Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD57 → Forgotten Files
By oter
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Wow!I’ve never tried this category of game before! It’s interesting that there isn’t any image but I still can have a model in my mind with story goes. Is a nice way to show the depth of our mind I think?(lol) I’m willing to see a longer story with a more fulfilled character (all the obstacles is the time hahaha) I like your game so much!
@Kawair Thanks, I'm glad you liked it (honestly didn't expect people to play it, so I'm glad you did and enjoyed it!). You can check out the Interactive Fiction genre if you want to learn more about this style of game.
Love the minimal story telling!!! I think this is super impressive for someone who just picked up choice script!
Sweet game! I Think I beat it. Got to the end where it says It takes a while, but you eventually learn that this gibberish is actually some form of encryption for information regarding Gran's finances…
If I read that right you did this in 10 hours? Nice! I like a good text adventure/puzzle and this was fun. My only real gripe would be maybe the presentation could have been a bit more interesting. After losing a couple times I realized you can't enter some information unless you find that information during that run. I was copying and pasting notes into notepad lol what can I say maybe I was trying a bit too hard.
Nice job one the game!
Well done, Had fun with the puzzle!
Thanks for the feedback, glad you both (now three since I've been writing this post!) enjoyed it.
@dingbat Yeah, I was wondering if anyone would anyone would run into that snag. I thought about taking out the check but figured it was unlikely for anyone to need to restart after hitting it (and I ran out of time tbh). Still, if I do anything more with this game I'll fix that or try to add a better checkpoint system to avoid tedious clicking for something you already know :thumbsup:
This was fun! And i didnt even get the correct PIN! Very impressive what one can do with so little...
Very cool!
Wow! Had not heard of ChoiceScript before, or Choice of games. Didn't manage to beat the game, I guess I should take computer viruses more seriously. Nice story!
Very nice game
Honestly, I'll say the clippy ending is the official one. Thanks grandma! I spent way too much time trying to enter grandma's name... because I didn't realize it'd be her full name! It's been a rough morning here... :p Cheers!
Thanks for all the comments and kind words everyone, glad you enjoyed it!
In only 9 hours? Impressive work!
It was fun to collect codes once I realized what I was all hunting for. I wasn't satisfied with the endings I found until I found the CAD ending. That was a great gift! Neat little game :)
This is lovely! You really made the most of those 9 hours. I wish I could've retained the information I found between attempts, but I managed to make it to a few of the endings anyway. I'm tempted to try making those CADs now.
I didn't think I would enjoy a text based story game so much. Was very sweet.
cute story and ending, enjoyed searching through files, felt like a credible old person computer
I thought the antivirus popup was a scam since it was asking for a credit card number... Oops
Thanks for all the feedback today, I definitely didn't expect so many people to play let alone enjoy my game! I always play the games of people who comment, and I'm running a bit behind, so I'm @ ing @levi-kingma @cameronpenner @tetrapteryx @vinnnie @tymus @justine-d so I can remember to play all your games later tonight or hopefully tomorrow!
And Justine, yeah I was worried my wording might be misleading, sorry about that. I had intended for a whole branch to the game if you didn't install it. Essentially piecing through all the files you would see on the path *with* antivirus so that you could see the gist of the good ending and hopefully want to play again and achieve it. But alas, time.
(And don't get me started on my plans for the Clippy boss battle, also fully scrapped for time... maybe I'll have to pick this game up again and give it more love, since you all keep blowing me away with the positive feedback <3 )
Interesting, it reminds me of text quests from the game Space Rangers. Obviously if it had some music and visual design, it could be really immersive, but even without it it was a pretty compelling experience
Great game and story! I like your writing / storytelling style. I'm impressed by how many little things there were to 'explore' around the room (i.e. all the different photos / possible PIN combos). Had a nice "aha" moment when I got the computer finally unlocked :D
Very cool - I couldn't get the pin so feel pretty stupid :stuck_out_tongue: . Cool concept, definitely cool to know there's a tool out there to build out these branding multiple choice adventures. I am old enough to remember the old choose your adventure novels back in the day. aha .
I don't know if my login is broken but I can't rate this for some reason.
@johnnysix Don't feel bad! I did zero balancing or anything, definitely didn't expect so many people to give it a try.
