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Mitt Romney and the Case of the Sex Doll

By jackspinoza

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Mood74.03
Coolness368
Audio493.52
Graphics883.70
Theme1003.59
Humor1082.93
Overall1083.31
Innovation1812.77
Fun2272.53

Comments

quarry 2012-12-17 18:29

oh god wat

shaneshanekavanagh 2012-12-18 12:19

You had me at the title. Cheers!

saisaith 2012-12-18 23:18

lol

matx 2012-12-18 23:32

Quite inventive and creative, although I got bored, probably because I am not american :D I had super fun though.

cakencode 2012-12-18 23:42

That music is really fitting, though extremely disturbing. The movement is really too slow for the kind of distances that need traversing, and it makes the game really slow. I gave up because it was taking forever to get anywhere.

Lastly, 73.2mb? Wowza, the sounds alone account for a huge chunk of the game size (about 70% of it) and the other being the use of PNG for images (which account for another 20%) that would compress so well with JPG. I think it would be more accessible to more people if this wasn't the case. Not gonna take away from your ratings, but it is going to take away from the amount of people who rate it :O

jackspinoza 2012-12-18 23:54

If you press shift you can run.

fhoenig 2012-12-19 00:16

I love these hand drawn games but don't have Windows. I'll rate gfx based on the screenshots.

loggiant 2012-12-19 00:23

I don't think I'll be going to bed tonight.

alexrose 2012-12-19 00:33

This was awesome.

Got a little weird towards the end, like it was trying to shock me but just wasn't succeeding, but at the start where it was just joke after joke I found it hilarious. Definitely max points for humour.

Interesting sound and graphics too.

stonemonkeystudios 2012-12-19 01:57

The hand-drawn environments and characters are unique and cohesive. The atmosphere is interestingly brooding; There are times where it feels like I'm playing a Salvador Dali painting.

It is a little deranged.

fishbrain 2012-12-19 12:53

Love the mood - the grungy graphics and sounds. Something unbalanced and disturbing about it all - lol great stuff!

dremelofdeath 2012-12-19 13:06

Wow, that was messed up. I played it at like 5 AM and I think between staying up for it and eating Taco Bell is going to give me permanent nightmares. Definitely nailed the themes and the watercolor environments gave this game its character. Great work.

gazok 2012-12-19 23:37

This is my favourite game so far.
I'm not sure what that says about me.

yngar 2012-12-21 20:31

Yep Romney sure is a jerk

darkfrost 2012-12-21 20:42

pretty wacked but alright

ddionisio 2012-12-22 04:08

Man, what a depressing game...I had fun though! The art works out well, and the music is good!

goerp 2012-12-23 21:54

Thanks for the warning, I played it anyway. Enjoyed it as well, altough it was a bit disturbing.
I like the hand made graphics and the humor. the music was impressive but got on my nerves after a while (but that might have been intentional). Were that real instruments.
just curious, but what scripts did you have to use?
This game also scores good on mood.
Original game.

jackspinoza 2012-12-24 00:59

thanks for the comments,
@goerp - I made the "music" with my strat and my synth and used tape distortion on my voice. So, almost real instruments. I used a script for the text and one for the menu, I spent too much time on the music and nonsense.

brighterorange 2012-12-26 19:25

Wow. This is the most fucked up LD game I've ever played. It's quite hard to endure, but I'll give you credit for doing something daring, and the ending was somewhat redeeming. Definitely a standout in LD25, for better or worse.

The music was great, though unsurprisingly I liked what the radio was playing before Mitt's beast mode disc.

ayce 2012-12-27 23:44

WOW! This is either brilliant or crazy. That music, the graphics, the blackest humour just made it a real experience! :O Great job!

blackbulletiv 2012-12-28 00:08

Yeah, that was pretty disgusting, although the rest wasn't too bad compared with the end. The music was... disturbing. I muted the game after the radio changed.

I didn't really like it, but I'll certainly give points for innovation and mood.

zelen3d 2012-12-28 00:21

What the !!!! tHIS WAS fun! you should run(shift) by default.

jackspinoza 2012-12-28 02:27

nice comments thanks.
I'm with you BlackBulletIV.

spelchan 2012-12-28 06:49

Calling this game disturbing is a huge understatement. The problem with art games, which I consider this to be, is that they focus more on making a statement then being fun. Worth playing but not a fun game.

jackspinoza 2012-12-28 15:21

Haha, right Spelchan, in fact I think I'm trumped at almost every hurdle when it comes to the ratings, not just the "fun" aspect. Oh well...

mrevilguy 2012-12-29 05:22

The doll-man beating at the end was my favourite part. I felt too much in control of everything but I think that added to the idiosyncratic strangeness of it. :)

cappelnord 2012-12-30 13:31

Would love to see that game but no Windows :-( A gameplay video would be awesome!

Jeremias 2012-12-30 18:17

Good job in creating a uncommon mood.

nate427 2012-12-31 17:10

Very... original. Strange and disgusting but in a good way somehow.

csanyk 2013-01-02 03:35

I didn't get it, beyond stamping on pigeons was there more to do? It doesn't feel complete, or I am missing something.

jackspinoza 2013-01-02 05:42

@ csanyk: I think you're missing about 4 fifths of the game. Try exploring a tiny bit more - you can go in most doors.

jackspinoza 2013-01-02 23:59

...having said that, you aren't missing much.

porpentine 2013-01-05 06:54

i really like the music

the ending is horrifying. genuinely horrifying.

the most pervasively depressing and fucked-up mood of the competition, out of the 50~ games i've played so far

worse 2013-01-05 13:35

The art was just spectacular. Humor and music are great. But I didn't like how the gameplay was forced - couldn't proceed until doing specific things that the game told me to do :(