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The Story by Kszaku

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made by Kszaku for Ludum Dare 45 (JAM)

CW: Strong language, violence, loud noises and flashing lights

​Start with nothing, and work your way up to solve the mystery, by reading emails and hacking databases.

ADVICE: Always have text editor open, to copy informations. ALWAYS

Ugh. It was a rough weekend, bu I somewhat finished the game!

INSTRUCTION:

​Download, unpack, and run TheStoryWindows.exe.

You might require .net core runtime https://dotnet.microsoft.com/download​​

Youtube https://github.com/damoch/the-story
Youtube https://damoch.itch.io/the-story
Original URL https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/45/the-story

Ratings

Overall 505th 3.5⭐ 37🧑‍⚖️
Fun 630th 3.171⭐ 37🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 296th 3.557⭐ 37🧑‍⚖️
Theme 401th 3.529⭐ 37🧑‍⚖️
Humor 622th 2.576⭐ 35🧑‍⚖️
Mood 460th 3.455⭐ 35🧑‍⚖️
Given 33🗳️ 35🗨️

Feedback

Manyqaz
08. Oct 2019 · 15:33 UTC
I don't know if it is intended, but i get no results when typing Palanice or 'Palanice'
TongueEnvy
08. Oct 2019 · 18:53 UTC
I must say I enjoyed this game greatly. The story was well told, and the for the most part the game worked well.

A word of warning to future players, though: the first email you receive contains an important typo. I had to dig around on the git repo to figure it out. For anyone stuck on that part it's 'Palenice', not 'Palanice'.
🎤 Kszaku
08. Oct 2019 · 23:06 UTC
@tongueenvy Thanks! I fixed that typo.
🎤 Kszaku
09. Oct 2019 · 06:28 UTC
@manyqaz I fixed that already
Doc_Moustache
09. Oct 2019 · 06:56 UTC
Great immersion and the retro aspect of the game is cool!
tarfield
10. Oct 2019 · 06:55 UTC
Your writing is really good!
Daitse
11. Oct 2019 · 18:20 UTC
Nice entry ! The sleep when receiving unwanted messages is a bit too long in my opinion ^^ Nice story and atmoshpere though ! Congrats !
Monish Vyas
12. Oct 2019 · 09:09 UTC
The game does not open on my PC even after I installed latest .NET runtime. When I open the game .exe file it just opens a command prompt window and closes it the same instant.
🎤 Kszaku
12. Oct 2019 · 11:25 UTC
@monish-vyas Are you sure, that you installed .NET Core (it won't run with regular .NET runtime, must be Core, I'm afraid) runtime? Also, Could you run the game from command line? Thanks.
Monish Vyas
12. Oct 2019 · 13:17 UTC
@kszaku installed .NET Core also, same issue.![Capture.JPG](///raw/25e/22/z/29744.jpg)
🎤 Kszaku
12. Oct 2019 · 16:23 UTC
@monish-vyas thanks for reply. Google search for your issue pointed me here https://stackoverflow.com/questions/50644730/failed-to-load-the-hostfxr-dll-after-install-net-core
Is there any chance, that you are on Windows 7?
Geckoo1337
12. Oct 2019 · 21:35 UTC
Cool retro game with a good stroryline. I must say I enjoyed this game greatly. Hard coded - you deserve our respect ++
Monish Vyas
13. Oct 2019 · 04:19 UTC
@kszaku yes Im on windows 7
🎤 Kszaku
13. Oct 2019 · 12:00 UTC
@monish-vyas have you tried the solution from my link?
Copper_Aardvark_Games
13. Oct 2019 · 16:33 UTC
epic
Adam Saudagar
13. Oct 2019 · 17:51 UTC
Really cool using raw .Net Core to make your game in console itself, Kudos... Just one issue coping stuff to google translate felt a bit annoying, maybe u could add some minigame to translate stuff in the game itself.

Good Job, Keep it up!!!
Wr4thon
13. Oct 2019 · 17:53 UTC
I loved playing this game. The story is really intriguing. The only thing that was a bit disturbing was the polish texts, as you have to translate them. But it also added an extra level of this "I'm not supposed to be here" feeling. which really added to the mood.
I did not make it all the way through yet, but I will make sure to complete it later.
I love this type of games (text based, console). Good Job!
stark
16. Oct 2019 · 16:32 UTC
Very moody and interesting story. Not sure about the ending. Is the red screen with aliens is a loosed game?
🎤 Kszaku
17. Oct 2019 · 18:10 UTC
@stark it is the only ending ;)
gord10ahmet
17. Oct 2019 · 21:59 UTC
Is there a translation tool inside the game, or should we copy+paste to Google Translate? I had to leave the game, because the game didn't allow me to easily copy texts from the console (I use Win 7).
NoobException
20. Oct 2019 · 12:09 UTC
Great game! Fortunately I'm Polish so there was no trouble at all with understanding everything :smile:
I love the idea to make a game that is a terminal :smiley:
🎤 Kszaku
20. Oct 2019 · 17:14 UTC
@gord10ahmet sadly, I haven't implemented one... At least yet.
Madbarron
21. Oct 2019 · 03:42 UTC
Great game! It was very immersive, and getting those emails was so spooky! Having to do the translations kinda made it feel like I was doing real detective work, haha! It would be cool if it could be expanded to have multiple endings to give the user some more choice, but this was well done for a jam :)
maskinmask
22. Oct 2019 · 08:27 UTC
so great.i like the old dos command system and the story.