jacob-peltola 2015-04-21 20:01
That was surreal, if I hadn't read the description I would have been clueless!, Cool game though
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD32 → HELP: The Mystery of the Not-Terribly Useful Information
By terpin
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coolness | 2 | 97 | ||
| Mood | 83 | 3.85 | ||
| Innovation | 266 | 3.48 | ||
| Humor | 317 | 3.27 | ||
| Overall | 423 | 3.33 | ||
| Fun | 661 | 2.83 | ||
| Graphics | 682 | 2.94 | ||
| Theme | 842 | 2.82 |
That was surreal, if I hadn't read the description I would have been clueless!, Cool game though
Very interesting entry! A lot of information and good mood.
Good mooding and theme. Wished it had some audio, even just ambience and computer noises.
Amazing! You definitely should publish this after the jam. I didn't get to the end because I accidently hit the menu button thinking it brought you to the main menu ingame. Also, I am not really sure what it has to do with the theme since I did not fully compete the game.
Is there a way I could skip to where I was. I would like to finish the game. Thanks!
I'm not sure what I tested, or how it fits the theme :D. But I liked the overall mood, and kudos for the guts to innovate.
Damn, that was AWESOME! You have created a fully fledged original concept in 72 hours. The wife and I loved it. It was everything you could want from an interactive novel. And the ending made us laugh - I always had my suspicions about that corporation!
You won't be able to skip exactly back where you were, but you should be able to pop back in the main menu to the level you were on (like administrator). If you were in a test, you'll have to do it again :( Sorry!
appealing, but a bit difficult to explore fully.
after pressing menu, there was no continue button, only start, and that seem to have reset my progress and stuck, unless that was part of the game i didn't understand.
Loved it ;-) Walter is the best !!! I like the depth of contents in the game.
Played the game and got to the point I was at and now I'm lost all I can do is hit update...
When the music rolls and the confetti flies, that's the end, buddy. You can keep clicking the button, but it won't do anything after that ^^
Ok cool. Oops, I was spam clicking to get to where I was and must have missed the ending! I liked the idea though it was great!
Haha it's okay, it was built in a hurry so there is definitely room for improvement! I'm glad you enjoyed it though ^^
Woooow... This was really cool. A great idea, original too. I'm a huge fan of anything to do with artificial intelligence so this one was sweet.
Awesome!
-dan
I don't know if this really fits the theme, and the graphics were weird, and I spent half the game waiting for the next button to show up, and I accidentally unlocked a pong world when I answered "I am alone," and I had to click on every button twice.
And despite all this, HELP is probably one of the most weirdly immersive games I've played in the past year. The random popups of Descartes, the Blade Runner references, the MBTI charts... all go together to make a game that's surprisingly fun!
So I think I just blew up an insane solipsistic brain-in-a-tank for the sake of global information freedom. Good times. I just wish I could skip through the text a bit faster. Are there multiple endings, by the way? I was told W.A.L.T.E.R. was "Happy, Suspicious" right before I got the opportunity to rubber-stamp his special delivery.
I find that more text-based games are pretty uncommon in Ludum Dare, and I think you pulled it off well. There seems to be a lot of depth to the story despite being relatively short, although it would be nice if it were easier to explore the consequences of alternate answers. Alternatively, it could be useful to have a function to save at a certain point and continue from there later on. Great work overall~
Honestly, we ran out of time. It was me and two programmers off reddit who didn't know each other at all that formed the team at the very last second. I researched and wrote all that stuff in about 48 hours, meant to make all kinds of kickass backgrounds for it but ran out of time. One guy put the gui together in a day, both of them hauled ass making sure that all the text didn't spill out of all the boxes and we winged the ending the morning before the deadline. It was a goddamn adventure, that's for sure.
Fascinating and thought provoking.
Walter was a very interesting personality.
Thank you!
I kept glitching out when I got to the administrator portion and couldn't continue. But I'm really a fan of these sorts of stories and wish there were more visual novels like this! :)
I loved this concept! really well done. I think with some audio this could be much more entertaining, but I thoroughly enjoyed it.
But Walter! I thought I was an INFJ!?
awesome entry!
I really liked the mood and the dialogs!
A really interesting game =O. I like the interface and the animation you did with the AI. Some music would be welcome though. And there's not really a connection to the theme but well.
Code and socks are the weapons in this game and that's pretty unusual! Then again, maybe not - like all things it's open to interpretation. I'm glad you enjoyed it though!
Interesting idea, I am also missing some sounds.
Very interesting and fun;
I am not really into these kind of games, but I really liked the base story/idea! Good job!
Very interesting entry. I love exploring these alternate reality world, where nothing really makes sense at first.
Also you never can tell if you encountered a bug or a "bug". :-D
I didn't really know what was going on. But it was interesting and liked the theme.
Kinda scary feeling the whole way through.