hey so I'm seeing on others game plays that it's supposed to look "normal" at the start and not like this, is there a reason behind why this is what I get when I first play?
I recently decided to jump back to this game after playing "We don't talk about it " to hopefully get a better understanding of the game. However, my stupid brain probably doesn't work and I got everything completely wrong..
wanted to play so that i could get the full story for we dont talk about it, and i wanted to extend my thanks! had a great time, and wanted to share the recording with you. cheers!
Just uploaded my gameplay of this! It was honestly an interesting experience lol Really enjoyed editing as well as playing and I hope some of you enjoy watching it! I probably missed some things or something went completely over my head but it was still a cool game!
Hey man, really enjoyed your game. It did touch me since you could say I've been through something kinda similar back when I was about the age of your characters. I made a playthrough video. I hope you keep creating interesting experiences like this!
Wow! That was some very interesting story filled with spooky and surreal twist near the end! Thank you very much for that game! I'm definitely going to play the sequel next friday :) Here's my little playthrough (Polish language) Cheers!
Awesome game as usual, you definetly got better in the second game you made, Don't Look at Me. My interpertation I made was that this was a story of affair, heartbreak, obssesion, and letting go. I feel this review would be too long, so just watch the video I made here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCASe6trRcJ-kpxs3d18-_aw?view_as=subscriber
I apologize if you find my voice annoying, my voice change hasn't happened just yet (even though im 13), so please bear with it. The video of me playing through it is also on their so you can find it there too. Like before, great game Michael!
Played through this prior to the sequel (just to get the whole story) and the dialogue written throughout, a back and forth between lovers felt very powerful and I saw a lot of a younger version of myself, admittedly not a proud portion, in the player character. Really happy I took the time to see this whole story through.
i can't run it, it seems to be missing the following files: Rot Remastered Mouse Support.x86.64, UnityPlayer.so, UnityPlayer_s.debug and LinuxPlayer_s.debug - please add them in a next version...
I had no idea what I was walking into when I started up this game, and I still have no idea quite what I walked into now I'm done!
To try and put it simply, it's a real rollercoaster of emotions, very talkative inanimate objects and creepy, boarded-up nightmares.
To put it a bit less simply it's a horror-thriller game wherein you walk around an apartment (potentially one that our character is about to move into), experiencing remnants of the past, glimpses of a broken mind and lots of curious letters between two loves no longer connected.
There are still lots of things I'm not 100% sure about, but what I do know is that this game was one heck of a ride, and I lived every moment of it (enough so that I felt inclined to experience it twice to make sure I caught everything)! Definitely worth a look, the style is great and the story lurking beneath the weirdness is really mind-bending.
Keep up the awesome work Michael (great name too, Michaels unite!) =)
Hey MikeyBlighe! Just finished watching your let's play and I'm so glad you even took the time to go through the game twice! It really means a lot to me that you enjoyed it :) yes! Michaels union haha. I made sure to comment on the video and to sub!
Hey MikeyBlighe! Just wanted to say thanks for taking the time to comment such nice things about the game when I released it. You were really encouraging and I remember really appreciating it and enjoying your lets play. If you're interested, I've just published a sequel on my itch!
Hey Levont! Thanks so much for doing a let's play of Rot on your channel, it really means a lot :) I'm really glad you enjoyed and I take your note about the sudden change which you mention in the video! The game was originally made as a university assignment and part of the brief was that it had to only be a few minutes long, I think I would have done it very differently were that not the case. I will definitely consider this for future projects and thank you for the feedback! I left on a comment on the video :)
Hey there! Thanks so much for featuring Rot in your 3 Horror Games video, it really means a lot to me and I'm glad you enjoyed :) Thanks also for introducing me to Love, Sam!
Hey there! Thanks so much for taking the time to record a let's play :) it really means a lot to me and I'm so glad you enjoyed! I left a comment and subbed
This game I feel is best played alone in the dark, it just makes it a better experience.
Anyways, I really loved this game. It's shorter, but it honestly really sucked me in. The third section in the dark hallways made me genuinely scared to round every corner, and when I saw *ahem* THAT on the ground, a huge chill went up my spine and I found the repeating text on the walls near the end of that hallway to be pretty creepy. I love the storytelling aspect, I love how it actually made me scared, it's a great game.
