The Mind of Marlo by rodobodolfo

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made by rodobodolfo for LD35 (JAM)
The Mind of Marlo

Marlo Davenport suffers from a condition known as severe polymorphic silly head syndrome. This causes him to randomly Shapeshift into different identities, which he finds quite inconvenient. The doctor suggests he finds things his identities don't like to scare them away.

The Mind of Marlo is a simple point and click adventure where you have to scare away his different identities.

How to play: Scare all identities to win. Have fun!
Full screen Recommended!

//post jam version adds an android build and clearer text and fixes sone typos

Created in 3 days using
*Unity
*Sprite Something
*FlStudio
*Freesound.org
*UnityAdventureFramework (http://pointbleepstudios.xyz/wiki/)

Contact and social stuff:
@poffle
@rodobodolfo
http://pointbleepstudios.xyz

Ratings

Coolness 84% 2
Overall(Jam) 3.91 78
Audio(Jam) 3.65 158
Fun(Jam) 3.73 111
Graphics(Jam) 3.92 227
Humor(Jam) 4.21 14
Innovation(Jam) 3.19 435
Mood(Jam) 3.86 99
Theme(Jam) 4.16 46

Feedback

Martin Rohwedder
19. Apr 2016 · 07:04 UTC
I like it :D
Monkey Foundry
19. Apr 2016 · 08:23 UTC
Nice work in only tree days
PeachTreeOath
19. Apr 2016 · 08:29 UTC
I lol'd as soon as the first shift happened.
fatsopanda
19. Apr 2016 · 08:30 UTC
Lot of great humour and an amazing amount of content for a jam game :)
Adipson
19. Apr 2016 · 09:27 UTC
pixel arts is good for us ! :) nice works
psychomonster
19. Apr 2016 · 09:55 UTC
Good content, nice story and a fine use of the theme. I enjoyed it :)
Danny Gallagher
19. Apr 2016 · 09:58 UTC
I absolutely love this game :) will be coming back to try and finish it tonight for sure!
Munchy2007
19. Apr 2016 · 09:58 UTC
Made me laugh, Marlo made a cute cat! I loved his backchat too! Good stuff :)
pavel_insight
19. Apr 2016 · 10:01 UTC
Hahahaha!
Nice to see a point&click adventure on LD. )
caporaltito
19. Apr 2016 · 10:04 UTC
Hilarious XD
Daukan
19. Apr 2016 · 10:09 UTC
Nicely done. A lot of story to this game. The puzzles was a bit too hard for me but I rarely play these types of games,
brainybeard
19. Apr 2016 · 12:44 UTC
Interesting game man, i'm not sure what I should be doing other than observing all of the amazing head :P crazy that you got so much done in just 48 hours. Super productive clearly xD
GrooveMan
19. Apr 2016 · 15:22 UTC
Really complete and well-executed! It took me a moment to get the 'logic' of the game down (why can't I get into the shower as the cat, or just dump the salt directly on the slug?) but once I got into your mindset it played really smoothly.

The music and graphics worked great together, but the jokes were sometimes hit and miss. The absurdity of the premise is hilarious; Marlo being really bitter about his wife (for seemingly no reason?) is less so.
Linus123xbb
20. Apr 2016 · 08:20 UTC
Great game, very humoristic and as soon as shape shift I lol
marod
20. Apr 2016 · 08:25 UTC
That point and click style made me. Nice work and graphics!
vethan
20. Apr 2016 · 09:11 UTC
This was fun! I ended up getting stuck with the shark though :(
Ithildin
20. Apr 2016 · 16:46 UTC
Brilliant take on the theme, well-rounded and funny game. Great job!! :D
Ayawaska
21. Apr 2016 · 02:22 UTC
Cool idea and great use of it!
SpiritJZL
21. Apr 2016 · 03:05 UTC
First full mark that I gave
fafastudio
21. Apr 2016 · 13:20 UTC
Quite schyzophrenic but really nice game :) Love the pixel art ! simple and effective
JNI
21. Apr 2016 · 13:21 UTC
Nice story and good content!
nintendoeats
21. Apr 2016 · 14:12 UTC
I really enjoyed that. Very nicely polished and cute idea for an adventure game. I really enjoyed the writing. Couple of problems of the "frigging adventure games" variety:

Why can I only fill the spray bottle from the bathroom sink?
Why do I need to drink salt water to get rid of the slug instead of just dumping salt on myself?
Why doesn't smoking remove the ice guy?
Why can't I dump salt on the ice guy?
Do you know how hard it is to punch yourself in the face (but at least we had a good clue for that one)?

