Keep the marriage 'alive' by MarcoMing

made by MarcoMing for Ludum Dare 46 (JAM)

Ludom Dare 46 entry,

Keep the marriage alive is a game where the protagonists are a couple that have been married for years.

In their everyday live, many things can happen that will make loose thier temper - your objective is to "save" their marriage!

Key Icons=need to play using specific keys.

Mouse Icon=need to play using your mouse.

Touch Icon= need to click and drag away from the screen something.

X icon=do not do anything.

The Team:

Lead programmer: Marco Minganna -https://www.marcominganna.com

Lead Artist: Lucia Paganini-https://lucisaurus.com

Sound Engineer: Pietro Quaranta

All the game asset are done by the team. Used Unity Engine.

Youtube	https://minga.itch.io/keep-the-marriage-alive
Original URL	https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/keep-the-marriage-alive

Ratings

Overall	596^th	3.763⭐	40🧑‍⚖️
Fun	738^th	3.566⭐	40🧑‍⚖️
Innovation	517^th	3.658⭐	40🧑‍⚖️
Theme	109^th	4.263⭐	40🧑‍⚖️
Graphics	702^th	3.974⭐	40🧑‍⚖️
Audio	768^th	3.447⭐	40🧑‍⚖️
Humor	105^th	4.092⭐	40🧑‍⚖️
Mood	473^th	3.803⭐	40🧑‍⚖️
Given		35🗳️	48🗨️

Feedback

Fictions

20. Apr 2020 · 08:48 UTC

What a treat this game was! Each mini-game feels unique and I love the way the story is told with the gameplay. Absolut fantastic job!

🎤 MarcoMing

20. Apr 2020 · 18:07 UTC

@fictions Thanks so much for your kind comment and for playing!

f4kethis

20. Apr 2020 · 18:37 UTC

This is adorable. It's like a wholesome take on Warioware and I'm here for it.

Every time the "wait for the store to open" screen came up it immediately disappeared for me? I have no idea if I'm just doing something wrong there?

dazedhead

20. Apr 2020 · 18:38 UTC

Fun game but now my picture of marriage is kinda ruined :-D

Stefanie Leitch

20. Apr 2020 · 18:39 UTC

Loved the art and sound! All the little mini games were cool. The only one I couldn't figure out was the eating popcorn game. I tried going back and forth as quickly as I could and lost, then I tried just feeding one of them a ton and lost... Not sure what was supposed to be done there.

Still, really good game!

🎤 MarcoMing

20. Apr 2020 · 18:43 UTC

@f4kethis thanks so much for playing! The pharmacy level it's meant to have you literally do nothing and wait, maybe you moved the mouse accidentally? Or I might have messed up the code lol.

🎤 MarcoMing

20. Apr 2020 · 18:45 UTC

@stefanie-leitch Thank you! The eating popcorn one you had to give the same amount of popcorn to each, or the other would get angry! I should have done a little page at the beginning that you could click on and explained the mini games really, I just realised now. Thanks for playing tho!

zoglu

20. Apr 2020 · 18:45 UTC

So you made it : Wario Ware meets marriage. Excellent idea for this theme. Some minigames' instructions were not always clear (I kept missing the toilet game before understanding it was a matter of timing) but I really enjoyed the other ones, especially the one with the rubbish bin (so relatable...). Good job !

Chaseplays

20. Apr 2020 · 18:49 UTC

This was a lot of fun! I especially liked the artwork, and each minigame was unique and interesting to play! It was a bit glitchy (sometimes I think I would start a game too early and then graphics would show up that weren't relevant), but that usually only showed up after a while of playing. I enjoyed this a lot, great work!

🎤 MarcoMing

20. Apr 2020 · 19:32 UTC

@zoglu thanks for playing and for the feedback! Yes, I realised now I should have left an extra page with each game instructions or a clearer explanation... oh well, that's something I will remember next time! SO glad you enjoyed the game especially since your is soooo good!!

🎤 MarcoMing

20. Apr 2020 · 19:33 UTC

@chaseplays thank you! oh that must have been my mistake, we didn't test enough really to find all the bugs - thanks for letting me know, at least I know now! thanks for playing and your feedback :D

Efmi_

20. Apr 2020 · 20:28 UTC

I truly enjoyed this game! The simplisity of only having only a few tasks to learn that sped up was really a nice choise. Sometimes when I played for a couple of minutes the screen stopped clearing out completely, but at that point the speed of things was at a point that it wasn't really hurting the experience.

I really love the way you approached the game, this game made me smile so much and ahs definetely been best game I've played so far from this jam. Absolutely great work!

LouieJams

20. Apr 2020 · 20:28 UTC

Reminded me of the wario ware type games! really nice idea for an old couple marriage. The only one I couldn't figure out how to interact with was the fly and the digger.

dhim

20. Apr 2020 · 20:31 UTC

Seems fun, are you planning a web version ? I'd love to play and rate it!

Bentebent

20. Apr 2020 · 20:43 UTC

Really cute assembly of minigames but I couldn't for the life of me figure out the _first_ one with the fly?

