Fourth Energy by Johnsensei

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made by Johnsensei for Ludum Dare 49 (JAM)

A visual novel about your first day working at the Fourth Energy Research Lab. Fourth Energy is a radical new concept, pioneered by Dr. Right. It harnesses the energy of atom splitting, but on a small and manageable scale.

With such a renewable and clean new energy source, what could possibly go wrong?

It’s up to you to find out. Screen Shot 1 small.pngScreen Shot 2 small.pngScreen Shot 3 small.pngScreen Shot 4 small.png

Ratings

Overall 488th 3.708⭐ 26🧑‍⚖️
Fun 569th 3.583⭐ 26🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 760th 3.292⭐ 26🧑‍⚖️
Theme 96th 4.292⭐ 26🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 363th 4.021⭐ 26🧑‍⚖️
Audio 100th 4.087⭐ 25🧑‍⚖️
Humor 573th 3.214⭐ 23🧑‍⚖️
Mood 131th 4.083⭐ 26🧑‍⚖️
Given 33🗳️ 32🗨️

Feedback

Tyler Miller
05. Oct 2021 · 00:11 UTC
I played through 2 endings! Don't want to spoil any, Diane is a savage though :laughing: I had fun with this, I think it was my first text adventure that I can remember. Only constructive feedback, the typing sound can be loud or repetitive. Ya'll did a great job of keeping my attention, good job :thumbsup:
kenster
06. Oct 2021 · 00:55 UTC
The character naming was a nice touch. Very good sound design.
OminusGalaxy44
06. Oct 2021 · 00:57 UTC
this game was pretty fun to play :smile: it was fun seeing all of the different endings. however, i think you should add a skip dialogue option because i wanted to replay the game from the beginning to see how many different ending i could get and it was kind of annoying clicking through all of the dialogues.
Zapturk
06. Oct 2021 · 00:59 UTC
Love the art!
LDJam user 265360
06. Oct 2021 · 01:06 UTC
Sound and music are great! Very dynamic for a text-based game. Definitely a lot of variety with the choices you can make. My biggest piece of feedback is that it's very easy when you're skipping through previously seen text to accidentally click on a choice you didn't mean to.
Turquoise Moon
06. Oct 2021 · 01:15 UTC
That was really cool. I really like the art and the story. Playing through different routes was fun!
yojammerjammer
06. Oct 2021 · 01:28 UTC
This one was really interesting. I love this take on unstable. Kept me hooked in.
maxds98
08. Oct 2021 · 19:40 UTC
Very nice! Thanks for your game and for web build! I really liked the story :)
CozyGamePals
08. Oct 2021 · 19:46 UTC
Wow this felt really ambitious! So much writing and endings. It appreciated the "go back a few steps" option after hitting a wall. Made it feel like a choose your own adventure book. Nice work!
PenguinMunch
08. Oct 2021 · 22:25 UTC
Super fun game! I love the concept and the sound design. Great job!
Linkwin
08. Oct 2021 · 22:51 UTC
Great story and dialog! Very nice writing, I felt attached to the characters. Overall I enjoyed it thoroughly .
rufson
09. Oct 2021 · 00:39 UTC
Nice text, humor, drawings of characters and of course the musical transitions at the right moments increased the mood even more. Nice one!
guimoliveira
09. Oct 2021 · 01:19 UTC
After letting them die twice I managed to save someone. Great game! :slight_smile:
Kamuniaft
09. Oct 2021 · 09:45 UTC
Great job! This sci-fi novel features surprisingly big amount of content, like a whole solid chapter! Story is catching and sound effects are awesome. I opened 3 endings (except those where u end up dead) and it was really fun :)
🎤 Johnsensei
14. Oct 2021 · 15:23 UTC
I had to publish the post jam version for technical reasons. It incorporates some of the feedback here, like offering to skip ahead to choices if the player has already read a scene on that playthrough. Thanks to everyone here for the plays, ratings, and feedback.
LeReveur
14. Oct 2021 · 19:40 UTC
I found four endings, I'm not sure but I think I've explored all the ways and saw all the scenes. Fine graphics and sounds, it's helping a lot for the mood. And this is a very decent amount of scenes for a LD entry! Even if I was expecting one ending for each character saved with me, and one alone (instead of the four actual endings), but I guess this would have need much more scenes, so, much more time :laughing:
Very well done!
🎤 Johnsensei
17. Oct 2021 · 21:00 UTC
Just shipped the game to the Apple App Store for iPads and soon macOS. And shipped to Google Play, soon for tablets only.