What Have I Become? by Birke

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made by Birke for LD33 (COMPO)
Post jam version is out! Go play it at http://gamejolt.com/games/turncoat-protocol/88176

War Games meets The Matrix

As the sole but mortally wounded survivor on a scouting mission you have been placed in a virtual simulation. Your goal is to piece your own memories together before you die into viable strategies that can be used against the synthetics. Something doesn't seem right though...

Input : Mouse

My own thoughts on the game:
Normally I go for very mechanics focused games so doing one that tries to tell a story and even one where the game is essentially lying to you was a bit of a challenge. I had a lot of fun coming up with the text for the game and also putting in all the glitches that appears as you play. Playtesting revealed that it needed to be clearer what was actually going on so I ended up relying more on the info box than I initially had planned. I also think there should have been a lot more glitches towards the end of the game!

Credits:
Font is from from Dafont.com. Rest is made by me

Tools used:
Unity
Sfxr
Bosca Ceiol (first time I used it, finally an easy to use music editor!)
Inkscape
Git

If you leave a comment I'd love to hear what you think the narrative was!

Ratings

Coolness 67% 3
Overall 3.67 133
Audio 3.03 325
Fun 3.21 334
Graphics 3.68 195
Humor 2.43 583
Innovation 3.51 169
Mood 3.89 55
Theme 3.50 391

Feedback

ENDESGA
24. Aug 2015 路 02:31 UTC
Wow, great game you have here :)
DavidErosa
24. Aug 2015 路 03:03 UTC
Amazing, a really polished game! The only problem I got was after "finishing"? it. The web got redirected to your twitter account, but with a malformed URL. I couldn't see the ending because of that :(
conormn
24. Aug 2015 路 03:12 UTC
Very neat concept!
馃帳 Birke
24. Aug 2015 路 07:41 UTC
@DavidErosa Whops! You are right! Thanks for pointing that out. It is fixed now :)
Larzan
24. Aug 2015 路 11:42 UTC
Wow, that was awesome. Great concept, very well implemented, really polished!
Blobo
24. Aug 2015 路 21:49 UTC
Amazing Game! Really well done and polished. Great use of the theme. on occasion the "feild" in which the simulation took would glitch out and slide around though. actually, im not sure if that intensional or not. i know on one level they ended up overlapping, and it looked pretty sloppy though.
Wevel
24. Aug 2015 路 21:57 UTC
Really cool game
mantis
24. Aug 2015 路 22:14 UTC
Really cool!
馃帳 Birke
24. Aug 2015 路 22:34 UTC
@Blobo that was on purpose but on the two island level it does look a bit weird. Decided to leave it in though since it took a surprising amount of effort to make the whole thing look glitchy enough
Matthew Rayfield
24. Aug 2015 路 22:59 UTC
Really good!

This could definitely be expanded and it'd be niiiiiice
Gamepopper
24. Aug 2015 路 23:01 UTC
I really enjoyed the visual art style and the glitchy effects, with clever puzzles!
raducumiczzz
25. Aug 2015 路 11:00 UTC
Concept is very cool. Game is well polished. Theme is well used. Congratulations
Fonserbc
25. Aug 2015 路 11:43 UTC
A lot of polishing here! The visuals effects are really nice, good job!
adsilcott
25. Aug 2015 路 12:59 UTC
Love the stylized interface, and the way the story gets darker as it goes along.
jrserjeant
26. Aug 2015 路 18:53 UTC
Great game really enjoyed playing this one. But not a clue about the narrative.
Xanjos
27. Aug 2015 路 17:14 UTC
I actually like how the UI's glitchy effects starts revealing that something's definitely not right as you progress through the game.
collaboration
27. Aug 2015 路 21:19 UTC
Game for a logic and killing time. Good game, nothing else. =)
SecularBaron
28. Aug 2015 路 09:32 UTC
I'm not sure what happened or what is real anymore. A+ On graphics, mood and theme.
guoboism
29. Aug 2015 路 00:56 UTC
The mechanism is solid. I love the details indicating the instability of system. Really nice game.
DAT.NOT.MY.GAME!
29. Aug 2015 路 13:27 UTC
Very nice!
dickpoelen
30. Aug 2015 路 12:31 UTC
Really liked how the program broke down over time. Not completely sure what happened story wise :)
Jupiter_Hadley
30. Aug 2015 路 20:54 UTC
Really cool game~! I included it in part 11 of my Ludum Dare 33 Compilation video series, if you would like to take a look :) https://youtu.be/ypxK5QAWPFI
MintArcade
01. Sep 2015 路 08:50 UTC
Very cool game, nice visuals! Like it