Ultimate Chill Home by MatLab

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made by MatLab for Ludum Dare 51 (JAM)

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The ultimate dose of chill at home, every 10 seconds...

PLEASE KEEP YOUR INTERNET CONNECTION ACTIVE WHILE PLAYING! -> so we can connect to a chill radio on the web and download the spiritual voices!

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Ratings

Overall 418th 3.667⭐ 20🧑‍⚖️
Fun 775th 3.167⭐ 20🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 157th 3.861⭐ 20🧑‍⚖️
Theme 617th 3.611⭐ 20🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 152th 4.263⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Humor 224th 3.556⭐ 20🧑‍⚖️
Mood 128th 4.028⭐ 20🧑‍⚖️
Given 24🗳️ 14🗨️

Feedback

SnappyPath
04. Oct 2022 · 12:13 UTC
The game visually looks amazing
Shabby_Sparrow
04. Oct 2022 · 15:10 UTC
Cool grafics! Pixelated textures on low poly models have a very unique vibe to them. The whole game feels surreal, didn’t expect narration in it at all, good touch! Unfortunately, gameplay got predictable really fact, so I didn’t spend much time in the game, but I feel like it’s more of personal preference than anything
Golin
04. Oct 2022 · 16:01 UTC
Absolutely love this game. The art, the audio, the atmosphere... all fits perfectly.
Jac-Man
09. Oct 2022 · 14:06 UTC
That's special... but somehow i dived into into it and almost drown in this mood.
Harksa
09. Oct 2022 · 14:25 UTC
Quite an experience. I wish there were more objects to place and also a bigger space to place them, but I liked going in first person view to look at my "creation".

Also, I need to point out that you need to drop out of "audio" if it wasn't created by you. I don't get why I would need internet for it to work also...
Lukuluk
09. Oct 2022 · 15:10 UTC
Oh yes @harksa, sure! I just opted-out of the audio category, thanks! ;) Also you are totally right concerning the number of objects and the space. Hopefully in a post-jam version?

Some explanation about the internet connection needs: there is two reasons:
- we connect to a web chill radio for the music
- the game downloads the voices sounds at runtime
Stone Tape Studios
09. Oct 2022 · 16:47 UTC
Really liked this one. Have only played the Jam version but I liked it so much I gotta check the post jam version out. I couldn't get the 'immerse yourself' to work with c for some reason. Love the idea and the atmosphere though. So the connection with the theme is the train comes every ten seconds right? Love it well done
LDJam user 297980
09. Oct 2022 · 17:15 UTC
Visually stunning, great mood, great atmosphere and all well put together.
Lukuluk
09. Oct 2022 · 18:42 UTC
@stone-tape-studios sad to hear you could not do that immersion! :grimacing: Don't hesitate to try the post-jam, I'm sure the problem is not present on this one (or if it's the case it's a rare bug... :thinking: )
reinhpash
10. Oct 2022 · 09:01 UTC
Look amazing, feels good
LDJam user 238700
10. Oct 2022 · 09:10 UTC
I wasn't expecting a game where I could decorate a giant foot with smaller feet, but here we are... Looks great, has fun background narration, and chill vibes. Nice work!
Mooptychunk
11. Oct 2022 · 02:46 UTC
I totally just blissed out and thought about rainbows. Thank you!
Georgy16
11. Oct 2022 · 23:51 UTC
Cool game
LDJam user 250825
14. Oct 2022 · 22:36 UTC
Interesting experience, I ended up violating the rule of chill and building myself a parkour course for the immersion mode. Like for @stone-tape-studios on my first attempt immersion mode didn't work, but it worked just fine after I restarted the game. The vibe is delightfully absurd with the spiritual quotes about the objects (some AI text-to-speech API I guess?) and the dithered pixel art textures look amazing. I think the chill radio didn't work for me as there was no music (unless that's where the wind ambiance comes from). All in all great experience and nice to play something completely different!
🎤 MatLab
17. Oct 2022 · 10:42 UTC
Thx everybody for your comments and feedback!
:relaxed:

Sorry for the bugs:
- "C" doesn't launch the immersion mode: @stone-tape-studios, @bqq, I haven't found yet where the bug comes from... I cleaned up some code for version 1.2, maybe I fixed this bug without doing it on purpose? ^^

- no music: @stone-tape-studios, I'll see if I can detect the fact that the radio is not working, and then try another station... ^^

[EDIT] 1.3 is online, there is now a security that checks the internet connection, reconnects the radio if the connection is lost, and switches to another radio station if the current radio is temporarily down.
Spoons
17. Oct 2022 · 14:08 UTC
great vibes. I liked how relaxed the game was. Immersion mode was fun. I ended up trying to parkour around the structures I made which was a good time as well.
Chuckiee
17. Oct 2022 · 17:47 UTC
Sad to see that immersion mode didn't work but great atmosphere!
Chartle
17. Oct 2022 · 18:27 UTC
Looks great, lovely vibe. I didn't spend a lot of time in it (not my type of game haha) but I can see what you were going for and it works well. Good job!