Help, I Woke Up Ten Years Later & This World Makes No Sense!

Title Screen
Sample Dialog
Interactive Gameplay
Sample End Screen

Inspiration

I like Genshin. My teammate likes Genshin. And the other is confused. Also, many incidents on the CodeJam discord server has made its way to the plot.

What it does

Comedy. This Project is the embodiment of comedy, ranging from Programmer humor to meta jokes related to the CodeJam event itself. As a non-canonical story to Hoyoverse's Genshin Impact, the story follows Aether in a quest to make the world a better place by picking up trash around the city, and somehow forgetting about his long-term journey to find his sister.

How we built it

Renpy and sheer will.

Challenges we ran into

Implementing buttons. Implementing buttons with conditional triggers everywhere. Branching the story was all over the place. Infinite loops happened. Dispersing pictures of trash on different scenes was weird. The pictures of trash were buttons. The pictures of food were buttons. Are you a button? Buttons are tough. Sigh. Also, we're sleep-deprivzzzzzzZZZzz...

Accomplishments that we're proud of

It is currently 5:23 AM, and we are so proud to release a playable game in less than 2 days. We're glad that we managed to implement gameplay despite never having experience in that field. Also, we're proud we made buttons and image buttons. Did we mention buttons?

What we learned

We learned how to use Renpy and we learned how to read documentation efficiently to create a program that was previously completely foreign to us. Essentially, we reinforced our ability to use existing tools and expand on them.