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Design Statement
the theme gave me that feeling of peering into a new tentative discovery and seeing all of its little machinations, watching it conjure up new possibilities as it unravels. like learning something new or beginning to grasp a new vocabulary.
there's a few moments in games from my childhood that i remember distinctly.. the viva pinata grass , admin orbs from blockland, console commands& cheats, going underwater (in any game), swimming around in flOw, chirping in Journey, and typing to people in little chatrooms in the 2010s. all of these things inspired wonder in me, because it was digital magic you could only get from entering virtual environments- its all a big mystery ticking away beneath your screen, and you watch other people in there doing all types of cool things - and you come to the realisation that you can do anything they are doing. videogame commands are a unique language, but speaking it is almost always treated as separate from the game world- confined within command lines and text fields, so i had a lot of fun implementing this directly into the experience instead .
Game Instructions (launch steps, controls, and gameplay overview)
click begin, WASD to move , right click and drag to orbit
Gameplay walkthrough video
https://youtu.be/0G_OGtpRCL4 (updated version coming soon)
Did your project use any AI tools or assets? If yes, please specify.
Claude Code for scripting, UI, procedural assets, and portions of dialogue
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The work-in-progress demo you posted on Discord earlier had already caught my attention: I absolutely love this kind of ASCII art—it has such a cool geeky style! The gameplay experience is very Zen, and the themes it expresses really resonate.
Instant 5 stars so cool this 100% should be posted on Steam
I really like how you used shaders and SDFs! Both the visuals and the overall experience are amazing.
It's a pity there's no sound in web version though. I feel like it would add a lot to the experience.
Anyway, great work!
For me for now this may be the best game in the jam, a lot of thing to love, the whole approach to interactive art without losing the interactive moment is amazing, or losing the curiosity for the system exploration of a new world, it simply great!
This is so cool! The game mechanics and art style are both excellent—I can hardly find any flaws. However, I’m not getting any sound on either the web version or the PC version; I’m not sure if that’s a bug. Regardless, I really love it!
hey- thanks for letting me know, the webGL build does have a bug (the URLs are set incorrectly) that i couldnt fix in time.
in the .exe build, i had server-side ambience set to 0 - so i was able to turn that up and you should be able to hear sound fx, music etc. please let me know if you cant though! (try /sing)
Super pretty, loved the grass and ambience. The code idea to see the coding world was interesting as well. Good job!