I played the version off the forums and really enjoyed my time with it. It's a fun hour or so of gameplay and is well polished. It's a light game, and sometimes that's exactly what I want. The art is charming and well tuned to the black and white platform. I'm glad to see it here now and am happy to buy a copy.
Lent: If you have future ideas for Playdate games, I'll definitely be interested in checking them out!
This is so good! And super impressive that it’s all made in Pulp. I really enjoyed the vibe, and all the little animations and cool/weird characters. Mechanically, it reminded me of For the Frog the Bell tolls – a game that’s more about seeing what there is to offer than anything else.
Really enjoying this so far! Maybe the soundtrack hasn’t fully kicked off yet, but it seems like I need to max out the volume on the playdate to barely hear the music.
EDIT: Yeah the volume could definitely be increased by at least 1.5x. I wandered off to the top right area first and just wanted to give props for the little fire going out animation, it’s polish like that that really gets me into the game! Unfortunately because I went there first I missed out on dialogue from the hotel person.
AwesomeNick! Thanks for for playing AND for the info about the volume - it's now on the list of things for me to check out when i finally get a physical Playdate to test on! (soon, i hope) - my plan is to compare it to a bunch of other games and try to make sure i'm in the same ballpark.
missing some of Basil's dialog - i wanted make sure i had a few places where the story didn't demand you to stay locked-in to a linear experience - so you could feel free to meander a bit - in any single play-through there might be a small handful of things you won't see because of the path you took.
Definitely felt the intent to let the path be a bit more non linear, good stuff! For reference on the volume, Eyeland at max (11) on my playdate speakers matches the volume of crankin’s time travel adventure at 4.
Anyways, just finished the game and had a blast with it! Followed you on itch and am looking forward to any future projects of yours :)
I saw a lot of hubbub around the Playdate subreddit in regards to Eyeland and I thought it looked cool from screenshots but Eyeland blew me away. I absolutely adored the whole playthrough (I won't link the video here because I want people to actually pay for this game but I did link it to you on Facebook, I'm Jordan Thompson from Drop Rate).
The pixel art is stunning, every area has such great puzzle design and the way it shifts from silence to the soundtrack kicking in is perfect. I loved it all the way through and loved the ending. This is absolutely one a killer app that warranted a purchase outside of Season 1. I think I like Eyeland more than Bloom and that's a really high bar to pass.
Seriously this is amazing. Playdate should pick this up for Season 2. I absolutely, positively need more games from you haha.
JORDAN! I'm glad you liked it. And thank you so much for the review / play-through video! I'm going to watch it soon - I'm sure it'll be helpful to see how someone plays/interacts.
As for your question about saving: you don't... not yet. I haven't received my Playdate device & (auto)saving/storing is something I have not been able to implement / test yet. I forget that people expect that to happen with these kinds of games. I'm going to include that as a note in the description. Thank you for bringing this up.
I originally played this from the playdate forums and it's such a little charmer-it sucked me right in. I think I probably got an hour or so's play out of it and very much enjoyed my time with it.
I grabbed this from the playdate forums and loved it. It's well worth $2, and I think it's actually been my favorite adventure-style game on the playdate by far. Some really nice visual moments. Highly recommended!
Edit: this was more of a review than a comment, so I pasted it there. I don't know if I've ever written a review on itch before. I liked this that much!
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Played the forum beta and loved it. Instant buy for the itch release.
THANK YOU!
This game was so fun! Hope you make more, Ron!
thank you!
I played the version off the forums and really enjoyed my time with it. It's a fun hour or so of gameplay and is well polished. It's a light game, and sometimes that's exactly what I want. The art is charming and well tuned to the black and white platform. I'm glad to see it here now and am happy to buy a copy.
Lent: If you have future ideas for Playdate games, I'll definitely be interested in checking them out!
thank you for playing it, Alan - i'm glad you liked!
A short, enjoyable, well-made little puzzle game. Nice work!
t h a n k s !
This is so good! And super impressive that it’s all made in Pulp. I really enjoyed the vibe, and all the little animations and cool/weird characters. Mechanically, it reminded me of For the Frog the Bell tolls – a game that’s more about seeing what there is to offer than anything else.
I checked this out from the Playdate dev forums and absolutely loved it. You crushed it!
thank you!
Really enjoying this so far! Maybe the soundtrack hasn’t fully kicked off yet, but it seems like I need to max out the volume on the playdate to barely hear the music.
EDIT:
Yeah the volume could definitely be increased by at least 1.5x. I wandered off to the top right area first and just wanted to give props for the little fire going out animation, it’s polish like that that really gets me into the game! Unfortunately because I went there first I missed out on dialogue from the hotel person.
AwesomeNick! Thanks for for playing AND for the info about the volume - it's now on the list of things for me to check out when i finally get a physical Playdate to test on! (soon, i hope) - my plan is to compare it to a bunch of other games and try to make sure i'm in the same ballpark.
missing some of Basil's dialog - i wanted make sure i had a few places where the story didn't demand you to stay locked-in to a linear experience - so you could feel free to meander a bit - in any single play-through there might be a small handful of things you won't see because of the path you took.
Definitely felt the intent to let the path be a bit more non linear, good stuff! For reference on the volume, Eyeland at max (11) on my playdate speakers matches the volume of crankin’s time travel adventure at 4.
Anyways, just finished the game and had a blast with it! Followed you on itch and am looking forward to any future projects of yours :)
I'm glad you liked it! ...and that IS a big difference in volume, thanks.
wander around and figure it out game?
sounds like my kinda game...
myst is cool :)
I saw a lot of hubbub around the Playdate subreddit in regards to Eyeland and I thought it looked cool from screenshots but Eyeland blew me away. I absolutely adored the whole playthrough (I won't link the video here because I want people to actually pay for this game but I did link it to you on Facebook, I'm Jordan Thompson from Drop Rate).
The pixel art is stunning, every area has such great puzzle design and the way it shifts from silence to the soundtrack kicking in is perfect. I loved it all the way through and loved the ending. This is absolutely one a killer app that warranted a purchase outside of Season 1. I think I like Eyeland more than Bloom and that's a really high bar to pass.
Seriously this is amazing. Playdate should pick this up for Season 2. I absolutely, positively need more games from you haha.
JORDAN! I'm glad you liked it. And thank you so much for the review / play-through video! I'm going to watch it soon - I'm sure it'll be helpful to see how someone plays/interacts.
Very charming so far!! Question - how do you save?
thank you! -
As for your question about saving: you don't... not yet. I haven't received my Playdate device & (auto)saving/storing is something I have not been able to implement / test yet. I forget that people expect that to happen with these kinds of games. I'm going to include that as a note in the description. Thank you for bringing this up.
I originally played this from the playdate forums and it's such a little charmer-it sucked me right in. I think I probably got an hour or so's play out of it and very much enjoyed my time with it.
I'm glad you liked - thanks for playing!
I loved this! Really impressive use of Pulp and has a few really nice little puzzles.
Thank you, Raygan!
god, how did you make this with pulp, it looks awesome just from the screenshots
carpal tunnel and LOTS - OF - TILES. ;)
are you okay
oh yeah, i'm fine - exaggerating a bit about burying myself in the project for months! :D
I grabbed this from the playdate forums and loved it. It's well worth $2, and I think it's actually been my favorite adventure-style game on the playdate by far. Some really nice visual moments. Highly recommended!
Edit: this was more of a review than a comment, so I pasted it there. I don't know if I've ever written a review on itch before. I liked this that much!
Thank you, Martin, and thanks for the recommendation - I'm glad you liked it!