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Journey in Spacetime: A Text Adventure

By shortcreative

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall11833.0836
Fun12372.7736
Innovation11902.7036
Theme6743.6636
Humor10102.3631
Mood5713.5935

Comments

ekeller217 2022-04-04 18:18

I got the doubtful end and the parallel end. Multiple endings gives in a very choose-your-own-adventure vibe. Very cool

saryah 2022-04-05 05:30

Great little text adventure story. Perfect for the theme.

junklab 2022-04-05 11:16

Sweet little text based adventure, great writing! Would be amazing to see some animated graphics to this. Nice work, a great application to the theme!

jzucc12 2022-04-05 15:01

Nice game. I couldn't burn my photos. The end was coming anyway. I accepted it.

tsugumi 2022-04-06 04:56

Nice game

flaterectomy 2022-04-07 16:47

I was excited to see another Twine game!

I will admit that I am a little confused at the significance of the blurry thoughts contradicting the *character creation* choices made previously. I am sure it means something, but it went over my head a little.

Managed to get all three endings. And I appreciate the alarm sound warning you left here on the game page. :D

shortcreative 2022-04-08 04:41

Thanks for that feedback @flaterectomy! That was one thing I really wasn't sure of - whether I'd managed to get the idea across. Memories from a parallel universe where you'd done things differently were supposed to be bleeding through. And if you managed to remember having a daughter, you could somehow switch to that parallel universe where you never went on the trip and thus never died.

flaterectomy 2022-04-08 15:32

@shortcreative It all makes sense in retrospect! I think maybe some foreshadowing of parallel dimensions could have helped me get there on my own. Thanks for the explanation!

kerdelos 2022-04-08 23:05

Cool entry ! It has a really nice melancolic mood ! Got the doubtful end but realised reading the comment that the blurry though weren't supposed to be my own which I didn't realised playing the game :sweat_smile:

Would have loved to have some kind of moody ambiant music (like the one you used at the end) during the entire game.

Good job :)

itskdog 2022-04-09 20:14

Nice story. Liked the different choices and different endings. Maybe you can add more to it.

peter-sc 2022-04-09 20:28

Great little story. The sparse use of sound effects was also a nice touch.

alks 2022-04-09 22:09

Nice text adventure! Always great the play them!

okamit 2022-04-10 01:27

Nice little game, always interesting to play a text adventure these days!

Good work!

fredrik-rosell 2022-04-10 14:33

Nicely done! I just want to add a +1 to a previous comment here: "Would have loved to have some kind of moody ambient music (like the one you used at the end) during the entire game.".

boxedmeatrevolution 2022-04-10 17:34

I'm always excited to come across narrative focused games on here. I played through a couple of times to get all of the endings. The parallel universes thing was a little confusing to me, I thought it was the result of oxygen deprivation at first (since the thoughts were so blurry), until I got the parallel ending. I would have loved if it was longer to setup/conclude the story with a bit more detail, but I'm guessing time constraints make that difficult to do. Overall, I enjoyed reading what you wrote, nice work!

arihan10 2022-04-12 19:58

Great game! I really like how the connection to the theme is slowly revealed to the player, and although I didn't quite understand the ending I got, I found the story to be interesting nonethless. I tried getting other "endings" but always ended at the same place. Perhaps make the order of the choices have more effect? I also found it a bit weird when the audio suddenly cut off and restarted after certain dialogue. Overall though, I enjoyed my time. Good job!

haayaargh 2022-04-12 21:34

Cool little text game. As people already mentioned, it was a bit difficult to understand what is this blurred text when I read it, but perhaps it was confusing on purpose, so the player has a revelation at the end of the game. The ending I think could be more clear than it is now, for a second I thought it just misremembered my choices until I read the ending "name".

Thank you for your submission and hanging on the stream @shortcreative

gullyngames 2022-04-14 01:07

This is a really cool game. The audio and sound effects really help with the mood (though the one loud sound scared me!) It would have been nice if the story were a bit longer, just to give a bit more depth. This is definitely one of the most creative games I have played so far, good job!

ehon 2022-04-16 20:23

I was on a hunt for narrative-based games since our game is also a story-based virtual novel and I was really happy to stumple upon this gem! Really creative idea and I'm a big fan of science-fiction too. Solid game, good job!