I still really enjoyed it.
🎤 rodobodolfo
21. Apr 2016 · 14:39 UTC
@nintendoeats

Thanks for the nice review! Lemme try to answer your questions though most of the answers could easily be cause it's a fringing adventure game! Haha.

1) it was meant to be fillable from both taps, we forgot to change the hotspot for the kitchen.
2) because that would have been too easy :p
3) the cigarettes alone wouldn't melt him, maybe if he had a lighter too...
4) good point, I didn't think of that haha.
5) do you know how hard it is being a shark everyday? I'd punch myself in the face!

Thanks so much for playing and understanding the stupid logic that go hand and hand with these games.
vini60
21. Apr 2016 · 19:48 UTC
Nice humorous content. I love the music too. Lovely submit.
ultravioleta
22. Apr 2016 · 02:47 UTC
Gran juego! genial la idea y el humor
madmarcel
23. Apr 2016 · 11:31 UTC
Love it, well done.
llc86
23. Apr 2016 · 18:12 UTC
A nice and fun game, with a very well executed idea, considering the short time available for developing. Well done!
local minimum
24. Apr 2016 · 13:36 UTC
To decide to make a point and click for LD and actually finishing it, is rather impressive. Nice work. I managed to get rid of one of personalities but the cat refused be afraid of water/I couldn't shower it off and ice wouldn't be hair-dried. But that's the sort of issues tend to be part of the point and click genre as a whole and not particular to your game.

Though the effect of how the text was written was cool it was really quite impossible to read while it was writing since the positions kept getting updated.

Other than that a really nice entry.
smbe19
24. Apr 2016 · 14:46 UTC
Love the humor. Amazing game!
Freank
26. Apr 2016 · 17:13 UTC
Hi, nice game ! We're realizing a video with several games of the Ludum Dare #35.
Can you add your game on indiexpo.net ? (it's free)
So we can include also your game in the video ;)
p.s. write #LDJAM in the game's description
Rock Eaters
01. May 2016 · 07:13 UTC
this look really great !
in3orn
01. May 2016 · 14:20 UTC
Such a great game! For me the best use of the theme so far. Well done!

And I finally did it :)
https://twitter.com/_krakers/status/726778826605379588
Gamepopper
03. May 2016 · 12:46 UTC
Love the music and graphics, reminds me of the classic point 'n click games! Great job!
retrogradeorbit
03. May 2016 · 14:18 UTC
Really liked the graphics. Good job.
puppetmaster
03. May 2016 · 21:24 UTC
Wow!! What a great game. I really like the text appearing effect. The music makes the mood! Keep up the great work!
randomhuman
04. May 2016 · 10:52 UTC
Great writing, so funny! GOD DAMN YOU LINDA!!

Password is ROD. What do I win?
axoona
04. May 2016 · 11:37 UTC
I really liked it. nice graphics and audio. Good story and very nice integration of the theme.
I was blocked at some points but fortunately the hints in the comments helped to advance forward.
solid entry, congratulations!
🎤 rodobodolfo
05. May 2016 · 04:11 UTC
@randomhuman there is no password! or maybe you discovered just a half of it...
Satyre
05. May 2016 · 14:41 UTC
Nice one I like the plopping and random transformation xD
randomhuman
09. May 2016 · 11:08 UTC
@rodobodolfo He said there was no last letter, but before that he said ROD. I think? Was a while ago I played it. You trying to make me play it through again? ;) I already gave you all of the stars, I have no more stars to give!
Sabina Lis
09. May 2016 · 18:05 UTC
Great story, everything was really fun and well done, thanks!
in3orn
08. Jun 2016 · 18:30 UTC
I know it's month after the event, but maybe you'll be happy to hear that you've won my top 10 LD35 summary list :)

http://krk-dev.com/2016/06/08/top-10-of-ld35/