My only complaints are the way to inspect notes and open doors, because they don't always register, and also, sometimes when you try to read a note or open a door, you accidentally go out of a door behind you. You also don't always know where to go, so the first time of me playing this, I found that I had missed two notes, so that's a little problematic.
Those are my only two complaints, otherwise, I love the game! Keep up the great work!
Hey there Beebeboy! Thanks so much for taking the time to play and I'm really glad that you enjoyed Rot, that makes me so happy :)
Yes! I am not very proud of the way things work mechanically; this is my first game in Unity and if I were to completely remake Rot from the ground up I'd do lots of things differently. Thank you for pointing it out though, because it does hamstring the experience and I want to make games that people can really enjoy.
Thank you again, though, for your kind words! I hope you have a great day :)
Hey there! I just wanna say thanks for taking the time to comment all that time ago when Rot came out. It really meant a lot and comments like yours encouraged me to keep on making games. If you're interested, I just published a sequel to Rot on my itch! I hope it's okay, but I actually used some of your comment in the game haha...
I gotta say, I loved the whole low-res aesthetic of the game as well as the story behind these two characters, especially when it came to the obsession, for sure!
Really was creepy to play as the game went on and once everything subsided, the story completely made sense.
Really enjoyed the game thoroughly. Thanks for making such a neat game! :D
Thank you so much! It's really cool that you took the time to record a let's play but I also want to say thank you for the kind words. I'm very flattered and I'm glad you enjoyed the story :)
I wanted to enjoy the game, but I was getting frustrated with the controls, and the lag. I see what you guys were trying to portray to us as the player, but for me it just didn't shine through. If some of the minor things wrong with this version of the game are fixed, I would 100% be down to play again and leave another review. I am in no way saying the game is bad, because it's not. It just didn't spark my soul like I was hoping it would. Keep the dream alive!
Played this for a Random indie horror game video and was pretty intrigued by the story, however that's all it really had going for it tbh. The gameplay was a little wanky to say the least. It was not a bad game by any means, I just feel there is room for improvement. I give an honest and more in-depth review in my video if you're interested.
Hey there friend! I appreciate your honest feedback about the game, it is always welcome, and I trust that one day it will lead to improvements for my future titles. I am sorry that you did not have a better time with it but having seen your video it is understandable why! I left a comment responding to your review and subbed :)
I just left a reply to it lol. The game wasn't wasn't bad, just needs a bit of work is all. Thanks for replying! I appreciate it! And thanks for the sub!
Recommended with 5 stars. I enjoyed this little game. 👌😁
Normally I would like to write a few more lines, but when it comes to feelings or deeper meaning, my English sucks. I'm sorry 😬. Dear dev: May I ask if that fictional relationship between Emma and Justin was already broken? Did Justin not accept the separation and placed those letters? Just wanna know, if i got this right. 🤔 You don't have to answer if it's a secret..... wait.👆.. or... if i'm completely wrong because i'm stupid. 😆
Hi there Ravee! Thanks so much for commenting, it really means a lot!
To me, the relationship is broken before the events of the game, and yes! Justin does place letters around the apartment to make it seem as though love is still there. It's not really a secret haha, in fact if you want to know more then there's a devlog on the game page called 'So... What Happened With Emma and Justin?'.
Thank you so much for rating my game! That really helps me out a lot and I'm so glad you enjoyed it 😊
P.S. don't worry about your English, you were perfectly clear!
Nice to know I got this story right 😊. (I've currently read the devlog). You have placed a well done solid game here and I really appreciate the quality of the work. 👍
Hey Ravee! Wanted to say thanks for saying such kind things about Rot when it came out. I really appreciated it and it's how I came across your games like meloveyou!
If you're interested, I've just published a sequel on my page :) Hope you're well! And happy deving
Hahaha, maybe a new feature will be that you constantly carry around a pint of wifebeater ;) thanks for taking the time to do a let's play my friend! It really means a lot to me :) You know you're the only one to pick up on the Burberry hat so far!
Hey mate! Thanks so much for taking the time to record and edit a whole let's play of Rot, I'm really happy that you decided to shout the game out on your channel :) Left a comment and subbed!
