There are around 8000 words and 170 choices in the game. There are two endings and about 8 major paths and a further 10 minor paths through the game. As with most interactive fiction most players will only see a very small percentage of the game on each playthrough. For someone who hasn’t written any fiction for over 30 years I thought that was pretty good for a game jam :-P
I’d love to know (on discord) which ending you got, which major choices got you there and why you figured it to be incongruent. I don’t claim to be a writer so your feedback on the writing would be helpful.
What I aimed for was to have one path which gives the expected outcome if you play as the ruler of the utopian land you start in. That is if you maybe the decisions I believe a benevolent dictator would take. The other ending occurs if you take a different path. Perhaps you took the different path? This is interactive fiction, so you decide the outcome. With more time there would be more outcomes, but time is the key resource in a game jam.
Thanks for playing. I’m not a fan of interactive fiction in this format, but like all game jams I enter I wanted to learn how to do it and I am proud of what I managed in <40 hours. With a better writer I now know how to build genuine branching stories into my games. With or without text.