Social Engineering - Level: Shapeshift

by corupta

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.06

Fun★★★★★★★★★★2.78

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★2.95

Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.33

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★2.17

Audio★★★★★★★★★★2.61

Humor★★★★★★★★★★3.25

Mood★★★★★★★★★★2.88

Coolness★★★★★★★★★★36%

Programs Used

GIMP + Script Fu (to make Graphics)
An iPhone App called Figure (to make the Music)
Eclipse IDE for Java (for Programming)

Developers

Ferishtah - (1/3 of the dialogues)
Checkmate - (1/8 of the dialogues)
CorupTa - (Rest of everything - dialogues, graphics, music, programming)

Everything was made from scratch. (Except, some of the jokes were found online.)

How To Play

wasd / arrow keys to move

q to open shapeshift menu.
(You must talk with people before being able to shapeshift into them.)

e to interact.

enter to choose - ws/updown arrows for next option

escape to leave interact/close shapeshift menu (sometimes leaving a talk may cause penalty tho)

If you get along well with the townsfolk, you take less attention.
If you don't you take more.
If your attention bar gets full you get busted by police.

Also, shapeshifting causes an +10 suspicion penalty for the previous character.

Stole as much as you can by using the info of the people.
Explore the triangle people's lives.

An advice:
Take notes about people and their info.

Spoiler:
Not all characters tell the truth.

Notes:
I forgot to add "/games/" in the link. My bad, I fixed it now. Sorry, for the delay.
Fixed a super-minor bug that prevented entering houses.

Btw, the minimum Java requirement to play the game is 1.6

Comments21

rburema19 Apr 2016, 15:24

Sorry, but got a big 'page not found' when I tried to download. Please check again if everything is in order?

Le_Sarus19 Apr 2016, 15:51

Also getting a 404 :(

Pickens Inc.19 Apr 2016, 16:04

404! :(

Danoli319 Apr 2016, 16:15

404 :(

Monofraps19 Apr 2016, 17:43

404, unfortunately :(

DAT.NOT.MY.GAME!19 Apr 2016, 17:51

+1 for page not found error, so pity.

AdamsMcCall19 Apr 2016, 18:40

I can't download it, it says "404 Error: Page not found" :/

coruptaauthor20 Apr 2016, 23:16

Oops, fixed the link. Thanks!

Weeping Rupee21 Apr 2016, 02:16

Cool little game here. I really liked all the dialogue. Some more significant variation in the look of the different people would help me recognize who I was talking to and who I needed to turn into more easily. That may be just because I'm more of a visual thinker, but keeping everyone's names in my head was a challenge.

coruptaauthor21 Apr 2016, 08:29

Haha, I first thought it would be a game where you should take notes for the clues, but if you could remember everybody's names that's great :)

josefnpat21 Apr 2016, 09:32

Neat concept! I like the loopy music, and the dialog between the players! Nice job!

Yumeito21 Apr 2016, 11:16

Nice Game:)

Mathieu Muller21 Apr 2016, 11:59

Nice game. You don't find a lot of games focusing on stories.

humble_ray21 Apr 2016, 13:37

Nice try！

Mantlair21 Apr 2016, 18:44

Well, game takes much more time then you expect. And you really need taking notes. And some people are weird. Had fun!

SemiColon24 Apr 2016, 14:14

Cool game! Could really use some sort of tutorial though. I had no idea what I was doing and what my goals were, what causes suspicion etc.

Fabraz28 Apr 2016, 03:36

Cluedo!

El Cabaro3 May 2016, 01:15

Wow, unexpectedly extensive game that betrays its (sorry) rather dopey looking graphics at first glance.

Those goofy triangles do grow on you though.

We stole ~75000 worth of goods. I've got to say it again, really complex and nice work for making it in the time limit of the Ludum.

coruptaauthor3 May 2016, 18:07

Yes exactly that, less graphics more game stuff :D

coruptaauthor3 May 2016, 18:08

Thank you all for your comments :)

LudumAnthony8 May 2016, 01:39

There were some logic issues like "Who is X" 'X is a writer' "Do you know anything about X?" 'I don't know who X is'
Fun game otherwise, like the others said remembering names was a bit challenging.

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