A short visual novel about a dangerous post-apocalyptic sport of chess. In a world where stakes are high and food is shit, one man and one woman find themselves in the arena. Watch as their story unfolds.
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NOTES:
Make sure to play with sound.
Accidently, text displaying speed wasn't saved. If you would like to play with text appearing effect, set speed in preferences.
If you want to play, play Post-jam, it's slightly better. If you want to judge, consider following differences.
---- Post-jam vs Jam
- chess positions graphics instead of static board - minor sfx change - extended credits - typos - minor fix of text speed
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Credits: caryoscelus - idea, text, scripting, music, sound mixing, minor gfx lonely2012 - character design, backgrounds, editing, minor text transient team - moral support
"I'm not sure how it fits to the current LD theme." - in sorta "literal", there's a game and there's a screen.
"(I was so hoping to watch a game, too! ^.^)" - that was planned, but i postponed it too much and didn't have time to finish. Will be in post-jam soon, though.
Great entry. I loved the art work unfortunatly I am one of those players who constantly presses "Spacebar to skip" but a solid entry and great promise for its genre.
This visual novel has good potential. You should polish the art and it'd be awesome. Also I felt bad I didn't get the girl ending (I guess there are two endings).
In the bad part, I felt introducing the narrator that long started the game made it a bit confusing at the start, which is something you could fix.
Very well-made and polished game. The story was interesting, and the characters were quite deep, although there were numerous grammatical errors. The art was absolutely beautiful, and the soundscapes matched that. The desperate mood of the club was perfect. It would be nice to see an expansion of this, with a little more grammatical checking - this could probably be turned into something I'd be willing to pay for.
Really awesome art! I Included it in part 15 of my Ludum Dare 31 compilation video series, if you would like to check it out :) http://youtu.be/feGcEIoOFjA
Thought provoking glimpse into another world with beautiful artwork and fitting music. It would take some experimenting to determine, what were the repercussions of my choices. Good to know that we can lose our humanity, but we'll always have chess...
Hey, I always love to see visual novels at ludum dare! The art style was a little unusual, but it added to the dirty, post-apocalyptic world. The world building was very well handled and the characters seemed interesting, but the grammar in almost all of the text could have done with some more revision. The music went with the game quite well, good job there. I felt it could have been longer, with maybe some more explanation about Susie (who wandered off into the sunset, I guess), but I understand you were under time constraints. I never really saw how it fit the theme, but I'm not too bothered by that. Good job overall, keep it up! :)
I'm not sure how it fits to the current LD theme.