Ludum Dare #50compo

Cleaning out a dying man's apartment in NYC, 1979

by poplart

Overall★★★★★★★★★★2.75

Fun★★★★★★★★★★2.25

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★2.88

Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.38

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★1.00

Audio★★★★★★★★★★3.25

Humor★★★★★★★★★★2.38

Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.25

This is a game about travelling up from Philly to clean out a dying friend's apartment in New York in the year 1979. it's mobile and desktop friendly.
Cover image is of my dog!
content warnings for! character death, strong language, body horror, and terminal illness
You can play the game at the link below. It'll be up until my local machine turns off, no idea when that'll be. I'm really sad cause I couldn't get music to play correctly most of the time, so check out the music link if it ain't workin.
Peace!

Comments8

poplartauthor4 Apr 2022, 01:13

Sadly, music is broken on duckduckgo mobile. I put a whole 30 minutes into the music though, so check it out in the links above :laughing: !

LDJam user 2796104 Apr 2022, 05:31

Music worked on Safari iOS. Nice to see an interactive narrative game. I liked it

Billnotic4 Apr 2022, 05:53

What a title! Interesting to see a more narrative take on the theme. Aside from minor typos it was pretty good.

khaotom4 Apr 2022, 06:01

Quite the moody story. I enjoyed your implementation of the theme into the choices. I really did know where it was heading, but the choices allowed me to delay the ending in an interesting way. Music didnt work so I used the link instead, it's a nice mellow track that fits pretty well. I really dig the humanity in this piece.

Sozey4 Apr 2022, 11:52

That was quite an experience! The dialogue was well written and did a good job of making me want to try the options to figure out more about the story. I liked the variety of choices, and the music was very fitting to the game.

DzejPi4 Apr 2022, 16:44

Interesting tech stack; I never heard of Ignition Maker. For some reason, it reminded me of some old text DOS games that I played. I think this would look amazing if you made this look like it’s played in CLI.
Too bad you couldn’t get the music to work, it’s actually very nice, especially for spending only 30 minutes on it. I liked the story - characters felt very human, especially Alan. I admire the way how he dealt with the inevitable. :)

DaleP12 Apr 2022, 01:52

I had this in my bookmarks to play because I was intrigued by the description but sadly your server doesn’t seem to be running anymore. Still gave you a rating for audio because the music was really nicely done and conveyed the (I assume from your description) somber tone of the subject matter, and seemed like it would work well with narrative gameplay without being intrusive or repetitive.

poplartauthor12 Apr 2022, 05:03

Thanks for catching that @dalep ! Machine ran out of memory sometime today, it'll be up for a few more days before I shut it down for good
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Everybody, thanks so much for your feedback! This was such a relief to put together. I'll keep the engine burning on your feedback and support!