Ghost In The Washing Machine by foxxy
Game
An elderly washing machine maintenance engineer wants nothing more than to go home. However, a chance encounter with some odd batteries forces him stay the duration.
Use WASD to move the engineer about town and press e to fix washing machines with your zapper.
Play in Chrome, very poor performance in Firefox at the moment.
Credits
Foxdog Studios (Lloyd Henning & Peter Sutton): design, programming, graphics, and acting
Alex Marczak: Music, sound and play testing
Tools
- Narberth Studio: Our own online game editor, which uses BabylonJS for rendering
- Davinci Resolve: Video editing
- GIMP: Images
- Blender: 3D Assets
- Studio One: Digital Audio Workstation
| HTML5 Chrome | https://ld50.fds.im |
| Itch.io | https://foxdogstudios.itch.io/ghost-in-the-washing-machine |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/50/ghost-in-the-washing-machine |
Ratings
| Overall | 55th | 4.17⭐ | 52🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 36th | 4.19⭐ | 52🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 85th | 4⭐ | 52🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 1235th | 3.02⭐ | 51🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 187th | 4.3⭐ | 52🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 23th | 4.38⭐ | 52🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 1th | 4.88⭐ | 52🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 38th | 4.367⭐ | 51🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 30🗳️ | 51🗨️ |
Typing random letters gameplay was pretty boring to me. Is it meant to be tedious to simulate manual labor?
Stayed for the sounds and art, and glad I did. I think you have something great with the surreal art style and story.
Am I a professional washing machine mechanic now?
Had a blast with this, good humour and great theme
Lovely, understated humour and a fantastically surreal atmosphere.
Can't imagine what inspired you to make this, but it's brilliant. Hope he gets he gets his promised steak dinner and pints down the pub. Man deserves it.
Really fantastic job! :smile:
May I suggest splurging for washing machine upgrades? These units shouldn't be breaking this often. And the wear and tear from them sitting outside can't be helping either.
Also: rank B :-)
So strange and quirky, like a surreal fever dream. 3D graphics and FMVs are amazing, and I laughed out loud when I started getting compliments during the repairs.
You deserve a steak dinner for this!
Combining ps1-style graphics with live acting frames is wacky and funny looking :D
I like the music mostly, very atmospheric and talanted
The gameplay was really very simple, but the graphics are very cool in PS1 style. I like ps1 style and I also make games in it. The music in this game is also very good. In general, I think it would be great to add some variety to the gameplay. Very good work.
I ended with Rank C. I'm assuming rank A is the best.
I was expecting to lose more... batteries run out or something.
Would love to see an expanded game of this including other appliances, and more humorous running commentary.
Overall very good, would play again, will be recommending it to others to try.
Game feels good to play too, typing out the keys is satisfying. Good SFX and ambience.
Really nice work.
Typing games are inherently fun, so not much to say there. However, I really like how you guys approached it. Well done.
The comedic vibe is consistent, nice writing. It's a solid contender for the fun award.
Definitely got dark souls boss vibes walking into that last room. Also the green screen combined with the playstation 1 esk graphics is just hilarious
Especially liked how the dude encouraged me when I succeed.
Model of repairer man is the best!
I got stuck on the second washing machine. It just kept saying something wasn't high enough. Did I miss something about the controls?
Also, great camera angle
this was the approval my parents never gave me
Well done!