LIMINAL ROUTINE
A downloadable game for Windows
LIMINAL ROUTINE
DESCRIPTION
A routine that can make you lose your mind. Experience it through the eyes of a new corporate employee. Play through day 1, day 367 and day ???.
IMPORTANT THINGS:
The game has a very pleasant soundtrack so use headphones.
There are no horror elements.
To begin the game navigate to the Start icon in the left bottom corner and click on it, then press New Routine.
The game has 3 routines. After you finish the 1st routine simply press New Routine again to begin the 2nd and 3rd respectively.
CONTROLS
MOUSE to look around
WASD to move
E to interact with highlighted objects, use the timetable and car keys. LEFT SHIFT to sprint
BUGS/GLITCHES Let us know if you’ve found a bug or a new way to fall under the map ;)
CREDITS
Textures from:
-Poliigon.com
-Textures.com
-Google Images
CREATORS:
MUSIC AND SFX COMPOSER- Adrian “Lost Beach Boy” Smith
ENGINE WORK- Łukasz “Archmagnificent” Wyczesany
ASSET MODELING- Tobiasz “Tobik” Gola
PROJECT MANAGER, LEVEL DESIGN AND ASSET MODELING- Piotr “EH_PS” Szeja
SOUNDTRACK AVAILABLE FOR FREE (under Creative Commons license): YouTube:
Bandcamp: https://lostbeachboy.bandcamp.com/album/liminal-routine
CONTACT If you’d like to contact us, please use either the comments section or email ( piotr.szeja2000@gmail.com).
Download
Install instructions
1.Download zip file.
2. Unzip
3. Run LIMINAL ROUTINE.exe
Comments
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Idea is good, level concepts are creative (much more than in other games) but has a lot of technical problems:
1. Your textures repeat constantly - on the walls, floor and so on. Try to use global UV instead of local one (just look on YouTube tutorials for those materials, it will help dramatically)
2. Walking speed and mouse is just to high. In liminal games you want to taste this feeling, experience moments when world is so tight and small, but you are still walking endlessly in those mazes endlessly. It increases liminality
3. Lights are inconsistent - some of them are too bright, some of them are too dark, and you cant see room at all.
4. Reflections in elevator are horrible. I would recommend to eliminate them completely
5. When interacting with objects (buttons, doors etc) effects of interactions, like toggling lights or something, constantly repeat themselves - just attach to interactable objects node "Do once" and you will be fine
6. Loading levels needs to be reworked, First of all - when you change level games doesnt tell you about it, so when you push the button and nothing changes it looks just as if game is broken. You could try to just show black screen or something like that. But if approach it more creatively, I recommend to do loadings like in Half Life - you just walk into corridor, new level loads without visual changes, and player feels like world just blends from one level to another, so it feel a lot more liminal. Also if you could it make without loading screens (for example split one large levels into chunks and delete them if players walks past them) it would be beautiful
7. Music is good, but it is the same on each level. Its bad, because music can underline individual aspects of levels, so it would be better if you change it on each level. Also please make smooth fade in and out, not just turn music on
8. Levels are too small. I understand that when you are indie developer creating large levels is just impossible, but you could try to make an illusion that levels are big. For example The Complex game achieved it with smaller walk speed and by creating a lot of alternative paths, that you can explore, so it creates an illusion that level is huge.
All in all idea is good, but techical rework is needed
(Please dont take it offensive :D)
9. Try to eliminate text instructions - its better when you build game in such way, that player know for himself what to do
10. Now I noticed problem with disappearing meshes on edge of vision: when you move camera fast enough you can see how meshes disappear. I've already encountered it - it occurs when you use too much meshes on the scene, and occlusion culling deletes them to quickly. Solution is rather to use larger meshes, and abandon small ones (it will also increase performance), or blend couple of small meshes into large ones - it is possible in engine, watch tutorials on that.
Thank you for the feedback, a lot of interesting and valid points have been made. As the team has been disbanded for quite some time, a technical rework of the game is unfortunately very unlikely. Thank you for playing and leaving us guidelines to become better at making games. :)
its very laggy and i cant get into the options to change it due to the lag or something
The options were not implemented, sorry. As for the performance we recieved various opinions about it and currently there is no way for us to fix performance issues. Sorry for the inconvenience.
understandable after all you did only have a limited amount of time no hard feelings
Chill game with comforting soundtrack. I got the secret ending my first round :D
Thanks for playing the game :)
I'm glad you like the music!