Earigator by alec

Only you can help this poor poor man clean his ears. Stick your trusty Q-Tip deeper and deeper into hit his ear and clean out all the junk!
Features
High stakes ear cleaning action.
3 mini games to clean your Q-Tip
Guaranteed to make your wife dry heave.
Use the arrow keys to move, and X/C to reload your Q-Tip when it gets too heavy.
| Source Code | https://gist.github.com/AlecTroemel/1d51b9044ee07ace59c94e1b2ec4e6de |
| Link | https://alect.itch.io/earigator |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/48/earigator |
Ratings
| Overall | 22th | 4.205⭐ | 41🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 20th | 4.2⭐ | 42🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 61th | 4.1⭐ | 42🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 25th | 4.388⭐ | 42🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 62th | 4.238⭐ | 42🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 43th | 4.051⭐ | 41🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 6th | 4.463⭐ | 42🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 101th | 3.91⭐ | 41🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 58🗳️ | 57🗨️ |
A game about cleaning ears, with Minigames included, what a perfect premise! The animation on the ear bud was good, plus the hand in the strange pose I found particularly amusing.
I'm always amazed by the quality some people achieve with pico-8! This is a tight and focused game with great visuals, catchy music and intuitive gameplay. My only complaint is that the intro feels a little bit wordy, especially compared to the concise and streamlined feel of the rest of the game.
PS: The guy with the big ears looks like french politican François Bayrou.
PS2: It is disgusting.
Got stuck on one of the cleaning mini-games. No button seemed to work.
Not sure if it's a Firefox on Linux or a me issue though!
Nothing to say more, you game is very fun to play and quite simple to understand
Overall the game felt very polished. Not like I was playing an LD entry at all. The sound was great and the music catchy. Everything was just damn good.
And this right here is an especially remarkable specimen of Pico-8 glory!
I liked your game so much, I ended up speedrunning it! I really tried to push for that sub-35, though I'm stuck at 36 for now.
Awesome game!

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Update 1 day later:

Woop, woop! But now I wonder... can I go deeper?