Misinformation: Pandemic by LDJam user 301921

made by LDJam user 301921 for Ludum Dare 51 (COMPO)

It's ~~1984~~ 1989, and the latest game to rock the GameBoy scene is "Misinformation Pandemic!". Every 10 seconds, new misinformation disseminates but the masses are confused ! You must blend in with other shoppers or otherwise get your ass beat up while trying to buy groceries.

"This games story makes no sense ! In no way that could ever happen" - Game Review, Dec 1989

"This game is pacman meets daily tedium meets fear sensationalism" - Probably some guy, 2022

"Historians now recognize this man was likely a prophet, delivering prophesy to the masses via a digestible, easily understood LudumDare jam entry" - Last man alive, 2025

Itch.io web game: https://hotpath.itch.io/misinformation-pandemic

Link	https://hotpath.itch.io/misinformation-pandemic
Original URL	https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/51/misinformation-pandemic

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LDJam user 278918

02. Oct 2022 · 19:24 UTC

I really like the style of this game! I would suggest adding a note that Z progressing the text, since I spend a good 30 seconds just randomly hitting keys trying to figure out what it was. You had a great idea with this game and I think it was really well executed!

M4ttU

03. Oct 2022 · 15:23 UTC

Thanks @iguanana for the comment because I was having a hard time trying to guess what was needed to be done ahah! But apart from this, the game is good, the music has an annoyingly addictive vibe that you could find in almost every gameboy games.
Nice job!

ThaProfesional

06. Oct 2022 · 07:39 UTC

Dug the look and feel and sound really embodied the gameboy. The "NPCs changing look" animation was especially cool.

Game flavour gave me a good feeling of paranoia while I was playing.

One thing took me a while to figure out is in the tutorial is says to press "B" to toggle mask but the actual button was "x".