Ok, let's do this. Spoiler alerts for my game.
1, Process:
I've been making games with Ink for a while now, out of the games I have, over 50% of them have been made with Ink, so it's safe to say I'm a fan. Didn't have a chance to take part in the jam last year, wanted to make sure I did so this year, even though I didn't have access to my computer the entire time, so I new I had to do something simpler, hence the text-only game.
I played 12 minutes recently, and I enjoyed it until it got all weird and "Prestige TV" on me. In one of the loops, I accidently killed the wife when she turned a light on a light switch and got electrocuted. The character you play as has a little freak out, but talks about how it's OK because time is going to loop again soon, and I thought "Ooh, but what if it didn't!" because I'm a sicko? I think time loops are interesting, because their this weird narrative construct where characters can do things without consequences, so it's asks people what would they do if they could do anything. I remember reading an interactive comic, the sort of comic where readers give suggestions about what the main character should do, kind of like Homestuck, but before, when it was still Microsoft Paint Adventures. Anyway, the comic was called something like Groundhog Day Adventure, and of course all the suggestions given to the main character were things like "Throw that woman into the road" or "Pull your pants down" and things like that, and I remember one person commenting on the comic "What's funny is that we would be suggesting all of this even if we didn't know everything would restart". And I saw that and I thought "the best thing this comic could do would be to just never loop, and have the character live with everything they've done". Sort of like an extended anti-joke?
Sorry, that was a really weird and long tangent to say that basically, this game is one big anti-joke. What if a time-loop stopped for no reason after you did something that would have big consequences? No reason behind it, it just... Stopped? That was the idea that I came up with, and this is what it resulted in.
Interesting fact, the original game was going to be called "I'm stuck in a dentist waiting room AND I'm stuck in a time loop?!?" but I didn't like the flow of the title and I decided to do this instead.
Next I'll write about things I would have liked to have done better, but I'll do that next time. For now, I'm tired and I went on a weird tangent looking at old Microsoft Paint Forum Adventures tangent. The stuff I read on there was from 2009?!? What the hell...