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No.thing

By adliberum

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall4053.0676
Fun4312.7076
Innovation4042.7376
Theme414.1476
Humor613.5076
Mood3142.9976

Comments

2019-10-05 14:47

Dude , that's a nice minimalist game

adliberum 2019-10-05 16:38

thank you @alp-arslan! really appreciate it.

iozsaygi 2019-10-06 16:49

Funny and minimalist game. Good job!

adliberum 2019-10-06 17:22

Thank you @iozsaygi =D kind of you to say!

888 2019-10-06 22:25

to begin with a responsive conversational partner

iconocatstudio 2019-10-06 23:26

I love the play on the theme haha, nice job!

adliberum 2019-10-06 23:35

thank you @iconocatstudio, had a lot of fun writing this.

stefanie-leitch 2019-10-06 23:55

Interesting take on the theme. Very minimalist, not sure exactly if I got to the end or not -- there were just no more options.

adliberum 2019-10-07 00:04

@stefanie-leitch thank you, and yes there is an ending :)

norris-eldridge 2019-10-07 00:34

Nice entry @adliberum I think something I would have liked to have in the game would be some sound effects or music just to add to the mood a bit

adliberum 2019-10-07 00:36

@norris-eldridge thank you! good shout, for some reason whenever I make a text-based game I seem to forget all about sound and music! :laughing:

drprettypatty 2019-10-07 01:01

Really nice use of the theme, I like games that get kind of meta like this. It reminded me a bit of the Stanley Parable. Like others said, music and sound would help with the mood, but on the other hand, it does kind of fit the theme better without it :)

theseusinabottle 2019-10-07 01:03

I enjoyed this. I especially enjoyed it when I realized that I had just looped myself through the conversation with the Lord. Very clever how you did that. Not really a lot can go wrong with a good old text adventure like this. Would have liked some music or sound effects but this was so short it wasn't a real bother. I did like how as you progress through the loop the clickable text color changes when you hover over it from light blue to pink (note I am using f.lux so it might be some other color than pink and I just can't tell sorry!) helps break up the monotony of the same text repeating.

100th-coin 2019-10-07 01:05

Fun story, in the end it turns out there was nothing. who would've thought.

gagouman 2019-10-07 01:38

Nice twist on the theme, minimalist but quite fun to play!

onnofal 2019-10-07 07:43

Very minimalistic, but hey you used your skills and time, participated and delivered. For me always counts. Enjoyed playing, kind of enjoyed the HTML visited-anchor highlighting to have a sneak look under the hood to avoid places I've been already in.

hajden 2019-10-07 08:52

That's a great use of the theme. Made me chuckle too, and is even, almost poignant in a sense.

adliberum 2019-10-07 17:11

Wow, thanks everyone for all the kind comments! =D really appreciate you all checking it out. :thumbsup:

hiveminds 2019-10-07 22:11

Really enjoyed it! Actually made a similar thing for a school project. Was the software called `twine 2`?

adliberum 2019-10-07 22:13

Hi @hiveminds thank you! and yes I did write it in Twine. :smiley:

hiveminds 2019-10-07 22:15

@adliberum Great use of the software really awesome :v:

barrier 2019-10-07 22:18

You did the theme perfectly :)

adliberum 2019-10-07 22:21

Thanks @barrier :smile: really appreciate it everyone, was a fun little piece to write.

simxple 2019-10-07 22:31

A minimalistic game which fits the theme great. Really enjoyed playing it!

ssstormy 2019-10-07 22:38

Neat. I think it's very easy for people to skim over the text in games like these and just go straight for the links. Maybe incrementally showing the paragraphs/sentences/words would help?

adliberum 2019-10-07 22:43

thank you @simxple glad you enjoyed it!

@ssstormy ah yes nice idea, going to have to research whether you can typewrite the passages now! :thumbsup:

starvingindie 2019-10-07 23:22

Ahh! I'm so happy to be playing a twine game, this is my first of the jam! Great job incorporating the theme in this. It's a clever game all around. Great work.

adliberum 2019-10-07 23:28

yay @starvingindie, appreciated thank you :thumbsup: twine is such a great tool, even in its default setup. I use it mostly for designing / scripting games, so it was a nice change to use it in a game setting again! For anyone interested my previous Twine game was False Positive, also playable on my itch page :smiley:

justicepro 2019-10-07 23:29

"I don't think you are grasping this. You can't make anything because there's nothing to make anything with."

- Disproving the Big Bang theory since 2019

justicepro 2019-10-07 23:31

5 Stars all but innovation which I gave 2 stars. It was fun to play! Thanks for the fun experience

adliberum 2019-10-07 23:47

Wow thank you @justicepro really appreciate that! and you're welcome. :thumbsup:

adliberum 2019-10-07 23:56

ps lol @ disapproving the Big Bang, knew I was destined for great things :laughing:

adamk33n3r 2019-10-08 00:08

That was a fun and funny little entry. Good work

adliberum 2019-10-08 00:13

Awesome @adamk33n3r thank you. I hadn't actually set out to make it humorous, and it was only when I was playing it back that I realised it had naturally just developed it's own humor. :smile:

superlee 2019-10-08 01:31

Cool idea!

adliberum 2019-10-08 07:48

Thank you @superlee :smiley:

xlomid 2019-10-08 11:51

Great take on the concept and nice dialogue! I can't for the life of me figure out how to get to the ending, though. I thought maybe I'd done something wrong and tried restarting, but the game just resumes from the same place.