MoweMax

21. Apr 2020 · 00:02 UTC

Nice twist on the theme, interesting challenge variations, really like it! Also scene pace reminded me about 'Dumb ways to die'! Web version would be nice to have

junojop

21. Apr 2020 · 02:53 UTC

this is oddly heartwarming :heart:

Ladycerberus

21. Apr 2020 · 06:10 UTC

I really enjoy the theme of the game and this couple are endearing. Take me a bit to understand diferent mechanics but once you know is funny to play :). When game goes crazy sometimes assets overlaps to each other but is a little bug

Artoo

21. Apr 2020 · 11:05 UTC

Love relaxing while watching construction machines : D

Moolamu

21. Apr 2020 · 11:32 UTC

Fun and cute!
An adorable twist on the theme, very endearing overall.

IronyGames

21. Apr 2020 · 11:50 UTC

Aaah, it's a cute WarioWare style game. I love it. All feedback I can give is please more minigames :D

Takase

21. Apr 2020 · 13:49 UTC

The story transmitted by the mini games is very cool to follow! Well done!

Samuel Hollywood-Summers

21. Apr 2020 · 16:58 UTC

Would be great to have a mac build or a browser version, I'm intrigued!

Magali Mingo

22. Apr 2020 · 06:13 UTC

This is cute!!

rkhadder

22. Apr 2020 · 06:24 UTC

Cute art

Nexushub

22. Apr 2020 · 09:31 UTC

Is fun and have great ideas, but need better in game guide and for some reason visual glitches often pop up.

Baptiste Guerin

22. Apr 2020 · 09:44 UTC

Cute game!! I love the toilet game like this xD

krakadushka

22. Apr 2020 · 11:29 UTC

Cool concept! It's a pity that sliders are default

NoamRaz

22. Apr 2020 · 13:02 UTC

Wow That cool!

Number6406

22. Apr 2020 · 22:42 UTC

I love the idea and the graphics are really cute but unfortunately I was able to play... All the levels are really fast so every time I failed them.

Maybe my processor is too fast and all is "frame based". I already had this kind of problem with other games, have you used a delta timer in the main game loop so the time flows at the same rate for every computer ?
I'd love to play your game because it feels funny, but for now I can't rate it as I wasn't able to really test it ^^

Please let me know if you get time to fix this and upload a patch :)

picross

23. Apr 2020 · 03:43 UTC

Fun, cute little game! I liked the graphics and take on the WarioWare genre. However, each minigame had a few glitches in them that made the game inaccessibly difficult at times. It gets fast really quickly and makes it near impossible to beat levels. Good job on this game, though! I liked it a lot.

mehrdadsh

25. Apr 2020 · 13:57 UTC

Hello, just saw your game, nice graphics. I'm a programmer looking for a graphic designer or a team to join and maybe work on new games, are you interested?
email:m.shahiri.m@gmail.com
my LudumDare Game:
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/social-distancing-for-ladybugs

mehrdadsh

25. Apr 2020 · 14:00 UTC

Emkani

26. Apr 2020 · 09:49 UTC

Neat and unique idea, unfortunately had the same bug multiple plays, the mini-games would overlap each other making it completely impossible to solve.
Cute and functional graphics.
Only issue is the controls, very tough to aim with the mouse for small areas (the slider knob) and also the instructions were unclear sometimes.

sydream

26. Apr 2020 · 09:50 UTC

Great job, the art is fantastic, the idea is quite innovative actually although the gameplay it's basic. I had some trouble with the controls, some of the minigame will just jump out of the scene abruptly as the timer was going crazy so not so sure about the execution from a programming point of view. Anyhow great job... that art though (it's brilliant did I said that already?)

Azathothep

26. Apr 2020 · 12:20 UTC

Cute little game, lacks a bit of clarity (the timer is sometimes too fast to react properly), but that's a very good job for a jam! Succession of mini-games like this are quite hard to make in such a short time, so congrats :)

lucisaurus

26. Apr 2020 · 14:45 UTC

@sydream Aaah thanks so much, glad you liked my graphics! :)

lucisaurus

26. Apr 2020 · 14:52 UTC

@number6406 Thanks for taking the time to leave us feedback! Glad you like my graphics :) I'm not too sure what the programmer did as I know nothing about programming. Unfortunately we took this game as a test, we only spent a day on it really, working full time it would be hard to take time to improve it! We'll try to do better in our next jam :D

Number6406

26. Apr 2020 · 18:16 UTC

@lucisaurus Alright, thank you for your answer :slight_smile:
It's always hard to have a glitch-less game, well done for doing this in only one day anyway! :grinning:

Daniil Tcyvakin

27. Apr 2020 · 20:15 UTC

Good drawing, some levels are incomprehensible

Inka McAtee

28. Apr 2020 · 09:40 UTC

OMG! I LOVE the Art. This is such beautiful <3 Much Wow :o

Molpe

29. Apr 2020 · 02:08 UTC

Love the idea and the art style! Saddly I broke the game every time I tried to play :(

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9ZixBXXxp4

Lexyvil

29. Apr 2020 · 04:24 UTC

Very fun game! Gets hard rather fast. The game I had trouble understanding and took me a while to figure out was the relaxing on the bench one--I had no indication that I had click the fly away. And I still couldn't know what to do with the toilet seat. I assumed I had to press or spam "E".