The Mandela Conspiracy by Not_AS_Artistic
An atmospheric text-based game about a certain conspiracy.
Use keyboard to play.
Best experienced with headphones.
ESC to quit (Windows build)
Have fun!!
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| Link | https://not-as-artistic.itch.io/the-mandela-conspiracy |
| Link | https://not-as-artistic.itch.io/the-mandela-conspiracy |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/49/the-mandela-conspiracy |
Ratings
| Overall | 811th | 3.478⭐ | 25🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 1410th | 2.667⭐ | 26🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 1169th | 2.896⭐ | 26🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 1004th | 3.25⭐ | 26🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 679th | 3.688⭐ | 26🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 220th | 3.848⭐ | 25🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 1193th | 2⭐ | 18🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 90th | 4.167⭐ | 26🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 15🗳️ | 24🗨️ |
I enjoyed the game - the mood and the audio/visual ambiance was on point as well. As for constructive comments, would agree with some commenters aove that the story was a bit on the short side (although completely understandable given the time limit) and that it would be lovely to have the option to speed up the text.
Also lovely to see a narrative game! We did one as well, seems like there are very few of these on LD :)
Anyways, thank you for the lovely comment! Juice or mechanics aren't my strong suit, so I try to go narrative.
The critique on the lack of content, also pointed out by @daniel-vardimon and @energizedblast, I wholeheartedly agree with. I had this idea of a text-based game using anagrams (the words themselves becoming unstable), and I wasted too much time on trying to make that work. If I hadn't, I'd have added more worldbuilding, maybe multiple endings, and some spoopy moments for y'all to enjoy.
Thanks for playing!
it was interesting to spend some time in this game
Also, I couldn't figure out the password for the life of me. So, that kinda sucks :/
You've definitely got a good setup here for a bigger story, if you wanted to pursue it further. Seeding a few "secret" entries in the text would be a great way to start spinning it out into something bigger.