ANCIENT OBSERVER
A downloadable game for Windows and macOS
Ancient Observer is a short, narrative exploration game made by Noonmarkart. It features an open narrative and a cozy world to explore, full of things to discover. This fully hand drawn and painted game was lovingly crafted over the course of Fall 2021, and features themes of loss, appreciating beauty, and the inevitable flow of time.
Developed for Experimental Game Design: Playing Stories Fall 2021.
Ancient Observer is free to download and to play, but if you'd like to leave a tip here's my Ko-fi! Thank you!
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Playable on Mac and PC. If you encounter any bugs, please email ekarachums@gmail.com with a description of the issue. Thank you!
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Great concept, very enthralling: it's apparent that it's a much bigger universe than what's being shown. I've read in another comment that you are planning on expanding. I'll be awaiting updates then :)
Thank you so so much for commenting and taking the time to play!! I hope to have much more to share soon :)!! (in this universe and others!)
have a wonderful autumn!
<3 <3 <3 you too
Lovely! Very short but very striking, very personal atmosphere and super pretty graphics (those colours!). Would love to see what you can do with something longer and bigger scoped, following to keep an eye on where you go! :)
Thank you so much for your very kind comment, and for playing!!! <3
I'm Slowly working on something larger that I'm super excited to share more of!!
Thank you for following my work, have a beautiful day!!
-Fen
♥ This was very, very, _very_ lovely and made us cry quite a bit. It ... resonates wif everything everyfen we stand for, everyfen we long for, everyfen we believe in, everyfen we are. Playing as a little fox, community, compassion, queer diverse joy. Just. Happy. Happy critters all around. Loved meeting every being in the game, so much. just. very happy game yesyesyes. Mraaaah.
Thank you so, so much for your kind review/comment. It made ME cry!!! Thank you for playing, for feeling, and for immersing yourself so deeply in this little world. Much love!! <3
- Fen
We just feel the need to add, we've written to friends much more about how happy this game made us. There are few stories we've connected with so deeply. This is a short game but it is so full of compassion and it makes us go "hey that's us, we see ourselves, the world we long for and strive to create, so clearly reflected here". We're so happy we came across this game, and just feel so grateful it exists. Yeah! We're apprehensive writing a second comment lest we come off ~weird~, but we just feel _that happy_ to have played this. Wishing all the best <3
Not weird at all -- promise. This really means so so much to me. This game was a turning point for me, it was my first real project and it means a lot to me and has shaped what i've wanted to do with my future projects a lot. So, it seriously means the world to hear your experience, and to know that it's reaching someone out there in the way I'd hoped. I hope we can see a better future together in art, and in the real world! Sendin y'all all the best and so much love <333 Be well!
I recorded and played your game! It was beautiful!
Thank you so much for the kind review and taking the time to record your playthrough!!!! Have a wonderful day!!
This is a very cool game, the hand drawn art and animation style reminds me of teslagrad, and the music is amazing
A wonderfully made game, beautiful and very tidily done.
Absolutely closed the game on accident a few times because I hit escape after accidentally starting dialogue over.