And I set the rating to casual mode (as in, I opted out of getting ratings) because I made it so casually compared to my usual Ludum Dare routine of fretting, prepping during final voting, and working hard with little sleep all weekend. I thought opting out would drive people to go play other games that had been fully developed amid blood, sweat, and tears but it looks like that wasn't the case :shrug: (but I do really appreciate everyone who has played and left feedback, it warms my heart to have such unexpected positivity around my little lark of a game).
I was able to get the true/generic ending in my playthrough- thanks for the "gift"!
Aw this is awesome. It's so melancholy, but quaint and pleasant to play through.
Cool one! Love games about computers and I also made something similar to yours for this Jam. BTW: Pin code should be 123456 haha:)
10 hours is machine gunner insane warrior gamedev man) Check my game too comrade!
Very cool, I played through it a few times. The storytelling was really good and the story itself felt very fitting for the gameplay.
I am generally speaking too stupid for these kinds of games, heh. Still, I really like the idea of a text adventure game in a jam, and one that has heartstring-pulling themes too :) Thank you for sharing.
Very well written, I used to use some tool which name I can't remember to do similar style games back in the day, so it sure gave me the nostalgia vibe and it was so well done, better than any of mine ever ahaha. Lovely work!
Neat experience. I was not able to figure out how to get the last two achievements for the life of me (I swear I picked every possible option in the boss fight, and there was nothing cluing me into any kind of "secret puzzle"...), but what I played was enjoyable. There was a bit of a strange inconsistency in that restarting the game after finishing the boss battle would keep the computer unlocked and all potential PINs stored, but restarting after selecting a file would reset _everything_, forcing me to mindlessly click through all the box contents again. Honestly, that stuff should probably just never reset at all.
@python-b5 Thanks for playing! I'll check for a bug on the boss fight achievement, since I didn't have any issues while testing, but something may have gone wrong during export (it was a hairy process for the update since I used a newer, less stable version of ChoiceScript and its IDE). If you don't mind being spoiled with a hint on the other achievement, there is a different way to install the antivirus, hinted at by the name of the achievement.
And thanks for the feedback regarding the restart process. I had to add the post-battle restart manually, rather than doing it the "proper" way, so I had never considered it would be better than the default because no variables are reset. I guess in most ChoiceScript games, restarting means resetting choice driven stats, so it would make more sense than it does here. I'll change it tomorrow!
EDIT: I just played through a couple of times and got the boss fight achievement on both, so if it is bugged, it's not totally bugged. There are a lot of possible paths, though, so it's possible you missed the ways to unlock it.
Neat little story. However, it's a bit annoying when the game asks you to enter a name of something that you don't remember and can't go back to check. Would be nice if the list of files and the entire id page would be included in the stats
I really liked this game (even though I didn't beat it)! I haven't played too many text based games like this, but I have played some here and there growing up. I was mostly a point and click adventure gamer. Regardless, I'm happy someone out there is still making games like this in sort of a classic style!
I do want to echo others here that going back to some clues I missed in the beginning would've been helpful. I also want to add that my favorite adventure games growing up are ones that give the player multiple branching paths to go forward with the game/story, even if all those paths end up going in the same place. This game sorta felt like one straight line towards the end of the game instead of that freedom of choice.
But hey, for about 10 hours of work, I think it's great! I hope to see more from you in the future, especially if it's within the realm of puzzle/adventure games!
Thanks for the feedback @dock-frankenstein and @alex-niemeyer ! I just finished playing both your games, and left comments, but also -- Dock Frankenstein, if that was your writing, I enjoyed it quite a bit -- I don't think I could ever pull off that style, even in the throws of a game jam. And Alex, I really liked your music and sfx. I was considering tagging you personally in my comment on the game, but now I don't have to!
To go more into your feedback Alex, I agree that games like this more often offer actual choices, so this was probably more puzzle game than interactive fiction or text-based adventure game. There were branches after unlocking the computer, but they weren't obvious to the player, and in the original version especially, they were more of alternate endings than alternate gameplay. It feels weird to self promote, but my previous LD entry, Postcards, was much more in this branching style if you're interested, though it was cozy choose-your-own-adventure and not a puzzle game.
@oter Postcards sounds great! Will have to try it out soon!
Neat! This is really cool. I got stuck on the corrupted files puzzle.