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A jam submission

Magenta is not a real colorView game page

A short helicopter-based horror game
Submitted by kkcn β€” 1 day, 11 hours before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Story#653.3643.364
Aesthetics#1483.4553.455
Horror#1732.7732.773
Enjoyment (Best Game)#2082.7272.727
Sound Design#2792.4092.409

Ranked from 22 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

Judge feedback

Judge feedback is anonymous.

  • The theme of a search and rescue helicopter is a fantastic conceit for a game that we don’t see often. The narrative is strong and helps draw out the periods of inaction with navigation, which is a smart idea. The game’s use of colour and shadow to convey the sense of environmental danger is fantastic, and the twist at the end was completely unexpected!

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Comments

Submitted

Controversial title but good game!

Submitted

Great old-school aesthetics and a classic cosmic horror story! I think I'd ideally want the time between pick ups to be shortened a little bit, or an additional gameplay mechanic to be added. But overall, really great work!

Developer

Thanks for playing!

Submitted

That's a nice "walk" simulator if I may says so haha! The end was quite unexpected, this guy has really long arms :o

Not the most gameplay-y game, but everything works, made me wonder what the thing was and even whether magenta is a real color or not. I feel like the purpose of this game is fulfilled.

Nice entry, well done!

Developer

Thanks for playing! 

The gameplay  was supposed to be more complex, with some navigation elements and some difficult terrain, but it turned out, that I had less time than I thought I would. What I did turned out ok, so I'm happy with it :)

Submitted

Nice game, and funny title.

Developer

I always go for a good title- check out my other games if you wanna see some real good ones :)

Submitted

Fun concept with good pacing and dialog to build up the suspense. Nice job!

Developer

I really worked on the pacing, so thanks for noticing :)

Submitted

Solid cosmic horror short story.

Developer

Thanks for playing :)

What a fun little game and story.  

Developer

Thanks!

Submitted

The aesthetic and tension building were really good, and the sudden push by the lights at the end definitely added some intensity.

Great submission!

Developer

Glad you liked it!

Submitted

I loved the aesthetic and the series of event slowly building up ! As some other mentionned, a little more sounds would have been a nice compliment but overall the main experience is really interesting and fun !

Developer(+1)

Thanks for playing!

Submitted

I liked the story a lot and the cosmic horror feel too. The gameplay was pretty basic and easy to understand, which makes sense since this is more story-based. The helicopter sound was good, but it would've been nice to have some other ambience in the background so it didn't stand out too much. The ending was also really cool. Overall, nice game and great story!

Developer

Thanks! I get pretty consistent feedback, and I'll definitely work on sound more in the next game.

As for the gameplay. I initially wanted more out of this- more complex navigation, some difficult terrain, landings that take more effort than pressing 'e' :) However, life happened, and I decided to polish stuff that I already had (time the dialogues, improve animation and camera movement in the last sequence, really go hard with light effects during escape) instead of adding more.

Submitted

I really liked this. The gameplay is really simple but fun. The animations are clean. It has a really fun and creative title and I really like the ending. The game could use a bit more sound in my opinion, but thats about everything I could think of.

And I have to agree, my game is just a prequel to your game :D

Great game, keep it upβ™₯

Developer(+1)

Thanks for playing!

Accidental sequels are the best sequels :D

Submitted

Really fun ending and a very creative name, good job on the game!

Developer

Thanks, I always try to go with creative names for my jam games. Glad you liked the ending :)

Submitted

I liked the ending visual that I'm not going to spoil in the comments.
I agree that the noise of the helicopter was a bit much -- even having some background music to go along with it would have helped

Developer

Yeah, I'm pretty proud of the ending :)

Thanks for playing!

Submitted

Great visual style, I enjoyed the short story and especially the ending cutscene, short but sweet. Flying the helicopter was simple but the world was laid out well so the experience was enjoyable. Agree with others that more sound would help flesh out the experience but very nice overall.

Developer

Thanks :)

That was what I was going for- short and sweet, with a little WTF in the end :)

I added this to other comments, but the sound gets slightly better on windows version. Turns out the web player doesn't handle certain effects. 

Submitted

Graphics are very nice, I'm a big fan of the ps1 style. I think the game could definitely use more sound than the helicopter though. Overall, pretty nice!

Developer

Fun fact- I failed to check my game on web build, and now there is only the helicopter sounds. In windows build there are some additional effects once the MAGENTA starts, but turns out the web player doesn't handle them :(

Submitted

Graphics looked great and i really enjoyed just flying around before i got into things xD

Developer(+1)

I really wish I had more time to get into flying mechanics more- oh well, I'll try to make a flying game for some jam in the future :)

Submitted

Good job. I really like the PSX graphics, gave it a nice analogue horror kind of vibe.

Developer

Yeah, seems lately PSX equals horror, so I decided I have to try it out for myself :) Seems to work!

Submitted

Interesting story and I loved the art theme. I would work a little bit on the audio and SFX (my ears hurt a little after the helicopter sounds), also it's a little hard to understand the objective at first. Great work!

Developer

I worked on how to make the objectives easier to understand almost till the last minute, and I'm glad I did :)

Thanks for playing :)

Submitted

I like the storytelling and how the shockwave manipulate the visuals and my control. Impressive work. :)

Developer

Thanks for playing, I'm glad you liked it!

Submitted

Story is good, and I liked when m a g e n t a showed up. That was really cool. Final thing looks impressive and dialogues are good. Buuut audio is... Painful. Helicopter's chirping was very loud and annoying :( Everything else I liked!

Developer(+1)

Thanks for playing!

I like that you liked the things I focused on the most for this jam. The audio though... not the first game, where someone says I didn't do great in this regard. I think I need to collaborate with an audio guy next time.

Submitted

I'm not THE audio guy, but I think I'm not bad with audio and voiceover (check my game if you're interested) so write me for collaboration if you'll be interested :)