Brainwash by limered
Welcome to the brain extreme DEPTH cleaning. Your customers from the year 2084 are waiting. Clean their brain from microplastics and make them happy. It's your job!

Featuring
- fancy world generation
- LAZORS
- satifyingly exploding microplastics
- more than 20min playtime
- a catchy theme song
How to play
- WASD - movement
- arrows - shoot laser

Team
- Emil (limered) - Programming, Special Effects
- ryupold (Michi) - Programming, Special Effects
- Helen - Graphics, themesong and sweet voice
Software
- Godot
- Rider
- GitKraken
- MediBang Paint Pro
- Affinity Designer
Resources
- sounds from: https://freesound.org
- Aqueduct by Scanglobe from https://freemusicarchive.org/
- analog lazer fx by Garzul -- https://freesound.org/s/213659/ -- License: Creative Commons 0
Edits
- 11.04.2025 - added macOS version based on the original jam version
| itch.io | https://limered.itch.io/brainwash |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/57/brainwash |
Ratings
| Overall | 689th | 3.173⭐ | 28🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 689th | 2.962⭐ | 28🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 568th | 3.058⭐ | 28🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 633th | 3.308⭐ | 28🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 584th | 3.346⭐ | 28🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 263th | 3.269⭐ | 28🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 704th | 3.077⭐ | 28🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 26🗳️ | 40🗨️ |
I'm very happy I found this entry, it's wild to me that I have not stumbled across any of your previous games since you have participated so many times, but safe to say that I am going to keep an eye on what you make in the future, because I enjoyed this a lot! :trophy:
Very lovable entry!

We focused on a single mechanic and tried to make it as satisfying as possible—and I think we pulled it off!
As for adding more content: we considered introducing "enemies" or upgrades like bombs to add variety, but we just didn't have the time. I really liked @irwatts’s suggestion about adding some dialogue from the person getting cleaned—maybe some suppressed memories or something. That could be a lot of fun.
@wisch I actually tried adding the pieces to the minimap, but with the way the game is set up, it just wasn’t feasible (unless you’re okay with 2 FPS :cry: ). We ran into performance issues—turns out Godot doesn’t love adding 7500 nodes of microplastics to the tree at once :smile:
@wallted Awesome job making it to the end! :grin:
@stephenwhoskins @geckoo1337 Good memory! Yeah, we were kind of inspired by Innerspace (“Die Reise ins Ich” in German, lol). We also tried to match the post-processing to that floating-in-tissue look from some of the scenes.
Thanks again to all of you for playing!
@wisch Thanks :) - it was my first time drawing with a graphic tablet. I had much fun doing some crappy art.
@stephenwhoskins @geckoo1337 I was exactly thinking about the movie, although I could only remember a view scenes of it.
@wallted I am so proud of you! Thanks for playing till the end. :grin: