that the jumping sound effect was still hooked up to it, which mostly lead to a funny moment in which you could make your character grunt while reading the ending message.

Overall, it was very enjoyable! One of the better games I've tried this jam for sure.
TommyTheITGuy
01. May 2021 · 16:48 UTC
Very atmospheric and relaxing game to play. The graphics and the music both complement each other. The level design is fair and well done. Would love to play more levels, maybe with more mechanics (trapdoors?). I recommend playing this to everyone!!

Here's my playthrough: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1007430228?t=0h30m42s
![1.png](///raw/342/3/z/41f43.png)
cheesepencil
01. May 2021 · 22:51 UTC
Great experience, good level design, tricky puzzles and some platforming concepts that rarely get implemented in jam games. lots to like <3
Remus Rain
02. May 2021 · 12:14 UTC
Hi there! Very nice mood, very nice game. Good job on exploring the puzzle mechanics so deeply.

If I could improve one thing about this game I would try to make the gameplay a bit more simple and fluid. For example picking up boxes and throwing them exactly where you want is a bit difficult.

But anyway, great job for the game jam ! <3
Jiri Hysek
02. May 2021 · 12:40 UTC
Great game! It looks very cool, it's simple, understandable and very fun to play! Mood is also awesome. Love it.
PowerAnze
03. May 2021 · 12:34 UTC
[Thank you for the submitting the game to the stream. If you want to rewatch the feedback, you can do so here.](https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1008357028?t=03h27m08s)
Jake Marks
04. May 2021 · 00:09 UTC
I've got nothing but good things to say about this game! It has some great movement/physics puzzles, it's stylish and minimalist. @finn-tr you've made consistently good games jam after jam. Great entry!

Here is the VOD: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1006566686
etrealjunior
04. May 2021 · 15:38 UTC
Congratulations on the game, a very beautiful minimalist art game, the puzzles are really cool, a suggestion for future upgrades to create a character of light, so that you can have an added story to the game, and an object to conquer, a big hug, and I await your feedback on my game.
GullynGames
13. May 2021 · 19:01 UTC
Great job on the game! I love the mood of the game and the music fits really well! The simple graphics and the background works really well with this game. Amazing game!
CJGladback
18. May 2021 · 00:56 UTC
Thank you for letting me play this on stream (forever ago)! [Here's that clip](https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1009307903?t=3h25m44s) if you ever want to watch through that feedback again.
Jupiter_Hadley
19. May 2021 · 13:41 UTC
Lovely puzzle game! I included it in my compilation video series of a bunch of LDJAM games!
https://youtu.be/rQyFGYR3HW4