Teenage Monster by dpisarcik

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made by dpisarcik for LD33 (JAM)
Teenage Monster

You are in highschool and nobody seems to like you. You decide to clean up your act by smelling better, looking better, and getting a little bit reckless. You soon find the other kids will start to like you-- but at what cost?

Will you become another kind of neurotic highschool monster?

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Gameplay:

- Raise your attributes by collecting items around the school. Hold the up key and press spacebar to open doors and lockers. What could be inside?
- Try to make friends and raise your coolness by pressing spacebar. If you are not up to their standards (you monster), they will tell you why!

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How it was made:

Originally intended for the compo, but early bugs kept me from hitting the deadline. Aside from delivering the game in 72 hours, all other compo rules were followed.

- Engine: Unity
- Animated Sprites: piskel
- Tile Maps: GIMP
- Music: Fruity Loops
- Sound Effects: bfxr

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KNOWN ISSUES**
- Occasionally, NPC names are not displayed correctly in the dialog box. After a while, the same name might continue appearing over and over, even though your character is talking to different NPCs.
- Graphics are not pixel-perfect.
- UI not optimized for playable aspect ratio. Will need to adjust window size until all UI elements display as expected.

This is my first ever Unity game and it worked great on my home PC. Once I transferred it to other machines, its proven to be very buggy. I may provide more bugfixes in the coming days, but will NOT change gameplay or assets in anyway.

Enjoy!

Ratings

Coolness 71% 3
Overall(Jam) 2.71 942
Audio(Jam) 2.64 562
Fun(Jam) 2.50 920
Graphics(Jam) 2.19 975
Humor(Jam) 3.05 380
Innovation(Jam) 2.89 614
Mood(Jam) 2.70 829
Theme(Jam) 2.41 1033

Feedback

JakeL168
26. Aug 2015 · 06:58 UTC
Controls feel a bit cranky. Reminds me of my high school life.
adsilcott
26. Aug 2015 · 15:16 UTC
Art style was cool.
Razoric
26. Aug 2015 · 15:18 UTC
Great idea, fun game!
Big Cow
28. Aug 2015 · 14:17 UTC
I really liked this game! It had a great mood, with the aesthetics and audio tying in nicely. I loved the little stick figures running around and the cool writing. Gameplay was quite fun but it was a little difficult to get certain stats up. Good job!
Jelinib
29. Aug 2015 · 07:33 UTC
I had the hardest time keeping my hair under control. After some point, I was able to talk to "Luna" anywhere. Luna would respond even when I was trying to talk to someone else. I suspect something got stuck but I'm not sure how.

Dialog was pretty funny before that happened, and music is pretty catchy. Nice job!
KhaoTom
29. Aug 2015 · 07:41 UTC
I opened a stall in the bathroom and a girl popped out like a cat being let out of it's carrier. I lol'd. Then I saw some kids moonwalking around at a frantic pace, good fun!
valid4life
29. Aug 2015 · 20:17 UTC
I was unable to run the windows game. Couldnt locate the folder
🎤 dpisarcik
29. Aug 2015 · 21:26 UTC
Thanks for the note, valid4life. The Windows game has now been fixed.
hdong
30. Aug 2015 · 00:40 UTC
I really enjoyed this game. Concept was great. Overall an amazing game
radmars
30. Aug 2015 · 01:20 UTC
Creative take on the theme, and funny! Hair gel seemed to be the rarest item yet the fastest-depleting stat! It was really difficult to get that stat higher than 15% or so.
🎤 dpisarcik
30. Aug 2015 · 01:30 UTC
Thanks, I ran out of time to tune the gameplay =(. Definitely need more hair gel!
McFood
30. Aug 2015 · 01:41 UTC
Captured the mood pretty well, the sound and graphics and gameplay all feel right together.

It was pretty fun, although I struggled to find enough hair gel, which doesn't seem like a realistic problem in highschool.

The humor was great, "This makes your hair do what other people want it to do", which also made your interpretation of the theme a little deeper I think.

Great job!
NuDawg
30. Aug 2015 · 01:52 UTC
Took me a while to figure out what I was doing, but eventually I got it. Fun game.
block97
30. Aug 2015 · 02:10 UTC
Fun game, hair point seemed to drain really quick and the coolness bar was very slow to progress.
Supernaught
30. Aug 2015 · 03:04 UTC
Nice little game with funny dialogue and catchy music! My only issue is the controls could use a bit of tweaking so that it's not too draggy/slippery – especially because there's a lot of walking and picking up stuff in the game.

Other than that the game is really fun. Keep it up!
cyrixd
02. Sep 2015 · 08:26 UTC
Nice take on the theme! I wish I could've seen the ending, but after playing for a while my cool level had barely risen, I could never find enough hair gel, and then I wasn't able to open any more lockers. Controls were a bit tough to use, but I really liked the concept. Cool game!
ALobker
02. Sep 2015 · 09:00 UTC
For me it turned into a 'pick up everything'-game.