Ludum Dare News Network by SecretJuice

Ludum Dare News Network, or LDNN, is in major trouble after their Star Host, Chad "Hotshot" McGuffin came down with a cold.
Now it's up to you to keep LDNN in the green with a deep, low, smooth, handsome voice.
NOTE: The game requires a working microphone to play.
Game By: Connor Robb (SecretJuice)
Ratings
| Given | 56🗳️ | 59🗨️ |
The entire premise is stupid, you have to say stupid things out loud with a stupid voice and not absolutely die laughing at what you are saying, and then you have to listen to yourself back. I usually hate listening to my voice but this was just too funny.
The number of jokes in this is just too good too. Bosnian Ape Society, breaking the 4th wall, breaking breaking the 4th wall, and Mr McGuffin ... hahahaha
My only gripe is it doesn't conform with the theme too much. You're asked to go deep, but not deeper *and deeper*...
I got a 72.68 btw!
I hope you give it a chance when I get it sorted out!
EDIT: There is a live Linux version now, though I can't test it. Also, because I'm using the Microphone API, I don't think I can port it to WebGL or MacOS without a bunch of extra tinkering. Sorry if that keeps anyone out!
I could easily see a minigame like that on a party game or something, it's a great idea !
And nice reference to bosnian ape society :ok_hand:
This was really fun! Playing back the recordings after each day was really cool, and the writing kept me wanting more.
This is a small nitpick, but I think the mouth would look better if it had no frame interpolation and had no texture filtering. It also should have a metric for scores to give players a general estimate of what to expect for a decent score, good score, great score, etc.
That's really the best I can do as far as criticism goes. Thanks for making the most out-of-left-entry I've seen yet.
Anyways, I cloned out your project and tried to build it for myself. The problem is (ant the reason why I HATE Unity) that even though I used the exact same version of Unity for opening the project, the scenes are just empty. It's so frustrating that I have to code, but cannot make it work.
And you know what, before I go sleep, I'm gonna install this version of Unity on my windows too and try to build it there for my mac. Let's see if it works.
Update: OK, I gave up. I'm really sorry but somewhy it still doesn't work :( For Mac users: yes, I tried to open it with Rosetta, but still nothing good.
At least I gave you feedback that either Unity or OSX is a shit. Or both :)
The concept was really creative and the execution was nicely done as well, fantastic work!
Funny, when working on the jam, somebody suggested having a game where the voice lines just keep getting deeper and deeper until they're indecipherable. This isn't quite that, but close!
Has anybody tested what score you get if you just rip a long fart into the microphone? :D
and then at the end it plays my voice back to me omgosh I never even hear a recording of myself it felt like a direct attack on me haha
I really had fun though! it's such a unique take on the theme, it really stands out with the mechanic, but is also supported well with the sounds, humor, and even the graphics adds to it. The black circle for the mouth is hilarious and I wouldn't have it any other way >:)
Well done secretjuice!
PS: You definitely have the voice to replace Chad "Hotshot" McGuffin :P
Now this is just the kind of goofiness that is right up our alley. :smile: Such a nice simple premise squeezed for every drop of humor it's worth. I love how you encourage players to get extra goofy with it by rewarding points based on how "deep" they go. Really awesome work here. :ok_hand:
Thanks for submitting the game to the stream; this was lots of fun! I'd love it if the prompts were randomized on repeat playthroughs, and perhaps you could add an alternate more where you could challenge yourself to make your voice as high-pitched as possible? (Obviously not in keeping with the theme, but just for the fun of it).
Finally got around to play this game. I was waiting for a time when everyone was out or asleep so I wouldn't embarass myself :smile:
And my god, what a gem your game is. I was going into it thinking I'd really hate it, since I'm not too comfortable with my voice, but damn! This was hilarious, it was entertaining, and I loved every second of it!
I got a score of 70.something. What is a good score? Would it be higher, if I didn't end two of the promts with "what the f**k"? :smile:
Anyway, I really had a blast. I have bookmarked this game to train deep voice with it :smile: Let me know what score should I strive towards :smile:
P.S.: I had a lot of fun on your stream. Thanks for that too!
Incredibly inventive and hilarious game! Tell this "Secret_Juice" intern he should get better at coming up with prompts in time by the way, I don't think these would work in the journalistic world :smirk:
Congrats and thank you for testing my game!