Mosquito got my Brain by ardorugus

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made by ardorugus for Ludum Dare 49 (JAM)

Psy-biting-sfx-comedy-thriller.

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VR game designer working on "Mosquitonkhamun" immersive sim is being attacked by one intense mosquito, which makes him quite unstable through the week.

  • real live rhythm recordings (household + ardorugus)
  • a bit of voice narration
  • live mosquito rec (multi-timbre vox)
  • authentic 2D art based on a real Balkans house (+ room renovation ideas)
  • a portrait of Mosquitonkhamun to fumigate for

Press Space to play (whenever you feel dizzy). Though, give an ear to the narrative.

ardskape.itch.io

log1 A bitey (when Mosquito got my Brain)

log2 Horses VS Mosquitos

log3 Mosquitonkhamun: Origins

Ratings

Overall 1272th 3.071⭐ 65🧑‍⚖️
Fun 1428th 2.621⭐ 64🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 994th 3.081⭐ 64🧑‍⚖️
Theme 1120th 3.111⭐ 65🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 908th 3.438⭐ 66🧑‍⚖️
Audio 239th 3.817⭐ 65🧑‍⚖️
Humor 625th 3.142⭐ 62🧑‍⚖️
Mood 540th 3.595⭐ 65🧑‍⚖️
Given 81🗳️ 119🗨️

Feedback

The Lame Brain
04. Oct 2021 · 21:06 UTC
What did I just play? Now I feel unstable!

Cheers! [-LB](https://ldjam.com/users/the-lame-brain/)
PartTimeIndie
05. Oct 2021 · 17:21 UTC
I did enjoy this alot great work
PartTimeIndie
05. Oct 2021 · 17:21 UTC
ups that was by accident
vsi-
06. Oct 2021 · 08:21 UTC
Liked the graphs,gj!
SamarthMP5002
06. Oct 2021 · 12:28 UTC
Pretty noice!
Meita
06. Oct 2021 · 12:32 UTC
like the music
Kamuniaft
06. Oct 2021 · 12:41 UTC
Really got hinged on killing mosquitos. Cool sound design! Feels like reading Lovecraft, unstable indeed :)
GeroX
06. Oct 2021 · 14:00 UTC
Very 'interesting' game. I liked the voice acting.
Alex Chertilin
06. Oct 2021 · 14:10 UTC
Great style! It's definitely unstable with mosquitos
enderswype
06. Oct 2021 · 14:15 UTC
i have no idea what just happened to me, please send help, i am traumatized by this experience, HELP
Alexthehuman2
06. Oct 2021 · 15:02 UTC
It's a wonderful kinetic novel, however I feel like the music at the end is a bit loud. I had to turn my volume down to 3% just so I could listen to the good music. Other than that, excellent voice acting, enjoyed most moments within the game.
Zack Andre
06. Oct 2021 · 23:34 UTC
Very nice voice narration and music!
Moonblast
07. Oct 2021 · 03:19 UTC
Great work!I like the music lol
Marius.png
07. Oct 2021 · 04:52 UTC
The narration was great, very innovative!
MarkVeligod
07. Oct 2021 · 07:21 UTC
The voice acting is amazing!
🎤 ardorugus
07. Oct 2021 · 14:11 UTC
@markveligod @gerox @moonblast @zack-andre @meita @samarthmp5002 @vsi @parttimeindie much appreciated, thank you!

@marius-png glad you liked it. Can you elaborate on innovative?

@alexthehuman2 hmm... maybe I'm so used to turning volume up/down (whilst rec/mixing), so that detail slipped my mind. Thank you for playing! Actually, we wanted to make quite an interesting stuff with dolby-effect, implementing Wwise, etc. But had to cut on this, the code just wouldn't recognize our needs. Anyway, maybe the loud music can count also as - within the theme - unstabled).

@enderswype is that a sarcasm?)) But the experience is real-life based, quite traumatizing.

