This game is just a psychic brain f*ckery about fighting and fleeing yourself. Its all about the shadows that a man hides in the confines of his psyche, shadows that you have to discover, fight and/or accept to progress as a human being.
Hiding our demons behind anti-blast doors and endless brain conundrum is what we all do to accept the harsh reality of our lives.
Also the US dropped 2 freaking atomic bombs which vaporized 100 000 innocent souls in a snap, and everybody forgot that shit like it's nothing. Winners definitely wrote the history...
What you are fighting for, is what other people fight against. I think there are no such things as good and evil in the universe, that's what this game is about for me, and that's why there are no "true" ending.
Also "Democracy" doesn't freaking mean anythings nowadays, you can change that by whatever the hell you fight for or against.
Anyway, I really wanted you guys to feel clever AF after beating this game, sorry if you feel dumb for once !
Imagine, with the perfect RNG at the start of the run : you don't need to plug in the sockets, you just have to tap 2222 and you don't even need to resolve the laser maze at all, it's already solved for you. And the game is so complex, I'm afraid there are maybe more potential glitchs and exploits in it, like the one with the bandage you probably used to get this time.
But hey, nice job for beating this speedrunner nightmare I guess.
This is the link to the run, I don't think i did anything like "weird", definitely improvements to be had on my end. On a related note, is it possible to get a download of the game? Unless I'm blind and just don't see the link.
was at the last level the waves are taking the longest dang this game is fun and hard. if you dont remember to bring 1 thing you are a goner and muyst reset 9/10 out of all honesty (no game is perfect. except ultrakill) i love this game and will want to see more of this type of game
This game is the definition of insanity, doing the same thing, over and over again, fighting yourself, expecting the result to be different each time. It's life, there is no point, no mistakes, no good or evil, no clear goal, no victory, your only escape is death, and there is nothing you can do about it.
Personally, this Ultrakill robot boss fight on the castle drove me completely mad, I ragequit and didn't touch the early access since. But yeah I agree, no game is perfect, except DUSK off course :)
This game is so much fun, I've been searching for one screen games like this and this is wonderful. My only complaint is that the stupid wave screen is uselessly difficult and has killed the majority of the attempts I make to beat the game. I'm not sure if there's a way to fix it, but something needs to be changed, even if that means taking it out. I truly love this game though, even with all the hate I'm giving :)
super fun until the waves part, and then it just becomes unplayable. the problem is that the bar drains waay too fast. i'll be hearing the beeps in a steady manner as i'm making the waves line up, and then i look at the bar and i've made no progress.
additionally, wave puzzles like this are so common in games that it's not really even a puzzle anymore. that's probably one of the most frustrating parts about it. it's the fact that you realize how to solve it the moment you see it, but the game just... doesn't let you?? i wouldn't be nearly as angry if the thing that blocked my run was just a really hard (yet fair) puzzle, because that would just be my own stupidity blocking me. but the fact that i know how to solve the puzzle, KNEW how to solve it the moment i saw it, with absolute certainty, and yet am unable to solve it due to factors that would likely take a TAS bot to accomplish--that's not my fault.
the rest of the game (until the wave part) is nigh perfect, but the fact that the game is quite literally impossible for certain computers absolutely ruins it. i apologize if i sound really harsh, i've been at this game for at least the past hour. 10 minutes was doing the puzzles and the other 50 minutes have been trying to get past the waves. i want so badly to see the rest of this game because i'm sure it's not like the part i've been ranting about, but i am just unable to.
Ok thats enough ! I've made a quick hotfix just now, now the sync bar should be depleted according to the framerate and delta time, instead of seconds.
Normally the sync should be 3X more fast than the depleting of the bar.
holy crap i didn't think you'd actually fix it, i was just really mad haha. yes, it works!! i just managed to beat the rest of the game and if i had to give a review of the game now it'd be 10/10
also i'm really sorry about how angry i sounded in my previous comment. seeing how you actually fixed it despite the fact that this game is a year old shows how good of a game developer, and overall person you are. thank you so much!!!!
This entire game seems fun... until the waves. It's extremely finnicky and unreliable and serves more as annoying part of the game than a proper puzzle..
I think you're right, there seem to be issues with the wave's part, I recently got a 144hz screen and I can clearly see a difficulty difference between my old 60hz screen. I cant remember exactly how I had code that, but I think it's framerate depend (a delta-time issues to be techy), thats why some people complaining and others don't.
And from game design perspective, the whole game is about knowledge, you cant disarm the bomb first try, you have to make errors to learn and progress, the wave part, the cables, all of this are some kind of fillers/ time waster, not "real puzzles", I agreed with you.
Yeah, there's some... miscommunications that went in I think. English is somewhat of a second language. So do pardon me on that.
But, I mean, the concept around the game itself it is pretty nifty. There's 100s, and you aren't really expected to figure out you need the button/screws in the first run among other things. And when you screw up, it's clear that it's either on you for losing the tool along the way, or not able to realize what was needed.
But compared to them. There's no real thinking that goes into the wave thing. And more so straining your eyes on the right side of the screen after setting the height, and holding left click and drag along until it matches for 5 consecutive seconds or something. Doesn't help that it drains much faster than it gains too..
But yeah, That's rough. Well done concept all the same though
Ok so If you arrived so far I suppose you understand the fact that you have to syncronise the 2 waves, am I right ? Or there are maybe a bug on your browser
oh yeah I get what i'm supposed to do. I did it on the first try but I guess I got really lucky because after that I couldn't get past it. It got synced for 2 seconds or so before going out of sync again.
basically it went like this : X axis synced for 2 seconds but then was out of sync again (too slow) so I adjusted the slider 1 pixel to the correct direction, then it was in sync for a couple of seconds again before going out of sync again (too fast). so I kept going back and forth and going out of sync
Ok I see, yeah you are right there are some RNG here (not determined by the seed) you can get a very slow or a super fast wave to sync, but whatever : the back wave speed modulate "randomly" anyway (it would have been too easy without that)
Maybe the sound feedback is not clear enough, maybe I should tweak this part to give more information to the player. I made this puzzle around the following idea :
1 : adjust the Y axis once and for all ( I added red mark on the oscilloscope just after your comment, maybe not the best idea)
2 : Click and drag CONTINUOUSLY the X axis slider to adjust the wave in real time to sync.
3: Profit
Thanks for your feedback, I had no playtesters except me during the developement, it's really hard to make a fair and balance game for everyone and I have to work a lot on that point, cause the game seems very easy to me but I ignore what append on the people minds, how theyre interact with it, anyway there are so much to say about the difficulty balance in video game... : )
you're welcome! its a shame I couldn't get past it, because im a big fan of the new update. The graphics are so much cleaner and the new puzzles are cool too
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this game is so hard!
It's the best welcome to Itch.io you can think of !
After month of trying, I finally complete it ... And I still don't know if the game is good or not...
It's was very hard, not fun at the beginning, figuring how to play. It's was a painful experience, lot of frustration...
One puzzle are sometimes impossible to play : the laser are generate randomly, so ...
The wave puzzle is the worst, trying to complete it is a pain is the ass...
Finally the valve problem is just incomprehensible... I solve it by chance...
Is I'm happy to have complete it ? I don't think so, to many frustration and question left.
I don't recommend the game, except for the hardcore fan...
For the positive points, it's pretty, I love the soundtrack, the atmosphere, the idea of the game...
Anyway, thanks for sharing, it's a lot of work !
Yeah, I guess that's what a second game looks like, and you played the last version of it...
BTW this was my primary inspiration in term of design during the jam : https://fourquarters.itch.io/pdta-ld (a classic)
This game is just a psychic brain f*ckery about fighting and fleeing yourself. Its all about the shadows that a man hides in the confines of his psyche, shadows that you have to discover, fight and/or accept to progress as a human being.
Hiding our demons behind anti-blast doors and endless brain conundrum is what we all do to accept the harsh reality of our lives.
Also the US dropped 2 freaking atomic bombs which vaporized 100 000 innocent souls in a snap, and everybody forgot that shit like it's nothing. Winners definitely wrote the history...
What you are fighting for, is what other people fight against. I think there are no such things as good and evil in the universe, that's what this game is about for me, and that's why there are no "true" ending.
Also "Democracy" doesn't freaking mean anythings nowadays, you can change that by whatever the hell you fight for or against.
Anyway, I really wanted you guys to feel clever AF after beating this game, sorry if you feel dumb for once !
godamn this is the most fun i have had playing a game in a really long time
Thank you so much for you kind words Oliver, this mean a lot to me, you cant even imagine...
