THE COOKIE IS A LIE by Wouter52
Have you ever lied about eating a cookie when you were a kid? Well, in this epic text-based adventure you will, and it will escalate faster than you can chew...
Epic chase scenes, people getting abducted, a Dutch province getting blown to pieces, the king making a guest appearance. In this text-adventure it all happens. There are more than 64 possible outcomes for you to explore. The adventures are short and crunchy, so it won't take long to complete one or two.
After your adventure is done, your lie will be shared automatically among the other gamers. The results of all played adventures are listed on the bottom of the page.
The game has been programmed in such a way that more stories can be added. The source is free to use, so you can add your own if you like. I planned on adding 8 stories, but I learned my lesson... I'm a programmer, not a story-teller. The making of this story took 18 hours to complete + 6 hours of correcting all kinds of mistakes.
I opted out of two categories: Graphics and Music. I at least have music in my game now, I always find it scary to make/use music. I put some royalty free music in the game, and I made sure to credit those :-) The graphics I am very proud of, I made some baller-edits to existing photo's I found on the internet. Which is for me quite an experience, haha. But yea, maybe you now understand why I opted out of that one as well, it just didn't feel right.
Have fun with lying in: THE COOKIE IS A LIE
Edit: when entering your name, make sure it is at least 4 characters long for it to work
Edit: fixed a massive spelling mistake in the cover image on this website, it was late for me ^^"
Ratings
| Overall | 798th | 3.577⭐ | 41🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 646th | 3.513⭐ | 41🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 576th | 3.513⭐ | 41🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 771th | 3.756⭐ | 41🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 128th | 3.946⭐ | 39🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 871th | 3.526⭐ | 41🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 32🗳️ | 62🗨️ |
The character appears in to graphics, but I did not have time to add it to more graphics. I had more plans, but I bit off more than I could chew.
So it is mostly for the screenshot that is uploaded to the server, to add some personality to all the kids that lied :smile:
No need to feel bad about your story writing capabilities, these are funny, related to human nature, and to the point. Character creation screen is a rare achievement for a LD entry, you clearly had fun making this.
Looking at results of other players (you might want to mention that they are listed below the app, I found them by accident), I'm impressed by the amount and spread of possible endings. You are clearly good at making these... Systems.
Thanks for your compliments! I can see why character creation is a rare thing in the LD-world. It is a lot of work for a game most people will play once or twice :sweat_smile: But as you say: it is fun to make and that is what LD is all about :smiley:
I just opened the game on my laptop and I can see now what you were saying: the results of other players are not visible without scrolling ^^" I'll make sure to test it on more devices next time :slight_smile:
On another note, I was unable to change my gender, I have no idea why. I saw other submissions playing a man, so it must be a problem on my side.
By the way, I saw you live in Groningen. I live there too! Maybe we can get in touch and program something together in the future!
Oh and actually, I live in Friesland :smile: Groningen and Friesland are like The Netherlands and Belgium, always picking on each other haha :laughing:
Collaborating sounds fun for once, but I have to think about it first :innocent: I've never collaborated on an LD before, let alone with someone I don't know personally. I see that you worked in a team, so I imagine that you are comfortable with it?
If you want to collab in a future LD, then you can always ask. This is my email address: wouspe@gmail.com
That outcome is funny indeed, my favorite is a whole other branch in the story, where there is a police helicopter with a big magnet picking some bad guy in a shady black car from the road. :laughing:
I like the style and the humor ;p
It's funny to compare to others endings.
I did originally try it on Safari with no luck, but it worked fine in chrome.
I only tested it on the Opera Browser, maybe I could have tested it on more than 1 browser :open_mouth: I'll do that next time :smile:
Great fun!
I really love the fact that you can see other players' endings on the website, pretty neat touch!
Next time I'll try to create my own music. Then I don't have to opt out :sweat_smile: lets hope it will be a success 😅
The second day was spent correcting all the errors I made de previous day 😂
Ooh good job getting so far! To behounest, I didn't really check which was the deepest story. I think 11 is the deepest you can go 😇
My LP :slight_smile:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kC4wZLCZihQ
The story is simple and cute, with funny choices.
The "wall of fame" underneath is a superb idea!
I love the character creator 💕
It just felt a bit sad to have to choose between "Genders". Maybe you could use the wording "Shape" like Nintendo does in recent games?
Thanks for the game!
I actually have been thinking really hard about the Genders and how that is a bit out fashion these days. But I could not really work around it anymore for two reasons:
1: the story has been built with gender in mind. :sweat_smile: E.g. "his car" or "her car"
2: the character creator is designed to pick colors from the screen, and I could not figure out within the tight deadline how to make it different than "pink" and "blue" :open_mouth:
Thanks for your suggestions, "shape" sounds a bit better than "gender" :heart_eyes:
One idea for the first point would be to also ask for pronoun on top of shape. One could chose between "he/him", "she/her" and the genderless "they/them".
Also just for the anecdote, this becomes even harder when you do localisation. In French for exemple, we do not even have genderless pronouns...
Some languages are way different than others, and no language is perfect. Luckily languages always develop in some way or another :smile: