A Really Bad Day by Shyrro
A Really bad day
This project has been made under 72h for the LudumDare 47. The theme of the jam was : "Stuck in a loop".
To launch the game, download the package file from itch.io.
- If you're on Windows : Select the Windows folder inside it and launch "LudumDare47.exe"
- If you're on Mac : Select the Mac.app folder, then Contents, then MacOS and you'll find a file named "LudumDare47". ( Mac version not tested as we didn't have any Macs available
Idea
This game, is a textual game. It narrates a story where you have to make multiple choices. If you do a wrong choice or go a wrong path of choices, you'll die and wake up again to do the exact same day. Unless you do the right choices, you'll be stuck in the same day.
The purpose was to lose the player in a lot a choices and not making a wrong choice obvious. A wrong choice can be a wrong path that continues on and on with also multiple choices. Making the player unable to know the wrong choice right away and be "Stuck in a loop" for a long time. Unfortunately, making a good story with that much choices wasn't possible under 72h.
But since we liked the idea, we wanted to open it to everyone that wants to collaborate to make this game better. More details on the github if you want to participate.
| Youtube | https://github.com/Shyrro/AReallyBadDay |
| Youtube | https://shyrro.itch.io/areallybadday |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/47/a-really-bad-day |
Ratings
| Overall | 1480th | 2.904⭐ | 28🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 1396th | 2.75⭐ | 28🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 1487th | 2.558⭐ | 28🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 1073th | 3.346⭐ | 28🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 422th | 3.231⭐ | 28🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 1211th | 2.981⭐ | 28🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 24🗳️ | 27🗨️ |
Only thing I might add is if you could make it so that the player can skip to the end of the typewriter text as sometimes it takes quite a while for all the letters to appear.
1 - You know when you are on a "bad timeline" because decisions stop branching, so you just click the whole way through till you get to the beginning again;
2 - I would love if it had a "click to show the whole text", as waiting for it to tipe itself out got quite time consuming after some time.
With that said, I think you got a really solid idea here, and it could be expanded into a myriad of different games (I kept imagining it as an dating sim, for example). Good work!
Thanks
We are currently working on opening the story writing to more people in order to have more options and fit the initial idea of the game better !
Glad you liked it! We still have issues with some screen sizes and are working on that !
@squidzilla ahah yes, the "golden path" is stilk easy to get in the current state of the game ! Thanks for giving it another chance to see the loop logic !
Also thanks for playing the game ! Happy you enjoyed the feel !
I will play your games later guys after i finish my day ! Thanks for the feedback again !
I agree with you, more choices would be very nice ! I will keep up the work to try and complexify it !
The drawings are not awesome but they are all appropriate with their given situation.
I want to add, even if its not in the rating choices, that the sound design is very good ;)
Thank you for playing the game and for your awesome feedback !
Glad you liked the sounds but i didn't compose them, just chose them from a variety of open sounds :p
Glad you liked my choice of sounds !
Happy you liked it !
Nice work today...again ? Sorry.
Nice work today !
Great job for this entry ^^.
Thanks for playing and for your funny comment ! Made me smile !
By the way, now there is a screenshot and a Windows port of my game. Feel free to take a look if you want! :)