Therapy by ZEZEL

made by ZEZEL for Ludum Dare 46 (JAM)

Welcome to our game called "Therapy" ! We are a group of high schoolers in senior year trying to have fun developing a game all together in spite of the quarantine. This is our first time developing a game and participing to this kind of event and we are really proud of the outcome of it !

This game is made for the 46th Ludum Dare as theme 'Keep It Alive' and since we are all in the scientific pathway, we made a game related to science !

In our game you're a kind of 'antibody' coming out of a liquid injected to a person with a syringe, the goal is to survive, to keep it alive as you can guess ! It's goal is to save that person from an unknown virus by destroying the differents infected cells in the body. We don't wanna spoil you anything about what's in our game but we would really appreciate to have a critical feedback !

Please leave a comment to tell us how you liked it, don't forget to rate it and share to your friends or family if you appreciated our game !

And we hope you'll like the death screen because you'll see it very often trust us :wink: .

Join us on Discord : https://discordapp.com/invite/adnuSpa

Youtube	https://colibristudio.itch.io/therapy
Youtube	https://github.com/ColibriStudioDev/ld46sourcecode
Original URL	https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/ld46-starting-block

Ratings

Overall	1204^th	3.5⭐	47🧑‍⚖️
Fun	1561^th	3.156⭐	47🧑‍⚖️
Innovation	1591^th	3.1⭐	47🧑‍⚖️
Theme	1056^th	3.733⭐	47🧑‍⚖️
Graphics	1598^th	3.333⭐	47🧑‍⚖️
Audio	1011^th	3.244⭐	47🧑‍⚖️
Humor	786^th	3.221⭐	45🧑‍⚖️
Mood	1096^th	3.455⭐	46🧑‍⚖️
Given		40🗳️	61🗨️

Feedback

RoyalSoup

21. Apr 2020 · 02:01 UTC

Hey there, interesting idea! I liked the concept of being a cell trying to keep someone alive. Lil Osmosis Jones action. Things I would change about it are the audio seemed to be exceptionally loud and it's crazy hard! haha maybe just have the timer be longer. I only got to the third checkpoint :'(
If you get a moment, check out my game! I'd love to get some critical feedback. :D

Cheese Team

21. Apr 2020 · 02:02 UTC

MacOS build is broken :(

Dizzy

21. Apr 2020 · 02:05 UTC

I like the concept! Great work guys!

Haiua

21. Apr 2020 · 02:19 UTC

We are sorry to hear that the MacOS build is broken, since none of us works on a Mac we weren't sure if the build for MacOS would work, we will try to figure out something ! Sorry for the inconvenience :(

bmacintosh

21. Apr 2020 · 05:09 UTC

Wow, there's a lot in this game. It is indeed very hard - I made it to the second "real" level, eventually. Timing jumps was difficult because the character had no connection with ground, so I couldn't tell when I was going to run out of platform. A common feature for platformers that might help with this is "coyote time", where the player is actually still allowed to jump for a few frames after they actually run off a platform. I liked how jumping and landing felt, though.

Hruy Gashaw

21. Apr 2020 · 16:09 UTC

Awesome, not many games score very well on humour, this is an definetly exeption.

HKSpadez

21. Apr 2020 · 19:34 UTC

Awesome game! the art is really nice and nostalgic

Risist

21. Apr 2020 · 19:40 UTC

Ouh, from miniature i thought this will have graphics full of memes

BenBonk

22. Apr 2020 · 12:24 UTC

Saw the thumbnail. Had to click. Great game 10/10 -IGN.

PaoloGinefra

22. Apr 2020 · 12:36 UTC

Nice idea. The controls are a bit loose. I'm not a big fan of this kind of art style but it works in this scenario.

Pixel_Error

22. Apr 2020 · 13:37 UTC

Hilarious death screen xDD

Sir Magic

22. Apr 2020 · 13:44 UTC

I really like the idea, and the floaty jump actually makes perfect sense in this game. The rounded CRT effect was cool but not really sure what this was trying to convey. There were points where I didn't know where to go or what to do and at one point I jumped into a pit and died because I couldn't see the spikes.

The audio was great and the music was very fitting. I also loved the graphical details such as the character bobbing up and down.

All in all, a nice little game!

