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Mind Therapy

By detective-pixel

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Mood424.02
Overall653.90
Audio783.70
Fun1813.53
Graphics2113.76
Innovation2293.55
Theme3243.53
Humor3262.81
Coolness135948

Comments

kogyblack 2014-04-28 01:25

Awesome!
Great game you did here!

burgerdare 2014-04-28 02:07

impressive, very well done. I love the puzzle design and how well it fits the narrative.

jrap 2014-04-28 05:24

Thoroughly well designed, elegant to look at and and all round smashing entry. You should be very proud.

alshirah 2014-04-28 09:00

Super great. But I got stuck in some level :)

goerp 2014-04-28 14:07

Nice mood, great minimal graphics. only a few pixels were enough to show the character eating and doing push ups. Nice choice of colors.
The music was therapeutic too :)

tannernetwork 2014-04-28 14:33

Haha, that was fun! :)

mrexcessive 2014-04-28 18:19

Hi. I liked the press-ups to slim. I still couldn't fit through, or restart the exercise tho'... Maybe the text could be cut down or skippable ?

gigitrix 2014-04-28 18:21

Interesting weight mechanics :)

detective-pixel 2014-04-28 18:57

@Mr excessive. Thanks. What do you mean by couldn't fit through? And if you press the space button you can skip the text.

softwave 2014-04-28 20:00

Fantastic. Wonderful graphics, intriguing idea, just really top-notch.

jod 2014-04-28 20:08

Okay, that was impressive. I mean, really impressive. What starts out as what seems like a simple puzzle-game becomes something much more. Way to nail the theme right on the head!

Without giving any spoilers: I feel that the way the narrative is timed is just perfect. It pulls you with it just in time to prevent boredom. Also, starting from what seems like an ordered room, going through more chaotic and patchy rooms and finally ending to something that gives a bright ray of hope is very, very touching.

Well done.

korwegian 2014-04-29 02:39

Who was that therapist's teacher? Hannibal Lecter?

oye-beto 2014-04-29 05:06

Good: I like the minimalistic art and particle effects you made.
Bad: Text takes too long and level design feels tiring.

lonewookie 2014-04-29 15:27

Great narrative/message. The gameplay was also a lot of fun! Great puzzle mechanics.

ammaralsharekh 2014-04-29 16:09

I finish the game, it is nice . but I would if eating and exercising run in a single click . "may be because I am lazy "

fserb 2014-04-29 16:30

Great job! :)

perfect-victim 2014-04-29 17:45

great game really enjoyed playing!

maesk 2014-04-29 21:53

Awesome work, great combination of mood, graphics and sound. Sprites are so simple yet so nicely animated. Pacing and puzzles both have a good design out of a clear concept.

Somehow I ended doing push-ups long before I was told I could :D

badgerpriest 2014-05-01 00:27

Simply lovely.

papygaragos 2014-05-01 16:53

Nice game, feels very polished and have a impressive amount of content.
The mechanic is nice but switching from thin to fat (and vice versa) break the rythme of the puzzle

Good job anyway

saintheiser 2014-05-01 17:50

Very good but what about "Beneath the Surface"?
Like your feature with weight (sport&eating)
Puzzles are well but pretty simple for me.

detective-pixel 2014-05-01 20:30

@SaintHeiser. The "Beneath the Surface" was about your mind. Under all the skin, is something that is waging war against . you. You way of thinking. Thanks for playing!

tenpn 2014-05-02 21:22

Really nice idea. Loved the theme, and the way the core mechanic fed into that.

petey123567 2014-05-03 07:50

Superfun! The arrow keys did cause the page to scroll sometimes :\

raiyumi 2014-05-03 07:53

I loved it. Very minimal and polished.

tuism 2014-05-03 08:32

Wow! Was this game maker? Glad you got the web build going cos I ALWAYS struggle with game maker's web build :/

And it was an awesome game, great puzzles and great juice and ambience and very thought provoking.

One gripe would be the sheer repetitiveness of the mechanic makes it unfun to play. Yeah I get that that it's social commentary though, so... Art!

Well done!

xaychru04 2014-05-04 14:03

Awesome game, I loved the story, and the puzzles were great. Really nice mood too! The keys z and x were a bit confusing, maybe just one key to eat/do some exercise depending of if you're fat or not would have been better, but anyway, I enjoyed the game a lot! :)

mintarcade 2014-05-04 15:51

Interesting! Nice puzzle game. Love the ending.

thorig 2014-05-04 19:27

Love the mechanics of this game. Well done!

koe415 2014-05-04 23:17

My personal favorite entry so far. Simplistic visuals work well in the game's favor and the audio work is fantastic for setting the mood. Narrative was great but didn't have me hooked initially. Loved that the gameplay of bulking up and getting skinny directly fed into the narration. Once that came to light, you had me to the end. Lovely game. Great work.

anglerteamgames 2014-05-06 02:36

The theme and mechanics were truly new and surprising -- something I truly appreciated about this game.

There's a lot of content here, and it's very well presented. I would have liked a slightly sharper difficulty curve, personally, but the curve as it stands is still great.

Very well done!

senordiablo 2014-05-06 19:13

loved the soundtrack.loved the puzzles. loved the length! Impressively long but not boring:)

anoarith 2014-05-06 23:02

Awesome work ! Congratulations :) !

whitewolf93 2014-05-09 00:09

Brilliant! Hard to think it was made in 48h, another game that should be in steam or something, now I think my game is a bit terrible :/, Well done ;)

mcapraro 2014-05-09 06:00

wow, one of my favorites so far, well done! i really like the things you have to do to get skinny or fat - nice interactions

hyperbox 2014-05-11 02:33

Really unique and well-designed entry. Lovely ambient soundtrack. The only gripe I have is that the text is painfully slow, and it doesn't seem like there's a way to speed it up.

monsterkillu 2014-05-12 12:24

Very nice game. I liked the thoughts. Kind of similar to my own thoughts. Interesting game too...

striwx 2014-05-14 16:05

Very cool mood, story and mecanics !!

juniorus 2014-05-27 16:00

Touching entry! The weaker point is the sound fx.

2014-06-12 14:32

This game totally guessed my past. By the way i made a video of the game here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MaWTyEKd_bU&feature=youtu.be