Pleroma & Kenoma

Pleroma & Kenoma

A thing becomes empty when it rids itself of its fullness, and vice versa. Only in the space between all and none can peace be found.

This zen puzzle game has you try to collect as many Planes (the lower symbol in the bottom left, "0") as possible, before your Influence (the upper symbol in the bottom left, "21") runs out. My best is 9 Planes, can you beat it?

CLICK ONCE ON THE WINDOW TO BRING IT INTO FOCUS, THEN USE THE NUMBER KEYS (AT THE TOP OF YOUR KEYBOARD) TO PLAY.

IF THE WINDOW IS NOT FULLY IN THE FRAME OR OFFSET, ADJUST YOUR BROWSER PAGE ZOOM.

Phase 1:

Press 1-4 to select an Influence.

Phase 2:

Press 1-4 to Influence a certain Plane, or 5 to pass through the Space Between and claim all Planes balanced at 0.

I leave you to figure out the rest. There is no ending screen - the game simply stops accepting input when the Influence reaches zero. Refresh the page to try again.

This game is 100% open source! See it here: https://github.com/Oneirical/pleromakenoma

Made in Rust 🦀 with the Bevy 🕊️ engine.

• Rust: https://www.rust-lang.org/
• Bevy: https://bevyengine.org/

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Solo game made by Oneirical. I did everything.

I prefer not to put my real name on itch.io where anyone can see it. Look at the Google Docs of the jam teams instead.

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Modifiers:

• A Thousand Words
• The Big Three
• Zen

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Overall, I had a very hard time making this. This was the first true Rust project I embarked on, and I had not used Bevy before beyond the absolute basics. The Entity-Component-System is a completely different way to look at the way a game works.

I often felt blocked and unproductive, and feel like I could have implemented more of my ideas (some lore text, some unique powers) had I used tooling I was more familiar with.

Looking at the other games of this jam, it is clear Bevy is not quite at the level of Unity or Godot yet. But I am glad I tried it. Even if I don't stand out from the lot, I appreciate the learning experience this has given me.