Acquaintances by RodrigoNietiedt
-Hey, Don't I know you?
-Yes!, I remember you!
-What a small World!
Acquaintances is a game where you must recognize and find an old friend.
Controls: click people you want to talk to.

tips: Once you find your friend, try to memorize how he looks like ;). And try to get as many achievements you can.
Gameplay Vídeo:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GN1Tbkezec
Play the game:
Web build: http://digonalmeida.github.io/ld38_html5
Windows PC build: http://digonalmeida.github.io/ld38
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/38/acquaintances |
Ratings
| Overall | 387th | 3.368⭐ | 21🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 383th | 3.158⭐ | 21🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 239th | 3.421⭐ | 21🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 3th | 4.526⭐ | 21🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 518th | 3.105⭐ | 21🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 43th | 4.056⭐ | 20🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 18th | 4.222⭐ | 20🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 198th | 3.611⭐ | 20🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 1🗳️ | 4🗨️ |
I saw the screenshot of the people when I was working on my game, and when I saw the thumbnail pop up on feedback friends, I had to check it out.
The character art and voice acting are perfect, giving the game a nice feel.
The use of achievements to add replay value is great for such a small game (although the screen where it shows everyone you've met takes a long time if you've become a stalker :)
Sometimes the achievement boxes disappear a little early, and the background is a little bit odd at times. More resolution options would have been good. Its a little blurry fullscreen on my monitor.
Those are pretty much my only major complaints.
This game is perfect at being what it is, which is hilarious :)
I love how you interpreted the theme. While most people are making space based things or gravity and physics puzzlers, you made a 'socially' small world. Top marks there!
There were a few little UI glitches with the achievement screen and the people met screen was slightly annoying if you clicked one person multiple times. Maybe just have the person appear larger the more they were clicked on?
Overall though it was really good. I enjoyed my playthrough.
But still there are some troubles - UI box with achievement info was too annoying, it covered too much space. I think you need to put it on the special fixed place.
Background is weird, also I thought the same about the characters but their animations fixed the situation.
I spent a while clicking on characters and sometimes I didn't understand what to do cause I didn't see an achievement box.
All in all, this game is simple and fun, I loved it
I love the voices and the little end screen thing. Achievements were a good surprise as well, at first I must say I didn't know why I was being called an introvert out of nowhere haha. If I were to suggest something it would be to make the achievement boxes less obstructing... otherwise the game is well executed.
Overall, great entry! Good job!
Yeah, there's not much to the gameplay itself, but you did everything with great style, variety, and humor.
I know it's been said before, along with all the other comments, I would of loved to have seen people moving, a scene where you have to find a familiar friend, or even a group of friends. There is a lot you could add to this to make it more interactive.
Nice little game! :)
awesome job
edit: the credit screen has no names? if there is a way to make them show, im just not getting it.
My only suggestion is, instead of a grid of people it might have been more interesting if they were all kind of milling about or standing in small groups. As it is, it's easy to just go row by row looking for your friend.
Good job on the game!
Still, mechanic wise, you could try to come up later with something more memorable or outstanding. I like how there's a lot of different voices and character, and that they're somewhat animated, but other than that, this is more of a click-a-thon than an actual puzzle game. One playthrough and that's it.
However, I must say that even with that in mind, I felt that the game was very polished, with transitions and additions that made it into a fluid experience. No hiccups, and some tiny details like the ending screen listing every character I poked. Those were fantastic additions.
We, [Whales and Games](https://twitter.com/WhalesAndGames), are following around other people that participated along us in this gamejam, so if you have a Twitter account, please share it. We'd like to see what you can come up with in the future! :whale: