Dilemma by Jzjerry

made by Jzjerry for LD 43 (JAM)

Hi there, here is a dilemma you might (or more likely, might not) encounter in your daily life. There are several people tied on the one end of the rail and, on the other end, a train is ready to go. The train is unstoppable because of some magical power and running on the rail leading to the most victims. Are you, with the power to change the direction of the train, going to change the destiny of the others in order to achieve the maximum welfare in the society or leave without doing anything because of the sense of guilty. As creators of the game are welfarists, we hope less people die in this dilemma and believe that sacrifices must be made for the common good.Sounds like a classic moral dilemma in philosophy? But wild things happen in our world.

Source Code	https://github.com/NeilKleistGao/SacrificesMustBeMade/archive/v2.1.zip
Windows	https://github.com/NeilKleistGao/SacrificesMustBeMade/releases/download/v2.1/DilemmaV2.1.zip
Original URL	https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/43/dilemma-2

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sanjeev

04. Dec 2018 · 17:00 UTC

Cool idea for a game! Like the paper sketch aesthetic and loved the humour. Maybe one slight improvement would be to allow the player to walk through the switches; it was hard to get to the one you wanted to in the later stages because they kept blocking movement. Keep up the great work!

YYZ

12. Dec 2018 · 20:49 UTC

Unique graphics. I have some suggestions for improvements. I think the instructions (WASD,E to interact,Space to start train) could be placed in a permanent text somewhere in the main menu, as some players may not be patient enough to wait for the entire talking man's dialogue to reach the end, and the most important instructions, the controls, are placed at the end, which is not very intuitive. The Start button being unclickable also made me think it was a bug at first, until I eventually learnt that I had to navigate the menu with the arrow keys, which is not very standard in the main menu of video games and there is no indication of that too. Nevertheless, after figuring out the controls I could get to play. Keep it up and keep making games!