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I fell in love with this game the moment I saw the pixelart animations! Really interesting concept with the phone .. it definitively felt like it was getting too much at some point. I also really liked the audio and writing .. makes me want to play again and check out the other narratives :) Really cool entry!

Wow good work :D Talking with a dog, best game ever :P Also i dunno if telling that i am a horse was a good idea :P

Your Game is awesome !
PERFECT integration of the theme.
The graphics are gorgeous.
Plus there is a cactus, wich is definitely a great point.
i'll be sure to rate it as soon as it's possible.

I absolutely loved the game, the characters are all really fun and colorful, in writing and in visuals. I just want to see all the endings !

Man, my phone has like 900 unread messages, this game is my nightmare hahaha. Great game!

Like woah, this is perfect how... a cactus that spam you for water o:

Really loved this one, simple but efficient and well designed !

Thank you

Nice entry on the subject !

(it was a bit cringe after a while :smirk:)

Oh man so simple yet awesomely overwhelming! Love the art and little UI sounds especially! Overall fantastic-- could see this working on mobile or something with more story and such. Keep up the great work!

Good work on this game, the art and sound effects are perfect, I really liked the background artworks for each endings. I also think this could work very well on mobile :)

And thanks for letting me be a horse for my first date it was always a dream of mine.

I love it !!!!!!!!!!!!!! So fun the different ends !

nailed it! hahaa this is a grat entry, also like the art, very well done!

What a funny game ! Good job ! I love tha animations and stuff !

I think it is the winner

Hey, this was awesome! Love the art and the multiple endings. I laughed so much when things started to become weird and out of control xD

damn, that gave me anxiety :D haha. great entry!

Love it, very fun game!

I just fell in love with this game. Soooo good.

The overwhelming feeling is 100% on point and the humor/mood of the overall stories is just fantastic. Congrats team!

Great Job ! I enjoyed to play it (even if I die virgin ) Everything works, it's very cool ! I imagine this game on a real mobile :)

Really amazing game, I really like how there are a bunch of different endings.

Very cool game! good job all ! ;)

That game is a lot of fun to play! The graphics match the game Idea really well! Good JOB!

I thought for sure *horse noises* was an innuendo of some sort, but the "your mom is proud of you but..." surely put that idea to rest!

Really cool concept, nice dash of humor and extreme personalities, flowing conversation and... "DUDE WATER.."! Nicely applied the theme and put a relatable spin on it. Nice UI and icons/backgrounds.

Overall a really nice entry, only iffy thing is, I saw this first on my phone, and loaded it up on my phone. The game size was perfect and almost looked like my phone got a pixel demake, but tapping didn't do what clicking does, so it was unplayable. This would work really well on mobiles if tapping was a possible input!

But, as I said, a great entry, really nice work. I'd love to see this expanded!

i love this game! the art is great and i love the concept and its really funny, the endings are great and i really like all the characters. it feels really real haha love it :D

I loved it!

Love this game! Please continue this project!

Wolf!

I absolutely loved it :3

cmon bro - wtr

i'm dying

awesome!!!

Wow this is insane! Everything about this is amazing, especially the art and animation

awesome from the first moment I saw your blog post wanted to play this and it was as good as I expected now plz water mom

I went to see the best film ever! Hahaha I like how you take on the theme on this game and love it has different endings!

Holy moly, this game is awesome, unique idea, awesome graphics, just all around perfect :D

Damn, the messages flooding where anxiety inducing, great pixel art, very fun experience overall, congrats to the team (I know no one ever tells the programmers great job but, hey, great job you too)

@and-garciaz Thanks

This is like the most perfect game I've yet seen on this site, dayum. Good job mate

Did at some point say "water mom" ?

Wow good work :D Talking with a dog, best game ever

Impressive work, the idea is great, awesome job!

Awesome entry :D Very clever theme interpretation, I love it. You've captured perfectly the feeling of living sticked to your phone 24/7. I also love the cactus :cactus: :rofl:

Very original entry!

The concept is solid and has a lot of possibilities.

Congrats!!

Completely nailed the theme. Graphics are on point, animations are beautiful and the game has got a great humor. Well done!

Awesome!!!

Really love the animations, pixel art like a boss ❤

Looooved it! We also want to implement a similar chat feature in our game!! The art style is the best!! Our artist is a fan of your work! :)

Thanks a lot rowdies! :D

That was Awesome, seriously, very cool! Feeling like a horse now lol

U R my heroes.

Thanks you all !!
@arcadia - yeah sorry it's not playable on phones since the touch screen needs special programming :

I really liked this game

Thanks

Cool game, didn't get the ending really, my phone died, is that game over?

@jiri-one nope it's not normal, we don't know why this bug is happening on some computers... Just try to play again, if it doesn't work restart your computer and it will work :/

OH MY GOD THE DOG IS SO ANNOYING.
This phone / messenger simulation is humorous.
I can't believed the cactus wants that much attention, lol!
Loved the concept. Felt a bit creeped out by the hacker guy.
The gameflow became really hard after just few minutes, not sure what I'd change
I could really feel your experience in creating this. Great work, keep it up.
By the way I totally checked out vlashkito on SoundCloud, who is that? lol

Follow me on twitter - I follow back!

