Untitled Narrative Game

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.33
Fun★★★★★★★★★★2.57
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.32
Theme★★★★★★★★★★2.97
Humor★★★★★★★★★★2.82
Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.95
​Untitled Narrative Game is a game about keeping relationships alive, despite an alien threat keeping you in place.

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Use your SpiriTech Messenger and Call systems to find and nurture what few connections you can, for surely being alone is better than being forgotten.

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Built for Ludum Dare 46, Untitled Narrative Game is an overambitious attempt at combining resource management with a visual novel. It has been flagged for additional development.

The game is very unfinished, but demonstrates some of the gameplay systems that the full game would employ - instant messaging and phonecalls with a colourful and eerie cast of characters, as well as exploring your environment and learning more about the world. We plan for the final game design to be a combination of Gone Home, Kind Words and Hollow Knight.

We have opted out of graphics and audio. Lighting, level design, character and animations were all created by us during the jam. Most environment assets (rocks, foliage) are either pre-existing assets we built (pre-jam), or freely available on various asset stores. Audio is a roughly 50/50 split between bespoke and preexisting assets. GUI was designed but not implemented, and uses Unity and Fungus standard.

Thank you for taking the time to play and rate!

A thread showing various stages of development can be seen here: https://twitter.com/nialljtaylor/status/1251483889685671936

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Comments15

JAsonsumm1
JAsonsumm121 Apr 2020, 09:03
Very interesting idea. not sure how fun it is right now though. Looks great, I assume you're using someone else's graphics since you've opted out? :)
Unreality21 Apr 2020, 09:05
looks great, don't know really what to do...
Rodi21 Apr 2020, 09:07
the atmosphere is really special. I would love to see more.
well done !
Baptiste Guerin21 Apr 2020, 09:08
I'm not sure I understand the game but I play a lot of time just to move my player! It's really smooth! Nice job!
Nehvis21 Apr 2020, 09:09
Very cool crossover with the fantasy and technological aspects!
nialljtaylorauthor21 Apr 2020, 09:19
@jasonsumm1 Character and animations made by the team, as are some of the environment pieces. More artwork was completed (particularly for GUI), but no time to implement. Otherwise, we used some preexisting assets we've made or freely available - hence the opt out. Lighting and environment design built during jam.

@unreality @baptiste-guerin Understandable - there isn't anything to do apart from the initial conversations. We were over ambitious and ran out of time! Only uploaded because, well, why not!

Will update description to reflect.
RiccaStudio21 Apr 2020, 09:33
I dont really know what to do but it looks great for 3 Days. Keep it Up!
RiccaStudio21 Apr 2020, 09:33
I dont really know what to do but it looks great for 3 Days. Keep it Up!
baohongjiang21 Apr 2020, 09:37
I dont really know what to do but it looks great for 3 Days. Keep it Up!
wareya
wareya21 Apr 2020, 09:40
haha gpu fan goes brrr

Very moody in a good way.
LaZZyDev72
LaZZyDev7221 Apr 2020, 09:46
Enviroment is made vey well love the Esthatics of the Game. :a:
nosfer
nosfer21 Apr 2020, 10:59
very pretty
Draelent21 Apr 2020, 11:45
The mechanics seem interesting and could indeed lead to a game with a nice oppressive feeling
Thibaud Ligneul
Thibaud Ligneul23 Apr 2020, 16:30
Great mood you got there. Didn't know how to rate the theme... I didn't have sounds, is it only a problem of mine or...? Still, good concept :)
joemid
joemid26 Apr 2020, 20:36
Gorgeous animations! Looking forward to additional development!
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