Let's go, 5100m
Imagine, with the perfect RNG at the start of the run : you don't need to plug in the sockets, you just have to tap 2222 and you don't even need to resolve the laser maze at all, it's already solved for you. And the game is so complex, I'm afraid there are maybe more potential glitchs and exploits in it, like the one with the bandage you probably used to get this time.
But hey, nice job for beating this speedrunner nightmare I guess.
This is the link to the run, I don't think i did anything like "weird", definitely improvements to be had on my end. On a related note, is it possible to get a download of the game? Unless I'm blind and just don't see the link.
Ha ha ha, what a legend, and you made the "official" WR without even use the "bandage trick" I mentioned.
But THIS is what I call opening a safe like a true artist, notice that I take my time to show you the strat, but you can do it almost instant.
About he download, I invite you to consult the devlogs...
was at the last level the waves are taking the longest dang this game is fun and hard. if you dont remember to bring 1 thing you are a goner and muyst reset 9/10 out of all honesty (no game is perfect. except ultrakill) i love this game and will want to see more of this type of game
This game is the definition of insanity, doing the same thing, over and over again, fighting yourself, expecting the result to be different each time. It's life, there is no point, no mistakes, no good or evil, no clear goal, no victory, your only escape is death, and there is nothing you can do about it.
Personally, this Ultrakill robot boss fight on the castle drove me completely mad, I ragequit and didn't touch the early access since. But yeah I agree, no game is perfect, except DUSK off course :)
This game is so much fun, I've been searching for one screen games like this and this is wonderful. My only complaint is that the stupid wave screen is uselessly difficult and has killed the majority of the attempts I make to beat the game. I'm not sure if there's a way to fix it, but something needs to be changed, even if that means taking it out. I truly love this game though, even with all the hate I'm giving :)
Where is the button for 2?
cant break the glass??
uhhh just a tip not spoiling it but the bandage, the screws and the 2 might help you later on in the game
Managed to get a maze that was 1 step away from solved :) Very cool game!
Thx mate, i'm glad you like it ! RNG can be really surprising sometimes.
Ok, I need some help, where the f is the 2?
Just in front of you 🤡
super fun until the waves part, and then it just becomes unplayable. the problem is that the bar drains waay too fast. i'll be hearing the beeps in a steady manner as i'm making the waves line up, and then i look at the bar and i've made no progress.
additionally, wave puzzles like this are so common in games that it's not really even a puzzle anymore. that's probably one of the most frustrating parts about it. it's the fact that you realize how to solve it the moment you see it, but the game just... doesn't let you?? i wouldn't be nearly as angry if the thing that blocked my run was just a really hard (yet fair) puzzle, because that would just be my own stupidity blocking me. but the fact that i know how to solve the puzzle, KNEW how to solve it the moment i saw it, with absolute certainty, and yet am unable to solve it due to factors that would likely take a TAS bot to accomplish--that's not my fault.
the rest of the game (until the wave part) is nigh perfect, but the fact that the game is quite literally impossible for certain computers absolutely ruins it. i apologize if i sound really harsh, i've been at this game for at least the past hour. 10 minutes was doing the puzzles and the other 50 minutes have been trying to get past the waves. i want so badly to see the rest of this game because i'm sure it's not like the part i've been ranting about, but i am just unable to.
Ok thats enough ! I've made a quick hotfix just now, now the sync bar should be depleted according to the framerate and delta time, instead of seconds.
Normally the sync should be 3X more fast than the depleting of the bar.
Tell me if it work.
holy crap i didn't think you'd actually fix it, i was just really mad haha. yes, it works!! i just managed to beat the rest of the game and if i had to give a review of the game now it'd be 10/10
also i'm really sorry about how angry i sounded in my previous comment. seeing how you actually fixed it despite the fact that this game is a year old shows how good of a game developer, and overall person you are. thank you so much!!!!
That was really easy to fix, I should had solved this problem a long time ago, since many people faced it.
Don't worry and thank you for your feedback !
im trying to solve
This entire game seems fun... until the waves.
It's extremely finnicky and unreliable and serves more as annoying part of the game than a proper puzzle..
