This Is The Police by Geckoo1337

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made by Geckoo1337 for Ludum Dare 45 (COMPO)

This Is The Police is a short story - a game using text. For an unknown reason the world has been attacked by zombies, and as an officier working in the emergency center, you have to help a nurse in a hospital so as to save her life. In this game, there is a kind of inventory system. You start with nothing, but you have to collect items or information so as to progress in game. I use a dialog system so as to create this story, some UI features - and black humor :)

Escape to close application and (R) to restart game when she is dead :(

PS : just to help you. If you see ??? as option, it means that you have to find something so as to unlock button ++

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Ratings

Overall 123th 3.69⭐ 23🧑‍⚖️
Fun 156th 3.476⭐ 23🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 333th 3⭐ 23🧑‍⚖️
Theme 383th 2.976⭐ 23🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 74th 3.929⭐ 23🧑‍⚖️
Audio 63th 3.69⭐ 23🧑‍⚖️
Humor 21th 3.905⭐ 23🧑‍⚖️
Mood 36th 3.929⭐ 23🧑‍⚖️
Given 21🗳️ 26🗨️

Feedback

raykirk2015
06. Oct 2019 · 03:25 UTC
I like it good game
Gabriele
07. Oct 2019 · 04:50 UTC
Absolutely loved the humor, short experience and very linear, but incredibly funny!
okkolobr
07. Oct 2019 · 09:15 UTC
Send nudes :)
GabrielGameDev
07. Oct 2019 · 19:14 UTC
Very good experience. Very good UI work. I understand she didn't want to send nudes at first, but after I saved her life, it would be fair to send some nudes.
LeReveur
08. Oct 2019 · 01:29 UTC
Simple and fun, I liked the mood and humor. And the poor nurse died four times, I didn't saw that code the two times I enter the room.
Mattias Cibien
08. Oct 2019 · 14:20 UTC
A nice experience. In the beginning I thought the choices were quite obvious but that changed when going forward. The graphics were cool and intuitive. Just some grammar here and there but it did not ruin the experince at all (who would care about grammar in a "immediate death situation" :) ?)
mrerdalural
09. Oct 2019 · 11:24 UTC
Very nice, immersive writing. I wish there was a button to speed up the text! I really had fun with the sarcastic options!

Thank you for making this game!
TaqoShaq
10. Oct 2019 · 02:14 UTC
Hey I played your game last time! Nice work on this one!

My one piece of feedback would be that the text scrolling is just a hair short, It could be sped up by like 30 or 40 percent.

How did you get that scan-line look over everything? It was something I would have liked to implement on mine!
🎤 Geckoo1337
10. Oct 2019 · 07:46 UTC
@TaqoShaq - take a look at the picture which I displayed so as to promote my entry. Then read text. There is an explanation when game starts - keep space bar pressed to scroll all text. If you have any question, you can contact me by Twitter ++
Kszaku
12. Oct 2019 · 22:04 UTC
It was pretty fun, but the text was soo slow. I see no need for it, to type letter by letter. Especially, when you are going to replay the game many times. Also, we seem to share the sense of humour :)
CiaranW
15. Oct 2019 · 00:00 UTC
Nice story and surpisingly good graphics for a text adventure! Like others have said, I wish there was a way to speed things up more - purely because I wanted to be able to go back and replay some choices! Nice job :)
SpaceMonkey
15. Oct 2019 · 13:45 UTC
I think I found a bug. I finished the game but there are no nudes :( Great game though! The art is very cool and puts you in the right mood. Also the text adventure is very enjoyable. I had to play 3 times to compelte the game and couldn't make the text scroll faster using the space bar. Anyway great job, it's always nice to check your games! See ya.
Hcursino
15. Oct 2019 · 14:11 UTC
I would have played this game a LOT until I could have seen all different dialogues, but the speed of the text is so slow that I got lazy. Add a skip text button and you will have a brilliant game. Meanwhile it is just awesome game :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:
Good job, nice work :)
HitchH1k3r
15. Oct 2019 · 19:27 UTC
I never really realized how much dialogue trees are like mazes. ^_^ The story was very engaging, and had me playing several times until I beat the game (the dialogue callback at the end was funny).

Others have said the text prints out too slowly, I mostly agree with them, but I imagine it could be done okay. The problem is that the game kills us a lot (almost every choice has one or two that ends the game, sometimes they are not obvious -- ex. the codes in the elevator) and we have to restart and play the same content multiple times. Some of the messages were long too (especially the players, maybe the players could print out immediately, and the NPCs could print out slowly). Or you could just go with the simple fix (especially if the slow printing isn't used for something else -- time based puzzles?) and have a button to skip the slow printing.

Good work!
RealityCheck
17. Oct 2019 · 23:01 UTC
Fun text adventure type game, and I absolutely love what you did with the UI. The screen effects and everything was top notch.

As for the story I felt the choices were a little too straight forward - it was too easy in my opinion. I would love to see this with a few more branching story lines and different paths you could direct your distress caller in.

Thoroughly enjoyed the experience playing through it, though, and the story was nice even though it was a bit short.

Great entry.
maxdmg
21. Oct 2019 · 19:07 UTC
Loved the curved monitor effect and the ambient sounds. The branching narrative has something be desired, the fact that the code couldn't be received until going back to the right passage a second time was a little annoying. Also kind of loosely tied to the theme. Really loved the mood of the game though!