Eleven Days by dreamlogician

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made by dreamlogician for Ludum Dare 45 (JAM)

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The Calendar Act of 1751 declared that eleven days in the following year would not exist.

Music:

"Breaktime" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com​)

Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ ​

Art:

"Humours of an Election" and "Industry and Idleness" by William Hogarth

Ratings

Given 4🗳️ 5🗨️

Feedback

Tommyflower
09. Oct 2019 · 10:24 UTC
Well written storyT The transition action is funny at the beginning. After a while it becomes a little too slow. I appreciated a lot that you added the save game feauture :)
envy_softworks
13. Oct 2019 · 21:47 UTC
I like how you advance all threads of this nonsensical story at the same time. There is some humour in that. Especially the child of a hurricane and a windmill had me laughing. Unfortunately the transition from screen to screen was too tedious and I did not complete the game.
Omiya Games
20. Oct 2019 · 04:52 UTC
...I don't get it...

Writing is fine, and brings about some excellent poetry skills. I actually do like all the thread of the story barging in very suddenly, with seemingly no reasoning. I'm not sure I understood the purpose of that setup, though, as I couldn't tell how the ending wrapped all those threads up.

I agree with above comments that the story is a bit slow in pacing, and that does tamper the enjoyment of the game. At times, while in the middle of swiping between transitions, it would kick in very early between 2 text sections, that the first text becomes obscured and difficult to read. As such, I ended up skipping parts of the story since I couldn't read a paragraph or two anymore.

ETA: also, I get many of those artworks were drawn and depicts images of ye olde times, but a few were...yikes. And I guess Tom was already ahead of the times for watching Simpsons and playing video games in an era where neither could have existed.
johnnysix
20. Oct 2019 · 21:47 UTC
Bonus points for humour! Would've been more fun without the wipes , maybe if you were developing more, some alternate paths / decisions to make would be cool. Without any choices / free will, it's a bit like a slide show.
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