hello doctor i am in pain by elZach

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made by elZach for Ludum Dare 48 (COMPO)

Rules: Classic and wholesome therapy by minesweeper

  • click cubes to see if they were bad memories or not
  • numbers indicate how many bad memories are in proximity along all axis and diagonals
  • if you click on bad memories there is a chance they will spread and take over the mind of your patient
  • you got additional tools: every three turns you can reveal a cube with analyze
  • every five turns you can discuss a problem to resolve all connected problems

The goal is to free your patient of all bad memories by discussing them. firefox<em>PME4Gjrmej.png firefox</em>UkYgLw9lVL.png

Ratings

Overall 126th 3.889⭐ 20🧑‍⚖️
Fun 286th 3.588⭐ 19🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 33th 4.278⭐ 20🧑‍⚖️
Theme 134th 4.056⭐ 20🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 130th 4.028⭐ 20🧑‍⚖️
Audio 109th 3.833⭐ 20🧑‍⚖️
Mood 158th 3.75⭐ 20🧑‍⚖️
Given 12🗳️ 10🗨️

Feedback

liammasters
26. Apr 2021 · 04:05 UTC
Cool concept and graphics, the music is great. It was a little hard to tell if I was doing the right thing at times and difficult to figure out what the numbers meant. Cool very original idea.
LordMiji
26. Apr 2021 · 04:19 UTC
The best game I have reviewed so far. What an incredible idea to have a 3d version of minesweeper. Well done.
Retrisma
26. Apr 2021 · 10:26 UTC
Very cool idea, but it's difficult to play as implemented. One of the best ideas I've seen so far in this jam though. It's just difficult to read all of the numbers and mentally understand what they mean and where they are relevant.
hungryroy
26. Apr 2021 · 10:38 UTC
This is great and also really challenging. I managed to finish the first patient, but didn't have time for the succeeding ones, as the solving can take a while! The presentation of the numbers can get a bit messy, especially if you've already cleared a bunch of them, then there's a lot of numbers floating around, it's easy to get confused. I'm not sure how to improve it though. The bgm is on point!
LeReveur
27. Apr 2021 · 00:18 UTC
I minesweaper in 3D, this is surely an ambitious idea! I did not understand how all the actions work, nro how to reach the cubes hidden by some I know there are bad, so I didn't manage to finish even one level. But with a little more explanations on the gameplay, I guess it's finishable.
Good job anyways!
BangKerpow
27. Apr 2021 · 13:39 UTC
This is an amazing game. The psychoanalysis aspect was a cool twist on minesweeper. It's a very cool way to address the theme of the jam. I was able to clear the first level once I figured out what the discuss button did.

I gave up on the higher levels because the swarm of numbers was harder to process than it was fun to solve. Hiding the numbers that aren't next to any block might help with this. It would also be nice to control the pivot point with a pan control.
Jupiter_Hadley
27. Apr 2021 · 16:47 UTC
Very interesting game. I included it in my compilation video series of a bunch of LDJAM games!
https://youtu.be/joQCxT9jLww
gnevesdev
27. Apr 2021 · 17:32 UTC
Woah! Very nice idea! I imagine being a doctor is sometimes like solving a Minesweeper haha.
Stephen is really hard btw :P
chulini
29. Apr 2021 · 06:09 UTC
Awesome idea! Pretty in line with the theme on an innovative way.
I'm not good at minesweeper but enjoyed the game anyways just wondering what my patients would say after exploding a mine in their brains.
The music and sound effects are also :ok_hand:
mrawde
03. May 2021 · 02:17 UTC
Cool idea! Quite challenging/stressful to try to visualize 3d minesweeper. I would've maybe skewed the game to be a little easer, e.g., Stephan would be a 3x3 or 4x4, just to get the player more used to the rules.

Great work overall!
fueelin
05. May 2021 · 17:44 UTC
That was a really cool idea! I liked the music, art, and interface a lot too! I would suggest some tweaks to improve the readability of the numbers. There were times when I couldn't really read a number without finding the perfect angle (either because of overlap with numbers behind it or because the white letters blended in to the light-colored blocks).
joselor
13. May 2021 · 16:51 UTC
An awesome idea, and a really nice execution led to me playing the game for an hour, it was too much fun ! Excellent work
Zuvr
13. May 2021 · 21:46 UTC
Loved it! Great idea and very well executed.
As an avid Minesweeper myself I tried to avoid using the extra tools, and was impressed to notice that there were cases where I had to use them in order to succeed.

All you need is a slight outline for the text and this'll be a 10/10
BrettSchiff
14. May 2021 · 05:03 UTC
Cool spin on a classic game with some nice (mildly creepy) flavoring as well!
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