I just wanted to say that I deeply appreciate the amazing response our game has gotten.

Thank you all for your kind words and insightful feedback!

So seems like I'm all done with what I can do for this Jam. Our programmer @joshh is hard at work getting everything together for the deadline,

This one was tough in a few ways. We tried to take on a more complex dialogue system, and while I feel it worked, it took a LOT of time to complete even one character, much less actually code the labyrinthine paths into the game.

And this was a more serious game (though still somewhat silly to be sure) than our last one, so the writing was a bit harder, felt like treading a fine line in some places.

We had some big dreams, like animation or even a driving game on top of the dialogue, that we didn't hit, though there are improvements that we will make as time goes on.

So all said, I enjoyed this quite a bit, I just wish I'd had more time...but we learned a lot, and I see a lot of potential in Deadlyft in the future!

Anyway, check out our game https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/52/$315097 should be live soon!

Not sure how much reach I have on here, but we just had a big bug fixed in our game (https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/52/deadlyft) and just wanted to get the new version out there!