@alex-chertilin especially when this mosquito could be the only one - immortal)). Thanks!

@kamuniaft Lovecraft? Interesting... We surely tried to make some suspense without screamers. Glad you liked it!

@the-lame-brain we feel that still!
XSchaumiX
07. Oct 2021 · 14:31 UTC
This is art... unstable art.
Tardif Adrian
07. Oct 2021 · 17:20 UTC
I really like the narration and the voice acting ^^
Nice use of the theme btw ^^
LDJam user 202408
07. Oct 2021 · 17:49 UTC
Haha cool idea, I like the voice acting as well
MatLab
07. Oct 2021 · 18:02 UTC
I really enjoyed it! I love the visuals, I love the lyrics and voices, I really love the ending music! Thank you for this experience! :)
Its_Capp
07. Oct 2021 · 18:45 UTC
I'm kinda scared
gord10ahmet
07. Oct 2021 · 19:22 UTC
Loved it! It was a funny trip.
🎤 ardorugus
08. Oct 2021 · 12:56 UTC
@xschaumix unstable art seems to be the core of our line of work).

@tardif-adrian @0x-void-x0 thank you for playing and the motivation!

@matlab thanks for hearing through our unstable mosquito song)).

@its-capp I feel you...

@gord10ahmet Thank you! Imagine that this story is quite real... (well, almost)
Marc-Antoine Girard
08. Oct 2021 · 14:25 UTC
That voice acting was everything <3 Nice looking game and love the music at the end!
yikescloud
08. Oct 2021 · 20:09 UTC
Haha, the vocal effect so funny cannot stop laughing
BGDC
09. Oct 2021 · 08:37 UTC
i have no idea what am i playing, but the audio quality is really good for a jam game and art is decent. Good game!
🎤 ardorugus
10. Oct 2021 · 05:23 UTC
@yikescloud that's some real vocal recording;).

@marc-antoine-girard thank you! We vox our best).

@bgdc glad you liked it overall, thanks!
potkirland
10. Oct 2021 · 06:25 UTC
LMAO that was really fun audio and atmosphere was perfect :smile:
xpoho
10. Oct 2021 · 08:05 UTC
Кажется, я чувствую себя теперь комароукушенным и укушеннокомариным. О ужас.

Спасибо за игру!
joonamo
10. Oct 2021 · 13:41 UTC
Your really nailed the feeling of being haunted by a mosquito
hiisileiri
10. Oct 2021 · 13:43 UTC
I don't really know how to play this. Still interesting, but also weird game. Is this art or a game? Smashing incoming flies when the voice is loudest would be fun. I were waiting to mosquito appear on the screen to avoid being brain eaten, but did it in vain. Many people around the world know this situation; while you have a single loud mosquito in the quiet room and you try to fall asleep or to focus something else, you can't find it in the darkness and hope it ain't not hungry...
Piper Thompson
10. Oct 2021 · 20:25 UTC
the work of an insane person - in a good way!
🎤 ardorugus
11. Oct 2021 · 06:33 UTC
@potkirland @joonamo thanks for feeling the mood of our game!

@xpoho Nice worldwordplaydisorder). Thanks.

@hiisileiri games can be art, and most are. However, the idea of making a bouncing sound with different loudness and hunting for it, when it meets the trigger, was in development, we thought about this. But the code went wrong, so we had to make it simplier a bit, and not ruin the concept. The brain eating thing is more like a metaphor (in my own personal view Player is or becomes a mosquito), but there's an open ending to it, anyway. So, it's a bit more complicated in a kind of thinking way, but the easiest as we play it. We believe, this art (or game) story is quite finished without any macabre, the way we wanted it. Thanks for playing our stuff!

@piper-thompson well, thank you! We can be much more insane... still in a good way;).
Skleembof
11. Oct 2021 · 16:38 UTC
As a Mosquito aficionado, I am appalled by the idea of a mosquito hive.
But I am also very impressed by the outro song. I had no idea what to expect going into this, but it definitely wasn't what I got.

