Comments on: Opera Omnia

By: wtf

wtf — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 01:18:02 +0000

holy cannoli! I finished this game, and I still don’t understand how to properly play it. It was just pure random clicking

By: GDC 2011 Report « games.greggman.com

GDC 2011 Report « games.greggman.com — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 00:13:13 +0000

[...] Opera Omnia: http://www.increpare.com/2009/02/opera-omnia/ [...]

By: Matt Rix

Matt Rix — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 03:07:50 +0000

Brilliant game. Played it after seeing it at the Experimental Gamemplay thing at GDC.

To address some of the comments above (I know they’re really old):

“it clearly shows that “our people” migrates to the new city first, and then “the others” migrate after that. However the text at the beginning of episode 18 claims it is “the others” who have a greater aptitude at migration.”

I believe you’re looking at it backwards. Because our people migrate slower, they leave a city sooner when going backwards through time, which gives the appearance that they’re faster, when they’re actually just later.

“I had wondered why it didn’t simply state that the total population had to be zero.”

That’s because the total population is not zero, but two… But due to our handiwork, those two people are spread out across 5 cities :)

By: Day Four of the GDC: Old and New | In Search of Secrets

Day Four of the GDC: Old and New | In Search of Secrets — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 11:42:14 +0000

[...] the future. It’s a difficult game to explain without seeing in action, so I suggest you go play it. After Opera Omnia came Jason Rohrer‘s Inside a Star-FIlled Sky, which is a recursive, [...]

By: School. « Shmup Schematics

School. « Shmup Schematics — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 21:49:02 +0000

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By: Guillaume

Guillaume — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 20:53:05 +0000

Yeah I managed to beat mission 18. I had to put the first guy in the village at the bottom right, and then make three villages migrate to it.

Awesome game by the way, with a better interface and tweaks to some of the missions, I would consider it one of the best game I ever played.

By: stephen lavelle

stephen lavelle — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 19:03:08 +0000

Hey – thanks for your feedback.

“I simply could not finish episode 18 (version 1.25). No matter what, there is always a village with a least 1 person in it. I had to edit config.lua and change the number there from 63 to 70 to progress.”
I was able to finish it just there on my osx machine. I’ll try tomorrow on a windows machine[edit: just tried it on XP 64, could complete it okay]. If you can let me know what your processor/operating system is, that would help me check whether anything is going wrong on my end [but my suspicion now is that things are okay here].

“However the text at the beginning of episode 18 claims it is “the others” who have a greater aptitude at migration.”
This is a matter of interpretation, I think – one can take aptitude to mean speed.

By: Guillaume

Guillaume — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 17:35:43 +0000

I simply could not finish episode 18 (version 1.25). No matter what, there is always a village with a least 1 person in it. I had to edit config.lua and change the number there from 63 to 70 to progress.

Also, the mechanics of the game are broken for the scenarios with different migration speeds. For example, in episode 9 and add a migration route between two cities, it clearly shows that “our people” migrates to the new city first, and then “the others” migrate after that. However the text at the beginning of episode 18 claims it is “the others” who have a greater aptitude at migration.

By: stephen lavelle

stephen lavelle — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 18:22:41 +0000

Hmm. I just tried playing through it there, and it worked fine. I think, given that you’re on level two, that it’s not unlikely that you don’t quite understand the objectives yet (the submit button only appearing when they have been met).

By: Player Three

Player Three — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 00:40:39 +0000

Once you hit level 2 there doesn’t seem to be a “submit” button anymore. Achieved the objection but can’t move on.