Apathello
Has today been rough? Are you feeling a distinct lack of emotion due to outside factors? Come sit down, relax, and distract yourself for a little. Play games of Othello against this sentient void, who will be here to support you. It will be okay.
Made for A Game By Its Cover 2023. Inspired by Lumbud84's cover art for Apathello from the Famicase Exhibition 2023. Developed for PICO-8.
Instructions
- Arrow keys: Move cursor, change player difficulty
- X, V, or M: Start game, place disk
- Z, C, or N: Advance through dialog boxes
Version History
- 0.9.5 (August 13, 2023) Initial release for AGBIC 2023
- 0.9.6 (August 18, 2023) Added move highlight; skipped opening cutscene if last played <5 days ago
- 0.9.7 (August 19, 2023) Changed color of move highlight; added AI level (or human icon) to results screen
Comments
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I really have to practice more.
On the first time I tied on Easy. On the second, I won, but it was exciting because in the last moves the AI recovered many pieces!
Graphics, sounds, music and AI are great!
I loved playing and I'm sure will do more times.
Graphically an amazing treat to the eye. The background, the tweens, the flipping all feel amazing! The wandering AI is a nice touch that gives the feeling of a thining opponent!
Got me into learning the game so that’s a huge plus! Beat the novice and tied the easy one, because of a stupid mistake. Gonna play it more for sure.
The background music jingle is well tuned, I thought it would annoy me on the long run, but it blends nicely to the back and doesn’t get annoyingly repetative or anything.
The animations are smooth as butter and the computer's turn where it wanders around before it places its piece is brilliant! This will definitely be my go-to othello game. I managed to beat Hard! So I'll definitely be returning to get my butt kicked by Expert. XD
Thanks so much! Good luck on beating Expert...it's the best attempt at an Othello AI I can make on PICO-8.
I saw the stream where you played this, BTW, and I've added the feature you suggested where the player level shows on the results screen!