hi! droqen here. the-end-of-score-thing is now offline. you missed it!
follow me on itch io to catch my proper finished games when i do release them! i am also working on a way to browse currently online droqever games, but it is not available yet. i'll announce it on twitter when it's ready.
follow me on itch io to catch my proper finished games when i do release them! i am also working on a way to browse currently online droqever games, but it is not available yet. i'll announce it on twitter when it's ready.
here are all of everyone's thoughts from when the-end-of-score-thing was online, in order of their posting.
thank you all for playing and sharing <3
thank you all for playing and sharing <3
would've been funnier if the score modulo'd 1000. flying was cool, liked the required left/right movement for it
the highest score i could get was about 600 guess i'm nothing without score, heh
Truly killing gameplay, into the pit of annihilation. Felt like I was riding thermals. Taunted by ledges just out of reach. I loved the little floating rock with the implied propeller. The score-thing made me feel so uneasy. --kayin
the tileset is beautiful in a subdued way. lovely sense of place; ah, the joy of being a little bird. but then i see red doors, and my heart longs for the red key...
I don't understand the concept of a "high score." Isn't a score always twenty?
i am ready to go. the score thing is over. how do people live like this, never knowing? -droqen
delight -quasiotter
games doesn't even show a leaderboard at the end? Unplayable!
Couldn't really read the text at that size
oh, that oppressive gravity. —@jseakle
I liked the poem and it was relevant to thoughts I've been having lately regarding religion. Thank you. ideemthatsheyetlives
Chaotic, expressive, and yet limiting. This is like the one where you were a guy who used to be able to fly, and there were things that felt like you used to be able to get to but couldn't, but without tricky platforming or gameplay. Just emotions and a visually expressive display, though I feel I'm not smart enough to see what is expressed. It looks like it should look beautiful, and it does, but it feels like rather than it not being beautiful, I am incapable of grasping the full scope of the beauty. If this comment is not read, was it still worth writing? Is the acknowledgement of my words my score thing? Come to think of it, how often have I gone back to actually read what others have wrote? I'm not scoring others the way I want to be scored. This game makes a good point, except there are no points to be scored. -@GreytideSkye
"score is an outdated mechanic best relagated to the arcades. score THING on the other hand is perfect and beautiful and will kiss me on the mouth." - albert einstein, inventor
i like da flying :0) -j
i flied, i smiled, then when i felt i was ready to go, i went - mando
very fun, i love flight and bumping into things like a big bee. i really wanted to reach the biggest red marker but it was to far out of my domain. i wanted to get a score of my favorite number at one point but overshot by one. both very sad, but that's how it goes sometimes.~~~~
i think... i'm gonna hurl (good thing)
Lovely thought! Love how poignantly this focuses on a lack of "achievement" or "mastery" as a core part of games. Score being just one representation of that, but ultimately, just asking whether or not you value yourself based on whether or not you have "achieved" something is cool and very interesting! - Joas
lack of score thing
trying to emerge from an isolation and poking my newfound loved ones for validation that i'm doing things right and they tease me with how often i do that. i also recently ran into someone's blog post where they wrote about trying to put things into words instead of going through the abstract validation interface (kinda intricate but alright way of describing it) of "likes", uhh. ha.. wrt this game, i really really like the texture of flying too high and running out of .. air? to fly with?.. and the end tune keeps looping as i ramble and write this
fly, fly
that was fast
wizened gamer accidentally beat this. going to retry to get that score up
wizened gamer update : 177 before i got sick ofi t
Scores of scores
Isuru
argh
james - i'm happy with the score i got
henzo
henzo
like petals on a cloud
Reminded me of the end of gameplay. Cute! Quinn was here
If I took anything with me, I probably couldn't fly so high. I flew as high as I could. -page
i like how you arranged the number of characters so their sides would be aligned -d
I liked this one a lot. Felt good to fly, but not to be without restraint.