Monster1 by McFood

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made by McFood for LD33 (COMPO)
You awaken at the home directory on a Machine Learning server.
Text Adventure ensues!

Type "help" to see valid commands.

The game ended up quite short (you know how it is), with some shoehorned story, but hopefully its a nice taste!

Made in Unity for some godawful reason.

(I hope it takes as long for you to play as it did for me to compile)

Ratings

Coolness 65% 3
Overall 3.47 220
Fun 3.28 285
Graphics 2.80 617
Humor 2.58 522
Innovation 3.61 129
Mood 3.43 192
Theme 2.93 732

Feedback

TwixtorTitan
24. Aug 2015 路 09:36 UTC
Fun game but would have been better if it was written in native html/webgl. Unity is to slow for this.
chromebookbob
24. Aug 2015 路 09:47 UTC
Great mood, and amazing story. You cracked the command line feel, good job
Gaga
24. Aug 2015 路 09:48 UTC
Had a good time, sadly I got stuck after the network thing.
IndigoWolf
24. Aug 2015 路 09:52 UTC
Very interesting concept, the game was very difficult to follow though. I still enjoyed it however!
馃帳 McFood
24. Aug 2015 路 09:54 UTC
Twixtor: Yeah, Unity wasn't the right choice. I had plans to use graphics at some point. Didn't get around to it in the end.

Chromebookbob: Thanks! I'm glad the feel came across =)

Gaga: Thanks for playing, and feedback! I think typing "help" or "network" again might have helped, but I definitely had trouble getting the right hints across in places.
nonetheless
24. Aug 2015 路 10:05 UTC
The idea is nice. You could evolve it into sth really interesting. Great job! :)
DarkCart
24. Aug 2015 路 12:00 UTC
Love the console-based mechanic.
Somfunambulist
24. Aug 2015 路 12:48 UTC
Fantastic game! I have always wanted to play something like this; an incredible use of the theme.
Flygamer101
24. Aug 2015 路 13:00 UTC
Really cool game :D Thoroughly enjoyed it. Like hack run.
g_o
24. Aug 2015 路 13:18 UTC
Nice game! Reminds me of what portal done in their website with Glados before portal 2 came out.
Story's intriguing too!
Nizl
24. Aug 2015 路 13:25 UTC
I'am so bad at these kind of games >.<
When I connected to maryWS the screen got black and nothing happend. I also can not go back :/
Still interesting approach to the theme.
raducumiczzz
24. Aug 2015 路 13:42 UTC
Interesting concept, had a great time playing it. Story is great. Not a big fan of this kind of games , but you added a special touch to it:D great work
Somnium
24. Aug 2015 路 17:35 UTC
I love your take on the theme! The story was short, but good.
馃帳 McFood
25. Aug 2015 路 08:40 UTC
Thanks everyone!
I'm glad the console came across well. I haven't played hack run, but I guess I assumed it would be like this. I should check it out.

Sorry for the parts where the story, goals or puzzles are unclear. They were all kind of rushed. But I'll make a note to set the stage a little bit better.

Nizl, that sounds like a bug >.<
I'll take a look.
Franklin's Ghost
25. Aug 2015 路 13:31 UTC
Really great game and liked the way you used the theme, one of my favourite uses so far. Also liked the old command prompt like interaction but did run into a bug. I connected and spread around the world but then a bug seemed to occur where it says :
"Development Console" Canvas element contains more than 65535 vertices. This is not supported.
Liked reading the emails in the folders to find out more about what was going on too, well written.
Fun game and does make me want to go back and play an old text adventure.
馃帳 McFood
25. Aug 2015 路 13:43 UTC
Thanks for the bug reports guys, I think Nizl experienced the same bug. Basically I let the history get too long. I've started trimming it now. So it shouldn't happen again.
Andrew Deem
25. Aug 2015 路 20:16 UTC
Interesting idea. Would love to play a fully fleshed out game with this style (Mu Complex is ringing a bell). Not sure if I beat it or what though. A tad bit confusing.

Great work nonetheless.
ChrisFagan
26. Aug 2015 路 11:44 UTC
Was pretty cool, wish it was longer though. Great job!
Caracole
26. Aug 2015 路 12:08 UTC
Very interesting game concept. Great job !
pixzleone
26. Aug 2015 路 12:13 UTC
Very cool, good job!
Sypanite
26. Aug 2015 路 12:23 UTC
That was awesome! I also got stuck on the password part.
Vladik Plays
26. Aug 2015 路 12:25 UTC
Very interesting concept. I didn't get it straight away :) but was still engaging...
wesley werner
26. Aug 2015 路 12:43 UTC
Nice approach to playing a sentient AI! I enjoyed playing this one.

I saw a bug: sporadically, where instead of formatting words with colors, it displays the html tags around the words. A few commands later and the formatting corrected itself (is your game self correcting and sentient?).

Overall a great entry! A web based framework would serve you much better over unity too.

For the record, I would play a full game like this :)
Strike
26. Aug 2015 路 13:16 UTC
Nice story, nice feelings. I liked it even if it was pretty easy and short. My only complain goes to Unity ignoring the rich text from time to time, leaving me with all the color tags around the place.
馃帳 McFood
26. Aug 2015 路 13:21 UTC
Thanks for the feedback guys! Yeah, the rich text thing only happened briefly on mine, so I figured it was livable, but I guess it's happening worse than I thought >.<

I will definitely engineer a bit better next time. Writing character by character with rich text was always going to be hacky.
MintArcade
26. Aug 2015 路 23:06 UTC
Like it. No, It is fantastic!
peecestudios
29. Aug 2015 路 01:05 UTC
this is so interesting, love it lol.
Jeasonfire
30. Aug 2015 路 10:50 UTC
Didn't finish it, but it was very cool.
crucknuk
13. Sep 2015 路 11:18 UTC
Your game is a little gold mine in term of interaction :)
i'm not a programmer so i liked to have my hand dirtying on this, i just felt monstruous manipulating command. :P
I may be mistaken, but you putted a lot of effort into it, well done.