Good job creating a very unique experience. Something that I'm almost certain no one here has ever experienced before. I do wish it had a bit more gameplay though. Like hillsileiri mentioned, it would have been more immersive if you had to kill the mosquito each night as it approached, perhaps delaying the inevitable brain meal. It would help attach the player to the world, and the situation of being in the room with the mosquito.
Sam_ONella
11. Oct 2021 · 19:49 UTC
Interesting little psychological experience here. Quite liked the sound design as well.
LDJam user 267116
12. Oct 2021 · 10:35 UTC
Great art, banging track, spooky premise. Nice work!
junjunlowpoly
13. Oct 2021 · 21:26 UTC
Congratulations on so effectively conveying the first-person experience of "unstable"!
🎤 ardorugus
15. Oct 2021 · 13:57 UTC
@skleembof I'd love more gameplay too, believe me! But we managed our best this time. Well, despite the problem with the code (which never worked) and huge ambience ambitions. But we're stepping on it, learning to make more of a gameplay, not just a unique experience). Thank you for playing, though, our game!

@sam-onella a little one, but may haunt you many nights)). Thanks!

@animawish @junjunlowpoly So glad you got to manage through this work of ours! We really tried to share some real story behind...
mirianbr
16. Oct 2021 · 15:21 UTC
The art is super nice, as the atmosphere (music, sound effects, voice, timing). I felt that mosquito buzz'ing in my head!

A longer story would be nice too, but who knows how long could we'd survive with that buzzing sound? (Without going even madder, anyway.) Great work!
Hawkin
17. Oct 2021 · 01:22 UTC
I really enjoyed the narrative of this piece--it is definitely art! I wasn't entirely sure if there was anything after the song and pharaoh art, so hopefully I didn't miss anything :)

You've definitely stretched the bounds of what can be considered for a "Game Jam" (I read your latest blog posting, and I think I caught some philosophical questions of what makes a "game"). Your entry is at least interactive, but my definition of a game might be more strict (I wrote about it in a blog of my own). Of course, we can both be right. If we accept only the strict definitions, we close ourselves to new opportunities!

Thanks for sharing this :) It was definitely unique and worthwhile!
🎤 ardorugus
18. Oct 2021 · 16:05 UTC
@mirianbr thanks, we're working on mastering our skills! The idea was to make it as short as it could be, but save some kind of a loop thing with an open ending. And the buzzing, aye, otherwise we'd have to make a different game, I suppose, for it would be hard to play and less fun if the sequence continues.
🎤 ardorugus
18. Oct 2021 · 16:12 UTC
@hawkin well, it's a good tip, actually! I'll think about adding something after the end (credits, if any) in our further projects. Maybe). We aimed for some animation but decided that the sound makes the picture move here. Though, we missed on the mosquito eyes in the end, them moving to the music would be nicer. I think, I understand what you mean by Game - and at this point some of the real game moments weren't implemented, well, because we're no coders at all, but I tried to do more, really). However, I feel the idea of a game should always bear the open mind. However, I had oh so many brainstorms throughout the working life, so at least I understand this - we can be everything and let it fly, but we should really learn to "kill our darlings". Then, even if jamming, there might be made some fulfilled narrative. Thank you for this conversation!)
Misfire_dev
21. Oct 2021 · 09:46 UTC
great art piece that hit the theme well, loved the ending track.
FromTheChasm
21. Oct 2021 · 12:14 UTC
That was summink else. I love it. Lynchian! Reminded me of Eraserhead. Music was cool, voice acting was great, and art was superb. The music continued on for a while at the end, I wasn't sure how long it would go on for? Great experience and narriative.
vivyhasadream
21. Oct 2021 · 18:39 UTC
Weirdo but noice, very unique experimental game!~ Like the art style too