It Dreams in Color
It Dreams in Color is a 2D pixel puzzle-platformer. You have been dropped into a strange, bizarre, dreamlike land where color is the key to unlocking the secrets of the world.
Directions:
- Use WASD or the Arrow keys to move
- Hold Left Shift to run
- Your sprite follower will help you open doors! But they will only follow you if the conditions are right...
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Hi everyone! This is my second independent game made in Unity. The prompt for this game was to have multiple levels. In making this game, I wanted to explore gameplay that did not involve the goal of taking down an enemy to win. I wound up learning a lot more about how the following worked:
- 2D rigging/animation (my original plan, but ended with a bug with Unity 2019)
- Platformer movement and how to get better game feel
- Asset animations and blend trees
- Animation events
- Parallaxing game objects & cameras that follow the player
- Custom asset usage
I still have a lot to learn! This game was fun to make. I hope to get better at design, both game and visual, and also incorporate more sound in the future. There's a lot I want to improve and could definitely make better. Thanks for playing!
Future Improvements:
- Improve game feedback for user when switching sprite followers
- Add transition scenes in the beginning to establish game world
- Add sound effects (footsteps, follower changed and gained, jump)
- Improve visual design to make things clearer - currently, not enough focus
- Make sprites snap to position instead of just stopping
- Add radius aura to sprites
Known Issues:
- Fullscreen resizing
- Sound doesn't restart properly
- Footsteps still play when door is opening
- Sprite appears 'falling' at edge of platform
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Credits:
- Character sprite by gahengi
- Tiles by chrs mcdm (+ new custom cloud assets that I made in Aseprite)
- BGM by https://soundimage.org/puzzle-music/ and David Birch from FreeMusicArchive
- Sound effects by https://freesound.org/people/Yuval/sounds/206030/
- Orb icons by shikashiassets
Comments
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I really enjoyed the game. The mechanics of the game is really interesting and fun to figure out. The artwork and music is really cool too!
Great game, I love it. It Looks professional. I don't see anything to suggest other than amazing work. Overall, Keep up the great work.
Very polished in the animations, music and overall aesthetics of the game with solid gameplay that can be further fleshed out in the future.
Really love the visuals and animations. Background music adds the mood and love the sound effects of footsteps. I was confused on how to switch the color at first but mechanic is very interesting, especially how the door opens reacting to the color.
Amazing visuals and loved the parallax scrolling. The attention to detail is great! The animation showed a falling sprite when at the edge of the platforms. Hope you develop this game further!
Very lovely, I like the color switching mechanic and would love to see it fleshed out into larger puzzles.
Incredible art visual with a nice OST to go with it. At this point you could actually make a real game out of this.
This game is so cool! I love the sounds and the visuals to the game. I was hoping for more when I reached to the end, but overall it's very nice.
This game looks so cool! It's visually appealing, I like how the animations for the player, the fairies and the door opening are fluid. I think what would be cool if there was bg music for the title and instructions, something lowkey. Maybe ambience. Still, great game!
I also like the information you put about the game.
Hi, thanks so much for playing! I added some small animations to the title screen and changed the music a little. I want to keep improving the way sound works with the gameplay as well. Thank you for your comment!