Ludum Dare #37compo
Me, Myself And The Room
"Me, Myself and The Room" is my first attempt at a so called "alt-game". The idea came out of necessity, as I was pressed for time on multiple occasions over the past 48 hours of the 37th Ludum Dare competition. To be honest, this is more of an installation or walking simulator than a game.
The game relies heavily on exploration and on audio narration. As always with this type of game - headphones are highly recommended.
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Controls: Use the mouse to find one of the many nodes on screen. Then press and hold the left mouse button, until the inner circle has filled and you will be transported to the next node. (i.e. point-and-click) Full-screen mode can be enabled by pressing the "F" key (although not tested on multiple or non 16:9 displays).
You can use the Escape key to exit the game at any time.
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I based the narrative off of some old text documents I wrote when I was an angsty teenager, just entering puberty, although making a joke out of it all. I used to stay in my room for days, only going out for food or to the toilet. The only communication I had was between me and myself, talking to the mirror or writing on the computer. For a time, I thought I was going insane, but in the end it developed into something of a self-imposed isolation, which I look fondly of.
... but seriously - half of this is flowery poetry, based on Warhammer 40K.
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Postmortem: All of the pre-rendered frames, of which this game is composed were rendered rather hastefully. I had almost a day to model, render and program the majority of what you see before you. As such, I did a fairly low-quality render, which in term developed it's own unique aesthetic for the final product.
Second of all, the code for this game is basically non-existent, outside of some basic room-switching and audio triggers. All 3D is fake. The animation in the beginning took 2.5 hours to render, in which all of the source code was written.
I threw my hat into the voice-acting ring this time, realizing that I cannot possibly pull off a better teenager voice than this. Monotone, lifeless and borderline suicidal - you'll love it. Writing and recording all of it took a few hours, along with the audio engineering aspect.
Hopefully you found it enjoyable - it is definitely not my best work, but for the time I had with it, I would call this project a success.
The game relies heavily on exploration and on audio narration. As always with this type of game - headphones are highly recommended.
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Controls: Use the mouse to find one of the many nodes on screen. Then press and hold the left mouse button, until the inner circle has filled and you will be transported to the next node. (i.e. point-and-click) Full-screen mode can be enabled by pressing the "F" key (although not tested on multiple or non 16:9 displays).
You can use the Escape key to exit the game at any time.
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I based the narrative off of some old text documents I wrote when I was an angsty teenager, just entering puberty, although making a joke out of it all. I used to stay in my room for days, only going out for food or to the toilet. The only communication I had was between me and myself, talking to the mirror or writing on the computer. For a time, I thought I was going insane, but in the end it developed into something of a self-imposed isolation, which I look fondly of.
... but seriously - half of this is flowery poetry, based on Warhammer 40K.
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Postmortem: All of the pre-rendered frames, of which this game is composed were rendered rather hastefully. I had almost a day to model, render and program the majority of what you see before you. As such, I did a fairly low-quality render, which in term developed it's own unique aesthetic for the final product.
Second of all, the code for this game is basically non-existent, outside of some basic room-switching and audio triggers. All 3D is fake. The animation in the beginning took 2.5 hours to render, in which all of the source code was written.
I threw my hat into the voice-acting ring this time, realizing that I cannot possibly pull off a better teenager voice than this. Monotone, lifeless and borderline suicidal - you'll love it. Writing and recording all of it took a few hours, along with the audio engineering aspect.
Hopefully you found it enjoyable - it is definitely not my best work, but for the time I had with it, I would call this project a success.
Tools: GameMaker
Comments40
The spinning room could use some better graphics. The pixels are clearly visible and aren't very nice to look at. The font isn't always readable. For example, the 37 at the top looks more like an 'n'.
Why i can't rate Innovation?
You did a good job with the voice acting and the low-key music. Definitely fit the theme and I quite liked the aesthetics as well.
Well done, thanks for sharing!
I actually really like the look of the game.
It has something very unique about it.
And the voice over was pretty good too.
With a bit more "gameplay" (however you want to define that) this could be really amazing.
Keep up the good work!
http://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-37/?action=preview&uid=125051
Btw, played that on 16:9, though I've used Alt+Enter to enter fullscreen mode and it was just 4:3 in the center with black bars on the sides.
As a non-native english speaker, I sometimes have problems when games like this one don't have subtitles, but this one's pretty clear and the voiceovers are really easy to understand. :)
Good work there!