Path of Least Resistance

Making friends was once the easiest thing in the world for you, but recently, it seems to be getting more and more difficult. How, and why, did things end up like this?

Use your puzzle-solving skills to navigate through the various rooms, each of which contain two exits. Taking the easiest path - the Path of Least Resistance - will end the story at that point. 

A narrative puzzler for Bring Out Your Ghosts jam.

Content Warning

Contains occasional instances of bad language and implications of death.

Credits

Original Idea, Writing, Spriting
KentuckyFriedDreams (itch)

Programming, Game Design, Spriting
PRINCESS INTERNET CAFé (itch, mastodon, cohost)

Controls

Interact with the world by "bumping" into the different items/characters. Whenever the game gives you a choice in a dialogue, use the arrow corresponding to each choice to choose that one.

• Desktop: Use the arrow or WASD keys.
• Mobile: Swipe in the direction you want to move to. You can hold for longer movements.

Acknowledgements

• 🔍 Thanks to ellis dex and FUTURE RUINS for playtesting and general support. Many thanks to candle as well, for their help with bipsi scripting.
• 👾 This game was made in binksi HD. Binksi was created by smwhr, and it's a fork of candle's bipsi that lets you create games using Inkle Studios' Ink.
• The game makes uses of several plugins:
  • ↔️ Directional avatar by candle
  • 🎮 Gamepad support and WebGLazy integration both part of the bipsi hacks by Sean S. LeBlanc
  • 🔉 Bipsi sfxr plugin by Narkhos
• 🎼 Background music by Orchestralis.
• 🎨 This project was kickstarted thanks to the 1-Bit Pack from Kenney.