Ludum Dare #37compo

The Mysterious Room of Dr. Ludum

by quetzakol

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.33

Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.22

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.36

Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.61

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.54

Audio★★★★★★★★★★2.88

Humor★★★★★★★★★★3.19

Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.19

Coolness★★★★★★★★★★58%

Hello !

You want to play with this cute little fox ? Then enter the Mysterious Room of Dr Ludum ! Will you be able to solve all his challenges ?

The game is some kind of escape game in a very strange scenario. I had difficulties to find gameplay ideas so I focused on graphics and sound.

Do not hesitate to comment ! :)

IMPORTANT : you will need to turn on the sound at some point to beat the game. Also, press ENTER when there are dialogues !

FOR FRENCH SPEAKERS : vous pouvez télécharger une version en français du jeu en vous rendant sur ma page itch.io : https://quetzakol.itch.io/the-mysterious-room-of-dr-ludum (sélectionnez un des fichiers marqués "FR").

Edit :

I made one small modification to the game (this will be the only one) : a message indicates how to skip messages in the beginning and blocks the player while he hasn't do so (most people seemed to keep the first message and get stucked, so I wanted to be sure that everyone understand that or no one would have really played my game). Feel free to take it into account when judging.

Comments19

Mothrom12 Dec 2016, 03:01

I actually want to beat this LMFAO nice game!

Quetzakolauthor12 Dec 2016, 07:31

Thanks ! :) Where are you stuck ? I will probably provide a solution later to be sure that everyone can see the end of it.

dodormeur12 Dec 2016, 16:23

This game looks really cool ! I love the art and the "escape room" concept. Very well designed.

I couldn't get into the second part, even with the solution. Is there something I'm missing? (I have used the button thing, and the window is now like TV-snow, but I can't get past that moment, even with the txt solution)

Quetzakolauthor12 Dec 2016, 16:26

Nothing happens when you go near the clock ? If you used the button, you should be small enough to go there.

Bellatrion13 Dec 2016, 14:09

Nice game ! On my first run, I couldn't take the battery, I don't know why, but after a restart everything was okay.
Good idea to have provided a solution ;)
The story and atmosphere are great !

stupidmindlessf14 Dec 2016, 18:16

Gorgeous art and I loved the humor. I got stuck eventually at the code puzzle partuially because I just didn't understand how to control the input. I would have expected, that 1,2,3,4 would change the digit at that position, but somehow that wasn't how it worked.
Shame, I would have liked to finish it.

Saiodin14 Dec 2016, 21:10

In the second room I thought it got laggy for some reason at first, lol. Nice little game. And the fox is indeed cute! Some of the mechanis were definetly very original. I liked it!

mao15 Dec 2016, 01:24

Well that was quite something.

I'm just sad that you can't move around after the game ends :P

Ekilibr16 Dec 2016, 22:55

A nice mood, that pushed me to go to the end, and finally find the cute little fox! At some point it was hard to figure out what to do! The upscale/downscale thing is a really good idea, and so is the radio thing!
Well done!

David Cookie17 Dec 2016, 12:52

Nice little adventure game! I think I've got a bug with the character becoming giant upscreen or tiny on the contrary xD Other than that, it's a good experience that fits the theme quite well!

Quetzakolauthor17 Dec 2016, 13:43

Well that is not a bug, that is the whole principle of the first room's puzzle :P

eruiz0017 Dec 2016, 17:05

Nice graphics dude!

AcuadoyStudios17 Dec 2016, 20:29

Hey, I liked your game it was actually fun.
You can improve the audio and the graphics at some point but overall not bad!
And please go and try out my game!

SmokeNMirrors18 Dec 2016, 23:28

Good job there!
I couldn't finish it so I went for the solution.
I almost believed something would happen after staring at the fox for 10 minutes, then I read the last line hehe.

I got a bug when playing 800x600, windowed or not. The spoken lines overwrite each other and it gets really messy, impossible to read.

SoulBound18 Dec 2016, 23:47

This game is amazing! Nicely done!

Quetzakolauthor19 Dec 2016, 00:03

Thanks everyone for playing my game :)

@SmokeNMirrors : yes I'm aware of this bug :/ I did my best to adapt the game for other resolutions but I lacked time to fix this.

axoona27 Dec 2016, 14:21

nice puzzle point & click!
the puzzles using the up-down size shift or left-right time shift were original and I really liked the graphics
is staring at the fox the end or is there something I'm missing?

Quetzakolauthor27 Dec 2016, 15:55

Thanks ! Yes, it is the end, I had no time to add a clearer ending :P

automatonvx3 Jan 2017, 00:57

Well i was indeed dissappointed at the initial lack of cute fox, the puzzles were pretty strange, I'm not sure i would have figured it out without the solution. The graphics were quite good for that style. Personally I just didn't find it that much fun, but not too much into puzzle games so maybe no surprise