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Bloody Baron by Jegus9

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made by Jegus9 for Ludum Dare 47 (COMPO)

A detective text-based adventure, based off the Werewolf/Mafia party game and influenced by Among Us and the Danganronpa series.

You're in a building with 9 other people, and one of them is a brutal killer. Don't get caught by them, and use your abilities and your logic skills to solve the mystery and vote the right person in the trial!

The way I decided to implement the "loop" was as a series of events that repeat: you can explore and talk to people during the day, and either hide away or risk your life during the night, and those events will repeat until you either get the killer executed, or you lose the game.

Obs: I couldn't write some of the characters' profiles because I didn't have enough time. I hope you can read through what's the general story about by just reading the ones that are available.

UPDATE 1: solved some breaking bugs tonight (4/10/2020).

UPDATE 2: fixed a crash that happens during the trial voting sometimes (5/10/2020)

HOW TO PLAY: download the executable and run it IN YOUR TERMINAL. The whole game happens inside there. If you find any bugs or have suggestions please don't be afraid to bother me! 2020-10-04<em>18-51.png 2020-10-04</em>16-53.png

Youtube https://github.com/torresguilherme/bloody-baron
Youtube https://jegus9.itch.io/bloody-baron
Youtube https://jegus9.itch.io/bloody-baron
Original URL https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/47/bloody-baron

Ratings

Overall 120th 3.778⭐ 20🧑‍⚖️
Fun 139th 3.694⭐ 20🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 93th 3.833⭐ 20🧑‍⚖️
Theme 381th 3.417⭐ 20🧑‍⚖️
Given 15🗳️ 15🗨️

Feedback

AdroitConceptions
04. Oct 2020 · 23:37 UTC
- default terminal width is 80... game needs more width then that.
- game got stuck when voting for the first killer, wouldn't accept input.
🎤 Jegus9
05. Oct 2020 · 00:01 UTC
@adroitconceptions thanks for the feedback, the input thing was a breaking bug that happens when you input something out of bounds. it's solved now :)
Listonos
05. Oct 2020 · 01:36 UTC
There seems to be an issue with confirmation (Enter) on Windows (perhaps CRLF vs LF) that always prints "Please enter an acceptable integer" and once I typed 22 followed by Enter and the game just freaked out (eating all inputs, waiting for some magical character that wasn't coming is my guess). If you manage to fix some of these issues I would be happy to try it again, I love console games.
🎤 Jegus9
05. Oct 2020 · 01:47 UTC
@listonos i just found out a lot of things i was doing was usual for unix systems but for windows, the input process the way i was doing was a real pain. thanks for telling me, i think i managed to fix it now and i trimmed out a lot of useless feedback like this “Please enter an acceptable integer”.
scottgoldsmith
05. Oct 2020 · 14:03 UTC
Love the text based concept. Very different for an LD game and appreciate that.
Mark Kelly
05. Oct 2020 · 14:07 UTC
Liked it, good job
John Gabriel
05. Oct 2020 · 14:11 UTC
Well, I beat the game, but only because I waited until there were only three of us left, then took a random guess at which of the other two it was.
🎤 Jegus9
05. Oct 2020 · 14:14 UTC
@john-gabriel fun fact when i was playtesting i actually voted for the wrong person but hadn't gained a lot of trust, so the one who was chosen to be executed by the majority was another character. and it just ended up being the killer xD

so yeah if you can definitely guess the killer by pure luck, but using abilities and exploring during nighttime are supposed to be the optimal strategy.
🎤 Jegus9
05. Oct 2020 · 14:17 UTC
@scottgoldsmith @mark-kelly thanks, i'm glad you guys enjoyed it :heart:
CursedSoldier
05. Oct 2020 · 15:33 UTC
Damn it John, I should have caught you earlier! Loved the game, very intrigueing and fun. I love among us and had a go at danganrompa so i see what you are going with.

If you choose to expand this game then I would love to see more ways of finding out the killer as it was kinda luck at times.

Great job though, its been a while since I played an enticing text based adventure! :smile: Well done!
🎤 Jegus9
05. Oct 2020 · 17:33 UTC
@cursedsoldier (WARNING: SPOILERS!)

yes if you don't use your abilities well or at all, you are left to your own luck. but *some* abilities are pretty useful in finding out who's the killer.

for example, getting Night Owl (Odette's skill) lets you walk around at night and not be instantly killed upon meeting the murderer, and Pick Lock (Amanda's skill) lets you check who's in their room and who's not when you're in the Inn Hallway at night. i *believe* that the optimal ability is to combine them to safely find out who has been up to shady stuff during the night.

John's (Perfect Bluff) is also pretty useful in trials, if you have a suspicion on who's the killer.
CursedSoldier
05. Oct 2020 · 17:50 UTC
@Jegus9 that sounds like a great combo haha. I loved perfect bluff and the one for finding out the last 3 steps. They helped a lot.
Hadi Danial
07. Oct 2020 · 12:22 UTC
Every time I thought I found the killer I ended up executing an innocent!
Haha it was great!
Los
08. Oct 2020 · 10:52 UTC
I enjoyed it !! Very well done and I'll definitely go look up at the rust source code, since I'm learning it ;)
🎤 Jegus9
08. Oct 2020 · 15:41 UTC
@los beware, the source code for my project is TERRIBLY written lol. i threw all good practices out of the window in order to finish it in time :joy:
TheDoctorOfTime
12. Oct 2020 · 10:23 UTC
For personal reasons, I am required to vote 5 stars in every category for this ultra mega amazing pogchamp game.
🎤 Jegus9
13. Oct 2020 · 00:18 UTC
@thedoctoroftime hi... did you actually play the game i made? if you did, thanks and sorry for asking like this
TheDoctorOfTime
14. Oct 2020 · 02:58 UTC
@jegus9 hi yeah I played the game, it's this thing with me and my friends where we really want to learn rust but have no idea how to start, so seeing a rust game just made me really happy :)
aeveis
17. Oct 2020 · 18:23 UTC
I happened to talk to people in the right order so I couldn't be be instant-deathed, and was able to figure it out after checking the places people had last been to. Walking around after examining people didn't really do much for me, so it was faster to just go to sleep and then see who died unfortunately haha. Nice job!
ChickenChaser
19. Oct 2020 · 21:39 UTC
Very brave to submit a terminal based game! 😂
I had lots of fun playing it! 👍
danielblanco3d
24. Oct 2020 · 09:25 UTC
I tried to play and rate your text-based adventure that looks so interesting...sadly Avast doesn´t like exe files... I will try it later :)![1.png](///raw/ce9/81/z/3a695.png)
🎤 Jegus9
26. Oct 2020 · 20:29 UTC
@danielblanco3d i'm sorry for that. the game was developed from scratch in Rust, and has not been signed or registered anywhere, that's why your antivirus is suspecting it.

but i promise you it doesn't do anything shady :sweat_smile:

maybe you can try and use WSL to execute the linux version? that might work better