A surreal experience depicting the life of Gecko, a troubled young man on a journey to pay his debts. What happens is determined by the choices you make.
The game features over a dozen different cutscenes/events, which are determined by your decisions. There are also multiple alternative endings, which should grant some replay value.
Inspired by genre defining titles such as Bandersnatch, Reigns and sakarin villapaitapeli.
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Made in under 20 hours since unlucky timings with a trip from Finland to Greece, and school. LD45 was a tough one, and you can probably see it by the game feeling sort of random and disconnected, since we didn't have the time to make more scenes and make the story actually connecting in all ways. Either way, hope you can enjoy it!
I (@raffe) had to buy a 9$ mouse here in Greece and do the graphics here on my laptop with the mouse, which was also kind of sloppy. Thank goodness I had @JustMars in Finland still active when he wasn't at school and he put in the time to make everything work :D
I liked the mysterious mood of the game between the art style and music! The fact that the game had multiple endings was pretty neat, but the story beats felt a little disconnected/random to me? It was still fun to play through multiple times to see what all the scenarios could be though!
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7 Oct 2019, 23:31
nice little choose your own adventure-- i can appreciate the little animations and stuff that you've got in here, especially given the unusually short timespan you said you had to work on this in your blog post
Loved Reigns, and definitely getting vibes like that. Everything feels very polished, and the character styles work well with the game. Would be nice to go through the choices a little faster since that's the main mechanic :)
Great job! I like choose your own adventure type stuff and the graphics and mood of the game are cool too! Well made, especially considering the time frame you made it in, and with a $9 mouse LOL. Anyway, great job again!
That was one of our ideas, but we didn't knew how to make it interesting. you did it ! Just a little downside, i wish the texts lasts longer or i could choose when to discard them between cards.
Interesting concept - I played through it a few times trying to see different endings, was the "good" ending paying your debts though? I felt because it said I was lucky that perhaps I missed an option but most of the others resulted in me dying of depression or selling my soul.
Still had fun playing with it though and considering the time you had to make it its very impressive. Well done! The music really nailed the atmosphere too, nice work.
Yay, a story game :) I liked it, even if, as you said, it would really benefit from having more scenes :p. I do like the art, and the music fit the mood. And yeah... that option for the dog ^^". I had to click on it after some tries just to see what would happen, but hum, the fact that choice was possible was indeed unecpected.
I paid my debt and received freedom, hope that is a good ending? :D :D Very nice concept, simple mechanics and UI. I really like experiential games like this one, you don't often see them in game jams. Great use of the theme as well, a very nice entry overall :)
Very nice atmosphere, and ambitious take on branching stories. Loved the ambient music. :) I got rich, paid'em off and pissed off fairly quick, but might just return for another go. Well done!
I loved the mood of this game! i have explored few paths and even it's super short story i loved it! my decisions had surprisingly more impact than i expected... good take on theme, music was nice, art and animation fit great with gameplay... overall nice entry!
The story felt more like a series of events than a real narrative. In my first couple play throughs I had thought I incurred the debts somehow and I was trying to figure out how. It took me a while to realize the character had the debts already when the game started. If you are continuing work on this I think it would be a nice idea to try and connect the events a little more.
Neat game! Although the moral eluded me, ahah. In one playthrough I was a greedy stickler which gives me a good end, but in another where I'm selfless I end up losing my soul. The soul debt thing also sort of comes out of left field, I think an intro sequence showing how I got in this debt (and that I was even in debt at all) would lead me to make more informed decisions later on in the game.
I enjoyed the animations, they were nicely polished for a game made in such a short time frame, and the floating cards in the menu were also cool!
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Just a little downside, i wish the texts lasts longer or i could choose when to discard them between cards.
Still had fun playing with it though and considering the time you had to make it its very impressive. Well done! The music really nailed the atmosphere too, nice work.
I liked it, even if, as you said, it would really benefit from having more scenes :p. I do like the art, and the music fit the mood.
And yeah... that option for the dog ^^". I had to click on it after some tries just to see what would happen, but hum, the fact that choice was possible was indeed unecpected.
I got rich, paid'em off and pissed off fairly quick, but might just return for another go.
Well done!
The soul debt thing also sort of comes out of left field, I think an intro sequence showing how I got in this debt (and that I was even in debt at all) would lead me to make more informed decisions later on in the game.
I enjoyed the animations, they were nicely polished for a game made in such a short time frame, and the floating cards in the menu were also cool!
If you’d like to rewatch the playthrough, you can find it here: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/501424047?t=0h49m19s
Hope you got some valuable feedback on your game and looking forward to seeing you next LD jam if I dont catch you before then! :D
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