Bless the Last Ones

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.90
Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.40
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★4.02
Theme★★★★★★★★★★4.10
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★4.27
Humor★★★★★★★★★★3.72
Mood★★★★★★★★★★4.10
I can't make the embedding via Ludum Dare's website work, so you can PLAY IT ONLINE HERE or on ITCH.IO (or download the Win ZIP at the bottom for that sweet desktop flavor).

They were the last ones and you were their dying god. One hundred seconds is all that remained to you. To cause havoc, and laughter, and transformations.
Maybe vampires.
Maybe love.

An absurdist narrative sandbox with lots of variables and multiple endings by:

*Daniele Giardini (aka Demigiant)* - Game design, writing, coding, music
*Jelena Đorđević (aka Jelena)* - Art
*(The music wasn't made during the jam so it's opted-out)*

Content warning: mild nudity, profanity, and some really bad jokes.

Just the mouse. Clickety, click.

Comments26

MakeMakeMake4 Oct 2022, 10:21
Nice! Told a nice story in a brief moment. and damn.. that Vampire just ate them, just like that!
LDJam user 298496
LDJam user 2984964 Oct 2022, 10:24
I love this approach to storytelling, and the visuals are really good.
AdrianGray
AdrianGray4 Oct 2022, 10:26
Interesting concept and great art!
It's a bit confusing what you need to do at first and might be too much text for 10 sec (at least for non English readers?
Nice game overall!
toreskovic4 Oct 2022, 10:28
Awesome atmosphere, and a fun little narrative journey that fits the theme really well. Great job!
Zakroutil
Zakroutil4 Oct 2022, 11:20
Wow, I didn't expect it to be this good! It uses the theme well, looks and sounds beautiful and tells a nice story! Really fun, awesome work!
yoko-san
yoko-san4 Oct 2022, 18:01
that was kinda very deep :D
JoeDev
JoeDev4 Oct 2022, 18:40
This was fantastic. I played it about 5-6 times to try and get the most story out of it that I could. So much lovely and hilarious narrative hid in these people!
ben_throop5 Oct 2022, 01:23
I really liked your game! I had never seen anything like it until this point. Great work.
Demigiant
Demigiantauthor5 Oct 2022, 09:22
@matt-ravenhall, @toreskovic, @zakroutil Thank you! :green_heart:
@makemakemake Thank you! Sometimes the vampires eats, sometimes it infects, sometimes it promises to behave. But in the end it needs to eat, after all.
@adriangray Thank you! I feel you about the too much text (even if I write a lot of English for my work, I'm a non-native Italian), but I liked the concept of having to choose what to read in the limited time you have, knowing that you won't be able to read it all (I hint at it in the beginning of the game, but maybe I should've hinted it better).
@yoko-san Thank you! It happened :D
@joedev Thank you! There is indeed a lot of stuff and tons of branching hidden in there (for some reason I even added a different ending for every character if they end up alone, even if I know that that's very rare to achieve—oh well).
@ben-throop Thank you Ben! Likewise :D

P.S. Gonna play your games today. It took me a, uhm, while, to realize that I needed to click on the gamepad icon of your profile to see them :eyes:
Tomtomgome
Tomtomgome5 Oct 2022, 20:19
Loved it ! I really like the Idea of having too much text to read. I replayed the game multiple times to read more and that's where I saw that you really put a lot of effort into making every scenarios feel unique and I really appreciated it. The only thing that didn't work was on my first run, a meteor comming but noone was a vampire, and so some dialogue didn't make sense until I had a meteor and vampire at the same time. Other than that, great mood, greate graphics, great writting
Karl is my fav
Demigiant
Demigiantauthor5 Oct 2022, 22:25
@tomtomgome Thank you, I'm glad you saw more scenarios (writing all those variables in such a little time was quite the experience). We realized that I forgot to take into account the "meteorite without vampire(s)" the day after and were very sad that it was too late to fix. When the jam ends I'll get back to it and at least do that.
Emmatw6 Oct 2022, 19:31
This was a nice experience, even in such limited time you managed to make every character feel unique. Great work!
Demigiant
Demigiantauthor6 Oct 2022, 20:05
@emmatw Thank you! And woah, your game looks amazing, gonna play it later after pizza time.
Trusty
Trusty7 Oct 2022, 03:01
Very unique game. Was nice to replay and see what others said that I missed. Thanks!
LDJam user 2789187 Oct 2022, 15:12
So much story told in such a short game! I think you did a great job and I had a lot of fun with this. The art was really nice as well.
quabmara
quabmara8 Oct 2022, 11:45
Really liked your game! Especially the little details and that you sometimes had to give someone another color.
ChuChuGeralt
ChuChuGeralt9 Oct 2022, 14:47
Really nice experience. Loved the replay value of the game and the little additions each time you play it again! Even tough, nobody should have the power to get people naked and make them fall in love :D
Demigiant
Demigiantauthor9 Oct 2022, 16:22
@chuchugeralt Thank you and ah, I completely agree (nor to make them die or, worst of all, tell a joke :D)
Tannimun10 Oct 2022, 18:30
It was nice that you managed to get the theme into a story driven game. You couldn't read all the monologues so you just got some glimpses here and there into the peoples personalities. It made you almost biased to which characters you liked most which made you more sad when they died. First time only one survived and the rest, except for one that got taken by a spaceship, got killed by a vampire. I felt the vampire was a bit too potent, killing every round. Second times was better and I think only two died.
You did a great job with the mood and the pacing, made you want to play a few times to see the different outcomes and monologues. Very nice entry
Demigiant
Demigiantauthor10 Oct 2022, 19:12
@tannimun Thank you for all the feedback (and for playing). I thought no one would get one of the "single survivor" endings because they're very rare, and I'm glad you did. You're right about the vampire: it normally doesn't cause much problems unless it appears near the beginning, in which case even it can "promise" not to kill (and usually will turn but not kill a specific person) that's not enough to stop the spread. When the jam ends and I'll get back to it to fix some bugs, I'll also see about balancing early vampiric appearances.
NeverLucky19 Oct 2022, 11:47
Very nice theme and mood, accompanied by some really stellar art. I played through twice, and it was impressive how unique the scenarios were. It must have been hard to balance out all the different random events and reactions, very cool game.
Demigiant
Demigiantauthor19 Oct 2022, 21:47
@neverlucky Thank you, and I will clap to Jelena's stellar art, it was great to see what she did with the characters :) Balancing was indeed hard but also a fascinating experience (I was in a kind of writing frenzy when I put it together), I'm glad you enjoyed it.
Kaech20 Oct 2022, 09:15
Vampire ending... so beautiful :heart_eyes:

Overall it was a very cool experience, I really liked all of the characters after playing few times.
Demigiant
Demigiantauthor23 Oct 2022, 10:54
@kaech Thank you, I'm sure the characters liked you too ^_^
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