Lost In Time by Westmave

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made by Westmave for Ludum Dare 49 (JAM)

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Our Timeline is out of control. The Past has been changed. The Present is declining. The Future is uncertain.

Step into the consciousness of historical persons. Persuade them to follow their fate to stabilize our Timeline

Ratings

Overall 902th 3.409⭐ 35🧑‍⚖️
Fun 745th 3.424⭐ 35🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 451th 3.591⭐ 35🧑‍⚖️
Theme 521th 3.788⭐ 35🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 1209th 2.939⭐ 35🧑‍⚖️
Humor 361th 3.563⭐ 34🧑‍⚖️
Mood 927th 3.242⭐ 35🧑‍⚖️
Given 30🗳️ 59🗨️

Feedback

Teegan
04. Oct 2021 · 21:35 UTC
Really awesome concept! I'd love to see it with more fleshed-out dialogue. It would be nice if the player could tell what the bar at the top meant (I was able to figure out more full meant more stability, less full meant less stability, although it wasn't initially apparent). Also liked it when the game broke the 4th wall!
curleyrach
04. Oct 2021 · 21:43 UTC
After a few failures I managed to stabilize the timeline! Some good humour to the game and a cool take on the theme. Nice one :thumbsup:
Miss_iiV
04. Oct 2021 · 22:27 UTC
A very interesting game, I went for the pure chaos lol. Great job!
mactinite
04. Oct 2021 · 23:54 UTC
Cool concept, really liked the idea of timelines, and that it randomized each time. Was able to destabilize a few timelines lol.
farouchelark
05. Oct 2021 · 00:34 UTC
I am delighted. This is delightful. I wish there was so much more of this but the humor is spot on, it is intuitive and fun and easy to play again and again to see what happens if I tell Moses the mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell. I also learned that Joe Biden is not Batman. Useful information.
coelakan
05. Oct 2021 · 04:25 UTC
I enjoyed your game a lot, it was a really unique concept!! I wished to have more dialogue to play, but great job!!
Enya454
05. Oct 2021 · 05:27 UTC
Really good game. A little bit short but as is expected when a game is made in 2-3 days. The writing is really well done and each encounter I found myself amused.
Alina Baybulatova
05. Oct 2021 · 05:29 UTC
So interesting idea! I really have fun to play this game! Thank you!)
Human Writes Code
05. Oct 2021 · 05:50 UTC
What a fascinating game! I have a real soft spot for these kinds of thought provoking ambiguous narratives. The concept itself was also quite unique and fit the theme perfectly. Well done!
Arttu Halonen
05. Oct 2021 · 06:55 UTC
Some nice replay value here! A short but neat experience!
FALKon2246
05. Oct 2021 · 11:33 UTC
I really liked the game! Was a bit difficult on me but I managed to get a hang of it! Great job!
OminusGalaxy44
05. Oct 2021 · 15:48 UTC
This game was really funny and creative! It was a bit difficult when I had to influence people I didn't know, but that's me. I loved the style of the game, and it was very fun to play.
BJakubowski
05. Oct 2021 · 18:03 UTC
Woke up Joe Biden > Enraged him > Won game. 10/10
Astropower
05. Oct 2021 · 18:38 UTC
Cool concept! The idea is very interesting.
kr4ft3r
05. Oct 2021 · 22:05 UTC
It was enjoyable for what it is. Despite some replay value it made me wish you did more dialogues but I guess you got.. Lost in time?
Sasha V
05. Oct 2021 · 22:37 UTC
This was fun and a great concept! The wrong options were soooooo tempting, they made so much more sense than the "correct" stuff. "Life is like a box of chocolate" lol. Made me wonder what all those people would think if they really heard all that.

As for constructive feedback - I think I've seen this problem in pretty much all LD games with this type of text interface - the typing is annoyingly slow and I'd love to have a way to speed it up; also some audio track would be lovely!

Also, nice to see a narrative-based game on LD - we made one as well, not too many of those around :)
Danae
05. Oct 2021 · 22:59 UTC
Great executed concept that fits the theme well! It was really fun to play the game and mess around with timelines!
gord10ahmet
05. Oct 2021 · 23:35 UTC
Great game!

As someone else said, I wish the text was faster.
cirno
06. Oct 2021 · 01:21 UTC
The game is of great humor in all the examples. The idea of fixing the time line by talking to people is awesome.
OllieOA
06. Oct 2021 · 13:01 UTC
It had a few funny moments, but at the end of the day I just wanted to play as a shitpost memelord and I feel like that wasn't respected :stuck_out_tongue: Still, a good concept, but if I had some criticism it would be less dialogue clicks and more dialogue skipping! Great work though
UglySwedishFish
06. Oct 2021 · 15:19 UTC
Lovely concept! Just wish it was a little longer. All of the examples had funny stuff in them as well.
fiaKaiera
08. Oct 2021 · 15:32 UTC
I really like this concept! It's funny a few good moments, but I'm not going to lie since I don't live in the US, I don't know much about Biden.

I don't have to say much to improve much, but I can't stop thinking of a whole story that revolves around a whole drama in the perspectives of different people that YOU HAVE to make happen or else the timeline will end up unstable! Who knows that could be a really interesting take on the same concept, but it's not tied to history. Definitely an avenue to pursue if you want to make this a full game.
Laurari
08. Oct 2021 · 20:18 UTC
really nice game! I love the idea and played several times to see all the dialogs!! I would just ask for the text to load more quickly (or at least when clicking or something), I like to read fast :sweat_smile: good job!! :smile:
HitchH1k3r
14. Oct 2021 · 04:09 UTC
This was really cool. It reminded me vaguely of Quantum Leap ^_^ I played it a few times to navigate the dialogue with "Unknown". I liked the idea of a dialogue tree with a correct answer, but wish the text would have printed out faster/been skipable. Good job.