Oh dear! I'm very sorry about that :( there are a few issues with the controls as it stands (this is my first game in Unity, still getting the hang of it!) but hopefully everything should work if you stand right up against the doors and don't look away or move when interacting with the dialogues!
I know that's very amateurish of me and I hope to update it one day but I'm honestly just very busy at the moment with my job and my university so I've only really had time to respond to comments et al!
Really interesting way to combine the different themes through the letters and different environment changes. Loved it even though still a bit confused on the story I think!
Hey Pecan! Thanks so much for recording a let's play of Rot, it really means a lot to me and I'm so glad you enjoyed it! If you're a bit confused on the story then I think there are a few notes you missed but the whole thing is very abstract and metaphorical so I guess it's not supposed to 100% make sense haha. I was sure to sub to your channel so that I might see some more indie titles on there in the future :)
Gave it a go, perhaps before an update hit? Enter key was horrible! Guessing it's been changed, as the frustration in my video shows how it was. Otherwise, could maybe use a touch more horror or good ambiance? Could be just me
Hey man! Thanks so much for playing Rot on your YouTube channel, I really appreciate it :) There were a few cringes for me haha, that door glitch is very hard to look at! Basically, the interaction icon works independently from the mechanism that transports the player through doors so they often don't match up :( this is definitely a bug and in the future I'll be sure to use a different method! For most other let's plays though it wasn't a problem so I think you were especially unlucky with it :(
I'm thankful that you were honest about the frustration and I totally take your tips on board! I made this game last year for a university assignment and the time-pressured nature of things meant that a lot of ideas weren't fully realised and that many concepts were limited by the quality of teaching for the course (which was TERRIBLE, everything I have learned I learned from the internet) so next time I make a project it should be more fully fleshed out. This includes things like ambience and general embellishments.
On interpretation: I understand your confusion about the story! The game is entirely metaphorical and the apartment stands for the relationship between the two characters.
Thanks so much again for playing, I really appreciate it :)
Not a prob, good you can take criticism like a champ, though I always say any form of criticism with absolute and genuine desire that who its directed to, improves, with no malice or anger towards you/them at the time. xD
I got the doors to work, thank you for the advice. I hope I figured out what was happening in the game. I miss pixelated low poly games. So much nostalgia.
Hey ZombiKittie! I really appreciate you taking the time to play Rot on your channel, it really means a lot and I'm glad that the art style took you back to the good old days :)
great message! The pixel art was so nice and the eerie feeling throughout the game was amazing.
I don't know if you've heard of Game Development World Championship before (gdwc2019) but it's a competition for indie game developers where they can submit their games and it's free! It's great if you want some more visibility for the game and it only takes a couple of minutes to join :)
Hey there! Thanks for commenting :) No, I haven't heard of this Championship before but it can't hurt to apply! How would I go about doing that, can I ask?
Yes of course! Just go to our website https://thegdwc.com and enroll, first you will register yourself and then you can submit your game :D There's also a FAQ on the website if you have any more questions, otherwise you can also ask me :)
Hey Bonez! Thanks so much for taking the time to record this let's play! It was a good watch and I'm really glad that you thought the game was interesting! I was sure to comment and to sub so that I might see some more indie horror on your channel :)
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Came here after We Dont talke about This is a Great game play expericence, i am a lot more confused but i loved playing it here is a gameplay
I recently decided to jump back to this game after playing "We don't talk about it " to hopefully get a better understanding of the game. However, my stupid brain probably doesn't work and I got everything completely wrong..
Below is my play through.
wanted to play so that i could get the full story for we dont talk about it, and i wanted to extend my thanks! had a great time, and wanted to share the recording with you. cheers!
Just uploaded my gameplay of this! It was honestly an interesting experience lol Really enjoyed editing as well as playing and I hope some of you enjoy watching it! I probably missed some things or something went completely over my head but it was still a cool game!
Hey man, really enjoyed your game. It did touch me since you could say I've been through something kinda similar back when I was about the age of your characters. I made a playthrough video. I hope you keep creating interesting experiences like this!
