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Of Life and Death

By makatak

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Coolness1100
Theme1383.22
Innovation1483.23
Mood2352.96
Fun2552.90
Overall2753.08
Humor2762.32
Audio3822.38
Graphics5002.13

Comments

blasmena 2013-12-16 22:38

awesome! love it!

godan 2013-12-17 02:31

Well written!

chrstphrschulte 2013-12-17 02:31

The choice to steal from your parents at age 8 is really good one that I've personally never seen in a game. I think that kind of exploration of ethical development is really interesting. Well done.

glovecat 2013-12-17 02:41

It has a good message.

makatak 2013-12-17 02:51

Thanks for all the positive feedback!

lazdo 2013-12-17 03:10

Very Nice! Never seen anything like it!

teddy 2013-12-17 03:29

great story guys. I am really curious if there is a way (but I would assume not as it seems to be the point of the game). Either way, experimental games are so great to play so thanks so much!

urlgr3y 2013-12-17 03:34

Intense. Well written. Loved it. Good job.

van-noctar 2013-12-17 03:35

Good game, many choices and meny game states. WHat system are you used? State Machine?

jaymeemak 2013-12-17 03:36

I loved it! I like the way the interactive narrative was implement, the music went nicely with it, the story was great, the choices were great, the representation of opening doors and leaving behinds others was great too.

Great job!

lacutis 2013-12-17 03:36

Interesting use of the theme. Felt like a choose your own adventure book in computer form.

tfjo 2013-12-17 03:38

Interesting! There's a couple of (minor) bugs that I've noticed, such as giving you the option to pay back your parents regardless of whether you actually stole from them or not, otherwise an interesting concept.

unept 2013-12-17 03:38

Ya, great job!

pom9898 2013-12-17 03:39

Wow. Very well done. And this is your second game?!?!

makatak 2013-12-17 03:47

pom9898:

Thanks! Second full Ludum Dare for me, first for my partner, but I did Shark Jam last month, and we've both made many games outside of Ludum Dare.

dremelofdeath 2013-12-17 03:47

It was fun to pick various life choices. I feel like the results of your actions took a long time to affect the outcomes it seemed. Fits with the theme. Good job!

optimus6128 2013-12-17 07:56

Haha, nice concept!

zephyr89 2013-12-19 07:48

MUST PLAY ALL THE STATES!

somepx 2013-12-19 23:10

Very well written, interesting twists. A good entry

pele 2013-12-21 01:16

Cool game! Sad thing the character ends up as a beggar if you try to be charitable ;)

ld_lan_party 2013-12-21 01:35

Interesting concept. I liked a lot of the choices.

zkenshin 2013-12-21 01:36

Never reached immortality, interesting game.

01rafael 2013-12-21 03:31

great idea of storytelling! Five stars!

ittlebit 2013-12-21 04:03

Interesting approach to branching.

xblinkedx 2013-12-21 04:44

Very well done!

hyde-wyvern 2013-12-21 05:52

Wow this game is so touching and really deals with decisions in a fantastic way, I'm speechless. My game also relies on the "you only got one life so make the right choices" theme but in a kind of different way. Amazing! I loved it.

makatak 2013-12-21 18:38

Hyde Wyvern:

Played through your game earlier (although I just realized I forgot to finish and rate it!), and I noticed the similarities immediately. So interesting how the same sub-theme can be taken two totally different ways!

thewhitellama 2013-12-21 19:01

Wow, so much futur-changing choices to make. I can't get another way then being homeless. Maybe I only made wrong decisions. Well done.

zener 2013-12-21 19:20

Best idea I have seen so far!

aare 2013-12-21 20:03

Nice attempt on creating game with story and a message, mabye a bit naive at times and limitating the player, but a great try after all!

--- Spoler! ---

After denying the money to the client I was told that it destroyed my personality to the point where I wanted to kill myself - the development of the character that I took (f.e. - to take the knife, to stab the guy, to steal the girl...) didn't made me to expect that the protagonist would be a guy who whold want to kill himself just because of some random guy's death :P

makatak 2013-12-21 20:55

aare:

-- Spoilers --
Unfortunately, early decisions don't much end up impacting future consequences, the consequences are usually immediate. No matter your early choices, you always end up working at the insurance office, if you deny money you become guilt ridden, if you give it you get fired, and you always end up dying. That's our take on the theme, you only get one ending. In a full game, you're right, there would be a more diverse system of choices and consequences and personality and all that stuff.

kibertoad 2013-12-21 21:47

it would be nice to see a complete interactive story written by you. liked the idea, but suicide as resolution is overrated.

archaeometrician 2013-12-22 01:21

Nice concept, I like the idea of being confronted with choice. Great work ! I tried it 3 times, I wonder what I got wrong, never got the immortality choice ;)

makatak 2013-12-22 01:29

archaeometrician:

SPOILER

Not sure if I should reveal this, but there is no way to achieve immortality. That's the point/moral of the game, no matter how you live your life, it always ends, and you can never become immortal.

olafsworld98 2013-12-22 01:51

i love it, but i still never got immortality