Thank you all for playing and rating our game, and we'll be back again in October for Ludum Dare 58.
-Hex
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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Visuals | #86 | 4.409 | 4.409 |
| Audio | #210 | 3.591 | 3.591 |
| Innovation | #556 | 3.136 | 3.136 |
| Overall | #563 | 3.295 | 3.295 |
| Enjoyment | #861 | 3.091 | 3.091 |
| Theme | #1052 | 2.864 | 2.864 |
| Gameplay | #1076 | 2.682 | 2.682 |
Ranked from 22 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
How does the game fit the theme?
In this game you must ensure your identity isn't discovered in your political dealings, but sometimes risk is the best path to success.
What code and assets did you not make from scratch during the jam (if any)?
Every asset is original, including the score, writing, and art.
How many people worked on the game?3
Comments
1 year ago(+1)
The setting etc. is all wholly original for the jam, and the intent was to let the player pick apart the world details in media res and between the different character routes. It's a mixed success largely dependent on the routes players take. In previous jams I've been bitten by too much preamble putting players off so I wanted to hit the ground running here.
"Picking" a character is based on the influence they gain. This is notated for the night-time events but is obscured for the daytime events. Having had some time to sit on this I would have probably gone through and put [+1 Influence] notations in for these. Generally talking with a character each day and making smart decisions will secure them the leadership seat.
I'm always hesitant to blend crunchy games and more freeform narrative stuff.
-Hex
Really impressive that you managed to put together all those story details during the jam! I know how tough it is to come up with a story with fleshed out world building in a short amount of time. So amazing work on that end!
It’s always a tricky balance between pulling the player/reader straight into the action and making sure they actually understand how the world works through exposition. And trying to juggle that in such a short window is even harder. Despite the things I pointed out, it's still a very impressive job!
5 days of ideating at work and then 2 days of mania.
I also make use of spreadsheets to hash out narrative structure, which this time was relatively plain which I'm a little disappointed with but it worked well for this project.
"Each character has 7 possible scenes, here are the rough beats I want to hit" lets you write more or less stream-of-consciousness and focus in on dialogue and fun world stuff rather than structure.
Glad you enjoyed it!
-Hex
These changed quite a lot in the writing/editing process but they were useful jumping points.1 year ago (+1)
> due to his bias of Sclera being his home
In this instance it's more to do with the custom scripting language we used having an unusual bias toward putting logical operators the wrong way round 😭
Thank you for playing, and for catching that bug! <3
P.S. Delilah Smythe for Ruler of Sclera!
P.P.S. That's a bit, don't let the evil corpo win.
Teddy
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