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Inside by CaptainDreamcast

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made by CaptainDreamcast for Ludum Dare 52 (COMPO)

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The great detective club is facing its first and greatest crisis yet: Summer farming homework. Will they make it through alive? Does heart-radish really exist or did someone mix up horseradish and stubbornly refuse to rename it? And what is the true meaning of manhood? All these questions and more will be answered if you dare go...

INSIDE!

This game had a strange lifecycle: First it was supposed to be about dating plants, then it was about dating humans and impressing them with cool plant facts™, then in the end I went "what's so great about dating anyway (;_;)" and just disabled the "love bar". And there we go! Detective game. Would have loved to do actual character animations, some more text effects and more sound effect shenanigans, but the Ludum Dare deadline is a cruel unforgiving mistress. I hope you can still get a little something out of it if you try it, I hope it works for you.

Thanks a lot for playing/rating!

Edit: Dreamcast port is live too.

Link https://captaindreamcast.itch.io/inside
Link https://captaindreamcast.itch.io/inside
Link https://captaindreamcast.itch.io/inside
Link https://github.com/CaptainDreamcast/Inside
Original URL https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/52/inside

Ratings

Overall 187th 3.397⭐ 31🧑‍⚖️
Fun 198th 3.25⭐ 30🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 205th 3.19⭐ 31🧑‍⚖️
Theme 251th 3.25⭐ 30🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 175th 3.483⭐ 31🧑‍⚖️
Audio 181th 3.125⭐ 30🧑‍⚖️
Humor 10th 4.107⭐ 30🧑‍⚖️
Mood 129th 3.463⭐ 29🧑‍⚖️
Given 25🗳️ 35🗨️

Feedback

Pe7e
08. Jan 2023 · 23:55 UTC
Worked well in the web player. High marks for innovation. Which plants were you planning on dating?
caranha
09. Jan 2023 · 03:50 UTC
![QuarterlyMajorCobra-max-1mb.gif](///raw/ed9/1/z/54a9b.gif)

lol, this was fun. Loved the cow sound effect. Also sega dreamcast version? O.o

Well, well done! *claps slowly*

(Font size could have been a tiny bit bigger, I felt myself squinting at the text, and it didn't even fill the dialogue box!)
🎤 CaptainDreamcast
09. Jan 2023 · 12:31 UTC
@pe7e Carrots were planned, carrots were the one throughline through every iteration, carrots are the key to it all. Other than that cabbage (queen of the vegetables, really), potatoes (I assume they're lazy, like couch potatoes), and finally an unfunny joke option that's not really a plant, I don't want to spoil the climax of this game but it was a similar take on harvesting to the one in the ending to this game.

But it wasn't really all that fun and kinda too similar to a previous Ludum Dare entry I did, so I pivoted away from that.
Zonoxx
09. Jan 2023 · 13:17 UTC
Really fun and different entry!
Oliver
09. Jan 2023 · 18:31 UTC
Great and funny writing, and a great sense of comedic timing.
I found this story entertaining and funny all the way through. Great job! :thumbsup:
LDJam user 315170
09. Jan 2023 · 18:50 UTC
First game that genuinely made me laugh LOL, I accidentally restarted the game halfway through by pressing escape trying to cancel an action. I'd recommend changing that. Otherwise, fairly solid experience, I can't wait to reach detective heaven!
LDJam user 244504
09. Jan 2023 · 20:27 UTC
Bahaha I had a good laugh ! :smile: This was quite enjoyable. Good job ! :tada:
Furraran
09. Jan 2023 · 20:43 UTC
Visuals feels nostalgic and I kind of like the atmosphere it creates. :D
My respect for recreating good ol’ vibes in a funny caricature manner.
imyellowfish
10. Jan 2023 · 04:59 UTC
This game is truly impressing! I love the how the plot goes and the mood is great!
Lex
10. Jan 2023 · 20:24 UTC
I totally clicked with your sense of humor, and those voice over really got me laughing, haha. Thanks for this submission!
Raphytator
11. Jan 2023 · 13:43 UTC
Nice work, fun and interesting. Good Job !
Frogman
11. Jan 2023 · 22:21 UTC
Hilarious game! I loved the characters, dialogue, premise, voice acting - everything! There were some really awesome and surprising moments I did not expect, especially the one with the scarecrow. The amount of content was amazing, and it's even a Dreamcast game? Insane! The music felt a bit repetitive, and the font was indeed a bit hard to read, but other than that, incredible entry! Probably my favorite thus far.
Matank
13. Jan 2023 · 08:58 UTC
Cool game! Jokes were funny and some actually made me laugh which is rare in a video game :laughing:
Ending was awesome.
Ethan Hair
14. Jan 2023 · 00:30 UTC
I loved Giovanni
Echo GameWorks
16. Jan 2023 · 00:25 UTC
Cute game! Loved the jokes and the art style. Great work!
blobo
21. Jan 2023 · 04:49 UTC
I played this with my room mates, and we had a blast the entire time. The story is absolutely absurd and the characters are well drawn. It definitely took us too long to figure out what we were doing, but we played until the end. It took like, 27 minutes to realize extra dialogue options were arriving. Definitely our fault not yours, ha! I recorded it for maximum feedbackage, and I hope you enjoy all of our terrible voice acting, and all of our occasional dyslexia butchering your script. (we didn't hear any of the game audio while playing, sorry if the audio of the game is too loud!)

I can't believe it took me all the way until the end to catch on to what the characters were parodying. (see 39 minutes and 39 seconds into the video) I only made the connection of 'Toto' while watching the footage. ahhhhhh.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMcH4tZ6bF0