Here’s my game, it’s sort of a micro-dating sim:

It’s very short and runs in a browser, so you have no excuse not to play it!

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/50224195/Alone_v3/alone.html

I thought it would be fun to make a dating sim, because I haven’t really seen a lot of those, and I thought it was a cool interpretation of the “alone” theme.  The original idea was that there would be several girls you could try to woo, but they would all just shoot you down no matter what you tried.  The “twist” would be that to get a successful date, you would have to stop trying to appease those women and just explore the world.  It’s sort of a statement about dating I guess, and I also just thought it would be funny.

Unfortunately, I didn’t get to make enough content to make something like that work.  As it is, the game is sort of pointless.  Just a silly little linear plot.

I spent a lot of time writing a system to help me script the character interactions.  I’m pretty happy with how it turned out, but it took so long to write that I didn’t have time for very much else.  I also really underestimated how time-consuming it can be to write dialog and synchronize the timing.  I spent probably 10-12 hours on getting 5-10 minutes of dialog in the game.

I ended up not having time for sound at all, and the art is pretty rushed.  C’est la vie.

Overall I’m reasonably happy with how I did, even though the game isn’t very good.  At least I got something finished, and I like the little scripting system I wrote.  My art also exceeded my expectations (which isn’t saying much).  Not too bad for my first Ludum Dare ever!