Confined

Freshly awoken from a cryogenic nap, it appears you are imprisoned for crimes you don't remember. Is that even fair?!
Confined is a small text adventure made by someone who barely knows how to code and, after partaken in eleven previous Ludum Dares, has never made en entry entirely by himself before.
🎮 ➡ PLAY CONFINED (WEB)
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:joystick: Controls/How To Play
* select your response when prompted* power systems on and off once you get to that point

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:family_mmb: Credits
- @flaterectomy | art, code & story | twitter, soundcloud, YouTube, website, portfolio

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:notebook_with_decorative_cover: Blog Posts
* Pre-LD: Wallpaper* Day #1 Progress
* Day #2 Progress
* Day #3 Progress
* Confined: a text-based Post Mortem | Part 1
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Comments21
Good job anyways, and keep doing the LD by youself, you proved you deserve it!
!> chilling and very Black Mirror-like.
You did a good job with the pacing - keeping the playing in the dark and revealing what was needed. The gameplay felt like a wild goose chase dealing with incompetent people, kinda like a bad customer service call haha.
When I got to the main gameplay screen, I did get the impression I was going to have more of a power % puzzle to play with to move on. That wasn't the case. I suspect you wanted to do more of that but ran out of time, just a guess.
Cool game regardless, welcome to the world of solo LDs :P What made you opt out of a team this time?
@peachtreeoath Thank you! I haven't written a story in ages that actually had an ending to it, so I am glad it wasn't a let-down.
Your remark about the bad customer service is exactly what I was going for. While there is a loop narratively, the constant redirects were meant to be the source of looping frustration.
I had such ambitions regarding the puzzle. It was going to be an order of magnitude more complex in my mind, but I had to very clearly file that into the *overscoped* column. I'm probably going to write more about it in a post-mortem this weekend, if you're interested at all.
I found out that LD47 was happening the day before it actually began. My usual teammate @daanvanyperen who does our programming also wasn't aware, and couldn't commit to it due to other things going on. So I decided to give it a go alone for the first time. All in all, I'm pretty pleased with how it went.
I feel like making fun acronyms for all the different subsystems would have made it even better!
Great writing, game design and the theme is spot on :)