oh I'm sad :( I thought you were dealing the theme as "Escape from your mother's wombe".

Well I'll still try it later ^^

Very sad story :(

So... is there a good ending? I don't have the patience to exhaust the tree.

Awesome concept! It's like a choose your own ending novel, though a bit more true to life... since your only options are to try to keep doing what you're already doing, or quit.

That's ... depressing ... =(

I like your pixel art!

I think I tried pretty much every option, even the really crazy ones. I couldn't always draw the line between choices and their outcome -- like I couldn't figure out exactly how not sleeping with a woman got me fired. Probably just missing something in the conversations, though.

Artwork was great, but it really made me sad :/

Really nice story-game. Please make more after this LD

Looking forward for the timelapse!

Timelapse released!

Pretty depressing. But looks nice.

Very nice game! :)

Emotion reaction was high - has to be good right? Very cool game. Excellent art.

At first, it should have been a quite fun and positive game. But the lack of time made it quite depressing at the end : didn't have time to include all the subtleties I had in mind, nor the happy ending branches...

Sorry about that ! :)

The timelapse is great ! Add a depressing piano tune and you'll have a fantastic rival for Noah : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6B26asyGKDo
I especially like "the party" picture drawing : "I met myself And I turn out to be a woman !! "

Fantastic game by the way but the dropbox link is down most of the time ( same problem for my entry... )

I liked it, great art and interesting concept. However, I didn't read all the way through your post to realize that there was no happy ending. I spent a good 15 minutes exhausting every option only to find that you always die a sad death.

funny

Good concept, well executed. The graphics were simple, but you shaded the pixels to make it look deliberate, and that's pretty good. Waiting through the slides is a little annoying--I'd like to quickly gather the jist of what happens and move on. Other than that, pretty good.

I really like the art style. Yeah, kind of all bummer endings right now though :)

Because no matter what you do you still end up in the same place

Nine hours!? Fantastic. Nice reductionist approach to choice, and (of course) superb art stylings.

Your pixels are fantastic. This game made me laugh out loud, but it also made me sad.

Minor complaint: I had to keep clicking with the mouse to get it to accept my keypresses

I played it like 6 times.
Nice artwork!
Too pesimistic story. Funny sometimes, but I don't like the concept of such a linear life and that no matter the choice you always end up a f*ck up.

It is quite pretty but a bit too static for my taste. Also the consequences of choices sometimes felt random.

I liked your game a lot.

Very nice work. I wished for the interactive moments to be better signposted, but otherwise great.

It doesn't register my keypress when I press escape. C and "any key" works.

Nice art, depressing fatalistic storylines, and generally an interesting interpretation of the theme. Personally, though, I didn't find there to be a great deal of interesting gameplay here. This is almost the purest form of narrativism I've found, but I'm only beginning rating, so I might find more. Excellent work given the timescale, though!

Neat idea.

nice visual comic book... I wanted to exhaust the tree, but I didn't want to wait for fade ins. I wonder if there is a way to fix that without killing the mood.

Good job, especially for 9 hours wonder :) Not sure if i'd call it a game but anyway, one of the more interesting entries I've encountered (I'm a sucker for emotions it seems :)

This is delightfully depressing. Well done.

Pretty and sort of charming, but do make it happy next time! At least some funny deaths would have been a nice twist. Maybe just a souvenir item next to the grave could add a sense of needed humor there. Also, time is never too short for sfx, but I suspect token bleeps wouldn't really add to this sort of game. Could be interesting with looped environmental noises that match each situation. Heartbeats, footsteps, ticking clock, creaking bed, etc.

It took me a while to warm up to it, but I like it. I kind of wish there were more games out there in this style.