rexpeppers 2018-12-04 16:37
I... didn't know that was possible. Great job, thanks for sharing it.
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD43 → aberth: simple text based choose your own adventure
By jfraser314
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 495 | 3.45 | 66 | |
| Fun | 620 | 3.13 | 65 | |
| Innovation | 21 | 4.17 | 66 | |
| Theme | 832 | 2.95 | 59 | |
| Graphics | 962 | 1.42 | 48 | |
| Humor | 316 | 3.25 | 60 | |
| Mood | 434 | 3.41 | 63 |
I... didn't know that was possible. Great job, thanks for sharing it.
Outstanding use of Google Docs. Couple of spelling/grammar issues but otherwise very functional. Good job.
Uncommon game, the story is well-written and offers some great surprises. Well done!
Wow, I did not expect that in a Ludum. Very interesting narrative and great use of Google Forms. In general, I had a great time playing it and I do not normally like this kind of games. Good work :)
This is really interesting. It's well-written, funny, confusing, engaging. I love it. I also like how you took something so rational as a google form and turned into a game about madness. Really smart. On top of that, I really appreciate how you force the player to make the most insane choices in order not to lose (like not vomiting on someone will lead to game over, it's kind of genius).
Question : do you have statistics about players' answers ? That would be fun.
I really like that you used Google Forms. The story was good although I though that you would need more backstory before making any choices. The first choice for example. Good job!
Interesting and catchy story and really unexpected way to tell it, really liked that.
Wow. Genius to use Google Forms for this. Accidentally made a rather grim choice in the beginning and then I just went for it. Quite a disturbed experience. Interesting.
THat's thinking out of the box! Clearly the graphics where a sacrifice here but the game is still enjoyable. Cool idea
Really enjoyed the story, well done! Will try it again!
@foxxy Thanks for playing, you have probably moved on, but where did you see spelling errors?
Fun Story/Game!
Wow! this is something really different. Very cool and original idea.
That was great experience! Thank you for your great ideas, it was like an interactive book! I have much fun! :D
This is extremely creative and unique!
Very nice idea! I like it! passed.png
I had no idea you could use google forms to make a "choose your own adventure", very cool! I enjoyed the story however I worry about you, just a little :P
This is awesome! Such a great idea!
Wow, great idea to use gogle forms to make text adventure game! Well done guys! :)
That was really creative idea! Great job. I've made game in PowerPoint once, so I know what you went trough :)
Nice story game with lots of humor, I liked it
The idea for this game is super interesting, and the story was really surreal and brutal. I would have liked the chooses to have more consequence for the story, and it not just was a right or wrong choose. But overall a really interesting LD game. Well done.
Now thats something unique and that probably turn out to be a lot of work. Im not really into text based games, but i went through it all and man, that was a lot of crazy situations. Props for the creativity for them and time thinking of many possibilities. Goob job.
Wow, definitly something I have not seen before. 5 stars innovation. :)
The story itself was a bit dark for my taste, but well written! Good job, thank you for making this.
Not what I was expecting. Good use of Google forms.
Wow this is a nice idea!
In the right hands, anything can be used as a game engine, I guess.
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Last time I was surprised to see so many board games, but if using Google forms becomes the new thing, then I'm all up for it. I'm a sucker for CYOA games, and this one was quite the oddball. Very somber, with some interesting touch of surrealism and absurdity. While it's not saying much that this pushed the limits to what Google Forms can do, it certainly stands out.
Good work with Aberth. [My team](discord.whalesandgames.com) sends you a polite salute, and wish you the best while wondering if this Google Forms thing will catch on. It's quite a fun time :whale:
Interesting idea to use Google forms for a game! I have mixed feelings about the story, as I liked the idea of counter-intuitive, unusual choices you can make as you play a cold-blooded character with a dark sense of humor... at the same time I don't share that sense of humor, which doesn't leave much else to experience. I like that you can go back a step if you made a "wrong" decision instead of having to restart the game, that saves a lot of trouble.
This is rather creative. I applaud you for using Google sheets for making a game. It's simple and smart. I wish that there is pictures though, but that is just my preference. This game is definitely perfect for fans of text based games, a good niche. Well done and thanks for sharing!
An interesting game with a kind of mechanics. I put a rating) Please rating and me, thanks in advance)
Well, I guess I played something. Hats off for using something as exotic as Goolge Forms. Certainly the most innovative I have seen this jam so far. Also the story was interestingly written. As someone who enjoys playing Choose Your Own Adventure kind of games from time to time I can say, that it was pretty well done. Great job! Have akitty: ^--^______|
Very cool idea to use google forms to make a game. Nice job!
Wow hahaha! An absurd tale, but awesome use of google docs!
Interesting and fun to play. I liked the situations and it is well written
Refreshing take by making a game in google forms! The story is well written although I'm not sure if the choices made were of much sense at all, as it felt more like I was stumbling to the end of a stream of consciousness rather than having a consistent message (if any) reinforced at all.
