Ludum Dare #44compo

Blood Money

by kristinamay

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.37

Fun★★★★★★★★★★2.94

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.33

Theme★★★★★★★★★★4.23

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.13

Humor★★★★★★★★★★3.12

Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.82

What can they take from you when they already have all your money? ###

Blood Money is a text-based adventure with some pixel art flair. It's the first chapter of something that could be longer.

I didn't create any music, but that's okay!

This is my second Ludum Dare, but my _first compo_! I'm really pleased with it, especially since I only had Friday evening and all day Sunday to work on it.

Made using Squiffy.

THANKS FOR PLAYING! :smile:

Tags: #dystopian, #futurist, #pixel art, #story rich

Genres: interactive fiction

Comments12

David Markham30 Apr 2019, 03:34

Interesting game! It took me a while to figure out how to start it. I was waiting for the game to load, thinking the big blank area was the game still loading, didn't realize I needed to click the >>. It left me wanting more which is a good thing.

Argon30 Apr 2019, 14:06

Love the mood, waiting for the next episode !

Madbarron30 Apr 2019, 14:06

Good job on the mood. I would play more!

Coder Channel30 Apr 2019, 14:09

Quite an interesting idea. But the game is very short. I think the game has potential.

TwobyThree30 Apr 2019, 14:12

Instantly absorved by the atmosphere.

Is a great universe for a long and twisted story congratullations!

DidiGameBoy30 Apr 2019, 14:14

that was really cool. Great to see some text game with illustrations tho. I was scary in that distopian.. future? xD

jharler30 Apr 2019, 14:27

Interesting commentary on capitalism. I ran through it a couple of times, though I got the same ending both times. Might come back to it to see what else is there. My only suggestion would be to have the options reappear at the bottom of the new text instead of having to scroll back up to choose a new option. That confused me for a moment.

kristinamayauthor30 Apr 2019, 14:37

@jharler yes! I was trying to figure out how to get the options to re-appear, but was unable to do so. Thanks for playing and giving feedback, hopefully I can figure out how to do that for future chapters. :) (PS, there is another ending! Just... be grumpier.)

Eliphas30 Apr 2019, 15:01

Interesting game, even though I'm not a narrative games person. It reminded me a little bit to black mirror, it was one of your references?

kristinamayauthor30 Apr 2019, 16:42

@eliphas ah I can see that! I was thinking about a lot of different futuristic sci-fi when I wrote it. Definitely feels a bit like "Fifteen Million Merits," also thought about the RPG game "Paranoia" as I was writing it, too.

Nick Rafalski30 Apr 2019, 20:37

The writing is really excellent, and the theme incorporation is perfect. Nice job!

DataGreed5 May 2019, 15:58

The game stuck at sending the blood sample :( I realized, though, you can scroll up and select other options - is it supposed to be like that?The art and writing is nice though ;)

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