The Story

by kszaku
Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.50
Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.17
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.56
Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.53
Humor★★★★★★★★★★2.58
Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.46
CW: Strong language, violence, loud noises and flashing lights

​Start with nothing, and work your way up to solve the mystery, by reading emails and hacking databases.

ADVICE: Always have text editor open, to copy informations. ALWAYS

Ugh. It was a rough weekend, bu I somewhat finished the game!

INSTRUCTION:

​Download, unpack, and run TheStoryWindows.exe.

You might require .net core runtime https://dotnet.microsoft.com/download​​

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Comments24

Manyqaz8 Oct 2019, 15:33
I don't know if it is intended, but i get no results when typing Palanice or 'Palanice'
TongueEnvy
TongueEnvy8 Oct 2019, 18:53
I must say I enjoyed this game greatly. The story was well told, and the for the most part the game worked well.

A word of warning to future players, though: the first email you receive contains an important typo. I had to dig around on the git repo to figure it out. For anyone stuck on that part it's 'Palenice', not 'Palanice'.
Doc_Moustache9 Oct 2019, 06:56
Great immersion and the retro aspect of the game is cool!
tarfield
tarfield10 Oct 2019, 06:55
Your writing is really good!
Daitse11 Oct 2019, 18:20
Nice entry ! The sleep when receiving unwanted messages is a bit too long in my opinion ^^ Nice story and atmoshpere though ! Congrats !
Monish Vyas
Monish Vyas12 Oct 2019, 09:09
The game does not open on my PC even after I installed latest .NET runtime. When I open the game .exe file it just opens a command prompt window and closes it the same instant.
Kszaku
Kszakuauthor12 Oct 2019, 11:25
@monish-vyas Are you sure, that you installed .NET Core (it won't run with regular .NET runtime, must be Core, I'm afraid) runtime? Also, Could you run the game from command line? Thanks.
Geckoo1337
Geckoo133712 Oct 2019, 21:35
Cool retro game with a good stroryline. I must say I enjoyed this game greatly. Hard coded - you deserve our respect ++
Adam Saudagar
Adam Saudagar13 Oct 2019, 17:51
Really cool using raw .Net Core to make your game in console itself, Kudos... Just one issue coping stuff to google translate felt a bit annoying, maybe u could add some minigame to translate stuff in the game itself.

Good Job, Keep it up!!!
Wr4thon13 Oct 2019, 17:53
I loved playing this game. The story is really intriguing. The only thing that was a bit disturbing was the polish texts, as you have to translate them. But it also added an extra level of this "I'm not supposed to be here" feeling. which really added to the mood.
I did not make it all the way through yet, but I will make sure to complete it later.
I love this type of games (text based, console). Good Job!
stark
stark16 Oct 2019, 16:32
Very moody and interesting story. Not sure about the ending. Is the red screen with aliens is a loosed game?
Kszaku
Kszakuauthor17 Oct 2019, 18:10
@stark it is the only ending ;)
gord10ahmet
gord10ahmet17 Oct 2019, 21:59
Is there a translation tool inside the game, or should we copy+paste to Google Translate? I had to leave the game, because the game didn't allow me to easily copy texts from the console (I use Win 7).
NoobException
NoobException20 Oct 2019, 12:09
Great game! Fortunately I'm Polish so there was no trouble at all with understanding everything :smile:
I love the idea to make a game that is a terminal :smiley:
Kszaku
Kszakuauthor20 Oct 2019, 17:14
@gord10ahmet sadly, I haven't implemented one... At least yet.
Madbarron
Madbarron21 Oct 2019, 03:42
Great game! It was very immersive, and getting those emails was so spooky! Having to do the translations kinda made it feel like I was doing real detective work, haha! It would be cool if it could be expanded to have multiple endings to give the user some more choice, but this was well done for a jam :)
maskinmask
maskinmask22 Oct 2019, 08:27
so great.i like the old dos command system and the story.

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