The ruling party, a Twine game about having the cake, but maybe not eating it.
Play in fullscreen if you like.
Four endings. Or perhaps it's five.
Update the web page if you want to restart from the beginning.
Update: Added a postcompo version, where it's no longer necessary to restart from the beginning to experience the other endings. Instead, you have the option to go back and replay from the middle part and forward when you reach the end credits and scroll down the page.
There are other changes in the postcompo version too, the story is the same but the flow and structure have some minor alterations, and personally I think it's better and closer to what I had in mind.
yeah, meta is all the rage right now! no, but seriously, my trend-o-meter is constantly off, so i guess it's a fun coincidence. or perhaps twine is suited for meta-stories.
Hm. I am a little conflicted, in a way the opening made me pay less attention to the game, due to it's repetition, and this may have made me instinctively pay less attention to the rest of the game once it actually progressed the story.
I think I would've liked more choice, and I guess the whole point here is "Have your cake and eat it too" so choosing only one eventuality makes sense.. But it felt a little like a story that had more depth than I was allowed to understand through the text, though as I mentioned this may have been due to the beginning, which almost made it seem bugged :P That might be a danger in a ludum dare, submitting something that could be construed as bugged..
First time I heard Xavier Rudd and it's awesome. The choke points I found a little distracting and chopped the flow... Your writing has a way of drawing the reader into the experience, like actually living that life for a moment though it's only text on a screen.
I feel like I should mention here that, over the LD28 weekend, I coded my LD entry while on the train to and from a reunion with friends. Yay for eating cake and having it too!
But yeah, nicely atmospheric. I'm not sure the repetition of the intro helps the narrative, but once you get past that point the game does a good job of drawing you in.
I like the writing, it's a bit.. well.. not really much of a game, but it's interesting! It broke a few times on some of the paths (clicking on the only option just repeated the same thing), but restarting the game usually fixed it.
hm, seems like i accidentally changed the original version while making the postcompo. it's now back to the original state, and there should be no bugs left.
I had the biggest scarejump of my life when I saw my name in the inspiration section. That's probably the biggest compliment I've received since I've started making games. Now because of this it feels a bit awkward to comment on your game, so I'll come back later, play it again, and leave another comment about the content.
haha, yeah, i always like to pay tribute to the things and people that's been inspiring me at the moment of creation. i'm glad it had such an effect on you.
Extremely original concept; Twine is perfect for this kind of storytelling, but I've never seen it done before. The writing is good in a low-key way, with some beautiful descriptions and great use of detail (such as the "Frankenstein" bit). By and large, it felt very realistic.
I like the way you used the music link.
Good story and fits very well with the theme. Plus, we Swedish Twine users have got to stick together, right?
Nice story with good shot of influential speculations :) Hover effect of the text is breaking some lines badly, makes me think you change the text content on rollover.
Another swede in the compo! Fun..
We had some contact during the last LD?
Nice looking game.. this is the third meta Twine game.. have I missed something?