Ludum Dare #51compo

Misinformation: Pandemic

by hotpath

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.50

Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.50

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★4.00

Theme★★★★★★★★★★4.00

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★4.00

Audio★★★★★★★★★★4.00

Humor★★★★★★★★★★3.00

Mood★★★★★★★★★★4.00

It's ~~1984~~ 1989, and the latest game to rock the GameBoy scene is "Misinformation Pandemic!". Every 10 seconds, new misinformation disseminates but the masses are confused ! You must blend in with other shoppers or otherwise get your ass beat up while trying to buy groceries.

> "This games story makes no sense ! In no way that could ever happen"
- Game Review, Dec 1989

> "This game is pacman meets daily tedium meets fear sensationalism"
- Probably some guy, 2022

> "Historians now recognize this man was likely a prophet, delivering prophesy to the masses via a digestible, easily understood LudumDare jam entry"
- Last man alive, 2025

Itch.io web game: https://hotpath.itch.io/misinformation-pandemic

Tags: #game boy, #game boy rom, #pixel art, #short, #singleplayer

Genres: action

Comments3

LDJam user 2789182 Oct 2022, 19:24

I really like the style of this game! I would suggest adding a note that Z progressing the text, since I spend a good 30 seconds just randomly hitting keys trying to figure out what it was. You had a great idea with this game and I think it was really well executed!

M4ttU3 Oct 2022, 15:23

Thanks @iguanana for the comment because I was having a hard time trying to guess what was needed to be done ahah! But apart from this, the game is good, the music has an annoyingly addictive vibe that you could find in almost every gameboy games.
Nice job!

ThaProfesional6 Oct 2022, 07:39

Dug the look and feel and sound really embodied the gameboy. The "NPCs changing look" animation was especially cool.

Game flavour gave me a good feeling of paranoia while I was playing.

One thing took me a while to figure out is in the tutorial is says to press "B" to toggle mask but the actual button was "x".