Ludum Dare #37compo
Room 41
Room 41 is a chat room. Go in there and find out what's going on. The less spoilers the better. Please be aware though that this project may be offensive and disturbing, so brace yourself.
Seriously, don't read any further. All you need to know about the game is that you have to click into the input bar at the bottom to type stuff, enter to send your message. Follow the existing discussions and make sure to react when somebody mentions you, so look out for your name. Enjoy!
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Room 41 is an interactive experience running directly in the web browser. I wanted to try something else for once and took some inspiration from WttMH and several modern "text adventures". It was my intention to make the player feel uneasy about the situation and be unsure of whether what's going on or not is supposed to unfold that way.
Everything stated in the chat room is purely fictional and your choices (obviously) don't have any effect on real people. On top of that the threats you might feel from certain virtual characters are also purely fictional, and although I gave my best to make it seem "more real than it should", this was purely to benefit the experience.
I honestly have no idea if this actually works, or if people just find it funny or cringeworthy, so let me know.. :D
Seriously, don't read any further. All you need to know about the game is that you have to click into the input bar at the bottom to type stuff, enter to send your message. Follow the existing discussions and make sure to react when somebody mentions you, so look out for your name. Enjoy!
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Room 41 is an interactive experience running directly in the web browser. I wanted to try something else for once and took some inspiration from WttMH and several modern "text adventures". It was my intention to make the player feel uneasy about the situation and be unsure of whether what's going on or not is supposed to unfold that way.
Everything stated in the chat room is purely fictional and your choices (obviously) don't have any effect on real people. On top of that the threats you might feel from certain virtual characters are also purely fictional, and although I gave my best to make it seem "more real than it should", this was purely to benefit the experience.
I honestly have no idea if this actually works, or if people just find it funny or cringeworthy, so let me know.. :D
Comments11
But it's clrealy original.
I guess you don't really have the possibility to make decisions in the game, which is a point that should be part of the game, but two times I thought I had. I suggested the name "AnusLicker" and it was very fun to see the game changing the name to "analFan" XD and when the second person was killed, I wrote "Saw" into the chat and she was killed with a bone saw. Coincidence? I don't know, I guess I have to play it a second time.
I really enjoyed it, great use of the theme!
I think it would be very interesting and maybe fun (for you), it the game would send the entire chat history to you after each playthrough, so you can see what the players wrote.
@TitoMakaniJr I actually thought of that webcam episode from the latest season a few times. Can't say Black Mirror didn't influence me in some way. :D
@Mouch no coincidence, you can actually pick the weapon in the end. Although there really are just three actual endings. They will react to more stuff though, e.g. when you try not to kill the person at all.
I actually wrote a relatively complex system of how the bots react to what you say, but lacked the time to actually use that system to a better degree. There's one bot who'll reply to you if you mention him (@<hisname> in the chat), also there's one in the beginning trying to talk to you who will, to some degree, react to your replies. Also the bots react to each other dynamically. I guess about half of all messages are scripted, the rest is spontaneous nonsensical banter by the generic bots inhabiting the room. :)
Maybe I would have gotten more done, had I not spent over 3 hours on that nickname generator.
-Hisfantor
Also, I'm curious as to the 3 possible endings!