I Ordered A Different Burger by garygreen

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made by garygreen for LD35 (COMPO)
You're fed-up with your job and your involvement in the unmentionable experiments contract for the government, and you're hungry. Go and buy a burger... if it is a burger... and see where it leads you. Be back on-time or there'll be trouble.

This is a piece of interactive fiction created with Squiffy in about 15 hours. I tried to keep it as game-like as possible, rather than just a piece of fiction, by giving options that affect the outcome of the game, and whether you win or lose. Winning results in saving the world... doesn't it always?

I created the images with Pixelesque and Depixelizer. I created the music with Caustic.

I'd like to have included more images, but when you've only got a limited skill in that area it's frustrating. I like the chicken, though.

Ratings

Coolness 74% 3
Overall 3.05 606
Audio 2.80 419
Fun 3.26 385
Graphics 2.31 809
Humor 3.75 38
Innovation 3.11 466
Mood 3.31 211
Theme 2.70 811

Feedback

iendsl
17. Apr 2016 · 18:44 UTC
Really great art. Weird, short story but I love the diary entry at the end, such a good way to help the player parse different playthroughs in a meaningful way. Totally going to steal that one day.
pythong
18. Apr 2016 · 19:13 UTC
after the image of the cow loaded, i couldn't go further :/ tried again with the chicken, but no. maybe it's a scrolling issue of Gamejolt?
Elemental Zeal Games Studios
18. Apr 2016 · 19:13 UTC
A neat entry, nice job.
FerraWare
18. Apr 2016 · 19:53 UTC
lol, really weird and fun game.

Found a bug though, if you keep waiting for the burger, you still get the text "-1 minutes left" "-2 minutes left" :P
pjimmy
18. Apr 2016 · 20:08 UTC
You've made me craving for burger. I'm not kidding...
monkeybit29
18. Apr 2016 · 20:09 UTC
This is usually just me (or im just really tired), but I wish you had less distracting music
Drusilla
18. Apr 2016 · 20:21 UTC
I gave thanks to my veggie burger with lard. Sounds pretty good, actually.
blinry
18. Apr 2016 · 20:29 UTC
I also think this is a great piece of art. Very well written. I like the music, too! This reviewer does not complain.
🎤 garygreen
18. Apr 2016 · 21:04 UTC
Thanks everyone for the positive feedback.

Thanks for letting me know about the scrolling on Game Jolt, pythong. I've discovered that if I set Chrome to view the page at over 100% it has this problem, which is annoying.

Ferraware, I should have done the timer so it counts up, rather than down - it's good that you made sure your burger was properly cooked though. ;-)

Thanks for the comment about the music, monkeybit29. I wasn't sure players would be into it, so I also included the ability to turn it off in the game via the player console.
Mordokay
18. Apr 2016 · 22:41 UTC
Nice well made story! got me to question life and most of the things we take for granted ... specially a good burger :)
glitchu
19. Apr 2016 · 20:59 UTC
On gamejolt I cannot progress after ordering my first burger. I also waited for 2 hours hoping for something else to happen before I ordered my food lol. 'You don't have time to complain. You only have -123 minutes left for lunch.'Which meant I was 2 hours late for work. Oh well. The burger tasted nice anyway.
LudumAnthony
19. Apr 2016 · 21:02 UTC
Weird but playful, I like it!
mikedirl
19. Apr 2016 · 21:15 UTC
Good work, nice graphics and an interesting plot. I find these text based games very enjoyable, especially after playing more interactive games.
jk5000
24. Apr 2016 · 17:49 UTC
Wierd and really great.
OnlySlightly
24. Apr 2016 · 17:54 UTC
Very surreal story and the audio definitely helped. It was very comical especially that the shape shifting bit involved a chicken burger. It felt like it was shoe horned in just to satisfy the theme, but that definitely wasn't a bad thing. It just made the story more hilarious. (Which you might have been going for) Great job! Thank you for making this :)
hildegarbage
24. Apr 2016 · 17:54 UTC
Interesting entry! I couldn't get the game to scroll at first, but it worked with the middle mouse button.
cptalbertwesker
26. Apr 2016 · 21:00 UTC
I enjoyed going into the minus numbers as I patiently waited for my food to be made, moral of the story, patience gets you nowhere! :D
Hjalte500
29. Apr 2016 · 21:07 UTC
Oh my that was hilarious. The way you admire the burger is just great!

Anyways great music, art was neato yeah good job!
methylenblub
30. Apr 2016 · 13:34 UTC
Amazing game! I won't be able to look at the burgers the same way anymore
Rock Eaters
01. May 2016 · 07:12 UTC
great idea im hungry now
🎤 garygreen
10. May 2016 · 07:44 UTC
Thanks everyone who voted on my game. I'm happy with the results, especially for the humor category .... joint 38th! :-)