So, I ended up writing an interactive game engine, which I call "Ludlum", and then a game written in that engine, which I have titled "A Game."

This is my first LD, and I've wanted to do it for a long time. However, since it's my first, and I didn't even know that I was going to participate until shortly before I got started, so I decided to pick something I've been doing since I was a kid: text adventures, or "interactive fiction", as they tend to be called nowadays.

It's a short game, but I decided to go meta: it's a game loosely based on my childhood, where you learn about programming games. "shapeshift", the theme, is more alluded to than it is direct: this is a game about how my own life was transformed by computers. Metaphors.

Furthermore, I wrote the game in Rust, the programming language I work on as my day job. It was a ton of fun. I picked a terminal library that apparently doesn't work with Windows, though, so that's unfortunate. It should work on Linux and Mac OS X.

Run the game from a terminal, and make sure to have the Game.toml file in the same directory as where you run it.