terop 2016-12-12 22:49
I didn't like the sad back story, but it's a game. Music and the graphics worked fine technically.
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD37 → Divorce: The Aftremath
By tigerrenko
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mood | 203 | 3.69 | ||
| Audio | 409 | 3.00 | ||
| Theme | 489 | 3.50 | ||
| Overall | 830 | 2.69 | ||
| Coolness | 1509 | 22 |
I didn't like the sad back story, but it's a game. Music and the graphics worked fine technically.
This game definitely was immersive in the depressed, single, jobless style of living. I though it was well done in this regards.
Some glitches with the computer screen staying on after i changed rooms. meds didn't work food didn't work, i give up
Every action has chance to drigger a downer as well as upper, meds are the only thing that kick you up for sure. However as time ticks away each day brings new wave of depression... as in real life, you have to try everything and never give up (Matsuoka Shuzo style). Thank you for playing, though
The introduction text at the start disappears too quickly, I was reading it out loud pretty fast to friends and I couldn't keep up.
I would have preferred in-game hints to find the path to happiness. I used food and anti-depressants to get some more positive results at the computer, but it all ended in failure still. It felt a little like randomly selection options to find out what works.
A mouse-over effect on the clickable options would have helped make it clear you can click them. A restart option at the end would have been nice.
The music suited and aided the tone of the game. The sad premise motivated me to try and improve the character's mood, but it was hard to figure out what helped and what didn't.
Woaw, hard to judge such an entry. I won't ask whether it's an autobiographical game or not, but it does resonate with my guts when I played it. The sad and depressing mood conveyed through this game is incredibly strong, and I think it was your intent. If the game is based on real events, I hope you'll get better.
N.B.: I notice that you used Scratch to create your game, so did I!
Yea, that is another moral of the game, I think... sometimes things don't work out no matter what you try... as for hints, yea my game design style is notorous for not giving any hints, sorry I'll work on that...
@drludos hheh yea I teach kids how to make games with scratch, and it's so awesome that I moved away from RenPy which was my primary engine... also thank you this game was part of my getting better ;)
Technically sound other than overlapping images. Given the rating options, it rated higher than i would have liked to rate it but I am rating the fields present in an honest fashion.
Rough man I feel for you. Wish we could advance the text faster and there are some glitches after the first part.
Wish there were more personal games like this on LD, this would make a good theme in itself, just how you feel.
@KadaDev thank you so much, and yea, we generally need more games that will teach about life...
Not a bad game. Interesting graphics
It's photos taken with my phone through watercolor filter
Very moody and realistic. Depression is a hard game to play.