Coin of Fate

I was suprised and impressed to see that this was 3D, Very cool. After becoming familiar with the game it started to remind me of "The Stanley Parable" and so I figured there must be a trick to beat the randomness. First I thought there could be a predetermined order to simply memorize. Then I started looking for a small interactable detail I may have overlooked. I tried to jump to the coin, and even tried different tossing techniques based on how the coin was facing. Basically, I spent an embarrassing amount of time trying to break the rules before I realized I couldn't. At first I laughed at how ridiculous and tedious it is to win 5 coin flips but then became frustrated because I actually really wanted to see the end. My luck has not been good... I've been playing the game a little each day trying to win but it hasn't happened yet. I do wish there was a trick but overall I'm impressed by what you've done with such little time. I still want to see the ending too, I'll eventually get lucky one of these days...

I love the trippy skybox and the death animation/sound! I ran into the controller issue... but mouse + arcade stick is actually unintentially kind of cool lol. I was looking into if it would be possible to memory edit to see the ending.... but when testing I got 5 tails in a row and beat it legitimately :D

It was nice you took 3D approach, though gameplay wise game was lacking. Reminded me little bit of Portal with athmosphere. I took that it is random each time and you have to guess 5 times right, so I didn't want to wait it out to happen ^^"

Gameplay video can be found here: https://youtu.be/-tcce30kmHI?t=4330

Very impressive what can be achieved with game maker! As others have pointed out the gameplay is a bit shallow, but I guess that's always the deal in a game jam: you have to concentrate on a few aspects. Very well done and I am curious if there are a lot of hacks involved to get 3d in game maker as I haven't tried that yet myself.

Ah, yes, my favorite control scheme, left stick to move, mouse to look, and 1/2/3 to choose dialog options 👀

Seriously though, why is the controller deactivating the keyboard controls? and why is only half of it mapped? If you know about it this should 100% be in the description.

Anyways, since unplugging and replugging controllers can cause issue I just played like that. But on my 3rd day I remembered that I was able to jump at one point and was wondering if that was used for anything, and I don't know what happened but I managed to fall before speaking to the coin.

Since the game is pretty slow, I really didn't want to restart again because unless there's a trick there's really not enough chance I'd see the end in decent time. And seeing other comments there isn't? Or you have to see the end to understand it which.. kinda beats the purpose.

Anyways, I like the overall concept of the game, but I'm not sure it's a good idea. I think it needs something more than just having to spend a minute to try another coin toss in the hope to get lucky 5 times in a row. I mean, maybe that's not the game, but that's what's announced and there are other games to try.

I am the chosen one. Nice game. :)

Impressive 3D. I liked the atmosphere. Liked the white lab and the AI. Very surreal strange game! Oh managed to see the ending! Guess it does explain it!

Haha loved it. I gave up in the end but spent a good while on it, really wanted to win it but I kept dying.

I even tried restarting the game to see if it was running on a set seed, but I guess that the seed is either different each time or the random function is called when doing other things than flipping the coin.

I was not able to figure out the mystery :(

So I tried the game initially, and failed many times. Then I read the description, and did a second run looking for hints or strategy to win. I thought maybe it was based on how the coin was oriented when I chose. That did not seem to be the case, however. I also thought, perhaps, the direction of the spinning background had some influence, but that was also not true. Finally I tried looking up or down when I chose, but that also did not work.

Is there actually a mystery, or is it simply a true coin toss?

I must give you credit for doing a 3d game! No easy feat in GM. The first time walking through was pretty interesting and atmospheric, but the many repetitions worn away some of that. A run key would have been nice!

The audio was pretty good, but the right bit of music would have done a lot to bolster the feeling of surrealness.

I really hate that I didn't finish it. I wanted to see the end, but couldn't figure it out, sorry...

Congrats on finishing a 3d game in 48 hours though, that's impressive all on its own! :D

PS. I uploaded a video of my playthrough. This is only my first attempt. I reran the game a couple times after I saw that there was a 'mystery', but I don't have footage of it all.

Must have run into some weird bug? As I was unable to move with WASD or my gamepad. The camera did move around though, so it had that going for it.

Wow, the 3d is super impressive. I enjoyed the AI dialogue.

That 3d graphics is astonishing (but I felt a little bit dizzy after the game). I was kinda disappointed that there was nothing more than flipping a coin.

This is absolutely surreal. Just on a technical level, this project was incredibly ambitions, so I have to give you credit for that. Still, I would have liked to have had a bit more gameplay, or perhaps more to do when interacting with the AI.