Wow! That was some very interesting story filled with spooky and surreal twist near the end! Thank you very much for that game! I'm definitely going to play the sequel next friday :) Here's my little playthrough (Polish language) Cheers!
Awesome game as usual, you definetly got better in the second game you made, Don't Look at Me. My interpertation I made was that this was a story of affair, heartbreak, obssesion, and letting go. I feel this review would be too long, so just watch the video I made here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCASe6trRcJ-kpxs3d18-_aw?view_as=subscriber
I apologize if you find my voice annoying, my voice change hasn't happened just yet (even though im 13), so please bear with it. The video of me playing through it is also on their so you can find it there too. Like before, great game Michael!
Great game, I would play it on any sunday morning
OMG man! At first I was like... "I'm not afraid of this simple apartment." :O
i can't run it, it seems to be missing the following files: Rot Remastered Mouse Support.x86.64, UnityPlayer.so, UnityPlayer_s.debug and LinuxPlayer_s.debug - please add them in a next version...
I gave it a go, enjoyed it.
A thoroughly bizarre experience but thank you :)
LOL Played and Enjoyed This Game!!!
This was a cool little experience!
Played it for my channel today. I really enjoyed it! Well made game with an interesting story. I look forward to your future work.
I had no idea what I was walking into when I started up this game, and I still have no idea quite what I walked into now I'm done!
To try and put it simply, it's a real rollercoaster of emotions, very talkative inanimate objects and creepy, boarded-up nightmares.
To put it a bit less simply it's a horror-thriller game wherein you walk around an apartment (potentially one that our character is about to move into), experiencing remnants of the past, glimpses of a broken mind and lots of curious letters between two loves no longer connected.
There are still lots of things I'm not 100% sure about, but what I do know is that this game was one heck of a ride, and I lived every moment of it (enough so that I felt inclined to experience it twice to make sure I caught everything)! Definitely worth a look, the style is great and the story lurking beneath the weirdness is really mind-bending.
Keep up the awesome work Michael (great name too, Michaels unite!) =)
Hey MikeyBlighe! Just finished watching your let's play and I'm so glad you even took the time to go through the game twice! It really means a lot to me that you enjoyed it :) yes! Michaels union haha. I made sure to comment on the video and to sub!
Hey MikeyBlighe! Just wanted to say thanks for taking the time to comment such nice things about the game when I released it. You were really encouraging and I remember really appreciating it and enjoying your lets play. If you're interested, I've just published a sequel on my itch!
Hope you're well,
Michael
Really like the story telling in the game. I just feel like I'm missing a piece of the story, mainly when the original split starts.
Anywho here's my channel for other games I have played. http://www.youtube.com/c/Levont
Hey Levont! Thanks so much for doing a let's play of Rot on your channel, it really means a lot :) I'm really glad you enjoyed and I take your note about the sudden change which you mention in the video! The game was originally made as a university assignment and part of the brief was that it had to only be a few minutes long, I think I would have done it very differently were that not the case. I will definitely consider this for future projects and thank you for the feedback! I left on a comment on the video :)
Hmmm... I liked it. especially how the paintings changed (wink wink) lol awesome story, would have loved to see more. Here's my walkthrough.
Hey jaysuave92, thanks so much for choosing to do a let's play of Rot! It really means a lot and I'm glad you enjoyed it :) have a great day!
i pooped my pants
Oh dear! I hoped you changed them? Thank you so much for playing though :)
did a 3 random indie horror game i like the game
Hey there! Thanks so much for featuring Rot in your 3 Horror Games video, it really means a lot to me and I'm glad you enjoyed :) Thanks also for introducing me to Love, Sam!
interesting game ! I love that things got escalated quickly ! I dunno felt real to me !
this is my gameplay btw:
Hey there! Thanks so much for taking the time to record a let's play :) it really means a lot to me and I'm so glad you enjoyed! I left a comment and subbed
This game I feel is best played alone in the dark, it just makes it a better experience.
Anyways, I really loved this game. It's shorter, but it honestly really sucked me in. The third section in the dark hallways made me genuinely scared to round every corner, and when I saw *ahem* THAT on the ground, a huge chill went up my spine and I found the repeating text on the walls near the end of that hallway to be pretty creepy. I love the storytelling aspect, I love how it actually made me scared, it's a great game.
My only complaints are the way to inspect notes and open doors, because they don't always register, and also, sometimes when you try to read a note or open a door, you accidentally go out of a door behind you. You also don't always know where to go, so the first time of me playing this, I found that I had missed two notes, so that's a little problematic.
Those are my only two complaints, otherwise, I love the game! Keep up the great work!
Hey there Beebeboy! Thanks so much for taking the time to play and I'm really glad that you enjoyed Rot, that makes me so happy :)
Yes! I am not very proud of the way things work mechanically; this is my first game in Unity and if I were to completely remake Rot from the ground up I'd do lots of things differently. Thank you for pointing it out though, because it does hamstring the experience and I want to make games that people can really enjoy.
Thank you again, though, for your kind words! I hope you have a great day :)
Hey there! I just wanna say thanks for taking the time to comment all that time ago when Rot came out. It really meant a lot and comments like yours encouraged me to keep on making games. If you're interested, I just published a sequel to Rot on my itch! I hope it's okay, but I actually used some of your comment in the game haha...
Anyway, hope you're well and happy gaming!
I gotta say, I loved the whole low-res aesthetic of the game as well as the story behind these two characters, especially when it came to the obsession, for sure!
Really was creepy to play as the game went on and once everything subsided, the story completely made sense.
Really enjoyed the game thoroughly. Thanks for making such a neat game! :D
Thank you so much! It's really cool that you took the time to record a let's play but I also want to say thank you for the kind words. I'm very flattered and I'm glad you enjoyed the story :)
I wanted to enjoy the game, but I was getting frustrated with the controls, and the lag. I see what you guys were trying to portray to us as the player, but for me it just didn't shine through. If some of the minor things wrong with this version of the game are fixed, I would 100% be down to play again and leave another review. I am in no way saying the game is bad, because it's not. It just didn't spark my soul like I was hoping it would. Keep the dream alive!
~Kwirkee
Played this for a Random indie horror game video and was pretty intrigued by the story, however that's all it really had going for it tbh. The gameplay was a little wanky to say the least. It was not a bad game by any means, I just feel there is room for improvement. I give an honest and more in-depth review in my video if you're interested.
Hey there friend! I appreciate your honest feedback about the game, it is always welcome, and I trust that one day it will lead to improvements for my future titles. I am sorry that you did not have a better time with it but having seen your video it is understandable why! I left a comment responding to your review and subbed :)
I just left a reply to it lol. The game wasn't wasn't bad, just needs a bit of work is all. Thanks for replying! I appreciate it! And thanks for the sub!
Fun little game.
Link to my channel (opens in new tab) youtube.com/jonathick
Thank you so much for taking the time to record a let's play :) it really means a lot and I'm glad you enjoyed!
Recommended with 5 stars. I enjoyed this little game. 👌😁
Normally I would like to write a few more lines, but when it comes to feelings or deeper meaning, my English sucks. I'm sorry 😬.
Dear dev: May I ask if that fictional relationship between Emma and Justin was already broken? Did Justin not accept the separation and placed those letters? Just wanna know, if i got this right. 🤔 You don't have to answer if it's a secret..... wait.👆.. or... if i'm completely wrong because i'm stupid. 😆
Thank you for sharing your game with us 👍
Hi there Ravee! Thanks so much for commenting, it really means a lot!
To me, the relationship is broken before the events of the game, and yes! Justin does place letters around the apartment to make it seem as though love is still there. It's not really a secret haha, in fact if you want to know more then there's a devlog on the game page called 'So... What Happened With Emma and Justin?'.
Thank you so much for rating my game! That really helps me out a lot and I'm so glad you enjoyed it 😊
P.S. don't worry about your English, you were perfectly clear!
Nice to know I got this story right 😊. (I've currently read the devlog). You have placed a well done solid game here and I really appreciate the quality of the work. 👍
Hey Ravee! Wanted to say thanks for saying such kind things about Rot when it came out. I really appreciated it and it's how I came across your games like meloveyou!
If you're interested, I've just published a sequel on my page :) Hope you're well! And happy deving
This game messed with my head.
