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Debrief by machine_screen

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made by machine_screen for LD35 (JAM)
The UNS O'Bannon reappeared last week, almost 4 years to the day since it vanished. It seems that not all the crew survived the trip. I'm being sent to conduct psych evaluations, apparently there's reason to suspect the survivors are changed somehow...

A text-based experience with near to 5000 words, over 100 unique passages and 4 different endings.

Runs in browser, no plugins required.

Rich (Fazz) and Paul (machine_screen) made this.

We hope you enjoy it!
Web http://machinescreen.itch.io/debrief
Original URL https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-35/?action=preview&uid=4895

Ratings

Coolness 52% 3
Overall(Jam) 3.24 546
Fun(Jam) 3.13 528
Humor(Jam) 2.35 590
Innovation(Jam) 3.00 575
Mood(Jam) 3.33 359
Theme(Jam) 3.04 759

Feedback

Le_Sarus
19. Apr 2016 · 15:25 UTC
I like the different endings and conversations, interesting stuff!
Reallysketchy
20. Apr 2016 · 15:40 UTC
Really nice text based game and the different options where and endings were a nice touch. Great job.
Weeping Rupee
20. Apr 2016 · 15:40 UTC
Alot of ppl hate dialogue trees (probably largely because of their use in triple A games) but by all means if you can make one interesting go for it.

This was interesting and doing the debriefings was engaging. Not sure where you go with the concept from here though and not just become a single player cloud atlas or other interview based FMV game

Still, way to be weird
(non-sarcastic thumbs up)
Reallysketchy
20. Apr 2016 · 15:41 UTC
Really nice text based game and the different options where and endings were a nice touch. Great job.
Almax27
21. Apr 2016 · 12:25 UTC
Thoroughly enjoyed playing this, the dialogue was engaging and there was enough content for quite a few play throughs. Great work! :D
Mak
21. Apr 2016 · 12:34 UTC
This was really interesting, the world was well crafted and the point of view made it much original, with all the debriefing stuff.

The only thing I didn't like was the choices at the end of the debriefings, I dind't really get the point of them, I guess you had to guess who was the real person and who wasn't but it seem too open of a response.
JNI
21. Apr 2016 · 13:52 UTC
I like the different options. The "story" is really nice.Good game!
nihilaleph
21. Apr 2016 · 13:57 UTC
Oh this is great! I love a text based game! The story is very interesting and engaging! Great set up! I got all 4 endings and a lot of information, but I can't exactly tell what happened.. Is there a way to know?

Anyway, great entry!
pixzleone
21. Apr 2016 · 14:26 UTC
I got really into it, good job!
pixelpotions
21. Apr 2016 · 23:51 UTC
Awesome story and dialogue. Thoroughly enjoyed myself, good job!
celia14
22. Apr 2016 · 00:07 UTC
Oh, this is really cool. I don't think I got to the point of actually figuring out what was going on, but it was just interesting to explore talking to the crew members. I like the format of the debriefing with reference to people's bios.

Also, I enjoyed the Expanse influence. :D
Pietro Ferrantelli
28. Apr 2016 · 23:05 UTC
Not a fan of text based game in general but this one was definitely engaging and weird in an interesting way. I can't imagine the amount of work that represente writing but it's was spot one concerning dialogs and tree choices. Enjoyed it a lot, the theme relation was pretty great.