Hope's Peak
A downloadable game for Windows and macOS
A mystery told five paragraphs at a time. Over 402,073,902 possible playthroughs.
Reviews:
"C'est toute la force de cette narration morcelée, dispensée au compte-gouttes, et ce qui fait certainement de Hope's Peak une des meilleures interprétations du thème de la Mystic Western game jam." - Oujevipo.fr
"Very well written. I enjoyed each paragraph and learning more as it went." - OldKnivesTale
"The individual paragraphs and the feeling of the entire game are so strong, I love the writing style, the mystery, the mood. This is one of my fave games from the jam so far." - turnfollow
Created for the 2016 Mystic Western Game Jam.
By Kalle MacDonald (@KalleMacD)
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So unless I missed something, your math is way off. I counted 138 different pieces of story. Any of them can occur at any time, so there are 138^5 possible playthroughs, or 50,049,003,168. If you make sure not to read the same piece more than once in a given playthrough, that's 138x137x136x135x134, or a measly 46,513,297,440.
And they're all interesting.
This charming little game delivers on its premise well. It evokes the feeling of the dry, dusty Wild West, of course, but more impressively it blends that with mystique so naturally that it’s easy to forget not every western has the unexplainable at its core.
Unfortunately, the time constraints of a game jam are noticeable. Near the end of my experience, I would forget which prompts I had already chosen, or go entire playthroughs not seeing any new prompts at all. I ended up having to put the game down without seeing everything it had to offer – or at least, not being sure that I had seen everything. I would’ve loved a marker for prompts I’d already read, and perhaps a little less randomness in its suggestions.
That said, I had a dream about it last night after playing it, which is a pretty high compliment. It’s a lovely world the creator has made, and I’m glad I got to visit it for a bit.
(itch.io doesn’t show reviews, so I figured I’d post it here in the comments as well.)
This is so dope. Thanks for playing!
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Hey I'm on a Mac and it says I can't play it because no application on my Mac can run it... is there and app I should download to play it or is it just not available for Mac :/
Nvm I'm just stupid
danganronpa
Unintentional! I haven’t even played any of those games...
haha thats ok =) ur game is pretty neat tho!! good job with it
Thanks for playing! I really appreciate it.
I'm getting an error downloading the game. "can't load library nw_elf.dll"
I'm on windows 10 so maybe that's it?
Thanks for letting me know! I had no idea it wasn't working. It's fixed now, but you'll have to redownload it, sorry!
Thank you! I'm looking forward to playing
Interesting writing.