Don't Kill Your Darlings by scalliondelight
The theme of LD50 is Delay The Inevitable
In Don't Kill Your Darlings, you play as Dr. W, the woodland wizard veterinarian, looking to help geriatric critters live comfortably in their twilight years. Are you able to help these cutie-pies feel better and live comfortably before they glide gracefully toward the great PetsMart in the sky?

``` Changelog (hotfix 1:15am ET 4/5/22):
- Made it so the ending can fire
- Turned on Bullet's animated base
- Fixed various game ruining bugs
- Fixed an input issue related to html5 build ```
Ratings
| Overall | 779th | 3.468⭐ | 33🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 1131th | 2.935⭐ | 33🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 352th | 3.629⭐ | 33🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 941th | 3.435⭐ | 33🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 104th | 4.452⭐ | 33🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 196th | 3.903⭐ | 33🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 305th | 3.667⭐ | 32🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 351th | 3.806⭐ | 33🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 25🗳️ | 42🗨️ |
Very unique, nice job!
Wow! Not what I was expecting at all! Very cool character designs and illustrations. The gameplay is slick and feels good. I didn't know if what I was doing would effect the world, and then the snail dog came back with a metal tail! I couldn't advance from there, but I see where you are going- I think. The hang in there poster is a nice touch. This has some great potential if you decide to go further. Thanks for the game!
ignorant or disrespectful towards their companion's needs means their demise is inevitable. Visiting the vet is just a way to delay it if you're not willing to educate yourself and change your priorities.
Either way great style, animations, and overall feel. Seems like it could really be great with more time!
@davision thanks! I think we definitely could've done more to guide players through the experience, but I'm glad you enjoyed your time with it!
@polymathld will be referring to myself exclusively as "weird and charmingly disgusting" from now on, thank you. Glad you had fun!
@chrissimas thank u so much! thanks for letting us know about the bug, we ran into a couple similar as well. I loved your game too!
@copito thank you! I think clearer info surrounding the different materials would definitely add a lot.
@escarpoulpe thanks for playing! we'll definitely take this into account when we put more work into it.
@joemid thanks so much for the feedback! glad you enjoyed it despite the bugs, hopefully we get to show a more polished version in the future.
@theludovyc thank u for playing!
@leolferraz thanks for the high praise! :D We really wanted to make a game about the more difficult side of caring for a pet, I'm glad that showed through
@jason200101 thank you!!!
@gul thanks for spending some time with it! appreciate the feedback, we'd definitely like to polish stuff like the drawers and how players are guided through it further.
Love the creatures, love the idea, keep it up, I want to see more stuff from you guys, you made a darn fine game!