Evening, LDers (Is that a thing?). I’m Zed, I’ve never entered Ludum Dare before so I figured this ‘mini’ one was as good a time as any, and this is my entry, ‘Adventures in the Public Domain‘.

It’s a nice simple Visual Novel, using an engine I created in Clickteam’s Multimedia Fusion 2. The controls are pretty basic (in fact, they’re on the title screen), so feel free to just jump in and get on with it.

The reason for the title is that all of the presentational resources within the game (graphics and music) have been sourced from the public domain, then minimally edited to make them fit with each other. Had I needed to do everything from scratch, the game would probably never get finished, because my art skills are abysmal.

There are three distinct paths through the game (featuring zombies, aliens and… kissing a dog), all of which take you to a single choice, which will then determine your ending. It’s not very complex, but I think it’s worth playing through a few times in order to see everything. I happen to be a fan of the dialogue. But then I would be; I wrote it.

You can play Adventures in the Public Domain on Gamejolt, here