I love the UI design and animations.
Also:
> $40 for a standard meal.

This must be some bougie-ass University. My heroes must've all been rich weirdos D:
This is a good foundation tho! A small narrative could convince me to "simulate college" all over again :P

I like the graphics but I can't really see the relation to the theme. Still a decent game though.

Thanks @mrthee and @hoogmin!

@mrthee You get some clues in the game that it's actually set in the future, so I was just trying to estimate inflation a bit. I definitely wanted to work more on the narrative and focus on making social connections with characters, but ran out of time for that.

@hoogmin As for the theme, it's meant to relate to the trade off of choices and negative effects that stack up. For example, if you keep studying for a long time, you start having a whole bunch of negative effects stack up that you need to take care of to continue progressing. You might get really unhappy... which then leads to your character getting depressed... and loosing energy quickly.. which in turn reduces some of your stats over time. It's not very well explained in game though. It's also tied into the story as you reach ranks 5 to advance to the next area and rank 9 to get the ending of the game. Sort of an ignorance is bliss play on the theme.

Very nice, indeed some sounds could have helped, but it was a nice experience :)

Wait... What did I just play? Some sort of choose your own adventure made in with 3D unity graphics?!
Your game shows the diversity of ludum dare. Nicely done! :upside_down:

Cool game. A few things I wish this game had: Something which always tells me where I am. View my stats easier :) Overall nice entry

It seems that you manage to build a pretty decent game in so little time. The game is easy to understand the graphics and animations of the text keep it fresh. However, the game is not very related to the theme and some things detray from the experience. On the exams you put very difficult questions to progress and i get a bit frustrated, i didn't expect to need to remember my time on collage to play a ludum dare game :-P. Overall, pretty decent entry, good work.

Funny and unique game, I give you that! I really enjoyed it.

If you are interested, please check out my LD40 game [Escape Infection!](https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/40/escape-infection)

Interesting game. In my opinion there were too many stats. But i like the menus and the texts were nice. Didn't expect such a game from the screenshots! :) Thank you

Really cool game, the concept is good, some more sounds would've helped the experience, the gameplay is fun and the art is good, good job !

Very nice UI animations, reminds me of Persona!

Presentation was nice, but writing itself didn't really engage me. Ludum Dare meta joke was funny though. :)

@totsboy Thanks! I had just finished Persona 4 Golden... so that's where a lot of my inspiration was drawn from for this jam!

@SVR_Audio Thanks a lot! I probably should have focused on getting at least some SFX in instead of hammering away at my midi keyboard making zero usable audio... lessons learned for next time! (That I should have learned from my last jams by now...)

@gamedevbynight Haha, it's almost like the more stats there are the worse it is.... :P I had planned on making the stats disabled until you learned them, and having them gated off until you got past exams, so that way when you start there'd only be a few, and then they would keep piling up.

@11tomi12 Thanks a lot! Glad people are enjoying it =)

@CreativeWhisper I had planned on having the lectures cover the material on the exams.. but I ran out of time for that, whoops! I kind of expected people to just google the questions honestly =) I agree the tie to the theme is hidden away in mechanics that aren't fully explained, I need to work on that next time!

@mess110 Oh I agree, viewing the stats is tedious, if I had implemented the hiding of stats until you unlocked them as I had planned I think that would have helped tie into the theme. With more time I would have at least setup a menu for seeing them all quickly :D

@volatile Glad to bring something different to the table. I really felt like trying something other than a platformer or a top down arpg game like I usually do.

@Simone agreed 100%. I really need to devote some time to learning some basic music skills so I can whip something up for my game jams....

I have to admit, I got lost in the game and forgot about rating. The simplicity yet sheer fun of this game is amazing! The graphics are great too, especially the UI. I wish there was some music though, which would really make the experience much better. I feel like all the stats are overwhelming, and the game moves a bit slowly. I guess that's just how the game relates to the theme. Great job making this in two days!

Fairly engaging (I ended up playing for 36 minutes). Interesting exploration and a great job with a lot of paths for something like the compo. Nice graphics but it takes too long to progress. The theme wasn't super clear (other than live a balanced life.) Here's my game play: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/208565265

Really cool game! It resonate with me, so thank you for making it!

This one was a little bit long to finish but it's ok for me because I had trained my endurance before huhuhu
I wonder if you could have some shortcuts to access to different areas, or keyboards buttons to make choices. Now I have some pain with my fingers ^^"
I had troubles sometimes with exams: I choosed the right answer and the game made me fail my exam, so I came back a second time and I failed again... So I tried all the other solutions, and failed at eatch of these attempts. And finally I tried again the right answer and it was all right. But, few! I tought I was over.

Ah, and I didn't find that room 28 floor 142 finally... Hope I didn't miss anything!

And nice for the end, that was such a mindblow!