Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD37 → Executioner
By fuad
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coolness | 3 | 74 | ||
| Innovation | 237 | 3.50 | ||
| Mood | 291 | 3.55 | ||
| Audio | 348 | 3.18 | ||
| Overall | 566 | 3.17 | ||
| Fun | 585 | 2.91 | ||
| Humor | 621 | 1.96 | ||
| Theme | 682 | 3.09 | ||
| Graphics | 838 | 1.96 |
Well, this surely is a quite interesting game. I had a hard time figuring out what the right thing is to do with each individual victim and how it would help me. I think it would be easier if you made the goal clearer and started with people who are a little easier.
The task was a little confusing. It was really interesting game though!
I can see how a lot of time probably went in to the underlying mechanics and the complex system which is probably amazing to experience but is a little undermined by the difficult to understand way of achieving the goal. Maybe something a little more graphic and less choicy? Obviously, this will fit just right for the right crowd.
Great entry nonetheless!
Sorry guys, since a tight deadline didn't allow us to create a tutorial, here's an example of solving one of the main objectives.
Example:
1) The victim has a 100 physical and 100 mental hit point.
2) Each type of hits will "go red" when this number gets below 33.
3) If the victim confesses to treason, she condemns herself to a horrible death (she will probably die anyway, but one can hope). So she won't confess unless her conditions are both in the red.
4) This means your goal is to get both conditions in the red and then ask your question, or get the physical condition in the red and the mental one in the yellow and then intimidate the victim (this will temporarily bring the mental condition down one category).
5) Basicaly any victim will answer on any question if both conditions are red, but it can be dangerous (victim can die) or cost too much time/sanity/stamina
Holy cow, I was looking SO LONG for this type of game where you have to tortute people, you won't believe how happy i'm right now. Btw the music is very depressing and fit very nice with the theme of the game.
This was fun, really confusing and I only managed to get one person to confess, but I had fun while killing the others
Holy shit this game, it was simply amazing. Very good idea, with an awesome delivery, really confusing at first though. What an incompetent assistant, killing my victims most of the time...
Thanks for making this.
It's a bit too hard straight from the beginning but fine tuned game balance can't be expected in this kind of an event. The thing that was most frustrating to me was the fact that you can not always get back from submenus and had to do something that just wasted a lot of valuable resources.
With a little tuning i think it would be a great game.
Interesting game, with a great potential. The interface was confusing but after some time I worked my way through. I think if you streamlined your approach to this and made the game a bit faster between interactions it would excel. The mood the audio set was awesome, this could further be increased with some design and color palette! Good work!
a very interesting game. Was surprised by how good it was. Good job!
Thank you for responses. I fix problem with ability to go back from submenus. I'll hope it make interface a little bit more streamlined.
panu -
I think better GUI is needed. I felt I was missing my best choices - while in torture menu maybe atrocity would be a better choice in current situation but I'm in torture menu so I can't see all of my possible actions.
Too hard - managed only to get one confession in 2 tries. Maybe assistant role could have been bigger, something to let me take rest while he would do his job (with some risk of unexpected reuslts).
I would probably play longer if I saw there was a chance of me winning. I see potential in the idea and would really like to play ver 2.0.
When I think of it I really like the theme the "one room that noone wants to go to" :)
Audio was trying to be moody but was tiring as well.
Ps. How do I rate humor in a game about mutulation?
Thank you for the feedback! I lower the difficulty. Now you have 24 time (twice as many as before) and this time is reduced per each next victim until stabilized on 12.
P.S.
We already working on ver 2.0, with story between executions that make them whole.
Great writing! Very creative!
The game is a good idea, but the interface and the UI are really bad, it kind of destroy the whole thing :/
Grim stuff! Even though this is text-based, it's quite a gruesome trip (perhaps maybe its BECAUSE it leaves everything up to my imagination). Of course I think that's what you're going for!
I think your idea of introducing a tutorial level will help a lot.
Oh, man if only I wasn't scared of tortures :c
This game has very good (I mean grim) atmosphere, great diaries, great music - it was really great experience. It would be great to see more tortures, though. Great job!
The music is stunning, how did you make it?
The game was interesting concept, but others have mentioned, a little less complex or choicey might make it easier to get into? With a graphical layer on top, this could be a really cool game
Wow. This was definitely a very innovative game. I got to about Day 10 before I finally ended my life. This game is WONDERFULLY depressing and really evokes a fantastic mood. Bravo.
Interesting game. I included it in my compilation video series of the Ludum Dare 37 games, if you’d like to take a look. :) https://youtu.be/OCZRRN3xYEY
I really liked the text. At first sight I though this was another one of these interactive books but I noticed its quite different. Thank you for the game!
The gameplay is a tough balancing act, but I think that just adds to the tension, which is impressive. The writing is really excellent. I only managed to get a full confession out of one person, and my incompetent assistant killed most of my victims!
- randomhuman