The Chocolate Effect by BitwiseStudios

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made by BitwiseStudios for LD33 (JAM)
A text adventure about two days in a person's life, one in childhood, and one in adulthood, that demonstrates how small incidents in life can set someone on the path to becoming a monster.

Credits:
Story: ant6190
Test Questions: Kylemsguy
Additional Story: zhuowei

Feedback

mantis
25. Aug 2015 · 13:25 UTC
Quite a cool idea, nice writing!
VDZ
25. Aug 2015 · 14:52 UTC
I always find it difficult to judge interactive stories like this. As a game, it's very interesting; the branching is well thought out, and it's interesting to see all the possible outcomes. I have based my ratings on how the game works as a game.

As a story, I see more flaws. The characters feel generic and boring, and the narrative never made me truly care about them. The writing is sometimes a little too stiff and formulaic, especially in how it describes conversations (see also http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SaidBookism). There's also a bunch of typos, spelling mistakes and similar minor errors that screw up the immersion. Still, the plot was interesting enough to follow all possible paths (I think - it's impossible to get a perfect score on the advanced test, isn't it?), so it's not bad - it just could be better in a lot of ways.
Pickens Inc.
14. Sep 2015 · 09:48 UTC
Nice little text adventure. However, it seems so depressing for a game :( But I suppose to the themes effect that this is a good thing.

I like how missing the review session turns the test into the advanced test.