Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD52 → DeadLyft
By joshh, Fromage, GrimPuppet, SARAHHHHHH and Dustinseth
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 498 | 3.35 | 50 | |
| Fun | 589 | 3.02 | 50 | |
| Innovation | 426 | 3.25 | 48 | |
| Theme | 622 | 3.30 | 48 | |
| Graphics | 481 | 3.44 | 50 | |
| Audio | 458 | 2.70 | 45 | |
| Humor | 205 | 3.40 | 48 | |
| Mood | 359 | 3.52 | 48 |
Very interesting concept and a fun take on the theme! Really like the art style and the subtle music fits the game. Perhaps it's just me but it was a little unclear what the goal was even with the tutorial, although it made more sense as I played. I did encounter some bugs where text would skip or already selected options would repeat.
This was fun! reminded me of choose your own adventure books. Lots of reading.
Lovely art. Agree with first commenter about the tutorial being a bit unclear.
Also bug reporting: In tutorial, hitting 'S' will bring up another dialog (maybe it restarts the first dialog?)
Thanks @jaonewguy! Yes, I need to disable that :D
Thank you for the feedback @fc85057 We'll keep working through to fix them!
Thank you @aoxian ! Choose your own adventure is definitely an inspiration!
Nice game!
I'm not big into dialogue games, but I played to completion; 21 points on Medium.
Suggestions
1) I think the Dialogue library you're using has support for "styling" the different characters. For example 'Mike' being on the right, 'Player' on the left, and "Story" elements being done in the middle. This would have been particularly useful in the tutorial, which I think was the most confusing part!
2) The tutorial probably should have sent you back to the main menu, not directly into the game. It wasn't clear when tutorial ended, and game began. In general the tutorial was confusing, and I probably would have understood more if I had just skipped it. It had some nice humor beats though!
Bugs:
There was a dialogue bug where a number of times there was nothing to say (just a blank field). After clicking it, he ranted about liberals. This happened 3-4 times during the game, and didn't really seem like intentional dialogue reuse to me.
I managed to get 25 points on hard. That is some seriously good writing. Good job!
Thanks all!
@fc85057 Clearly not just you on the tutorial, heh. Gonna try and sharpen it up a bit for sure.
@aoxian Lots of writing too, and pathing...ye gods. It was a LOT of work. Thanks for playing.
@jaonewguy Thanks! Yeah, working on the tutorial, really appreciate the heads up!
@SirLich Solid point about making it clearer when the game is starting, and glad you enjoyed! I had the same bug and it's apparently been a bit of a nightmare to track down. Thanks for the feedback!
@kodingnights Glad you enjoyed it, really appreciate it!
Thank you for the suggestions @sirlich ! The dialogue system does support that kind of styling. Great idea. Will work on the other suggestions and bugs you mentioned!
Came for the awesome dead lift pun, stayed for the stylish artwork. Great job.
@slantyoj Glad you enjoyed it!
@kodingnights Woot! In the current build, I think 30 points might not be possible. When we have multiple characters added, that will change of course.
@slantyoj We do love our puns :D Thanks!
Sigh, mistype
the way the dialog develops the character is nice. i ran into a bit of an issue where there were no more options to pick and it just repeated an old one (playing with mike on medium difficulty) very nice way to present a text driven game
@togo-sepultraut Thanks! Yeah, that one has been giving us headaches, appreciate the feedback!
I think i would really enjoy this if i wasnt dyslexic. The art and visuals are amazing, the long strings of unbroken text is hard to endure. My oppinion in this matter is less valuable but i think bite sized text could be more enjoyable!
@Stejkrobot No, I actually keep meaning to mention that we should break them up a bit, you are very correct. Thanks for braving our game despite your dyslexia!
Love me a good story- you guys put in the work and it shows! The graphics are very pleasing to the eye, thanks for sharing it, I had fun trying it out! :D
Glad you enjoyed! Thanks for the feedback!
This game is amazing!!! I loved going through this game. It reminded me of NewCab and I love those types of games. Really good story!!! Make sure to @ me when you finish it.
I had fun playing through this! Ran into dialog issues like other but game wise it's a well paced story and it had me laughing and grinning on multiple occasions. great job!
it's a very funny and engaging game, really glad I stumbled upon it. the textbox have a minor issue when I click it shows some different text for a few frames. It's not ruining anything immersion or gameplay-wise though. Well written characters (at least those who you could finish), would love to play with a bit more developed version later on.
@sgtweirdo Thanks so much, glad you enjoyed it!
@bartalomew Thanks! Hopefully we get to develop it further!
I'm not really into text based games, but this seems really nice.
The art and sound really sets the ambience of the experience and i'm amazed at the amount of content you produced, even with the Junie part incomplete. Also, nice touch with the wiggling letters to catch the attention to the details!
Congrats!
Thanks @derek-volker ! Thanks for making it through our game even if it's not normally to your tastes!
Really like the character art! I also ran into the problem with an empty dialogue box and getting stuck in a loop of previous text...
@caeonosphere Thanks! Yeah, I think our programmer has passed out, heh.
Thanks all! I spent some time working through dialogue bugs this evening. Hoping I caught them all, but please keep reporting if you find any.
@caeonosphere If you give it a try now, let me know if you run into the same issue. Thanks for playing!
A very well executed game, it was interesting moving my way through the dialogue and discovering the story. It was a little un satisfying not figuring out the motive of the first story, but I suppose I'll have to try again :)
Normally i don't play those kind of dialogue games, but i really enjoyed the "interrogation" style and the plot itself. I loved the fourth wall breaks! Would really like to see more characters if you are going to expand on that game :)
@magicstunts123 Thanks for taking a look! Would have loved to do more! Mike was a lot of work, but next time it should at least be easier on our coder. heh
Really neat concept, and good execution with some very fine writing in there. Lots of little quirks and touches, and I like that it gradually fleshed the character out from stereotype into something more. Thanks for sharing!
@adam-burt Oh man that is good to hear, it was a fine line to walk and honestly writing this was rough at times, heh. Appreciate the feedback!
Solid storytelling, I hope you guys get around to finishing the other characters after the jam!
Thanks La Bread! Me too!
This is an interesting visual novel about Death posing as a Lyft driver. The art is great too.
Thanks @flying-dog-fish for giving it a try!
Interesting little game, this is probably the first one I've seen that is a straight up VN, but it was very welcome after going through god knows how many harvesting and farming games!
The dialogue itself was quite cool, I definitely found myself with a certain level of prejudice towards the character (Mike) initially, but then slowly learning more about them.. I still had some level of prejudice towards them, but at least now I understood the man wasn't just a one dimensional stereotype but came from a good place and of good intentions, even if it was deeply ill informed.
Nice work :)
And man. This final image was far too relatable :D
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Thank so much for the amazing feedback @profan!
Yeah, I almost gave up on Mike about halfway through, but thankful time didn't really allow for me to do a whole new person, heh.
I really enjoyed the writing in this. Some pretty emotional stuff learning more and more about Mike and seeing him realize he's dead at the end was really well done.
Thanks @pianoman373! Very kind of you to say.
As already mentioned in various comments this was a really cool take on the theme by using a visual novel. It may be just an issue on my side but I felt like I may have missed some dialog options when pressing space bar to advance the prompt. I would see a text bar at the bottom them flash to a new dialog box. This was on the HTML5 chrome player. Overall great work!
Thanks for the heads up @don-fouts! Appreciate the kind words.