You think you get too many notifications now? In the future you will get them every 10 seconds, and you will check all of them out. To not do so would be considered an aberration.

This is the story background I came up with in relation to the jam's theme. I tried creating a dystopian world where content consumption is what drives everybody and where you play as a character immune to this, set on a search and destroy mission looking for the controlling mainframe recommender force feeding everybody new content.

If this sounds like an interesting ideea I'd really appreciate any feedback on my compo entry Aberration (playable on LD, or via windows/Mac builds). Getting really close to that 20 ratings magical number!

This is a reference image I found quite inspiring for this concept (mural in Piata Romana tube station in Bucharest):

I tried reproducing it in my title screen using my player character

Not quite the same artistic skill, but it's something. As my friend would say, this is classic Tinder profile vs IRL meme material :)) You can check out the game/title screen in action here.

Would've gone for more but given my skill level and time limits it's about the most I could do. I do hope to extend and polish this in the future as the jam entry proved in the end to be quite inspiring and feel like there's more to be done with the ideea and would be a great chance for me to improve my skills along the way.

I also published another ld post with a dev diary in pictures/gifs here if you're interested seeing the behind the scenes of a noob trying to put a game together.