A Guillotine by isaque.picao.sanches
A weird text-based pseudo-game about making weird text-based pseudo-games.
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| Windows | https://isaque-sanches.itch.io/guillotine |
| Source | https://isaque-sanches.itch.io/guillotine |
| Original URL | https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-36/?action=preview&uid=47040 |
It's got some artistic value, it's a shame there wasn't much gameplay value (or am I really missing something here?)
But I have the slight feeling that you might not care so much about "labels" ;)
:)
@AnaglyphCoding you could say it's a text-based exploration game, navigation is the mechanic, making sense of it is both a puzzle and your goal, and beginning somewhat at the middle of the text gives you an initial choice: going up or down.
If what is described in the game is really not or only partly fiction: There's a way out of any destructive vicious circle you might be involved in - and that is Jesus Christ. He doesn't care who you are or what you did - and he is the only one who can really help (drugs or sex, even art as an outlet cannot make that kind of emptiness go away).
I am honestly amazed by your piece of art but at the same kind of worried about you as a person...
the fact that it moved you that much, that it made you so unconfortable an anxious - as it is meant to - means it worked as an art piece for you, and that makes me happy.
It actually took me a while to figure out how it works, that you can actually scroll, that the text simply reveals itself sequentially, rather than randomly. I somehow didn't notice the neighboring text was suddenly readable, I probably focused too much on the already-revealed part.
I don't know how much of the story actually happened, all I know is it was a fascinating read, howewer disturbing it was. Though minimalistic, and said to be done in a very short amount of time, I enjoyed this trip into one's (probably yours) mind, in a weird way.
I'm not sure if I want to read it again, once is probably enough.