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I started listening to the radio in my car again a year or so ago. Tuning into a collective experience, even if you know less and less people listen by the day, is a breath of fresh air. Around the same time, I got a portable radio that can listen into AM/FM/SW/LW. I went on a camping trip that summer with friends and brought it along.

Around the campfire, amongst friendly chatter, I fiddled around with my portable radio, seeing what stations I could pick up near Duluth, MN on the different frequency bands. There was a lot of Bible and sports content to sift through, but even those stations I would sometimes linger on for a bit. FM was filled with your standard medium-to-large radio stations playing all types of music to pick from. But AM and shortwave had some real nuggets of gold - a traditional Chinese music station, a radio drama broadcast, and an electronica station.

ΩMEGA POINT encapsulates that energy for me. It's a game about doing one last joyride during the end of the world, listening to all the radio stations broadcast from the other dreamers still holding on to what's left of humanity. It's also a mech game with a beautifully rendered cockpit, bits and bops to click on, and screens that display the rainy dilapidated world outside.

I had a great time during those remaining 30 minutes, exploring the ruins and exploring all the different radio stations broadcasting in different locations of the map. I heard so much good music that I've never heard before, which reminds me of listening to the occasional spot-on Discover playlist that my streaming service of choice would construct for me. Only, y'know, actually curated by humans. I know I have a lot new music to buy during the next Bandcamp Friday.

The intro and outro were also poignant and strong bookends to an already great experience. The game just felt tightly designed around a similar optimistic morose as that of Evangelion, something I absolutely revel in. Catherine, you absolutely cooked with this one. One of my favorite games of this year.

Exploring the small environment was enjoyable if a bit tiring on my fingers with how much arrow pressing is involved. Lovely art and music as always. Finding the password to the locked zip file was delightfully rewarding. Overall a quaint experience that I enjoyed a good deal.

Crunchy and gross. I didn't finish, but I greatly enjoyed what I saw on my adventures. Thank you for making this.

Edit: I went back and played more. I saw a lot more of the sights and connected a lot more dots. It was fun to go back and use my map knowledge from previous runs.

Loved this! Seconding the vibes. Great imagery and words. I kinda liked reading the beam and such as something (a force) from outer space.

Yep, supposed to be a spaceship. The story I had in mind was that all sentient living things had left this dying universe for another. The spaceship is just an automated structure that goes around searching for resources, serving no one.

I like your headcannon as well, though.

Thank you for the kind detailed words and criticism. Definitely could have designed the game better around multiple endings and waiting. Maybe next time around :)

Absolute nostalgic fever dream collage of a game. Hostile in all the right ways.

I should have read the full description for this game because it took me too long to figure out that it was using a ROM of an existing game. I've never seen a full ass ROM and intentional save points used in another video game like this.

Off the top of my head, my favorite water level is the part of Halo 2 where you ride an underwater elevator/transport of some sort.

Thanks for making this!

Proud of Yuri

This was great work, Colorfiction! Played with a friend and we both loved it.

fuck, I gotta make a phone call

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I'm glad you could put your thoughts out there into art, no matter what form

Love it. Love the day/night cycle. Love the little worlds.

Loved this. Like a way more interesting Warioware

uh oh

Check out the map on the first floor and look between the mountains

No puzzle. It's nonsense stuff to keep you busy.

I like how tactile this is

Holy cheezballs!

I found a secret where if you dehead the elf when the head is still small, it will come off and continue growing as if it is some sort of autonomous being. I don't think people are talking enough about the lore implications of this. I think this is a HUGE revelation that will shake the community to its CORE.

Oh shit, I remember listening to Mouth Sounds on SoundCloud back in like 2015.

What was the Linkin Park mashup you used in the endscreen? I recognize the song mixed with it, but also can't put my finger on it.

What's the In the End mashup song? It's a bop. Also, the song that goes mwaaahhhh bweeeehhhhhhh. I recognize it, but can't put my finger on it.

Also, this was great.

Edit: nvm, the second one is from Hereditary. Also, my mouse gets stuck sometimes at the endscreen and I can't click Play Again.

Yo, that was sick. Loved where the story went. I had to go back to the beginning right after I finished it. Really well done.

And here I thought this game was dead. Thanks Airdorf!

Yo, I'm glad you found the secret ending! I don't know many or any people who have gotten it. Thanks for playing

Loved this! Thank you for making it.

This was dope. Thanks for making this game. I also enjoyed reading through your dev commentary on the different levels. Great vibes all around.

Yo, I loved this. Great work ya'll! Only wish I could have found the 3rd ending, but I guess I'm early to the party, heh.

the chosen one

Legendary

HOLY SHITTTTT

Lovely backgrounds and character portraits. Short and sweet :)

I love your textures

On windows, spamming the moo moo created some nice crunchy ambience. I liked it

I forgot about the theme! I think one of the exposures I did that fits synthesis might be this one. I call it "3600 chickens"

Added several to the google drive from Proteus (2013). Here's my favorite.

I love this frame of mind around adventures. A very good manifesto.

A wonderful city