Dr. Pepsi Marriage Consultant

Overall★★★★★★★★★★2.65
Fun★★★★★★★★★★2.34
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★2.96
Theme★★★★★★★★★★2.83
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★2.44
Audio★★★★★★★★★★2.52
Humor★★★★★★★★★★3.57
Mood★★★★★★★★★★2.86
Coolness★★★★★★★★★★96%
In Dr. Pepsi, Marriage Consultant, you help the Dwarders family sort out the issues in their marriage by navigating their collective mindspace and rooting out the source of their dysfunction.

It's one of those games.

Comments43

ThingoStudiosauthor29 Apr 2014, 03:32
Uploaded the wrong file by accident, embarrassingly enough. Fixed.
Keehan12
Keehan1229 Apr 2014, 08:00
Art was very poor, but the game had a concept!
TomBoogaart29 Apr 2014, 20:27
i think the drawings were flippin dope, and reading the dialogue in a txt file is actually pretty hip haha
Joseph Miller29 Apr 2014, 20:30
Dr. Pepsi's fourth line in the good ending dialogue made me laugh out loud, as did the game over screen.

I enjoyed this game quite a bit. I liked the retro feel of going back and forth between the text documents and the game and the graphics and gameplay felt pieced together in a good way.

I was hoping for some visual feedback for the word I needed to type during the boss fight, and then realized the boss was fading as I did so, so good job on that.
ActionRemix29 Apr 2014, 20:38
Open GOOD%20END.txt

Story was incomprehensible, but I have never seen anything like that before. You get a 5/5 for innovation. Hideo Kojima, is that you?
ashdnazg29 Apr 2014, 21:18
You're basically bonkers!
It's cool that you haven't let anything stop you from making a game about what you want. No intro? I'll put a text file. No art? I'll draw on paper! That's a good state of mind for anything.

Basically everything except the wackiness could use improvement :P I'm eager to see what you do next LD!
burgerdare30 Apr 2014, 22:18
Very much a "so bad it's good" kind of game. Fun times to be had here, man. Fun times.
Chaoseed30 Apr 2014, 23:26
Wait, if it's a "Web" game, why am I downloading it?
VictoryGarden30 Apr 2014, 23:32
This is hilarious.

Unfortunately, I can't offer any critique that you don't know about already, but I enjoyed it a lot and appreciate how much you went with your theme and subject.
Chronoberry
Chronoberry30 Apr 2014, 23:39
You've got heart. Keep doing what your doing
ThingoStudiosauthor1 May 2014, 00:08
A good point, Chaoseed. I didn't realize you could edit the description fields. Fixed now.
Gazok
Gazok1 May 2014, 00:14
"Web" isn't "Download", and .exe means I can't play it.
ReactorScram
ReactorScram1 May 2014, 00:46
Amazing. The graphics are kind of weak and the boss could use some feedback. It took me a few tries before I realized the boss sprite was slowly changing. I thought I had to stand right next to the boss.

Funny as hell, though.
Coin Flip Games1 May 2014, 00:48
The dialog made me laugh my ass off! "Oh Harold, stop licking my armpit." lol
jtpup01 May 2014, 00:55
The txt document kind of added to the immersion in some way, I like the game very cool nice story
Neonlare1 May 2014, 00:56
Dadaism as a game. Well, this certainly was a thing.
Jezzamon
Jezzamon1 May 2014, 01:03
This game was pretty fun! I liked having to open text files myself :)

I feel like this game would do well with being a little longer though.

I'll be interested in seeing how this game rates.
Secret_Tunnel1 May 2014, 01:53
Bahaha, oh Pepsi Consultant. Very funny game. Cool idea with the text document.
fueelin2 May 2014, 02:30
I enjoyed that thoroughly. Loved the music loops.
lyla
lyla2 May 2014, 03:56
Hah. I feel like this is exactly the kind of thing I would make on very little sleep and after drinking a lot of Pepsi. It's pretty bootleg, but in a charming way. With a little more polish (some sort of physics hit detection for enemies, the word intimacy appearing on the screen, the dialogue in scenes instead of text files) it'd be a funny/insane little story game.
kirbytails73 May 2014, 07:03
Heh, I like the kind of pieced-together feel. Nice job getting it together.
Ragzouken
Ragzouken3 May 2014, 20:40
beautiful graphics!! enjoyed the prompts to open files, strangely
XenosNS
XenosNS3 May 2014, 21:20
Wow, that was weird, but I love weird :-) Enjoyed that
dalbinblue
dalbinblue3 May 2014, 22:01
Wha... what did I just play? I give you props for taking the joke theme a-b-s-o-l-u-t-e-l-y s-e-r-i-o-u-s. The artwork is funny, and very much disturbing. I'm just happy i can type really fast.
DDRKirby(ISQ)4 May 2014, 00:09
lol, txt files. yay.
Acuity
Acuity4 May 2014, 03:59
Bahahahah.
minibutmany4 May 2014, 17:01
This is the work of a master.
ccglp
ccglp4 May 2014, 17:55
Really cool idea, appreciate the job!
robodylan4 May 2014, 18:00
I don't see why this would need any knowledge of anything other then English and how to work a mouse. But, this competition is open to any language and way of making a game so I will rate accordingly.
cardboard4 May 2014, 20:47
Very unique. The music reminds me of something I might hear from a Gameboy game, which is awesome. The graphics during the gameplay weren't good, but the hand-drawn graphics were ace.
NightShadow0
NightShadow05 May 2014, 15:38
Took me longer than i care to admit to realize you can multi-jump. Better boss damage feedback would've been useful, too.
The game is pretty funny though, i rather enjoyed it. You'd think the external text files would be annoying but i didn't mind them much, clever solution to save time.
cheesepencil
cheesepencil5 May 2014, 23:53
hehehe i couldn't beat it but it did make me chuckle. good stuff
Benjamin5 May 2014, 23:55
Well that was weird but totally playable. I finished it ( I mean without cheating :D ). I think I would not have succeeded if I didnt read the comment about multi jump.
badlydrawnrod10 May 2014, 16:39
Very strange, but it definitely interpreted the theme in a novel and innovative way.
perfect victim10 May 2014, 18:05
you really got something going on there, thumbs up!!!
Moosefly10 May 2014, 21:38
Looks like I'm not the only one who didn't realize you could multi-jump at first. I guess it was my preconception that surely a can of Pepsi wouldn't be able to multijump.

Loved the graphics and the text files. Ludum Dare games always manage to amaze me with their clever trickery :P.

Anssi@MooseflyGames
shadow64
shadow6410 May 2014, 23:24
Suuuper abstract, but I thought a lot of it worked. I don't know if it was out of necessity or artistic intent that you put the game in text files, but it made the game feel really disjointed and out of sync. I think I liked that. I'm curious about what else you'd come up with after this. :)

Nicely done. Thanks for sharing and thank you again for rating/playing my entry!
Jupiter_Hadley
Jupiter_Hadley11 May 2014, 12:16
I wish the words were in the game, and the game explained what to do, but the story is pretty funny! I included it in part 22 of my Ludum Dare Compilation video series! :) http://youtu.be/7oB_8pUypJo
Ryan up in here
Ryan up in here11 May 2014, 15:45
It took me a while to figure out Dr. Pepsi can fly. But once I did, I was doing the dew all over their faces.
PaperBlurt
PaperBlurt19 May 2014, 09:07
This reminds me of 12 oz mouse!
Which is awesome, just like this!

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