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[Cesque]

The only other living person in the town - you have to kill.

All the others are dead - because you already killed them.

Warning: Disturbing. And cheesy. And disturbing.

DOWNLOAD LONELINESS.





Hey tiggers. Loneliness is a short 3d game (mainly my attempt to check out GM's 3d functions). I guess you could call it an experimental narrative-based exploration game, but that's a bit of a stretch. Took me just 3 days to do, but according to some people's opinions it's genuinely disturbing, so I thought it might be interesting.

Enjoy!

[starsrift]

Felt more psychotic than lonely.

The camera/mousemove was a bit off - stop moving the mouse but the camera stopped a little later.

Looks like you have a promising engine, though.

[Pencerkoff]

Hello this is Pencerkoff

I've been experimenting recently with 3D GM as well, and I was wondering why your camera movement is so strange.  When I turn to the left, the camera will continue turning after I stopped moving my mouse.  I was just curious what you did, it's a neat effect.

Also... thought about doing something with your wall collisions?  They are pretty bizarre.

-PENCERKOFF

[Cesque]

Ack, I was pretty proud of my collision systems - for the protagonist, at least. What's bizarre about them? You generally keep moving towards the point of view, so obviously if you bump into a corner you won't get anywhere. Also, the lanterns have a circular collision box larger than their actual size, so they may feel a bit weird.

As for the camera movement - get the width/height of the screen, calculate the distance between the centre and the mouse position, change direction appropriately, set the mouse point closer towards the new point of view. This causes a decreasing 'delay' in stopping the mouse movement, but also has some downsides, ie. when you try looking infinitely high/down, or in that you can't really get the mouse cursor outside in the game window (when eg. another window appears over the game).

starsrift: Thanks. It was a bit experimental (like the game itself)

[Pencerkoff]

Hello this is Pencerkoff

You don't go back to center?  That's strange.  Seems like that would be hard, aren't mouse positions integers?

When I collided with a fence, the one you start next to, my person traveled very fast in a direction tangent to the wall, so I went flying alongside the wall, at speeds faster than I could walk (I think).  After that I never bothered touching a wall, so maybe it's just that one?  I'd find it hard to believe it's my computer.

-PENCERKOFF

[Cesque]

That's weird :| There are some Doom-esque bizarrities resulting from the walking/collision system (ie. strafing and running at the same time is faster than just going forward), but that sounds odd - collision just alters your direction, then again, that could happen if you held two keys at the same time.

The walls are your friends! Hug them!

[mluongo]

Was it supposed to crash after I started bleeding? Pretty short demonstration, if so.

I think you have the atmosphere down pretty well. And I thought the graphic of the other man was good. I wasn't put off by the movement too much - I think I might've missed a walkway I wanted to move through one time, but it was fine.

Walking through the first building I thought it'd be great if it were populated by tables and seats and such.

With a much more fleshed out story this could be an interesting little project.

[Sallen]

Great atmosphere, nice idea, but it is too short! I would love to see it developed further. Maybe someday?.