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Im not sure if I was supposed to be able to make decisions of what I say, but I wasn't for some reason, so I could only get one ending. It says there are four on this page so I assume you're supposed to be able to make decisions.

Melancholy Marionette6 days ago (3 edits)

Yeah, there are a handful of choices in there :3 Not loads, since it's a microgame made for O2A2 jam, but I made a walkthrough/endings guide if that's any help :D

https://melancholy-marionette.itch.io/the-hostage/devlog/567737/walkthrough-guide

[Slight Spoiler Below]

If you didn't encounter a single choice, though, it sounds like maybe you didn’t make it past the first fake title screen... if so, you wouldn't be the only one >.< Some players have not realised it's fake, and so force closed the game thinking it was over before attempting to click any of the UI.

You have to click certain parts of the UI to proceed to the next segment of the game :3

I could be wrong cos it's been quite some time since I made this, but as far as I can remember, there are no choices in the first segment.

There is also the possibility that it bugged out somehow, because games can be silly like that x3 haha.

Anyways, hopefully the guide I linked is of some help ^-^

Thanks so much for checking out the lil game! <3

Edit:

Also, the Director's Cut version contains 1 more ending than the jam version!

The jam version is mainly there for posterity. While the Director's Cut is the version I intend for anyone to download :3

illloveyou6 days ago(+2)

I did realize it was a fake title screen after clicking around a bit and I still wasn't able to make any choices so I think my game is unfortunately just bugged </3

Melancholy Marionette6 days ago

Well, damn, that sucks T_T

I will never cease to be amazed at the randomness of that sorta thing, cos I do a crazy amount of tests on both my own PC + the family potato laptop before I release anything, but it seems like no matter how much testing you do, stuff will always find a way to bug out for somebody's device, haha >.<

Just wish there was a way to stop it from happening! Cos it's frustrating to know that it works fine for most people, but randomly plays up for a few :(

And there's basically no hope of ever figuring out how to fix stuff like that, cos I'd need error reports from people's individual computers to even begin to investigate the cause T_T

Still, thanks again for checking out the game!

illloveyou6 days ago

i did really like the bit I was able to play tho :) maybe I’ll try it again at a later date and see if it magically works