The Day After by caryoscelus
UPDATE: post-compo version uploaded. Spelling mostly fixed. You may safely play that one if you keep in mind that the second soundtrack was done after the compo.
My first solo LD project. Also first game finished alone.
It's a really short (what do you expect from LD?) visual novel with very small amount of art (and backgrounds are placeholders). But enough critics, just play it for yourself!
If you'll be wondering how it's related to the theme, make sure to finish it first!
Running should be trivial on any desktop platform thanks to Ren'Py.
PS: if you're tired of listening to single dummy track, just turn it off in preferences..
TIP: if you want to see different endings (or different branches, whatever), you can use skipping feature of renpy: holding ctrl skips through text you've read. There is also rollback by pgup/pgdown and mouse wheel. The rest should be obvious..
My first solo LD project. Also first game finished alone.
It's a really short (what do you expect from LD?) visual novel with very small amount of art (and backgrounds are placeholders). But enough critics, just play it for yourself!
If you'll be wondering how it's related to the theme, make sure to finish it first!
Running should be trivial on any desktop platform thanks to Ren'Py.
PS: if you're tired of listening to single dummy track, just turn it off in preferences..
TIP: if you want to see different endings (or different branches, whatever), you can use skipping feature of renpy: holding ctrl skips through text you've read. There is also rollback by pgup/pgdown and mouse wheel. The rest should be obvious..
| Source Repository | https://github.com/caryoscelus/ld29 |
| GNU/Linux, Windows, Mac (compo) | https://github.com/caryoscelus/ld29/releases/download/v0.1.1/ld29-0.1.1-all.zip |
| GNU/Linux, Windows, Mac (jam) | https://github.com/caryoscelus/ld29/releases/download/v0.1.2/ld29-0.1.2-all.zip |
| Releases page | https://github.com/caryoscelus/ld29/releases |
| Original URL | https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-29/?action=preview&uid=17960 |
Ratings
| Coolness | 76% | 2 |
| Overall | 2.98 | 745 |
| Audio | 2.78 | 559 |
| Fun | 2.86 | 700 |
| Graphics | 2.98 | 671 |
| Humor | 2.97 | 257 |
| Innovation | 2.48 | 984 |
| Mood | 3.03 | 514 |
| Theme | 2.81 | 904 |
I got the bed ending.
Great music. Made it seem quite surreal.
The player should definitely break up with Christy though, that girl is t.r.o.u.b.l.e.
But the prose was at times weak, with grammatical and spelling errors.
Spelling - yeah, shame on me, haven't checked before publishing. Updated now in post-compo version.
Note that if you want to see different endings (or different branches, whatever), you can use skipping feature of renpy: holding ctrl skips through text you've read.
I appreciated that you diverged from the standard VN plots--that's great. The concept is solid. Still, I think that some more focus on how you're going to tell your story would help you out.
As for dream making sense - i'm afraid there can't be proper explanation of that unless lots of mystics involved.
There were so many spelling errors it stopped me from getting into the story (and some parts just didn't make sense as a result).
While proofreading is boring, it'll make or break anything story-heavy.
Anyway, i'll proofread after finishing extending and rewriting.
I do appreciate that the post-compo entry would have been proofread, but considering the genre you're working in, I'd argue that a refined script is important enough to have on the first iteration - just as key as good jumping physics would be to a platformer.
Refinement eats up time, yes, but I would enjoy a short or linear VN with pitch perfect writing infinitely more to one with increased content, but roughly-written.
Anyway, i don't really worry about LD judgement at this point. I learned from it to do better next time, but more importantly i have something to work on now.
So i'm more interested in people wanting to play final version than having high rating per se.
The "true ending" looks kinda like a "sequel hook", in my opinion... I would like to see a continuation of the story! ^^