Hello everybody! Also this time I'll stream me playing a couple of your LD45 games, If you want to throw your game into the lottery* just fill out this form and be sure to check in on Sunday on my YouTube channel that is Phil-Motion Video. (* As always, I am picking games via my trusty RNG-2000 random game selection tool.)
Hello everyone! I am happy to report I finished another one of my legendary post mortem videos! I'd be very happy if any of you want to attend the virtual premiere on YouTube this weekend.
Here's the video. Click it to set a reminder if you want :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UO9BARNj8cQ
See above :)
Hello there, ladies, gentlemen, and unicorns! Again I will do a series of stream, playing your Ludum Dare games and talking all the while 😅 If that sounds cool to you, please submit your game via this form:
► https://forms.gle/stBGdrQh5AAQRCum6
Hey everyone! The premiere to my latest and greatest LD post mortem video will happen on Sunday. Here's the link to it. I'll be hanging out in the chat and afterwards be on Twitch. Tell your friends! 😊
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmIqZzYLZz8
Hello there, ladies, gentlemen, and unicorns! As always, I will do another series of stream, playing your Ludum Dare games live, misunderstanding the instructions, and talking nonsense over it, you know the drill. 😉 If you're down with that, please submit your game via this form:
► https://forms.gle/gjMxryTk57jM2c3X6
Twitch channel: https://twitch.tv/pixelprophecy
YouTube stream archive: https://youtube.com/c/phil-motionvideo
Hey everyone! I'm in, probably switching engines half-way through again! 😅
I'm in again! Hopefully not switching engines halfway through the jam again 😅
Hey everyone! As tradition dictates, I'll be doing another series of streams playing and commenting on your Ludum Dare games again. If you want to give your game a chance to be picked, please submit it via this form:
I stream on https://twitch.tv/pixelprophecy, and old streams get archived on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/c/PhilMotionVideo
Please note that I can only accept submissions through the form and not via comment or the socialz!
Hello everyone! Just wanted to let you know that my latest Ludum Dare Post Mortem will premiere today in ~hours on YouTube, so if you happen to see this, please drop by and enjoy the show! 😊
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7E9xi64NJI
And here's the poster
Hey everyone, just thought I join the wallpaper game! Here's my contribution. Happy 50th LD, y'all!
Despite being in the middle of an exhausting move and my new place looking like this…
…I am giving LD51 a shot. My tools will be mostly - caffeine - Twine - a portable audio recorder - ~~Audactiy~~ (guess what crashes upon launch since the latest update?) - pen and paper - caffeine - Photoshop? - caffeine
Have fun, everyone!
You read correctly: I reviewed my own game and it's a scorcher (but fair!) 😅
The game in question: Ever Shifting
Ever Shifting is yet another typical Pixel Prophecy game in the sense that it evokes an atmosphere that promises more than the game is able to deliver. In it you explore Phil’s empty apartment in a dated first-person node based movement (think Myst). The initial question, what happened and why, never gets answered and the process of opening this game’s Macguffin, a locked chest, is underwhelming at best.
The gameplay consists mainly of exploration and is confusing and repetitive. You jump from view to view where you can look around in 90° steps to search each new image for a clue, that is something the game lets you pick up with. Get all the clues and be in the right room, you trigger the “finale”.
Just the act of exploring and moving around is where issues start cropping up. It’s not always clear where you are or where a passage through a door will lead to as they seemingly change at random for no benefit but confusing players.
The theme of “Every 10 Seconds” appears to be shoehorned in in the form of a blue flash that does something but it’s never clear what and why and if it has to do with anything else.
Among all the views you visit, only a handful allow you to actually do something like clicking a hotspot. And that’s all there is. Any possible thrill of exploration of an empty flat wears off quickly once you realize there is nothing for you to find or see beyond the mentioned pick-ups that, when combined, tell you, well, something which magically unlocks the chest whose contents are as puzzling as they are underwhelming.
The game is seeped in poorly executed horror tropes (soliloquizing protagonist trapped in a locked ~~room~~ apartment, piecing together clues to escape from… what exactly?) and tries its best to hide its obvious shortcomings behind passably well taken photographs.
Depending on how lucky you are with finding the necessary hotspots and passages, Ever Shifting can take between one and 10 minutes that you spend in a narratively hollow, visually unappealing, and mechanically confusing setting. Shift happens, I guess.
2/10
Kidding aside, I found this a good exercise to pinpoint issues with the game by looking at it from the perspective of a player rather than a developer.
Dear #jammers! I’m doing another “Phil Plays Your Ludum Dare Game” stream series starting this Sunday on Twitch, afterwards the streams will end up on YouTube.
Submit your game it via this form: ► https://forms.gle/zsEfyTtC6frG5LFZA
☺Thank you!
Then please try my comedy text adventure "Bean There, Done That". You don't need to type, just click 😅
...and thus playing my comedy text adventure Bean There Done That 💖
Hey jammers! Some of you might still remember me from my Ludum Dare post mortems. And guess what? A new one is about to premiere tomorrow! If you happen to see this in time, be sure to join and/or drop by in my live stream afterwards at twitch.tv/pixelprophecy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPN1SzJE8KU
If you're late, don't fret! The YouTube embed should show the video. Hope you enjoy! ☺️🦄✨
Yay, our team got a name and a logo (just finished painting the clean version). The rest is details 😅