Cheeras!

@360 Thanks! You can descrease the difficulty by not responding to the doggo and the cactus. You will have their endings like that :) haha Enzo is a buddy of ours, he will be the next eminem

I laughed so much. Loved it.

"I'm a horse" - Best pick up line, 2k17

Thanks

i forgot to water mom

Poor mom :

Guys ! Tell us which ending you had :D

I love this game, it's super fun, great job. I gave you a perfect score. The graphics are great by the way.

Wow thank you @tomer-cool

My mom is proud on me but i will die as virgin...

Very Nice work !! GG guys

Great game, water mom gave me the creeps. "Sorry caps" gave me the laughs. One of the more memorable entries in this LD.

Super cool game! Not too much to say other than that! Everything is great, and the game is super innovative!

I got a weird bug that froze the game a couple of times. Also, after seeing an ending, the game froze in a black screen (but I could hear button sounds).

I got the "Proud mom" and the "Horse" ending. I tried to get others but the bug made it difficult. Maybe after rating other entries I'll try again!

@rasco thanks for playing and sorry about the ending bug. Having no way to fast-forward option during the dev made it hard to debug events happening near the end of the game.

Yes there are 7 different endings that you can get, but some are very sad and I don't encourage you to pursue them :'(

I finally got all of the endings, and the sad ones surely touch the feels :(

*horse noises*

crap, I die a virgin yet my mom is proud of me... damn that cactus.

I really enjoyed playing this on stream guys! It was stressful in a good way, really well executed. On point with the theme and mood, and interesting to see the different endings and humour used within. You should be proud.

@honest-dan Glad you enjoyed it ! We had a lot of fun making it and we're super happy to share the fun with everyone :D

Thank you @honest-dan it was super cute when you played the game

Really impressive

Thank you @fluffi

The cactus omg. Was rly fun to play >:^) Though I did get a low battery crash on my first playthrough and didnt get any ending XD

Yeah sorry @Zellk we don't know where it's coming from :

Amazing art work, really cool concept and also a funny gameplay. Nice job :)

Thank you @abyster we really appreciate that

@zellk Hey ! happy you did enjoy the game despite that bug :D, may I ask what browser you're using ? Still trying to catch it, no issue on my side ...

Loved the game, got to check 2 endings, one of the times it crashed.
It could use some music, but this is one of the best entries so far!

Really good idea and nice graphics!
However, I was hoping for more depth, but that was because I forgot that's a ludum game...
(and I had two bugs during playing: game freeze and I can't do anything, sound continue playing...)

Wtr! :sweat_drops:

Excellent game ! Seriously I really enjoyed it, its fun and have a lot of potential. I'm a horse !

well, I didn’t expect that! I had a lot of fun :D
Nice work Guys!

I love the art, it's fun but damn you drown the cactus ^^ Very nice work!

Thanks everyone :D Really happy the game pleased to so much people!

Oh fk I cannot stay calm unless i have clicked all the red (1) bolbs

- got black screen at the ending sometimes

@fangzhangmnm Sorry about the extra stress, and that bug we couldn't catch in time :(
Thanks a lot for playing! :)

Sorry for the bugs :

Nice game. The art and animations are great. I am still sad that the ending sometimes doesn't appear to me (I only saw the ending in 1 out 4 retries, otherwise the game freezes then turns to black). Anyway, Great game.

Just restart the computer and you won't have lags anymore

I love the animations and the character designs! Really well done, and the conversations are really funny, good job!

Nice idea. That pop-up notifications are so annoying. I think it's a good habit to turn off your internet connection when you don't use it.

Great job on all of the animations and art and I felt you hit the theme on the head. I felt so overwhelmed that I had to stop playing haha.

@CodeChomper mission accomplished then :D Thanks for playing!

laughed when i saw this

Great interpretation of the theme. I felt really stressed while playing it, which weirdly enough is a compliment in this context, haha

I liked the graphics and the humour as well.

This is a horror game I say!

One of my favorites so far. Clever, funny, fun!

WATER ME PLS

It's really horrifying to have so much to reply on messager.

Great game. I really liked it.

@6smith @lexi @RevolutionGT @OldPeculier @forrest @tmpxyz @meatpudding
Thanks a lot for playing guys! Glad to see so many of you enjoying it :) And don't forget to water mom! :bell:

I liked this quite a bit. The phone look was well done, and goodness there were so many different characters to interact with. I didn't know dogs and plants had phones too. What's the deal with the cactus wanting so much water, and can't mom get her own drink? lol A very neat idea and a really good take on the them.

Awesome entry! Really fun to play, that's great you could have put that much content! The cactus is the best :p

What a cute yet spoopy fun game, haha. It gets surprisingly stressful at the end, just like real life :p

Love the pixel art and game concept!

