Mission to Io by DeathBySnail
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"MISSION TO IO" A LUDUM DARE 43 PROJECT BY @deathbysnail THEME: Sacrifices must be made
A short text adventure set on a transport ship bound for Io. Things are afoot.
This game makes heavy use of sound, make sure sound is enabled. And turn off the lights for max immersion.
| HTML5 (web) | https://deathbysnail.itch.io/mission-to-io |
| Windows | https://deathbysnail.itch.io/mission-to-io |
| Source code | https://deathbysnail.itch.io/mission-to-io |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/43/mission-to-io |
Ratings
| Overall | 84th | 3.767⭐ | 47🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 144th | 3.533⭐ | 47🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 347th | 2.933⭐ | 47🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 442th | 2.744⭐ | 47🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 8th | 4.114⭐ | 46🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 10th | 4.278⭐ | 47🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 42🗳️ | 49🗨️ |
Really solid try though!
I don't know how many endings there are, but I got the ending where the ship is locked down. I purposely left the distress signal turned off to make sure that thing didn't leave the station, which meant it was only a matter of time before that thing kills me. Hopefully that also means the ship will cave on itself and destroy the parasite. I believe that suits the theme perfectly, and it does so without spelling it out for you.
I think the only thing that would have made it better is if it had some kind of visuals to accompany what's being written on the screen sort of like the old Hobbit text adventure games.
Great job all around, text adventures don't get the love they deserve sometimes but I think this was worth the ten minutes or so I spent playing it.
I don't really see the theme in the game though. I did not have to sacrifice anything, grabbed scalpel from the body in medbay, went to the bridge, unlocked navigation, activated the distress beacon and changed destination to Mars. Then I waited in the shaft and kill the thing, that came up.
However I actually saved the game to my bookmarks and will give it another go later as I have too much questions about what happened and I'm sure the theme is in there somewhere. Will change my theme rating if that's the case.
Overall, great job! I had fun playing this one. :)
Loved it, well done!
Anyways! I love the text-adventure nature of this, and the mood is scary.
nice work!
(Don't worry, I understand... you never have time to put in options, I sure didn't)
Amazing job!