Best anti-gambling PSA ever! Very dark and depressing, love it. I liked that all the endings have more or less the same outcome, as if your first choice (which wasn’t really a choice that you as the player had control over) was your most important and life-deciding one (Though I would have liked a redemption ending, or maybe an Easter egg ending where you click at the first button 1000s of times to actually decline the gambling option).

One thing I would suggest is adding a button to make the text scroll faster for replays.

I loved the writing in this, making a text adventure for a short jam is a really great idea to keep scope low.  The text has good movement and color to keep it interesting!  Reading that there was a fast forward with space bar on the game page led me to go back and get a few more endings.  

Aside from speeding up the text like others suggested, I think one way to push this game over the top would be a few more sounds.  Maybe the majority of the game could stay as it is now, but I think a bit of music and sounds when the player enters the casino would be really effective.  Have a nice slot machine sound for the rolling, and after the player rolls the 111 cut back to depressing silence.  

Awesome job!

I was about to say “nice story” but I guess it might not be the most precise description! Well written stuff and cool text effects that still stayed reasonable enough that I could read without struggling. Which is of course important in a text-based game. For full accessibility, being able to disable the wavy effect on the font would probably be a good idea. But it was great that the story always waited for me to give some input before continuing. For me personally I could have had it typing out the text a little faster, and especially for replaying the game it would be nice if I could skip forward to branching points I’ve visited or at least make text reveals near instant.

I’m glad that I replayed too as the first ending I got was sort of the fast/bad ending in a way. Well I guess that there were several bad endings, maybe only bad endings? I would have liked to explore that a bit more but with the text reveal speed seemingly fixed, I didn’t have the patience for more than two runs.

Play-through with more comments:

Good narrative game with a great story!

The message of the game is deep.

I managed to get through it all, but these games really need a good forward/skipping feature for it to be enjoyable, since the text was way to slow.

With some minor tweaks the game is perfect.

Well done! :D

THE TIMER IS A LIE! :P

Anyways, the game is unique and interesting, I liked the little animations for things such as the gambling, and wish there was more, maybe some with a little bit of interaction would be cool too. Though it would be nice be able to skip through them too. The writing was overall good and I think that this is a very solid game. Good job!

This game has a great narrative. With just some animated text you were able to accomplish a lot, that’s super impressive. Unfortunately, I found the game frustrating to get through because of the slow text. I didn’t want to outright skip the text (because the content was great), but I can read faster than the game is able to write. I think having a setting where you can set the text speed to “slow”, “normal”, and “fast” would be nice!

Great work!

Surprisingly deep for a jam game... Damn... I ended the game upon having gambled my life away.

As a fast reader, I echo previous comments about being able to fast forward text, but I was engaged enough that it didn't bother me too much. Good job coming up with an engaging narrative!

This was an interesting little narrative. Sorry to repeat what so many others have said but I definitely felt myself wanting to speed up the text in some places and did not realise there was a way to do it. If holding space speeds the text it would make sense to allow space to move the game on as well without having to click, that would make it playable with keyboard only which might be a good QOL thing for some people. 

I thought it was well written witch some nice ending text. I did press "gamble nothing" in the hope there was a short ending of something like "you turn down the opportunity and will never know what could have been" or something and I was a little disappointed when it just didn't let me press it but that's not really an issue. 

I also felt like sometimes the text was dispayed centre aligned and sometimes left aligned and I found that a little jarring in some place. Again it wasn't a big thing and not enough to detract from the game but I found myself noticing something feeling off with the text at one point. Sorry for the vague and nebulous description I'm not sure how else to put it. 

Overall, well done, this was an interesting piece and I enjoyed playing through some of the different outcomes. 

I love 3 days of happiness! This was a cool short story, I wish there were some backgrounds since I think that could help set the ambience, almost like B roll but for a story. I wish there were more endings, maybe in a future version!

Interesting text based narrative game, I like the concept used here! The multiple endings and choices do bring in some replayability but I think the text scroll speed being slow unless you press Spacebar (which is an odd choice) does hinder players trying to go through it again. I think you could've handled the colors used better as sometimes text uses red but other times the buttons also use red, etc which causes confusion on what is a button and what is simply just labeling. It's UI design rules which is important when the majority of the game is simple text.

Overall, cool game idea!