It's a game about a town and the people that live in it.
This game was created for my first Ludum Dare (the file is named ludumdare2 because I messed up the first project). The theme was "Shapeshift". I did not know the rules and was too excited to read up on them early on, so please forgive the use of unlicensed sprites.
The characters are named after some members of the Game Development Club at the University of Maryland College Park. Selection was prioritized by who went to Unity class, who went to our meetup for Ludum Dare, and who went to club meetings. All personalities in the game have little to nothing to do with actual namesakes's personalities.
It's a short game with no saving, so play through to the end in one sitting, please. The gameplay is simple, talk to all the townsfolk, go to sleep, then repeat for the next day. Alt+f4 if you need to exit.
The game had a solid story and a great escalation at the end. Overall a really cool game, and I really enjoyed it, even if it's not conventionally "fun". A couple times I didn't talk to all the townspeople; it would have been nice to have maybe some kind of arrow pointing to the remaining ones.
Enjoyed this a lot. But then my taste in games is not very mainstream. I look for new experiences and I'm less concerned with gameplay. There is an audience for this sort of game, I'm just not sure that's it's a very large audience:)
Cool game. I can understand this type of game isn't for everyone, but I was very happy to get to play something "different" for a ludumdare.
The gameplay could be reworked a little (too long distance between certain villagers, strange collisions), and your own assets would have been a lot lot better. I understand you didn't have time, but it would have improved my impression a lot. But it's true making very cool sprites that have impact are hard to make along the rest of the game in 72h.
Cool story, but I expected the "plot twist". I still cried at the end.
Thank you for this experience, it was completely worth my time. Good luck for your next works.
Really took a dark turn towards the end. I predicted it once Joey started talking about shapeshifters.
The undertale music was really grating until we put on some polka, which we had to turn off once we started going around and mauling the townspeople to the merry tunes of Weird Al.
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Cool game. I can understand this type of game isn't for everyone, but I was very happy to get to play something "different" for a ludumdare.
The gameplay could be reworked a little (too long distance between certain villagers, strange collisions), and your own assets would have been a lot lot better. I understand you didn't have time, but it would have improved my impression a lot. But it's true making very cool sprites that have impact are hard to make along the rest of the game in 72h.
Cool story, but I expected the "plot twist". I still cried at the end.
Thank you for this experience, it was completely worth my time. Good luck for your next works.
The undertale music was really grating until we put on some polka, which we had to turn off once we started going around and mauling the townspeople to the merry tunes of Weird Al.
Cool game.