Awkward Dimensions Redux

2.7 / 5.7 This is a hard one to write a thought to. I did enjoy it overall, but I don't really recommend it. It's at it's core an art project, a very soul bearing glimpse behind thoughts and feelings of the developer. Some of those thoughts are conveyed naturally through the depictions provided but then others I had absolutely no real context or such behind until reading the little developer commentary notes. I am in a belief and mindset that if you feel compelled and/or strongly to make something you should for artistic reason. You can find a lot about feeling, emotion or discover/improve skill through doing things even if it's been something that's been done many times by others. The difference then is what you do with it after, keeping it to look at later as a reminder, selling it or just publishing to others to see/experience. It feels like this falls more in the latter and that's overall fine but in doing so there has to be a kind of realisation of what that welcomes also. This is somewhat acknowledged as there's a dev commentary on how the internet can be harsh and uncaring toward art projects, which I somewhat agree with. I just find it then extremely pretentious t…

Banger. Play it. The game may be rudimentary but regardless of its polish it is quite clever. I especially liked the alternate exit in the final level using limited time forcing you to push past all the noise of peoples opinions in order to escape the confines of believing them as absolute truth. At least that was my interpretation. I felt the art gallery of the dev's drawings as a child in the heist level served as a representation of the level itself. The first attempt, it looks like ♥♥♥♥ of course but with practice and dedication (climbing the ladder) comes true progress and eventually mastery. The dev shows us some of their more recent art and it is vastly improved in quality much like this game as a whole compared to the singular heist level. The dogs cracked me up too. I cried a lot playing this. My ONE critique is in the developer commentary on the self destruction level the dev says "most" people wouldn't look up to grab the tile and would just give up. I do believe some people might if they don't relate with the dev, but I gotta say if you can't figure that level out you're a total moron. I was charmed by the lack of polish, I can tell it is not a gimmick and the dev has…

I love it!!!! <3

crazy game

Let's be real here. This is an early student game from a creator that I have no doubt has made some really nice stuff later in their career. But this just isn't it. Treating yourself as an auteur and like your games are art no one can get gets insufferable fast when you have no actual substance of a game to present past that. It would be much healthier for this person to have dealt with their depression and writers block without sensationalizing it into a game for the approval of others. That's just sugar coating your own self destructive behavior, and I honestly I too have a tendency to do that. But you can't put self-hatred on a canvas and tell everyone they need to read something something more from it than "I need help."

It's good. Also very raw (emotionally & otherwise)