UPD: Never mind, I did find it in the end. It was well-hidden :) Nice little piece!

adliberum 2019-10-08 14:11

Glad you found the end in the end @xlomid :thumbsup:, and thank you, really appreciate it :smile:

joellikespigs 2019-10-08 16:30

You start with nothing and end with nothing - haha this was a fun read, nice work. I came across this because my games link was nothing-2 someone beat me to my super original name haha

veer 2019-10-08 16:47

Fun little game, Great work!

adliberum 2019-10-08 18:00

hah sorry @joellikespigs I must have got in there pretty quick! and thank you!

Thank you @veer, really appreciate it!

Seriously, entering #LDJAM again (after so long) has made my year! Thank you to everyone! Especially as I'd not planned on entering till I was hit by a random stroke of inspiration following a tweet recommending people to enter as part of a #30daydev challenge I'd set.

autumn-schutt 2019-10-08 18:23

this was very simple and fun. It made me laugh. Good job!

adliberum 2019-10-08 18:32

Thank you @autumn-schutt so pleased to hear! :smile:

sillyman987 2019-10-08 20:06

Really is nothing...

sillyman987 2019-10-08 20:09

How do I end???!!!

adliberum 2019-10-08 20:13

@sillyman987 clue: the links turn a different color for the ones you've visited :)

bocodillo 2019-10-08 22:40

Cool minimalist idea, really well written.

brokenmirrormedia 2019-10-08 22:45

Fun little text adventure, not a lot of options per se but an interesting exploration of the theme.

velvetlobster 2019-10-09 01:25

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I actually like this ... a minimal soundtrack would fit real nice to this perhaps

adliberum 2019-10-09 08:27

thank you @bocodillo, @brokenmirrormedia and @velvetlobster really appreciate you playing it! :smile:

apace 2019-10-09 13:07

Can't add anything that others haven't said already. Nice piece!

adliberum 2019-10-09 16:04

Wow thanks @apace, too kind! :thumbsup:

hcursino 2019-10-09 18:41

I have nothing to say about this game. :wink:

adliberum 2019-10-09 22:44

hah thanks @hcursino :smile:

2019-10-10 10:47

Very well written! I included it in my Ludum Dare 45 compilation video series, if you’d like to take a look :) https://youtu.be/VLDt7yHE5-M

adliberum 2019-10-10 11:05

Thank you @jupiter-hadley! Appreciate it. Was so great to see you play through it also! :heart: :smile:

mimi522 2019-10-11 02:50

Incredible idea! Genial really, pretty simple, totally part of the theme and fun, just what we need :smile:

adliberum 2019-10-11 11:09

@mimi522 wow that's so nice of you to say! Glad you enjoyed it! :smile: :hugging:

marcin-j 2019-10-11 16:26

Good writing. I wanted to leave feedback but I guess everybody already mentioned sound. It could really play a big role in setting the mood and conveying the story. Small text animations and variations in background could help too.

adliberum 2019-10-11 19:12

Thank you @marcin-j :thumbsup:, really appreciate the feedback :smile: my primary aim was to ensure I completed the entry and didn't fall foul of the dangers of jam crunch, so I went 100% minimal for this reason, just so happens it worked out well and actually inadvertently fit the theme better. I might well revise it and add some subtle touches but if I did it would be mostly to enhance the story. :smile:

christopher-wong 2019-10-11 21:01

This was a fun game, I enjoyed the text based adventure. I think if the game was a little longer and as some above mentioned sound would be nice.

adliberum 2019-10-11 21:06

thanks @christopher-wong =D appreciate your thoughts :thumbsup:

almighty-games 2019-10-16 15:32

The game was pleasant. Of course it fit the theme, but what kept me responding was the hope that "something" would eventually happen. I did finally reach the end of the game. Good job! :)

arbe 2019-10-16 15:34

Neat. Kind of short, but gets its point across.

yomissmar 2019-10-16 19:16

I wish it had more options because I didn't actually want to leave! It was so fun to play, nice writing here :) good job!

adliberum 2019-10-17 09:45

congrats at @almighty-games and thank you! thank you also @nerdysl0th!

@yomissmar me too! Thank you, means alot! :smile:

captandrey 2019-10-22 08:43

Nice theme-related game) I think you can add more chooses. They can lead to similar pages, put force player to read and make decisions

sleepystudios 2019-10-26 13:13

Kept me clicking, it was oddly satisfying with the transitions.

adliberum 2019-10-27 11:20

Thank you @captandrey and @sleepystudios =D

harksa 2019-10-27 15:12

Well the text was interesting ! I liked it.

6smith 2019-10-27 15:14

what an awesome little text game! short, but very entertaining.

adliberum 2019-10-29 00:58

thank you so much @harksa and @6smith, glad it left a good impression =D