Good story line. Seems like full game would be enjoyable. Great job relating to current events.
Author Comments
This is the short demo of Inoculation.
You play as Winston who is an upper middle class business man who's world gets flipped due to a mysterious outbreak. Roughly based on current events.
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The pixelated images definitely take some getting used to, but the demo shows some promise.
Also Katharine is super unlikable and I am glad she left the story when she did.
InvadeTech responds:
Thanks for the feed back. When first putting this project together, I wanted to have some of the story line and characters be an ode to 1984 by George Orwell. So I looked up the characters and enotes.com says, "Katharine is Winston's wife. They are technically married, but haven't seen each other for a while. Winston describes her as vulgar and stupid."
I'm glad I was able to translate the character through.
Pulling pictures from the internet and pixelating them doesn't make it "pixel art"
InvadeTech responds:
lol got me. I was doing just that to try to pump the game out as proof of concept and not take too much time on artwork. But then In the cell scene I started having to photoshop all the vent pieces and the key pad is all custom made also. So I ended up realizing that I would be putting way more time and effort into this than originally predicted. So I sewed it up into a demo and released it here and a couple other places to see if it was something that I wanted to end up devoting that much time and effort to, or if it wasn't as fun to play as I was hoping.
Work on making the assets not mind-numbingly pixelated.
InvadeTech responds:
Haha thanks it's supposed to be pixel style. But I can see where you're coming from.