Ludum Dare #26compo

What Would You Do?

by psytew

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.18

Fun★★★★★★★★★★2.94

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.44

Theme★★★★★★★★★★4.31

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★1.63

Humor★★★★★★★★★★2.50

Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.25

Coolness★★★★★★★★★★66%

Thanks for playing the game, if you do. It fits quite well with the theme, being a mere text adventure. It features nine endings, and if you want to truly understand the whole plot, you need to find them all! It's not particularly hard, but keep a pen by you to write down the code for the true ending. Thanks again!

Comments26

Perry29 Apr 2013, 09:30

A game made in .bat, I have never seen this before... There are a few bugs, I encountered, such as:

echo 1.) Meet with him in person.
echo 2.) Go to the robbery site.
echo.

set /p var=Set Command:
if %var%==1 goto RobberySite
if %var%==2 goto Meethiminperson

Otherwise everything worked just as planned, I didn't get a good ending however.

Skye29 Apr 2013, 20:43

I like the .bat aspect of it. Very minimal

TheColorMan29 Apr 2013, 20:50

Interesting story. I accitentily sent a robber away free on my first try.. at least I think he's a robber. Oops.

srimech29 Apr 2013, 20:51

I played through a couple of times. I think this is the most engaging batch file I've played! It's nicely written.

xgeovanni29 Apr 2013, 20:56

I love this game. I love it so much. Please make twelve sequels.

QXD-me29 Apr 2013, 21:06

I quite liked it for the most part. Some of the more serious parts seem to have been handled a little heavy-handedly but on the whole it was good.

One bug I noticed: the reaction to the choise talk to him in person or go to robbery site is backwards

reheated29 Apr 2013, 21:26

Nice writing and I like the way the 8 different sequences all build up pieces of the truth. And I'm impressed that you would torture yourself by making a game in a bat file. (BTW, "Questionbussiness" and "TrueEnding" labels are broken.)

Psytewauthor29 Apr 2013, 22:05

Thanks to everyone who pointed out the bugs- It should be fully fixed by now. It was just a mixing up of numbers and colons, but again, thank you.

Dark Acre Jack29 Apr 2013, 22:15

Full points for theme.

fueelin29 Apr 2013, 22:32

5 star use of the theme. .bat files are awesome. Doesn't seem to handle backspace though... Or maybe it's just the bug someone else pointed out with the wrong choice-number mapping. If that's the case, the bug still exists.

howieV (binarygirl)29 Apr 2013, 22:50

good job man.. bat :)

rainblade studios29 Apr 2013, 22:52

I don't have windows :(

TaleLore29 Apr 2013, 23:04

Very minimal, I'll give you that.

NiceAlexanderAS30 Apr 2013, 00:03

I did the ending number 5, i dont know if won xD.... but nice story bro :D and also nice work on using the .bat files :D

protensity30 Apr 2013, 00:16

Neat idea for the theme for sure. I like narrative games.

Sometimes a little hard to read due to the wall of text.

CataclysmicKnight30 Apr 2013, 03:08

Definitely very well done, and I had to play through every time to get the good ending and solve it all :) Super creative, loved it!

recursive frog30 Apr 2013, 08:23

I no longer am on windows so I can't play the batch file. That said, I remember hacking together an actual full-on application in .bat decades ago. Just seeing this really took me back in time.

Kudos on you. Maybe one of my friends has a windows machine to run this on?