I think you're right, there seem to be issues with the wave's part, I recently got a 144hz screen and I can clearly see a difficulty difference between my old 60hz screen. I cant remember exactly how I had code that, but I think it's framerate depend (a delta-time issues to be techy), thats why some people complaining and others don't.
And from game design perspective, the whole game is about knowledge, you cant disarm the bomb first try, you have to make errors to learn and progress, the wave part, the cables, all of this are some kind of fillers/ time waster, not "real puzzles", I agreed with you.
Yeah, there's some... miscommunications that went in I think. English is somewhat of a second language. So do pardon me on that.
But, I mean, the concept around the game itself it is pretty nifty. There's 100s, and you aren't really expected to figure out you need the button/screws in the first run among other things. And when you screw up, it's clear that it's either on you for losing the tool along the way, or not able to realize what was needed.
But compared to them. There's no real thinking that goes into the wave thing. And more so straining your eyes on the right side of the screen after setting the height, and holding left click and drag along until it matches for 5 consecutive seconds or something. Doesn't help that it drains much faster than it gains too..
But yeah, That's rough. Well done concept all the same though
Bro idk, I cant find how to get through this
You need to pin the handle somehow or it will spin without opening anything ; )
John, Softlock & sons safes customers relationship.
omg thank you, finished with 313M to spare
i cannot find the pin omg
I was really looking forward to finishing this but the wave sync minigame is IMPOSSIBLE ):
SPOILER
I CANT GET PAST THE GODDANG LAZER MAZE
good game though, very good
Pro tips : do this part from the end to the begining and not the reverse
This game is crazy cool. I got to the area 2 puzzles after the wave part. OMG! You who have made this game, well done.
I need an anxiety free version of this game i.e. the puzzles without the timer
SPOILER
cant get past the wave part at all, ive tried like 6 times
Ok so If you arrived so far I suppose you understand the fact that you have to syncronise the 2 waves, am I right ? Or there are maybe a bug on your browser
oh yeah I get what i'm supposed to do. I did it on the first try but I guess I got really lucky because after that I couldn't get past it. It got synced for 2 seconds or so before going out of sync again.
basically it went like this : X axis synced for 2 seconds but then was out of sync again (too slow) so I adjusted the slider 1 pixel to the correct direction, then it was in sync for a couple of seconds again before going out of sync again (too fast). so I kept going back and forth and going out of sync
Ok I see, yeah you are right there are some RNG here (not determined by the seed) you can get a very slow or a super fast wave to sync, but whatever : the back wave speed modulate "randomly" anyway (it would have been too easy without that)
Maybe the sound feedback is not clear enough, maybe I should tweak this part to give more information to the player. I made this puzzle around the following idea :
1 : adjust the Y axis once and for all ( I added red mark on the oscilloscope just after your comment, maybe not the best idea)
2 : Click and drag CONTINUOUSLY the X axis slider to adjust the wave in real time to sync.
3: Profit
Thanks for your feedback, I had no playtesters except me during the developement, it's really hard to make a fair and balance game for everyone and I have to work a lot on that point, cause the game seems very easy to me but I ignore what append on the people minds, how theyre interact with it, anyway there are so much to say about the difficulty balance in video game... : )
you're welcome! its a shame I couldn't get past it, because im a big fan of the new update. The graphics are so much cleaner and the new puzzles are cool too
I'm glad you liked it, even if I think the game is still not perfect (does perfection exist ?) , but yeah it is far way better than the jam version .
only I can tell you is that you are a fair winner congratulations you are a great developer
very nice game
it took me SO LONG to work out the sticky plaster but ugh what a great game!
I'm still blocked there
by which bit, taking it off? you just move it away like the screws
so good WTF
I have never been so stressed in my life. Amazing game!
And I've never been so stressed during a jam...
Thank you
I hope to god you're able to release a full version of this game. This is incredible, especially for 3 days my lord, and I can't help but want more.
What did I do to deserve this ?
Thank you, I will try to not deceive y'all... stay tune
great game!
Thx for the follow mate !
no problem! hope so see you make more games as i really enjoyed this one :)
Democracy has been..saved? is that the end? it feels like i'm missing something
Maybe the blue and the red wire are in fact finally the same ?
Maybe whatever you do , democracy is doomed ?
Maybe there is a subtle political message behind that ?
Maybe this release just show 1/10 of the ideas I've wanted to put in this game
Maybe, who knows ? : )