This game is an interactive story where you have to survive a bank heist. As a hostage your life is the currency to the bank robbers survival. Will you manage to save as many people as possible ? Find out in the 4 different endings.
_(please tell us if you find any bugs)_
Controls
- Movement : WASD / Arrows - Interact : E - Next dialog : Space
Credits
disclaimer : The music and the sound effects weren't made by us.
- Elinks : Programming, Game Design - Meibo : Programming, Story, Sound Design, Game Design - NaughtyPingouin : Map Art, Game Design - Ashtrail : Portait Art, Dialogues, Programming, Story, Game Design
Tools and Organization
This game was made with Godot 3.1. We worked remotely using Discord. We had to go to work on Monday so we could only work on the game the evening.
Great dialogue and artwork. It was great exploring the place, while i can - has a bit of a mystery vibe to it. The only suggestion I have is to increase the font size at the end. I'll play again to get all the different endings.
Idea for improvement: * Option to tell the other hostages about the backdoor exit, so they can all flee
Bugs I found: * You can take the brandy from the cupboard multiple times. * The Mayor gets shot even though he is still hiding in the closet because i did not snitch. * The music stopped while playing the game.
Tango is a bad bad man. I enjoyed the black and white graphics and felt it suited the story pretty well. The story was engaging and well done. Unfortunately everyone died during the swat raid. Well done!
Thanks everyone for the feedback ! Glad you liked it !
@jeremia indeed we wanted to add that ending but we didn't have enough time unfortunately. Thanks for noting the bugs, we were already aware of these three specific ones, just like the ending we ran out of time (or noticed to late). However we might make a post-jam patched build.
I can´t believe you made this game in a single weekend! You end up empathizing with the characters and actually felt bad for the ones who died at the end, even for the robbers. Great job!
Love it! The hand-drawn art style really works for the old-school throwback theme you're going for. I like how all the characters have pretty distinct personalities (I've no qualms betraying a coward!!), and that you've written a good bit a dialogue for all of them. Hopefully the other two in the head office get their due at some point!
Also, if you fix the brandy bug, please fix it by coming up with an in-lore justification for there being infinite brandy in the cupboard. That's really the only valid solution.
I loved the art style and even if I thought it was a lake of a little move animation, after some minutes playing I totally forget that detail and was absorb by that game, good job :)
This is one of my favorite jam games so far! It's rare to see a story-based game like this in a game jam. Some of the art could use some polish but the portraits are great since because they convey a lot of personality. I want to find all the endings... I hope there's one where we can all get a happy ending but I have the feeling that won't be possible.
Thanks for the kind words everyone ! I'm happy you guys think that the art and dialogues give personality to the characters :)
@jjjjason there's of course a very good lore reason for this, the cupboard links to drunken narnia and Cathy uses it as her stash in case of nuclear winter
@rose there's a 'happier' ending in the 4 (it's also the hardest to unlock), don't know if that counts
Great art and atmosphere in this game, nice dialogue too! The timer really puts pressure on you, making you consider leaving just by yourself.
One thing I'd change is to make the dialogue options be selectable via keyboard, because you never use the mouse in the other parts of the game - just a minor feedback. Good job!
It is a quite nice game, but I really felt like it needed some simple animations for a better experience. Anyhow, it has darn nice story, and I do know how hard it is to create a good story in such a short time! Good job.
@ashtrail This is going to end up being one of those weird visual novels where most routes are like five minutes long, but if you choose the hide-in-the-narnia-closet route it goes for like forty hours.
I really enjoyed this! I've yet to survive, but I love the characters and the setting. The graphics are unique and cute as well. Nice job with this! Hope to see more. :)
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I'll play again to get all the different endings.
Idea for improvement:
* Option to tell the other hostages about the backdoor exit, so they can all flee
Bugs I found:
* You can take the brandy from the cupboard multiple times.
* The Mayor gets shot even though he is still hiding in the closet because i did not snitch.
* The music stopped while playing the game.
@jeremia indeed we wanted to add that ending but we didn't have enough time unfortunately. Thanks for noting the bugs, we were already aware of these three specific ones, just like the ending we ran out of time (or noticed to late). However we might make a post-jam patched build.
Also, if you fix the brandy bug, please fix it by coming up with an in-lore justification for there being infinite brandy in the cupboard. That's really the only valid solution.
@jjjjason there's of course a very good lore reason for this, the cupboard links to drunken narnia and Cathy uses it as her stash in case of nuclear winter
@rose there's a 'happier' ending in the 4 (it's also the hardest to unlock), don't know if that counts
One thing I'd change is to make the dialogue options be selectable via keyboard, because you never use the mouse in the other parts of the game - just a minor feedback. Good job!
Anyhow, it has darn nice story, and I do know how hard it is to create a good story in such a short time!
Good job.