I'm trying not to repeat the same comment I made on the video ahah, but I'm so grateful you played it ;\\\\; thank you so much! Feel free to hit me up when you want to talk about anthropology/archaeology stuff, I'm probably not as knowledgeable as you but I like to learn and listen! I also know some oddities I can share only in games, because in normal conversations I'd be frowned upon lol.
Glad that you liked the timer mechanic too!
It was the first thing I built the game around, because with that asset\words limitations I wanted to try something new and give a condition of win and loss into a small game. If it weren't for the 1K words limits instead of having Eliot only wasting time with longer answers I would've put more details about the victims and some misdirection too.
The typing was to be sure the player wouldn't get the win condition by accident (or by saving and clicking twice on a row of options) +w+ thinking about the redemption arc now!
Thank you again Cryptid! ;\\\\;
❤ Of course. And at the risk of my reply here sounding similar to my reply to your comment on YouTube... I definitely had a lot of fun with it!
I would also love to hit you up to chat about archaeology/anthropology, although it's been a while since I dropped out of studying so I'll definitely have to get some new books and papers so that my information isn't too dated.
You can always hit me up too, to talk about anything you want to (fun facts, or passions of yours, or anything else!)
UTMT still worked out really well with the limitations that it had, but it would have been so cool to have a full visual novel where Eliot misdirects the detective, and to gain information about the victim!
However, having it be such a short game with the time limit and the inability to win by accident was definitely anxiety-inducing in a fun way.
o(≧▽≦)o I'm looking forward to a possible redemption arc for Eliot. If you do start on one at some point (or even something that expands on other things in this VN), let me know so I can keep an eye out for it!