Introvertigo by Scott Steffes
"They're closing in! No! Stay back!!"
You wake up with a rush from a nightmare on Monday morning. In the dream, you were running from some kind of wide-eyed, blathering infinity, but you were trapped in its incessant whirlpool gaze...
Oh, well.
Shaking off the vibe, you depart for the big day you've got planned. Travel, family, the works. Everything is going to be normal. No one is going to act weird, or be weird, or anything.
Or so you thought, until a random person struck up an unnecessary, uncomfortable, inescapable conversation.
And then another. And another.
When everyone keeps invading your personal space? That's Introvertigo.
🎮🕸️👉 Play online here
How to Play:
- 🏃💨 Get out of uncomfortable conversations as fast as possible without being rude!
- ✏️ You must use a word from the required list in each reply.
- 😡 If your conversation partner gets too close or too angry, that's bad!
- 👋 If your conversation partner gives up and leaves, that's good!
- 🫡 Good luck getting through the whole day.
FAQ
- *Is this game scripted? *
- About a third is scripted, but the moment-to-moment responses are all prompted instead, and will change with every playthrough.
- * Doesn't it cost money to have prompted text?*
- Yes. But we love u so happy birthday :)
- Can't I just manipulate the AI to do what I want?
- Of course, but that's against the spirit of the game! You're free to play however you like, but the fun comes from treating it like a real social interaction.
- What's the best strategy?
- Just like real life, it's up to you to find responses that are oblique enough that they'll back off, but still not flat-out rude. Different folks have different interests, so you might have to play a few times to uncover what pushes a certain character's buttons!
- * Why is that character flashing red? *
- They thought something you said was rude! Be careful not to do it again :O
- * Wait, how am *I the rude one? They're rude for even coming at me!**
- Ain't that the truth. Some people seem to be playing by a different rulebook than the rest of us.
Team: Different Folks
- Scott Steffes: Programming, Implementation
- Rincs: 2D Art, UI Art
- Ryan OHeron: Scene Writing, 3D Modeling
- Cless Aurion: 3D Modeling, Texturing
- Jasper Stephenson: Server, UI, Music, SFX, Script, Prompts
| Link | https://github.com/markv12/Introvertigo |
| Link | https://swsteffes.itch.io/introvertigo |
| Link | https://swsteffes.itch.io/introvertigo |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/54/introvertigo |
Ratings
| Overall | 8th | 4.455⭐ | 114🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 40th | 4.221⭐ | 113🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 10th | 4.563⭐ | 113🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 162th | 4.243⭐ | 113🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 40th | 4.558⭐ | 114🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 47th | 4.185⭐ | 113🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 12th | 4.486⭐ | 111🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 15th | 4.482⭐ | 113🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 62🗳️ | 105🗨️ |
One of the funniest things i've experienced across games here, well done
Thanks for reminding me why I don't go outside. (realizes it is his older brother's birthday today. Oh no!)
Anyway, thanks for the share. Have a good day.
Here's the VOD with Timestamps so you can click to your game!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NVsG7UOyfw
Lovely entry! The graphics really elevate the experience, and there's some good humor behind the prompts you get. Good work!
Cool use of AI.
Thank you ! Good experience :) I'm definitely the same sometimes
There are ways to go further in terms of development, it makes me want to in any case :)
Good job team ! :)
Loved the art alot. Promting done very smooth, and the emotional shift on the characters when they are getting closer is very cool. Amazing entry, good job getting it done and polished in such short time!
But I will anyways.
The art style is top notch. I love the pastel watercolor vibe. The concept itself is also really clever, using AI as the game mechanic. Music was both calm and relaxing but also a bit unsettling. It has a Megami Tensei vibe to it which I really dig.
Overall great job you guys!
No really.. Bathroom stall guy doesn't belong in society.
Seriously, scary at times, but awesome how the characters react. Nice drawings and bright color make it look vivid. Very original games, well done.
Appart from that the art is really good and the general mood works pretty well, kudos :)
I had lots of fun, thanks.
Personal space was a good way to fit in the theme!
Congratulations to the team!
Now I can sleep peacefully...
I love the mixture of scripting and AI, I kept second guessing myself as to whether this was AI or just a really clever text engine. It all felt very natural yet magical.
The art is lovely and the music does a good job fitting in with the mood and enhancing things without standing out too much.
hard to gauge difficulty given its construction, but I shoo'd away everyone pretty fast but the lifter. The only thing I really can say here is that I wish there was an incentive to interact with these characters more. When the winning move is to get away from them, you don't really ever get a chance to enjoy their personalities.
Overall this is a really heckin cool entry. Nice work!
Seriously, this might be my favorite of the jam, it's proven to be my favorite of the 9 I've played. Amazing job, all of you, I look forward to see what you put together next time! :beers:
The aesthetics and sound is quite fitting, some sounds really reminded me of Don't Starve's soundscape, which was an interesting connection between the two. Very neat design overall and a superb job !
graphics are cool, the soundtrack is amazing (and contributes a lot to the unease), great job to you!
The artwork is incredible. I really loved how in the grandma scene, the FOV changes and the camera zooms in adding to the tension. The characters are super expressive, and I loved how cartoonishly dramatic they become under certain situations.
I recorded myself playing to provide extra feedback! Cheers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_HXihnv8fw
The 3 safe ones I managed in just 2 sentences. My favourite was granny cos thats a real conversation actually lool, but granny is cute so she gets a pass. And idk why.. but this urinal guy just won't back off.. he came closer even when i said this wthell haha
Fantastic entry!
Taking it at face value it's pretty fun and unique, but design wise it is a bit unclear how you are expected to win and what will work and what won't. Some of the prompt words were pretty hard to work with too but I don't think either of these complaints are a big deal.
It seems like parsing your response is also partially through AI prompting so I guess that explains why the responses can seem so random, and admittedly you can't expect it to understand everything so I think it's important to acknowledge those limitations when I'm making these criticisms but yeah.
Really really cool.
Oh yeah and the art is incredible, it sells the situational comedy so well and really helps elevate the surreal conversations the AI loves to spit out into some really funny moments.
Amazing work.
https://youtu.be/OMFzVKOU-1I?si=y55ZGwfua5QCLe4-&t=17694
it'd be nice to have another shot at a level right after failing but the actual core of the game is funny and easy to understand, so good work!
Such a unique and well-executed experience! This is probably the first time I've seen an AI chatbot used effectively in a game without it being used as just a half-baked shortcut to have "infinite content."
The concept alone is upsettingly relatable and so perfectly captured in both the art and the audio. Well done all around!
The mood is a 6/5, with incredibly nice graphics, animations and polish for a jam game. The sound design ties everything together quite well, and the dialogue system just works and makes you feel like you've already been in those situations.
I have strong negative feelings about AI in general due to ethical and ecological concerns, but this game makes such nice use of it that it almost made me forget that while I was playing!
Great job and thanks for the game, I'm sharing it with my friends ✨
I had a heck of a time, and I don't think I did too poorly! Speed run?
Except I couldn't help but tease gramma XD oopsie
I think this game does it for me in terms of sheer ingenuity, relatability, and all the amazing(ly terrifying) future prospects of utilizing AI in games. Thank you for such a gift of a game, even if it made me a bit uncomfortable at times - precisely as planned :D
The art, between what is drawn and all the work that has gone into tech-art is stellar~✨
I can't help but think of what an achievement it must've felt like to wrap your heads around the idea and manage to execute it in time!
Fantastic guys. You HAVE to make more stuff. Keep going. The world needs more of ALL of you. 💪💪
