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austerity by wlovas

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made by wlovas for LD26 (COMPO)
This is an exploration of minimalism in game design, loosely in the tradition of text adventures, offering one personal perspective -- the author's -- on an answer to the question, "What is a game?" It strives to retain an austerely minimal aesthetic while incorporating many classic elements seemingly essential to game design: interactivity, discover, surprise, rewards, ... and a twist!

Also, speed runs.

Written as a console app using pure SML '97 with no libraries or nothin'. The source should compile under pretty much any SML compiler; i used SML/NJ and MLton to develop. Binaries are available for ancient OS X, antique Windows, and quasi-modern Linux.

Windows http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~wlovas/ludumdare/austerity-win.exe
OS/X http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~wlovas/ludumdare/austerity-osx
Linux http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~wlovas/ludumdare/austerity-linux
Source http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~wlovas/ludumdare/austerity.sml
Original URL https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-26/?action=preview&uid=2099

Feedback

LrdKzrth
29. Apr 2013 路 13:54 UTC
I don't know what I'm meant to be doing. Nothing I typed seem to work.
馃帳 wlovas
30. Apr 2013 路 04:09 UTC
Keep trying! :)
heuermh
30. Apr 2013 路 04:12 UTC
I was able to get farther than the first commenter but I still don't know what is happening.
馃帳 wlovas
30. Apr 2013 路 22:22 UTC
Well, I hesitate to give too much away, but I suspect a common failure mode is overthinking it. Try pretending that you don't know anything about how games work.
raoz
01. May 2013 路 14:17 UTC
I don't understand!
Tom 7
03. May 2013 路 17:55 UTC
I liked it. A good, satisfying abstract question & answer game.
titi987
13. May 2013 路 17:22 UTC
I can't play on Linux.
Unable to launch binairy file.
dick_claus
18. May 2013 路 04:48 UTC
Nice exloration and logic game. I managed to finish it. At first it was not obvious, but later I figure out the logic and learn it. It is interesting how our brain will learn and start teach somebodies different logic.