Lock Up

by carrotvan

co-authored: @irene-li, @siaaay, @myttz

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.31

Fun★★★★★★★★★★2.61

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.11

Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.28

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★4.08

Humor★★★★★★★★★★2.28

Mood★★★★★★★★★★4.06

PLEASE PLAY WITH SOUND AND FULLSCREEN.THANK YOU!
PLEASE PLAY WITH SOUND AND FULLSCREEN.THANK YOU!
PLEASE PLAY WITH SOUND AND FULLSCREEN.THANK YOU!

Year 20XX. An unknown Patient Zero brought the Sigma Variant of Y.pestis into H-City. This variant, now proven more deadly than all known variants, sets the city into a complete emergency lockdown.
This is their lives, told in sixteen ten-second fragments.

Make choices that tens and thousands of them face every single day.
Play as each one of them. See their lives.
See their collective life.

PLEASE PLAY WITH SOUND AND FULLSCREEN.THANK YOU!

Approximate play time: 6 minutes

Thanks for Fungus and perfect teamwork.

Genres: visual novel

Tools: Unity

Comments17

La bread4 Oct 2022, 04:41

Really well done visuals and story! Maybe in an update, include a way to speed up text and include some ambiance?

JPiggs4 Oct 2022, 04:46

I really like the concept and story! It was definitely tough making some choices.

Tinybuttybutt4 Oct 2022, 04:57

Duck is confused, good game!

min4uk4 Oct 2022, 04:57

great visual and sound !!!

congusbongus4 Oct 2022, 05:33

Great use of the theme, it's like a series of time-limited trolley questions, telling an interactive story.

LD embed didn't work for me, but the itch one worked.

LDJam user 3024684 Oct 2022, 16:59

Really enjoyed the story and interactivity. Good work!

LDJam user 2615384 Oct 2022, 18:08

I think the somewhat abstracted art works well for this, and creates an interesting mood with the typewriter noises. Nice work.

Stratcat664 Oct 2022, 18:09

This was really atmospheric. Although the images seem to be very simple, they fit the theme very good. I also think that you hit the nail with your sound design.

keip4 Oct 2022, 18:20

i love the drawings. very nice to look at. the 10 seconds were irrelevant to the game play

nardandas4 Oct 2022, 18:25

Really pretty illustrations!

CatelliB4 Oct 2022, 18:26

Makes you connect with hard choices many have actually had to make recently

blobo4 Oct 2022, 18:53

Wow! That's such a cool art style. The story is very well made, and I love the multiple perspectives. Huge points for mood and graphics! I recorded myself playing the game if you want extra feedback:

Eugenik4 Oct 2022, 21:41

In love with the atmosphere too! Good job :D.

EOShadows5 Oct 2022, 00:48

Nice game! The graphics are awesome and I love the mood you set for the the game. Do your choices affect the game though? It felt to me as if whatever I chose the result was still the same. Other than that though, I thought this was a nice game. Well done!

LDJam user 3008735 Oct 2022, 02:41

Very strong mood, but some of the text was partially out of the window for me so I found it difficult to read.

tetrapteryx5 Oct 2022, 16:09

The art creates a perfect mood for this. The sense of urgency, impossible decisions, and the interconnectedness of all the different perspectives work really well. This was a great direction to take the theme!

Shrillwhip5 Oct 2022, 17:40

The artwork is pretty strong, you have a good eye for composition. I can't say the story really gripped me, I couldn't really make sense of it. Really nice mood though.

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