Memory Of A Broken Dimension

[66480834a159eSzynek]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxvrRXoUjJA

Not sure how to describe this game. For one thing, I wasn't able to get too far since I had a hard time seeing anything, and for another... hmmm... OK, this is too weird to explain. Just try it, download link is here --> http://datatragedy.com/MOABD_PrinceOfArcade.zip

If you don't know how to start, just type the following:
- remote
- voidscan
- dive

Steam release will come up here: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=305638565

[66480834a1bdfRocketMan]

My attempt didn't look like the video... I dunno if this works the same on all cards.  Basically I had an extremely unclear scene in front of me and scanlines slowly tracing vertically.  Every so often I'd see a sliver of clear images in front of me that would quickly disappear.  I was able to proceed from the first room but after that it got so confusing and the solids were so hard to detect I couldn't go on.  I have a feeling it's not supposed to be that way though.

[66480834a1e56Kolya]

After loading the various virtual programs I landed in a box room with a dark anomaly in the middle that stretched to one side. The part in the middle I could walk through, but the more cube like part that touched one of the sides of the room seemed to be solid.
I walked and jumped around, shot at everything and then gave up, because I couldn't see a way to leave this sector ("OXYTRN").
Back in the console like game interface I tried various ways to exit/quit/close the program. Nothing really worked and I had to close it by alt-tabbing out of it eventually.

From the little I've seen it seems to be a game about orientating yourself amidst a lot of distortion effects. Reminds me of the game "Feign" by Ian Snyder that we have in the skypager sidebar here. The sounds are pretty well done too.

[66480834a1f99RocketMan]

If it rendered correctly I could see it being a really fun game. Problem is, I don't think it shows up as intended on my machine so it was like pulling teeth just getting up on the first walkway, which I did do eventually.  Feign is awesome btw... the music is great

[66480834a207eKolya]

Just note that Feign plays tricks on you. It tells you to collect 9 bodies but it doesn't say which.

[66480834a2394Olfred]

Well I couldn't make out much either, but lowering the settings to "good" seemed to improve it a bit.

My bigger problem is that the mouselook is not inverted which makes my head hurt and feeling me all dizzy, so I had to stop after about 10 minutes.

[66480834a247bRocketMan]

? You mean you play FPS games with flight style controls?

[66480834a2579Olfred]

Uh, yeah, always did.

[66480834a2698RocketMan]

Oh ok.  Actually does make sense.. I suppose I've just been conditioned to think up = up for FPS and DN = UP for flight sims.

[66480834a27f5Olfred]

Well for FPS with up going to look down felt more natural.
When I move my upper body or head forward I look down, not up.

Hmmm... this might be the case why I get confused with FPS setups like that. For me it's not mouse up but forward

But this gets me in trouble regulary because there is always some game which doesn't support inverting the axis. Especially on consoles.

[66480834a2949RocketMan]

The way I think of it, I always use a joystick for flight sims so in that case you're rotating the stick in the same way that the plane pitches down.  The movements are the same.  I never use a joystick for FPS so in that case, moving the mouse forward feels more like UP to me since it's purely translation.

[66480834a2a55Kolya]

Okay, so basically you have to go to a grey marker line where you will hear a sound and a part of the black anomaly will light up. Shoot it from there and it will solidify. Oh and you can walk through walls, which puts you at the other end of the room in the beginning but later you can walk into different rooms it seems.

[66480834a2ba8RocketMan]

That's how far I got.  I was able to visit 3 or 4 unique rooms and solidify everything in them but beyond that, it was way too frustrating to continue

[66480834a2ca8Kolya]

Yeah, I wonder if anything else happens in the game, besides petrifying the noise. Which is really cool to look at, but not much fun to play.

[66480834a2d8bRocketMan]

Have you ever played The Void?  Both games have a similar feel to them although the gameplay is quite different.

[66480834a2e85Olfred]

I played The Void, although never finished it, somehow I have forgotten that I started it.... hmmm.
But yeah, it's nice, good atmophere and stuff.



Damn you donor glyph!!

[66480834a2fa1Zeebok]

After you start solidifying the pieces in the various rooms, there's one room with a ramp at the bottom that leads to a black square. That goes to another room where you end up on a platform off the ground that you hopefully solidified. It is basically following the path up to the top, tagging pieces so they solidify, and then the game ends.

[66480834a314cjacob]

Hey if you would like to see First impressions / Walkthrough (intro) I would be very grateful if you did. Plus I do a new crazy indie game each day if you are interested thank you for your time.

Broken Dimension video:
http://www.indiedb.com/games/scary-gardener-tales-3d/downloads/scary-gardener-tales-3d-windows-version

[66480834a327djacob]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtVt5oIysiw&feature=c4-overview&list=UUfr-AdoMq-ZLMI2T_jwghBw

[66480834a33d8Kolya]

It's just this type of game that's a lot about reflection, I guess. For you this started with typing "go fuck yourself" into a DOS prompt and ended with the assumption that the creator was a sadistic asshole. My own experience was different. Not more valid, just different.

[66480834a34b6gunk]

Download link is broken

[66480834a35dcKolya]

Apparently the author put his game on Steam Greenlight.