A.N.D.Y.R.U.S.exe - source material
My story
Hi, you may know my game, but you may not know, that it's a remake. When I started programming I wanted to make apps (not games). I've had a Polish course that I found on YouTube. I've always made more, then I had to. When I had to make a calculator, that would divide two numbers, I would make a calculator that can divide, multiply, add or sub struct.
The first game
Once, I tried making a game for some reason. At the time I like writing books, so making games combined those two worlds. I had an idea of a facility called Extendris that resembled Aperture science from Portal (I was a big fan). I had an idea for a game, where you play as an engineer, that faces A.N.D.Y.R.U.S. on his computer (a GlaDOS like AI). It was funny to me, that a very secure login screen, would reset a password for free, if someone forgot it (security).
After every day your files got more and more corrupt. File names would turn into gibberish.
PROTIP: If you write a command that displays polish letters (ą ,ś, ć, ó), the text is going to be weird, like in the first option above.
Fun
The best thing about it was system recovery mode. You could just type "RepAllPro" to repair all programs, but you could also change the name of the command, then read the story and then type in "Do your job" to repair.
Feedback
Sadly, everyone that played it called it a "logging simulator". The first 8 days where just that. You logged in, you exited the system and watch the cut scene. The project was abandoned.
Meanwhile
I'm just going to say, that all of those Polish Unity tutorials sucked. I knew, that Unity will be my way to experience gamedev, but it was hard. Every tutorial just said: copy the script... and that's it. Not even mentioning, that Unity took over 3 DAYS TO DOWNLOAD! Once I got an add for a Udemy course. It costed 400 POLISH ZLOTY (1 POLISH ZLOTY = 5 DOLLARS)! Luckily, it was on sale for 40 zloty. I convinced my mum to buy it and then the fun began.
Gamedev begins
The instructors were awesome at their job. I watched them everywhere. I started making a text adventure that covered the whole facility of Extendris. A story of mister Ignacy. Sadly again, I didn't finish it. Don't worry, because I've started making a 2D top down puzzle game. I still have nostalgia to that old music made in Bosca Ceoil and the mini Ignacy character.
Ludum Dare
I discovered Ludum Dare. I thought that it was a game jam for only special people that got an invite. Later many people started saying that I should take part in a competition. I looked on the Ludum Dare website and I've made my first ldjam game for Ludum Dare 43.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPRk38sGu9I
Please don't play it! It sucks and I'm making a better version of it.
The remake
Come Ludum Dare 44 and the theme sucked. I was brainstorming, until A.N.D.Y.R.U.S. cam into my mind. I thought of remaking this master peace of a story and trying to add the theme somewhere. I don't know why I did it, but ok. After I published the game I felt that I've accomplished something. Finally this wasn't a prototype, but a finished game. Although there are a lot of typos I like the game.
What now?
I want to make a post jam version. There will be a "God mode" that will let you skip days and play around. People would finally try getting different endings. Now I'm happy with this game and my first real application. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tk23dofa9wA We will see what comes next.