Haha, that's the idea! Thanks so much for choosing to do a let's play of Rot, it really means a lot! Subbed and commented :)
Yeah, they're probably not getting back together.
Hahaha you got that right. Thanks so much for taking the time to record a let's play! I really appreciate it :) commented and subbed!
Saw the Burberry hat and lost it...
Hahaha, maybe a new feature will be that you constantly carry around a pint of wifebeater ;) thanks for taking the time to do a let's play my friend! It really means a lot to me :) You know you're the only one to pick up on the Burberry hat so far!
Haha I have a keen eye for spotting youth subcultures aparently ;D
an interesting wee game indeed, I seem to have encountered a bug where I couldn't use my mouse though, but still managed to make my way through
Hey mate! Thanks so much for taking the time to record and edit a whole let's play of Rot, I'm really happy that you decided to shout the game out on your channel :) Left a comment and subbed!
The controls made me cry.
Oh dear! I'm very sorry about that :( there are a few issues with the controls as it stands (this is my first game in Unity, still getting the hang of it!) but hopefully everything should work if you stand right up against the doors and don't look away or move when interacting with the dialogues!
I know that's very amateurish of me and I hope to update it one day but I'm honestly just very busy at the moment with my job and my university so I've only really had time to respond to comments et al!
It's still a pretty game though. ^^ So good job.
Really interesting way to combine the different themes through the letters and different environment changes. Loved it even though still a bit confused on the story I think!
Hey Pecan! Thanks so much for recording a let's play of Rot, it really means a lot to me and I'm so glad you enjoyed it! If you're a bit confused on the story then I think there are a few notes you missed but the whole thing is very abstract and metaphorical so I guess it's not supposed to 100% make sense haha. I was sure to sub to your channel so that I might see some more indie titles on there in the future :)
Gave it a go, perhaps before an update hit? Enter key was horrible! Guessing it's been changed, as the frustration in my video shows how it was. Otherwise, could maybe use a touch more horror or good ambiance? Could be just me
Hey man! Thanks so much for playing Rot on your YouTube channel, I really appreciate it :) There were a few cringes for me haha, that door glitch is very hard to look at! Basically, the interaction icon works independently from the mechanism that transports the player through doors so they often don't match up :( this is definitely a bug and in the future I'll be sure to use a different method! For most other let's plays though it wasn't a problem so I think you were especially unlucky with it :(
I'm thankful that you were honest about the frustration and I totally take your tips on board! I made this game last year for a university assignment and the time-pressured nature of things meant that a lot of ideas weren't fully realised and that many concepts were limited by the quality of teaching for the course (which was TERRIBLE, everything I have learned I learned from the internet) so next time I make a project it should be more fully fleshed out. This includes things like ambience and general embellishments.
On interpretation: I understand your confusion about the story! The game is entirely metaphorical and the apartment stands for the relationship between the two characters.
Thanks so much again for playing, I really appreciate it :)
Not a prob, good you can take criticism like a champ, though I always say any form of criticism with absolute and genuine desire that who its directed to, improves, with no malice or anger towards you/them at the time. xD
I got the doors to work, thank you for the advice. I hope I figured out what was happening in the game. I miss pixelated low poly games. So much nostalgia.
Hey ZombiKittie! I really appreciate you taking the time to play Rot on your channel, it really means a lot and I'm glad that the art style took you back to the good old days :)
great message! The pixel art was so nice and the eerie feeling throughout the game was amazing.
I don't know if you've heard of Game Development World Championship before (gdwc2019) but it's a competition for indie game developers where they can submit their games and it's free! It's great if you want some more visibility for the game and it only takes a couple of minutes to join :)
Hey there! Thanks for commenting :) No, I haven't heard of this Championship before but it can't hurt to apply! How would I go about doing that, can I ask?
Yes of course! Just go to our website https://thegdwc.com and enroll, first you will register yourself and then you can submit your game :D There's also a FAQ on the website if you have any more questions, otherwise you can also ask me :)
Well done on the game! Very nice sudden change of tone! Enjoyed this one!
Hey Bonez! Thanks so much for taking the time to record this let's play! It was a good watch and I'm really glad that you thought the game was interesting! I was sure to comment and to sub so that I might see some more indie horror on your channel :)