Monster is Life by hdong

made by hdong for LD33 (JAM)

In this simple text game, you play as the monster of your choice. While you carry out your insignificant and imaginative story, you choose pathways that may either lead you to heartbreaking, bizarre, and hilarious endings. Explore the wilderness and cheat death.

Requires Python 2.7. Get it here: https://www.python.org/downloads/

The post comp version fixes bugs. Thanks nihilaleph!

Python	https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1KmWHMbf5QXSGFuSkhqRi1YRzg/view
Post-comp version	https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B90PChfvM8O8NDJDZjBPNzFza3c/view?usp=sharing
Original URL	https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-33/?action=preview&uid=58094

Ratings

Coolness	63%	3
Overall(Jam)	2.97	748

Fun(Jam)	2.97	597
Humor(Jam)	4.10	38
Mood(Jam)	2.97	634
Theme(Jam)	3.84	212

Feedback

valid4life

25. Aug 2015 · 03:53 UTC

Great game for a new programmer!
Good job HDong!

wdias921

25. Aug 2015 · 04:19 UTC

Hdong creates a visceral, yet quirky take upon the theme and does so with grace. Looking forward to seeing more work from this guy!

DruhinM

25. Aug 2015 · 06:02 UTC

I really like it

Crowbeak

25. Aug 2015 · 09:50 UTC

When I try to load this, I get a confusing message. Not a web game, then? What is needed to play? Python? If so, what version?

Zenkerdus

25. Aug 2015 · 10:02 UTC

You get a full rating on humor

🎤 hdong

25. Aug 2015 · 22:52 UTC

@Crowbeak
Yes, this game requires python 2.7. Sorry we didn't make this clear; it's been added to the description. Thanks for the feedback everyone!

Quadnozzle

25. Aug 2015 · 23:44 UTC

I've been meaning to get python on this computer :P This was fun, I always loved choose-your-own-adventure books, and this fits the theme nicely. Some great writing (although not always grammatically correct, ie, "What if the human was not kill."), and it seemed like there was a lot of content!

I enjoyed it!

26. Aug 2015 · 02:05 UTC

You should compile this to an exe, so more people can play it.

Actually, you probably could have done this entirely with html.

aucguy

26. Aug 2015 · 02:19 UTC

My favorite line is 529; the one with the bus. Not sure where that even came from.

Reyn

27. Aug 2015 · 05:32 UTC

Welcome :) Looking at your code the next thing you want to learn is data structures. If you like interactive fiction have a look at http://twinery.org/

Dizzly

28. Aug 2015 · 12:22 UTC

Great, it reminds me of the first thing I started coding :)

FloatingGhost

29. Aug 2015 · 22:58 UTC

But what if ludum dare was not kill

nihilaleph

30. Aug 2015 · 00:42 UTC

Great game! Keep learning and make more awesome things!
I crashed when I choose line 707, also I couldn't choose the line 650. It should be easy to detect what's wrong ;)

Grahhhhh

01. Sep 2015 · 00:57 UTC

That got crazy quick! Which means I loved it! First play through, I threw a school bus at a meteor, brilliant!

🎤 hdong

02. Sep 2015 · 23:48 UTC

@nihilaleph
We've fixed the bugs and updated the link. Thanks for pointing it out!
Again, thank you to everyone for your kind words and support!

ajayajayaj

03. Sep 2015 · 02:17 UTC

Great! But there is a glitch where you cannot choose choice 3 in the german thing. it says "You can't choose '1' or '2' you idiot" when there is a 3rd choice.

🎤 hdong

03. Sep 2015 · 03:02 UTC

@ajayajayaj
Did you download the post-comp version? It should already be fixed there.

MercuryXGames

03. Sep 2015 · 06:17 UTC

Nice job!

euske

03. Sep 2015 · 10:02 UTC

Had a good laugh. Nice game.

Xanjos

03. Sep 2015 · 16:35 UTC

Somehow I became a Twitter famous Yeti :P This was a pretty fun entry and some of the dialogue was quite humorous.

Cosmologicon

07. Sep 2015 · 23:55 UTC

Nice, I'd never seen an interactive fiction game with a tutorial before. Tons of different paths, though the style got a bit inconsistent because of it. I recommend Ren'Py if you want to keep making IF in Python. It's pretty popular and I hear it's easy to use.