Love the art and music, interesting game concept, my only problem was that the game sometimes blackscreened at the end.

@feips thanks for playing and for the great feedback! Sorry about the black screen bug, we only found out about it after the submission period ended.
Thanks again for playing, take care!

Awesome art, neat sound design, funny texts and characters, and incredibable endings which I won't spoil because they're worth it. Even if dumping everyone you know and live as an ermit with your cactus is the best choice to do, even irl. The gameplay itself was really nice too, and the mom's image has a "Joli dauphiiiinnn" vibe into it that made me dream. 12/10 would water again

Oh my god @lautregars it's a honor 'cause Joli Dauphin was our main reference for mom's profil pic

@TheAnonymousCommentAboveMe Thought so :P Noice references

Coolest cactus ever! :smile:

I really love the game, if not for so many bugs I guess it would easily top my favorite charts. Despite crashes I managed to get 2 endings and they were both great *horses noises*.

I think the part that need improvement the most is probably the control. It's not responsive/reliable and it worked against the game's feel, especially at the beginning when I'm learning how the phone's UI work. It was very hard to learn what was a bug and what was intended behavior. Worst part in my experience is when the Call Mom alert show up and I can't click Ok to turn it off. I thought that was an intended feature and sat for a long time waiting for it to turn off itself.

Aside from that, the game itself as I said was amazing. Loved every characters and cactus especially

Thanks for the feedbacks @avavt !
Yeah for the Mom alert: you have to click on the "OK" text and not just on the button! So it's not a bug ahah, but an ergonomy mistake from us we realized too late!

@avavt Thanks a lot for the constructive feedback! It really helps :) Your entry is great! Are you going to keep working on it?

@drjedd thank you very much! My team mates want to expand the idea as well, but right now I'm not quite sure which direction to go. The most I can think of with current design is a web game that last 3-4 hours through the night. If we want to make it a more "serious" game it could possibly fundamentally change the gameplay, dilemma dilemma T_T

I guess I'll die a virgin, because I got that ending every single time, haha

I actually laughed out loud a couple of times playing this, and that's tough for a game. Good writing, good art. Thanks for this!

@avavt Web game sounds like a good plan! But yeah don't force it some games and teams are not meant to be extended beyond the jam. Best of luck with your projects anyway!

@lex you still have time! And there's plenty of horny people out there :face_with_hand_over_mouth: Thanks for playing!

@capen glad you enjoyed it so much! :) Thank you very much for playing!

That's a lot of fun, the art and animations are really amazing, and I'm impressed you were able to put together so many little scenes for the endings. There's not a lot of audio, but what is there is just right and really adds to the game. My only criticism is that the buttons on the alarm dialogs do not work properly - you have to click on the text instead of the button. But that's only a very minor thing. Great game, well done!

@randomhuman hey there! Thanks a lot for playing! Yes we are aware of the alarm being annoying. We fixed that issue but I don't think we're allowed to update our entry until voting is over ;)

Regarding audio, I made a background music but we decided not to include it at the last minute because it was hard for some playtesters to read text while having background music. Maybe we'll add it again with an option to toggle it off somewhere.

Thanks a lot for the great feedback, take care!

Great little stressful thing here. Enjoyed the choice making. Cool shit mang

I found six endings: horse, mom, date, cactus, dog, and movie. any hint about how to get the last ending?

@gelisam > There is someone very dear who wants to be your friend, his avatar is glitching, concentrate on him and you'll achieve your goal

Thanks everyone

Damn, what an awesome take on the theme. The art is stunning, the sounds fit perfectly and the progression is quiet familiar ;) One of my favs so far!

@satyre thank you for your feedback! We're glad you like it!

cool interface, very creative text, especially the cactus

Played it on #newgrounds. Great game ;)

@kizu Thanks. So you can only reply to him when you happen to be looking at his profile when he messages you? That looks more like a bug than a secret ending...

Love the art in this one, one of the best looking entries I've played so far. The way you got across the notifications was a really nice take on the theme, thoroughly enjoyed it.

@gelisam, no he talks to you if you say something special to someone (like when the kawai girl talks to you when you finish the lise discution) but I don't remember to who you need to talk

@kizu he seems to talk 45 seconds after the game begins, no matter who I talk to before that point, but if I click on his notification or on his profile after that happens, I don't have the option of replying back. The only way I managed to see the menu with the two possible replies is if I am already looking at his profile when the 45s trigger occurs.

My hand hurts from clicking. The game was taller than my screen. I wish there was a restart button. Also the battery drained too quickly, it opened the 5%, 3% and 2% notifications while the last was still on, and just faded to black on the ending instead of ending on something informative or restarting.

Oh yeah you are right @gelisam there is a bug :

A tad bit glitchy at one point or another, but was definitely pretty entertaining, haha. It's too bad a lot of people probably won't see the dog and cactus endings since they'll be good to them (nooo cactus-kun don't die)

anyways brb need to water mom

Thanks! We are working on fixing the game :)
Good luck watering mom