Greg Island by LJFMX

Here we are again! 3 straight Ludum Dare's with the man himself!
Incompatible Genres
Dating-Sim and Survival/Walking-Sim
Story
A couple months ago you were on a plane to Gregtopolis and it crash landed on this deserted island. It killed all but 4 Gregs. As a Greg, you've come to be very lonely from being stuck on this island for months! You've decided now is the time to find a suitable mate.
Goal
After you talk to a Greg, you will be prompted to fetch 3 special items specific to each Greg. Return them to him, and exile the loneliness from your heart and regain your Greg-hood.
Controls:
WASD - First-Person Controls
Left Click - Pickup items/Next dialogue
E - Talk to another Greg
Space - Jump
Shift - Sprint
Known Bugs:
- Aloe falls through the floor
- Sometimes aloe isn't recognized by Dr. Greg :(
Thanks
Want to say thank you so much to Mike for his tremendous work every year. Thanks to this community for all of the teaching, helping, and kindness over the past year.
R.I.P to Verne Troyer (Mini Me from Austin Powers), who died during the jam. Thanks for all the laughs.
| Windows | https://ljfmx.itch.io/greg-island |
| Windows | https://ljfmx.itch.io/greg-island |
| macOS | https://ljfmx.itch.io/greg-island |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/greg-island |
Ratings
| Overall | 400th | 3.306⭐ | 20🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 380th | 3.222⭐ | 20🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 549th | 2.947⭐ | 21🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 540th | 3.139⭐ | 20🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 270th | 3.444⭐ | 20🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 109th | 3.528⭐ | 20🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 108th | 3.472⭐ | 20🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 118th | 3.528⭐ | 20🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 9🗳️ | 7🗨️ |
if you have time, checkout my entry: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/golden-beak-golf/
Cute game, nice music!
I could find no love and had to abandon all and save myself by swimming off into the sunset.
Dr. Greg was a real jerk. He stole the poems and refused all my gifts. I'm not sure if he was designed that way but when I couldn't find pie and the poems were indisposed I got into a locked state.
Did you know that you can walk on your ocean floor? I discovered this when I tried to get Greg some water but fell in instead.
The island needs invisible walls or a death plane in the water so you don't get stuck down there. Always good to assume the worst from the player, which is usually how I play. :P
The walking simulator / dating sim is a pretty compatible pair of things, since they're both styles of adventure games. I didn't have to go far to satisfy Emo Greg but maybe the other guys make me walk farther? Would have been nice to explore the island a bit more. Y'know, more "walking" in the "walking simulator."
The graphical style was neat, though, and the game worked as intended. :)
On my first attempt through the game, I talked to everyone, then fell off the world into the water. A shallower beach or an invisible wall would have been useful, since I wasn't able to get back up. After restarting the game, I decided I'd like to make all three gregs love me, but as soon as I finished helping emo greg the game ended.
I accidentally skipped a lot of narrator text; I'm used to textboxes in games where the first click skips the text animation, displaying the whole thing, and only once all the text is displayed does a click go to the next line of dialogue. But here I either had to wait through the animation or I didn't get to read the narration.
Aside from those nitpicks I really enjoyed my time here. It's hard to pin down the mood of this game to any one component; the music, graphics, and tasks you're given all contribute to the overall feeling and I think you've done a great job here.