Objectification by CaptainDreamcast

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made by CaptainDreamcast for LD 40 (COMPO)

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It's a problem every man knows. The more girlfriends you have, the harder it gets to keep them apart.

On his deathbed, Heff Hughner implores his son, Heff Hughner Jr., with an incredibly important mission: Getting no less than five girlfriends at the same time!

(Please do not attempt this, or anything even remotely resembling this, in real life.)

Note: All photographs were taken during the Ludum Dare, and the explosion was generated with Cliff Harris' explosion generator.

Ratings

Overall 528th 3⭐ 30🧑‍⚖️
Fun 479th 2.981⭐ 29🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 340th 3.167⭐ 29🧑‍⚖️
Theme 309th 3.5⭐ 30🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 370th 3.222⭐ 29🧑‍⚖️
Humor 23th 4.036⭐ 30🧑‍⚖️
Mood 425th 2.911⭐ 30🧑‍⚖️
Given 25🗳️ 33🗨️

Feedback

shared
04. Dec 2017 · 05:06 UTC
Very fun game !
The dialogue was pretty funny and I liked how you gave different personalities to each character
I'll have to intentionally lose a game to see what happens.
On another note, is there any text for the 5th gf, and what engine, if any, did you use ?
🎤 CaptainDreamcast
04. Dec 2017 · 05:35 UTC
Thanks for the nice words!

Girlfriends are shuffled randomly. Each of the five girls has 6 different dialogues (Originally it was supposed to be 10 girls and 10 pieces of dialogue each, but that didn't work out time-wise).

Don't tell the aggy daggy bully crew, but I'm an enginedev. I have an engine that builds Dreamcast, Windows and HTML5 games using the same code. It uses C, SDL2, Emscripten and the KallistiOS Dreamcast homebrew library though, so it's not completely from the ground up.
Mik3
04. Dec 2017 · 10:51 UTC
My memory is pretty shit, so I guess that made me a bad boyfriend. Guess I'm not getting any hot umbrella action tonight. It was definitely an interesting spin on the LD theme though.
sbarrio
04. Dec 2017 · 11:10 UTC
I loved this game, the writing and depictions of each different girlfriend are hilarious. Also, the fact that you released this on Dreamcast as well is amazing. Kudos to you!

P.S- Rihanna FTW!
Noa Calice
04. Dec 2017 · 12:28 UTC
Quite an interseting game ! The photo like art was also curious !
thiagofr
04. Dec 2017 · 12:47 UTC
Good idea and graphics. A little back music would be nice though. And man, a dreamcast build?! Awesome! xD
SilvervaleGames
04. Dec 2017 · 14:26 UTC
The dialogue was pretty great, and I really liked the characters. Good job!
exezin
05. Dec 2017 · 01:25 UTC
lmfao. The graphics are amazing. Certainly an *interesting* take on the theme :p
bradur
05. Dec 2017 · 11:58 UTC
Nice little dating sim, although it's mostly just a memory game. I liked the photo-based images :D.
Drury
05. Dec 2017 · 15:54 UTC
When the intro monologue started, my first instinct was to press enter to advance it, but it skipped the intro instead. Maybe having to press enter twice to confirm a skip could have prevented that.

Then again, so would me checking the controls before diving in.

also these waifus are all god tier would harem irl
worai
05. Dec 2017 · 16:17 UTC
My first impression was honestly bad (especially because of the lack of sound), but after getting into the game I quickly forgave you. Precious, legend!
Meneer Guus
06. Dec 2017 · 19:15 UTC
10/10 would date shoeanna again. Too bad I couldn't get to know the fifth girlfriend :(
Rolle
06. Dec 2017 · 19:29 UTC
I'm glad I'm married and off the market. Sheesh it's tough dating! Panela is a bit bossy also... Loved the game!
Sun-Wukong
07. Dec 2017 · 00:37 UTC
ermm. That's... unique. Again. I don't know what to add, honestly.
simonhutchinson
08. Dec 2017 · 17:30 UTC
Oh man, I need to dust off my old Dreamcast and burn a disc. Awesome work.

I like absurd/surrealist feel of this, but I'm not in love with the memory-game aspect of it. Perhaps some sound and audio would help with my immersion?
CodeChomper
08. Dec 2017 · 19:36 UTC
Good take on the theme. I too would have liked some music and sounds. But two days isn't a lot of time and you build a Dreamcast build! I did notice on the dialog screens when I pressed enter to go to the next line it would go through the lines as long and I held the button down. This caused me to miss some of the story, maybe you could use a buttonUp type method to avoid this? Thanks for the entry I had fun playing.

If you would like you could try my HTML5 game
## [Six](https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/40/six)
it is a programming puzzle platforming game in 3D.
Racso
13. Dec 2017 · 16:15 UTC
OK, I was happily torn apart :)

I liked that each character had a quite defined personality. The graphics are funny but somehow disturbing at the same time haha.

Overall, the game was fun. In the beginning, I was getting bored because there was only a girlfriend and the day was quite long, but afterwards things became more interesting as I had to begin remembering things and fill the meters up.

It would be nice to have a button to skip a conversation and go directly to the question.

Good job!
Jordgubben
19. Dec 2017 · 11:26 UTC
Quite possibly one of the strange games I've played this LD. I'm intrigued, and a bit frightened.

(At first I struggled a bit with controls. I thought Enter was forward, but it is apparently fast forward)