art-alchemist 2025-04-08 07:51
A simple game suddenly becomes very difficult when many enemies appear. I understood all these dresses and rings were like "depths of the mind"?
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD57 → Fishing Therapy
By dadidou
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A simple game suddenly becomes very difficult when many enemies appear. I understood all these dresses and rings were like "depths of the mind"?
yeah, you dive in patients' mind as a new form of therapy (fishing therapy)
I don't get the dresses and rings items and it looks like we are going down a body of water only to be met with demon babies that we have to kill. Am I missing the point here when you say space shooter? There is no shooting in space? Also the game appears to have no sounds. The controls are snappy and easy to use but I don't really get the worm shooting bombs going down, avoiding dresses and rings and then having to kill demon babies
Cool game, nice art style, really like cute wiggling wormy :) Laser was awesome! Rings confused me for a bit, they were so shiny I tried picking them up :D
Really cool. Loved the boss. I love fishing therapy...
Pretty and cute art style
Love EVERYTHIN. Pretty much the best game ive played so far. It has the perfect story, matched with the perfect unique twist that also fits the them AND it has fun gameplay reminding me of the binding of Isaac AND it has great art that lets one visualize the full plot AAND it has miscellaneous objects just like our game. Youre really gifted in this keep on game-makeringering!
Very nice game mechanics and good game in general!
This game felt like a fever dream... in a good way hahaha. The art was polished and the gameplay felt great. It was personally really easy, but it honestly probably struck a happy medium for players overall. Great job with the different designs in the level. I love the details in all the pixel art, it was great. I wish there was sound, but it's understandable if there wasn't enough time.
Personal case: I played using WASD because I don't have arrow keys so using enter to switch weapons was a bit awkward personally, but still playable!
Overall this was good fun; the wackiness of the story and setting was great. Awesome job!
I really liked the art style, but I had a hard time understanding what some of the items were.
Fun! SFX would take it to the next level. I think the plot was a little bit obtuse for me... the ending was representing the child's head, maybe divorce? I'm not sure. The gameplay itself was fun, though.
While fishing therapy sounds like a great idea, I'll stick to getting tattoos and buying wedding dresses as my therapy. Lovely entry, same as the others said before the entry would have really shined with some SFX but altogether a solid game with a funny spin on therapy!
nice art style, game is cool,i love boss)
Great game :DD I liked it :thumbsup: it would have been nice to be able to shoot from all directions, but i really liked the concept :> Good work
I'm not sure what's going on but my worm sure defecated a lot on the baby demons haha
The art is really cool and unique, there's a story to the characters and the boss fights are nice. Great job!
Cool concept, I really like the idea of these hidden story behind every patient, open to the player to interpret. I think the first level is well designed, but the second one falls short, and the last one way too short (is it intended?)
The artwork is really great. I love the way you used different objects for each patient to kind of tell a story about what their trauma is, lol. I just barely managed to beat the first boss after getting down to one heart.
I can tell you put a lot of work into this, great job!
Got caught straight vibing looking at the artwork and forgot to shoot so I nearly died pretty early haha. Great job!
Cool game idea, simple design means its really simple to play and addictive.
had a pretty fun time playing this, well done!
Certainly a unique concept! I like the weird enemy designs.
Great shoot em up. or should I saY... Shoot em down... The worm animations were stellar.
This was a cool take on the theme! Like the others, I enjoyed the artwork. This is also a large amount of content so kudos for the work you put in!
Fun game! Art is pretty solid too.
Nice game ! The following ennemies are hard to kill though because we need to always be upside them to kill them.
Nice little game, the art is nice and I liked the storytelling of all the items emerging.
really solid game, had fun playing it. Would be nice if there is a sound tho
Cool art style. The game took a while to get going but it was a lot of fun once it turned into a proper bullet hell
That's how I understood it:
First Patient (Woman): Was a cool partying girl doing all sort of crazy stuff (were those pink things at the start b-plugs? lol or just earrings?). Then she married (dress / rings), had a few miscarriages (babies), has debt issues (bank buildings throwing stuff right?) and then finally gave birth to a baby, but the baby was taking up too much energy from her and she was missing all the pleasure that she had in youth which led to her current state of mind.
Second Patient (Man): Works as a cashier in a big supermarket, leading a life that feels redundant. He probably got hit one time by a horse in his youth or saw someone being kicked and since then has a phobia. Game doesn't give much more to go on here. I'm going to assume the woman he's into is someone on the side and he wants to be with her to spice up his life.
Third Patient (Boy): Something is imperfect in the Fischer family, there could be a divorce happening and with each parent dealing with their troubles the boy feels alienated and abandoned.
So if Doctor did anything right here: Woman & Man are going to realize that they have to make changes in their life and go out somewhere together as a family, work something out to reignite their marriage and give more attention to their little boy.
Well done! Only wish it had some music in there!
~Xp
Nice game. i dont know if i had a bug bug but it lack of audio for me. Challenging, i cound't go to the end. but was still fun :) As a new pro psychoanalyst , i think the patient is afraid of commitment (there is alot [a lot] of wedding rings !)
Fun game. Controls were simple to use, though it definitely needs some audio, at least for the shooting.
Cool game! I think the cut scenes really added to the overall game experience.
The graphics are awesome lol, nice difficulty ramp up too!
I really liked the pixel art, especially the animations on the worm. In the second level with the shopping carts it felt like they were laid out on a slightly-less-than-45-degree angle that made it difficult to get around them by moving diagonally (so I had to keep tapping back and forth), but other than that it was a pretty smooth experience.
Cute game, and sweet ending
Overall a fine little game.
The art is nice, but too hard for me
Cool game. Artstyle was great, a bit like old school adventure games. Also great adaptation of the theme! I enjoyed the difficulty of the game, I think it fits this type of games.