Thanks for checking out my submission! I've not had much time this weekend, so decided to take a more relaxed approach and made something like a demo to a game instead. I'm not really sure if you _can_ call it a game, or an interactive novel or whatever... but it was fun to make ^^
The page is running under the Dedalus engine, a really cool narrative system I'd recommend checking out! All writing and styling was done by myself. The fonts are free to use from Google Fonts and here. The background art in a later section was styled by myself and generated using WaveFunctionCollapse.
The story revolves around you. You start with nothing, in the middle of nowhere, with no means of calling for help. The story's deliberately vague, and doesn't answer many of the questions it raises. Maybe some will be answered in later chapters if I make them, but for now the story's open to your interpretation :wink:
I'm by no means a talented writer, so please excuse any questionble language or oddly specific plot devices. _(unless they're deliberate in the universe)_
I'm not sure if I've been able to test every combination of events, so if you find any glitches please let me know. Hope you enjoy the game, and best of luck for your submissions!
I *think* I enjoyed that, or at least one of me did... Great writing and interesting settings. Not really sure what is going on, but at least I / we kicked *some* alien lizard butt.
An enjoyable text adventure without a horrid parser. You managed to squeeze a lot of content within the time limit, and it was entertaining to play, with a great sense of humour. Not sure if this is down to the engine or how you've designed it, but the interface was very intuitive, and I liked the way the display didn't have to refresh with each option taken. The background visuals were a nice touch too. Will definitely check back to see any more content you might make with this engine.
@jonno yep I love the interface too, but it's mostly down to the engine :D it's very flexible in allowing for more text to appear within the same 'room', so I tried to make use of that as much as I could. The dynamic backgrounds were a custom addition though :)
Questionable morality and 26% HP! Very funny and the background changing as the story progressed was really pretty :heart_eyes: A few spelling mistakes here and there, but that's to be expected with the shear amount of text you must've written for this.
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@jonno yep I love the interface too, but it's mostly down to the engine :D it's very flexible in allowing for more text to appear within the same 'room', so I tried to make use of that as much as I could. The dynamic backgrounds were a custom addition though :)
It was nice to play, the story was fun to read and i am impressed that you managed to set this up in the time we had.
The background changing contextually added a lot to the immersion, really fancy stuff, wonderful work.
Great job :grinning: