What a cute little game made in only 2 days for a Ludum Dare. You puzzle together the memories of the old man in the jail cell and get deeper and deeper into his most precious memories and what he did to end up in jail. It is not totally clear what he did but it must have been bad. And he is losing his mind, always a good story for a game. There is no music as it is a jam game, some sfx but the graphics are really nice for a 2 day jam. Reminds me a bit of old SNES RPGs like Zelda but with the SCUMM interface we all want. The scene changes are a fun thing to have more rooms within the one room and give the player more to do but somehow the game is broken after half the game and instantly changes room and then plays the morph animation but it is a jamgame and this is not a gamebreaking bug but my immersion still suffered. Still the game is fun to play, do it, you can play it online in your browser, link a bit below.

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Synopsis: Day 4380 of your prison term. 12 years. And many more to come. But something strange is happening today… A mysterious puzzle seems to unfold in your cell.

Memento XII is a short point-n-click adventure happening in a single prison cell, through memories of its inmate.

About I initially created this game back in 2012, for the Ludum Dare 23 game jam (the theme was "Tiny world"). This version is the 10yrs-ish anniversary re-release with various fixes and upgrades.

It was made in 48 hours, which was quite a crazy challenge for me, as I never coded nor wrote a single point-n-click adventure before that...

Cool features :

super-old-school gameplay!
256+ colors scenes! Woot!
many many texts to read and lots of details!
an ingame help system, in case you get stuck! 

I tried to make a “SCUMM-VM”-like for this Ludum Dare to finally discover the huge amount of work needed to do that properly…

I didn’t have much time for the sounds, I spent most of my weekend on the engine and on the texts. Also, being French, so I had to check the dictionary every 10 seconds…

Credits: deepnight - Gamedesign

Download: https://deepnight.itch.io/memento-xii

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