It's your life, dude by Guy Withivy

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made by Guy Withivy for LD 43 (JAM)

Growth and sacrifices, sacrifices and growth... they are so connected. A child point to an adult, and an old stare at his inner child. The story of a life... It's your life dude

==INSTRUCTIONS==

Click and drag items to match them horizontally and vertically

The more you match, the more you grow to pass to next age phase

Buttons on top to make more items fall

If you go out of your age energy, it's a game over

Ratings

Overall 974th 2.739⭐ 25🧑‍⚖️
Fun 980th 2.435⭐ 25🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 995th 2.348⭐ 25🧑‍⚖️
Theme 906th 2.739⭐ 25🧑‍⚖️
Audio 516th 2.978⭐ 25🧑‍⚖️
Humor 690th 2.5⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Mood 873th 2.725⭐ 22🧑‍⚖️
Given 20🗳️ 14🗨️

Feedback

Lizouille
04. Dec 2018 · 14:25 UTC
Nice game! I had some difficulty understanding how to play, but afterwards it all went smoothly. The graphics and the idea are funny. Good job!
JammedGame
06. Dec 2018 · 11:55 UTC
Great concept, didn't understand at first how to get extra tiles, was trying to clear all tiles at once for first stage. Just add in description that icons next to bars are also buttons :D Love the idea :)
Vlad11
06. Dec 2018 · 15:58 UTC
The game is very interesting, great idea but the sounds could be better.
rohezal
08. Dec 2018 · 13:00 UTC
This game is deep. What is more important, love, family or a fun activities? Packed into a fun card game. A good entry :). And I like the sounds.

A bit more description would improve the start a lot :)
Geckoo1337
08. Dec 2018 · 17:39 UTC
Hello. Your game seems really interesting, but I don't understand anything. I matched items like in an usual 3x3 match game, but it doesn't work. Can you please give some explanation. Thank you ++
xarona
13. Dec 2018 · 10:04 UTC
I don't understand what the objective is ...
royur
13. Dec 2018 · 12:37 UTC
i like it. i like matching game. don't know what's going on until adulthood there is a bar in the bottom. Pretty cool concept. ( is the yes yes reference from warcraft? )
Purrseus
13. Dec 2018 · 13:37 UTC
I like the game. It's a bit hard to figure out the controls, but once you did that, it's smooth play.

That dog is like the cutest illustration of a dog I've seen in a long time <3
mrspeaker
13. Dec 2018 · 16:06 UTC
Hey, can you explain what the goal is, and how you play? I can drag the icons around and match up a whole row of the same icon but nothing happens. I can click the baby's bottle and more icons come and it says "It's a sacrifice!" (in a hilarious way), but I don't understand what I'm sacrificing because nothing changes!
randomphantom
16. Dec 2018 · 13:04 UTC
Didn't really understand the message this was trying to bring about - as it felt a little abrupt to switch from a stage to another. Maybe life is all about making choices between being an apple fanboy, dancing to disco balls and making friends and ultimately the choices don't really matter, you're just killing time? There doesn't seem to be much challenge to the matching as you don't have to make a match to swap. Interesting idea to have some form of deeper meaning to a matching puzzle game though!
Kornel Meszaros
16. Dec 2018 · 13:36 UTC
Didn't understand the controls first, but after it I could easily/quickly reach the end...

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..and only after it did I realize what was this all about...

I got the message I think. With the music it's deep from a LD entry.

Very clever use of the theme.
jk5000
16. Dec 2018 · 14:29 UTC
The gameplay is simple and fun. The story is okay, but I would have liked even more story. Overall a fine LD game.
Lucidus
16. Dec 2018 · 15:27 UTC
I like the audio. :D Controls were ok, but I couldn't match more than two images. I agree with @jk5000 that more story would be great! ;)
picapica
16. Dec 2018 · 15:45 UTC
I couldn't quite understand the reason for doing things, but gameplay was nice and easy enough so i played it all the way through. Was kind of hoping for some scoring or other way to tell me how I had lived my life!

edit: reading other comments i now saw that i had missed completely that you could switch non-matching pictures! interesting that i could finish the game without realizing...
shieldgenerator7
19. Dec 2018 · 19:57 UTC
mechanics weren't well explained

...and i dont really have a lot of good things to say, so i'll just shut up now