Well, that was a thing. If nothing else, it was certainly innovative... and disturbing.
This is certainly a first lol. Very creative submission, I applaud you all.
Very creative use of Google forms! :) I liked the story, well written and very dark. Awesome that this is done as part of a game design class!
This was creative and definitely weird. I loved the cheese sandwich part, very funny. Was nice to have humor sprinkled throughout. This was definitely different. I would suggest opting out of graphics.
good idea!
I really enjoyed this, and actually have spread it on to many of my friends to show them the concept! I have two questions though.
1. Where is the theme? 2. How the heck did you do this?
All in all, a very solid entry, though there were a few grammatical errors and only one ending. I would've appreciated more than one ending, but the game does show how only one ending makes sense. Great job!
@mathstr0fficial Glad you enjoyed our game. We always wanted one conclusion and many ways to get there, though our story wasn't as complete as we would have liked. Where we ended really would have been the conclusion of Act 2 out of 3, but due to time constraints, we had to end it where we did.
1. As for the theme, on a meta-level, going with Google Forms was a sacrifice (but that is just b.s. because we had the idea for Google forms before the theme went live). At the end, our player is in a cult, and someone is about to be killed/sacrificed for the order, but that idea is not as fleshed out as we could have (I am not expecting to score super high in that category this time).
2. Google forms allows you to edit questions to go to different categories based on responses. First we made a template for the story, then just inserted it into the forms and pointed everything where it was supposed to go.
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It did take a lot of organization, and was probably not the best way to make a choose your own adventure, but we have had mostly positive feedback and we are hoping to score high in the innovation category.
@jfraser314 Score high in innovation you will! You got 5/5 from me! Thanks for all the help!
**Nice! **Some of the scenarios were ... odd.
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But it was interesting. There was quite a few teases towards considerable deviations to the plot, but these were all sadly snuffed out with a game over screen. These provided some humour, but ultimately made the path feel incredibly linear. I can understand time restrictions but maybe I just want to believe that it is paint? There also felt like opportunities where you had choice, but really, there was none. One such is here, where only the bottom option leads to a non-game-over state.
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I also got lost with the story many times. Bodies on the floor? Stabbing the therapist? In a relationship with said therapist? Stabbing at the church? CIA operatives? Holy cheese sandwiches? Like what the hell. There was generally very little text (and I liked it like that), but the story you were trying to tell seems to be just a little bit too complex. Whilst all of that thriller action espionage can be interesting, you probably could have dialled down the randomness to provide a more coherent plot. The one you had was quite ambitious, and with limited time, it failed to have much of an impact on me.
Nice choice of game engine though, quite unique. I'm not sure how to rate the game on graphics though, should maybe opt out on that one? I believe google docs are auto formatted right? Maybe you changed some colours, but I'm not sure what score that warrants...
Overall, an interesting attempt, but I would recommend toning down the plot. It was too ambitious and wasn't delivered effectively with the limited development environment of a jam. With some of the blanks filled in, I could imagine a very interesting little CYOA. Keep developing! :thumbsup:
@justcamh Thanks for the feedback. Our plan was always for the different paths to converge, and we got through about 2/3 of it. So I understand, without seeing the pieces that would bring it all together, it seeming complicated for the sake of being complicated. Thanks for playing! Maybe one day we will finish the story, though I don't know if it will become more understandable (being that we were following a character whose grasp on reality was definitely slipping).
I enjoyed this distraction. Nice to do something different. I thought the writting was pretty good and the options came thick and fast. Good work well excecuted.
I'll never look at google forms the same way again. Great writing (even though I feel like my character was a bit of jerk. I don't think I'd want to go have a beer with me) and great pacing; things certainly escalated quickly: required for us patience-limited LD-ers!
@mrsspeaker While writing this with my students (who definitely wanted things to go off the rails and be ridiculous as fast as possible) I found myself not really rooting for our character. They were definitely a jerk and I found some satisfaction with what they were going through.
The idea of using Google Forms seems cute, but not all that different from CYOA systems – at least not to the player.
The plot was fun; it felt as if each segment was written by another person only knowing what the previous one said. At points it seemed a bit too random though. Also I would have enjoyed re-playing the game more times if the choices really mattered, but the "wrong" choices either loop back to the mainline, or end up in a loss. Fully branching story would be more time consuming to write (though if taking the "random writing" approach, not all that more difficult), but certainly more rewarding. Perhaps you should have made a prototype on paper (i.e. sticky notes and string to make the fully branching tree) before rewriting everything into Google Forms?
Clever use of Google Docs. Writing and story are both good quality. That is one bad ass therapist for sure!
Took a long while to get used to this, but it's a fun and really bizarre story. Vaguely reminds me of the old Hitchhiker's text adventure game in terms of humor.