LudumData

Pointless Text Based Quest by pixzleone

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made by pixzleone for LD34 (COMPO)
Simple little text based game made with only a smartphone.
I'm out traveling, but couldn't miss ludum dare, so I didn't!

The framework is open to use, link 'unitypackage' in download and links!

Controls:
Write commands - keyboard
Send commands - enter
Scroll - up/down arrow keys

full list of controls can be found when playing.

Known bugs:
On the "second day" you wont be able to pass the clues.
Play and rate the part before that.

Have fun, feedback always appreciated!
Windows https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0k1dnj75-wsTzJtUUs4WDJsUVk/view?usp=sharing
Unitypackage http://ludumdare.com/compo/2015/12/10/textle-engine/
Source http://pastebin.com/TQ8gS0Wy
Original URL https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-34/?action=preview&uid=44497

Ratings

Coolness 39% 1766
Overall 2.57 910
Fun 2.40 882
Humor 2.44 443
Innovation 2.57 788
Mood 2.42 785
Theme 2.45 934

Feedback

Ildfuglen
15. Dec 2015 · 13:29 UTC
Cool idea, but I can't in good conscience rate your game as I am not a big fan of text-based games so my review would be biased.
Slothmachine
15. Dec 2015 · 13:30 UTC
Well done! First time I have heard anyone doing ludumdare on his smartphone alone.
CustomPhase
15. Dec 2015 · 13:34 UTC
Pretty cool game, but i have some complaints:
1) Commands should be able to be inputted with alterations, not as exact lines.
2) Lore, command and help texts are all blend together, making it hard to read. Need to add color and text size differences.
3) No autoscroll, you have to scroll manually. Which is annoying.
Linus123xbb
15. Dec 2015 · 17:29 UTC
Very cool considering it was made on a smartphone.
Phil Strahl
15. Dec 2015 · 19:43 UTC
Your engine really needs auto-scroll and maybe highlight keywords in some way. I almost always needed "help" to get a list of clues. cardinal directions could also be shortened to N, E, S, W. And I think I encountered a glitch: On the second day (?) I could only look at the clue "X=" but "back" wouldn't work.
🎤 pixzleone
16. Dec 2015 · 11:51 UTC
The engine has many problems, thanks for the tips. And yes that is a glitch, I simply forgot to add that command..
Thanks everyone for playing and for the feedback!
CodeNMore
16. Dec 2015 · 20:48 UTC
On a smartphone? Wow. The scrolling is quite annoying, and a wider variety of commands would be nice, however it was really neat!
thelasthour
17. Dec 2015 · 03:03 UTC
Game was really cool but then I could stuck in a room where a paper said "x=". help revealed that my options were "clues" and "back". typing clues read the paper but going back said the command wasn't found. I tried all the commands I'd tried thus far but nothing worled. Oh well, seemed really good anyway.
commanderstitch
17. Dec 2015 · 03:56 UTC
i've no idea how to make any of this. good work! manual scrolling is odd for a console program, as has been said. the grey on black is odd too, usually ppl prefer black on white or white on black text contrasts. :-)
donvermo
27. Dec 2015 · 19:16 UTC
To be fair: There wasn't enough of the game to really judge this type of game. As a consequence, I did not like it. Props however for making the entire thing on a smartphone, I would not have the endurance to do that.
Dietrich Epp
27. Dec 2015 · 20:18 UTC
Can't quite figure out how to beat this. You might be interested in Inform: http://inform7.com/
synthetic-entropy
27. Dec 2015 · 20:50 UTC
LOTS of railroading, which made this feel like a guided story more than an actual game. Interesting concept, but we got stuck in the second phase; once we read clues the second time, we were unable to escape the east room and continue. (Help listed "back" as a command, but it wouldn't recognize the command.)

This is cool for being made on a smartphone, but feels unfinished.
🎤 pixzleone
27. Dec 2015 · 22:43 UTC
So as said in the description: that's a game breaking bug. And this was made on an iPhone, otherwise I wouldn't have made a text based game. Thanks for the votes though, I might fix the bug in a post compo.
Jupiter_Hadley
03. Jan 2016 · 21:33 UTC
Really neat that you made it on the iphone! I included it in my Ludum Dare 34 compilation video series, if you’d like to check it out :) https://youtu.be/3B2_gBg5rhI
SusanTheCat
04. Jan 2016 · 16:53 UTC
Very cool. Interesting that the look command doesn't work everywhere.
Guard13007
04. Jan 2016 · 23:04 UTC
It quit working after I tried to go north at the very start. :/