Yohapii

22. Apr 2020 · 13:45 UTC

I'm impressed! Good job! Controls could get some polish but overall it was an awesome game jam game. :) Very topical too in these times.

RedDashGames

22. Apr 2020 · 18:40 UTC

Wow this games hard, but its also very fun, needs a bit more polish but what is there has protental.

(also really loud)

JJacobs

22. Apr 2020 · 19:21 UTC

Nice game and totally relevent, however, the character control felt too loose for a platformer

Narom42

23. Apr 2020 · 14:26 UTC

Nice little game, I agree with most comments, controls are a bit loose so no real physics feeling and some hard to guess hitbox. Thanks

Euler Moises

23. Apr 2020 · 14:59 UTC

A good game overall. Nothing innovative, but it was interesting with the adaptation to the history of the virus. A tip for those who made the soundtrack: It doesn't matter if the track is simple and with few channels, avoid me too short loopings. This causes the music to become irritating and the player to turn off the audio. Make trails with a minimum duration of 45 seconds.
Let's go to the cure !!!

Congratulations for the game.

LairinLair

23. Apr 2020 · 17:06 UTC

This is a good game and even better considering that was your first. Made me happy that I can see you give special attention to audio. Even though that short looping was making me tired. Dont know if I reached the end of the game, I climbed to the top, but theres nowhere to go. Congratulations for a very good game in your very first jam.

Laura del Pino

24. Apr 2020 · 14:53 UTC

Hi! Good job for your first game jam!!! I liked the concept but It's quite difficult to control the character. Also Take care the contract between the animated character with the black outline and the rest of the enviroment that hasn't this outline. It feels like two artist working on their own. However, good job, congratulations.

Aurel300

24. Apr 2020 · 18:29 UTC

We streamed your game with Danae: [link to Twitch VOD](https://www.twitch.tv/videos/598538752?t=01h16m40s) (approximate timestamp)

Nice job, well done on finishing a game with such a large team for the first time. My biggest issue with this one is probably the physics. The platforming is a bit floaty (although it behaves better than many "floaty" LD games). The fact that the character literally floats above the ground really doesn't help! This, combined with the slightly too large hitbox made for some (IMHO) slightly unfair platforming challenges. On the other hand, there was a nice variety of types of platforming challenges – timing, moving platforms, spikes, winds, rising lava.

Gorypixels

24. Apr 2020 · 20:07 UTC

I’m extremely bad at platformers, so I couldn’t get very far jajajaj but what I could see was a very polished experience! well done! :D

Grossepelle

25. Apr 2020 · 18:59 UTC

Thank you a lot @euler-moises, I appreciate and I heard your advices!

Grossepelle

25. Apr 2020 · 19:15 UTC

@lairinlair feel like u went to the top left corner of the "bladder's level". Then u were supposed to go to the right(yes it wasnt obvious, litlle mistake, ups). And it left 2 other level more the final screen ;)
And ty for the return!!!

Grossepelle

26. Apr 2020 · 00:15 UTC

@laura-del-pino you actually spotted it xd

Grossepelle

26. Apr 2020 · 00:19 UTC

Yess we saw it @aurel300 !! Thank a lot by the way it was so cool to see our own baby game played by a streamer!

Gelgavish

26. Apr 2020 · 12:52 UTC

When I first played the game I was just shocked by how you guys managed to make such a good game in 72 hours! :D The graphics are awesome and so does the sound. Everything I looked at in this game was really polished and well made.

Amazing job! :)

Black Flag

29. Apr 2020 · 14:58 UTC

Nice graphics, the jump controls felt a bit floaty but maybe that was intentional! The game froze after I went into a spike repeatedly when respawning by accident too, luckily it was close to the start though! Overall, really good jam entry!

8BitCharlie

30. Apr 2020 · 10:02 UTC

This is not my cup of coffee but it is really obvious your team put a lot of effort into it! Respect.

Haiua

01. May 2020 · 19:01 UTC

Thanks for the great feedbacks ! We really appreciate it :^)

Jupiter_Hadley

05. May 2020 · 16:01 UTC

Interesting concept! I included it in my Ludum Dare 46 compilation video series, if you want to take a look. :) https://youtu.be/7Pd4SRINH38