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Protocol: 47 - Superstar Appeal

By rodobodolfo and poffle

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall773.9845
Fun1053.8145
Innovation983.8345
Theme5863.5145
Graphics2393.9745
Audio84.3445
Humor94.3845
Mood1033.8445

Comments

ckyre 2018-08-14 00:24

Wow the work provided is really impressive, the sound, pixel art it's really great. Good job guys !

hanin 2018-08-14 09:55

This one really caught me off guard. :joy: I really did enjoy the graphics and the music is very good and I really also enjoy the humour and the setup for the entire game. Though this game kinda does kinda suffer from the whole "you input answer, and you get something completely different" problem but it feels like a nitpick in the grand scheme of things. Overall, fun(ny) game, good job!

megalink 2018-08-14 10:37

Absolutely phenomenal! The amount of work that went into this is seriously impressive. The ending song was hilarious. I can't wait to see what you guys make next! :)

ndhr-productions 2018-08-14 17:59

The art and the sounds were absolutely amazing, and although the song stopped after "I'll suffocate ya" and just left him sitting bobbing his head, I was cracking up the entire time. Thanks for this

ganonwarrior 2018-08-14 18:00

Wow ! It was awesome! What a great idea you guys had! Nice music and graphics too , good job guys !

the-shadermaster 2018-08-14 18:02

Awesome game! The sound and humor were top-notch! Graphics were great as well.

No idea who this famous rapper is supposed to be, but the last time I listened to modern music was when the BeeGees were just breaking through!

madbeagle 2018-08-14 18:02

Well.I.Never! That was dope. Y'know?

micdoes 2018-08-15 08:55

Super funny, both courses caught me off-guard, I kept going back to see all the different outcomes, although it is a slog going through the menu, the space bar speeding it up still felt somewhat slow, it wasn't really a traditional game, somewhat boring at times, but fun nonetheless! This game deserves more ratings!

poffle 2018-08-15 12:58

@ndhr-productions Ugh that sound bug. I never encountered it before you mentioned it then got it twice in row when I just tested it. We'll look into it. Thanks for the positive feedback as well!

mochakingup 2018-08-15 14:55

Hahaha this is pure awesome! There is replayability for sure, would be nice if I can just skip the intro though.

poffle 2018-08-15 15:00

@mochakingup Haha. Thank you! Yep, we would have liked that too but ran out of time. We may go in and do a cheeky post jam patch for it. You can click to forward the text and press SPACE to fast forward a bit. :)

juke-games 2018-08-15 16:40

Wow. This is just awesome.

titos2k 2018-08-15 21:15

lol, the song becomes really dark out of nowhere

moonlightbomber 2018-08-16 02:17

The audio sells the entire thing for me. About your concerns regarding the appropriateness to the theme, I personally say it's appropriate enough.

borys 2018-08-16 13:25

Wow, I love your idea on this game! Of course, art style and sounds are great. Keep it up! By the way, me and my brother played your other game on steam called "How to play with boredom ..." and this was also a really good game :D

poffle 2018-08-16 13:47

@borys Ah that’s awesome! Thanks for playing and your kind words.

mutskun 2018-08-16 13:47

Loved it, great work as always!

nam-nguyen 2018-08-16 13:59

OMG I am in LOVE! This is hilarious, and it is so polished, I really cant imagine putting that much work into a game within 3 days, this is a complete game guys. My god!! I would be killing my wife tonight if I had one haha

ndhr-productions 2018-08-16 14:09

I just want to point out that I had the song stuck in my head so I had to go back and play it again :P

poffle 2018-08-16 16:19

@ndhr-productions Hahaha! I'm sorry for that. :)

@nam-nguyen Thank you!

neowhoru 2018-08-16 21:57

really funny game idea :D i loved it. it is cool like a song make machine^^ cool work

annie-owl 2018-08-17 07:50

Goddamn, that was insane! The humor, the music, the voice over! You did great job on all fronts. The only thing i would suggest is adding a feature of saving the song that you've got at the end.

poffle 2018-08-17 08:44

@annie-owl Thank you very much! Ah, a song export feature is a great idea! We're stealing that!

dodoita 2018-08-17 17:06

Even though it doesn't involve the player much, I really enjoyed it! It was a lot of fun! I like your idea :]

jharler 2018-08-17 19:12

This had me cracking up several times. Excellent job! The voiceover acting and singing were superb and the level of polish was very high. The game did seem to lock up on me after the singer said he was going to kill his wife tonight... Overall, great job, I really liked this.

gurkenlabs 2018-08-17 19:51

A touching audiovisual novel about the problems we face. Not much of a game, but such a worthwile experience due to the fun writing, pleasant graphics and well-polished mechanics. Even the UI was top notch for a jam game! Minor complaint: When you put in your rhymes, the last few lines get overlapped by the UI and you might loose context. Keep rappin'!

rodobodolfo 2018-08-18 04:26

@jharler thanks! Yes, its some kind of bug when loading the audio. I am essentially moving to the next audio file when playtime > clip.duration -offset. But somehow its either failing to load the clip of failing to "finish" the last one (maybe its skippin frames in some case and the audiosource is no longer playing so playtime is not > duration... yes that might be it...). in any case it will get stuck for ever in that state. Sorry for the thought dump haha

mrjoshuamclean 2018-08-18 16:55

I had so much fun with this. It was short and not exactly a game - more of an interactive experience - but the text generation and premise were super interesting. Good work! Here's a video of my play: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/297353742

happyhour 2018-08-19 14:21

That chorus was gold. Wasn't familiar with your previous entries, so I had no idea what I was getting into but this was an enjoyable visual novel style experience. Encountered a minor bug(?) where the game froze on me at the "please mother nature" part of the lyrics.

timbelion 2018-08-19 17:25

Woow... really nice graphics! And idea idea is so interesting and original.

drauthius 2018-08-19 17:31

Mine stopped, a bit fitting, at "oxygen off". Though the head bobbing continued forever.

poffle 2018-08-19 17:35

@drauthius Ah, damn. Sorry bout that. Pesky bug.

axoona 2018-08-19 22:49

OMG Excellent, I was wondering how you would solve some of those rhymes and it was just excellent :smile:

The game is hilarious and the overall style (graphics, audio) fits it very well.

On top of it, I really like the take on the theme you did here. It's a game about a serious issue and how unseriously it is being treated, one might say it's a potilical game!

But how did you... ummm.. solve the issue of copywrited songs?

unfortunetely at one time the game stopped at "His grandma Iris" but I replayed again and fortunately it was ok.

Anayway, congrat's!

nihilaleph 2018-08-20 01:51

That was so good! Loved the assets and the humor! Just one bug when I tried to rewriting the song and it stopped at "killing my wife" and the head bobbed forever. (I guess like drauthius's bug)

poffle 2018-08-20 08:17

@axoona Thank you for the very nice review! We're really pleased you enjoyed it :)

As for the copyright issue. We made the songs ourselves as a parody of the originals, which I believe comes under 'fair use' and we figured we'd just make them so stupid that even if the original artist took part in Ludum Dare and rated our game they wouldn't sue us haha.

Sorry you got that pesky bug. I keep asking @rodobodolfo to fix it but he's being stubborn! I'm glad you went through the game again though! Thanks for the review!

axoona 2018-08-20 19:25

@poffle well I don't know, they might become jealous. Your version of "tonight I'm killing my wife" is now forever stuck in my head :smile: