EXIT by LDJam user 408033
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| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/57/exit |
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| Given | 4🗳️ | 2🗨️ |
How to exit? Press left OR right to interact.
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/57/exit |
| Given | 4🗳️ | 2🗨️ |
The player — the hero in green, an avatar of existential yearning — is thrust into a world where pink arrows, bold and unwavering, beckon thee ever rightward. And you walk. Oh, how you walk. With each press of the directional key, I felt the weight of humanity’s collective longing for purpose. The arrows — resplendent in their pixel-perfect glory — are not mere signage. They are metaphor. They are destiny. They are the seductive whispers of the universe saying, “Yes, child. Keep going.”
As I approached the pink dot — the apex of design — tears welled in my eyes. Was it a goal? A reward? A cosmic joke? I do not know. I do not need to know. I touched it, and then — as all mortals must — I fell. Off the map. Into the void. It was glorious. The descent? Poetic. Shakespeare himself would weep at the simplicity and profundity of it.