Mitt Romney and the Case of the Sex Doll by jackspinoza

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made by jackspinoza for LD25 (JAM)
FOR A MATURE AUDIENCE ONLY.

A game about power.

SHIFT - RUN
arrows - movement
SPACE - actions (you can interact with obvious stuff)

Join Mitt as he burrows deeper into his malignant narcissism and psychopathy.
Everything (music et al) made in 48 hours. Borrowed scripts keep the game from the main competition.

Ratings

Coolness 68% 3
Overall(Jam) 3.31 108
Audio(Jam) 3.52 49
Fun(Jam) 2.53 227
Graphics(Jam) 3.70 88
Humor(Jam) 2.93 108
Innovation(Jam) 2.77 181
Mood(Jam) 4.03 7
Theme(Jam) 3.59 100

Feedback

Quarry
17. Dec 2012 · 18:24 UTC
oh god wat
shaneshanekavanagh
18. Dec 2012 · 12:14 UTC
You had me at the title. Cheers!
Saisaith
18. Dec 2012 · 23:13 UTC
lol
MaTX
18. Dec 2012 · 23:27 UTC
Quite inventive and creative, although I got bored, probably because I am not american :D I had super fun though.
Cake&Code
18. Dec 2012 · 23:37 UTC
That music is really fitting, though extremely disturbing. The movement is really too slow for the kind of distances that need traversing, and it makes the game really slow. I gave up because it was taking forever to get anywhere.

Lastly, 73.2mb? Wowza, the sounds alone account for a huge chunk of the game size (about 70% of it) and the other being the use of PNG for images (which account for another 20%) that would compress so well with JPG. I think it would be more accessible to more people if this wasn't the case. Not gonna take away from your ratings, but it is going to take away from the amount of people who rate it :O
🎤 jackspinoza
18. Dec 2012 · 23:49 UTC
If you press shift you can run.
fhoenig
19. Dec 2012 · 00:11 UTC
I love these hand drawn games but don't have Windows. I'll rate gfx based on the screenshots.
LogGiant
19. Dec 2012 · 00:18 UTC
I don't think I'll be going to bed tonight.
Alex Rose
19. Dec 2012 · 00:28 UTC
This was awesome.

Got a little weird towards the end, like it was trying to shock me but just wasn't succeeding, but at the start where it was just joke after joke I found it hilarious. Definitely max points for humour.

Interesting sound and graphics too.
StoneMonkeyStudios
19. Dec 2012 · 01:52 UTC
The hand-drawn environments and characters are unique and cohesive. The atmosphere is interestingly brooding; There are times where it feels like I'm playing a Salvador Dali painting.

It is a little deranged.
fishbrain
19. Dec 2012 · 12:48 UTC
Love the mood - the grungy graphics and sounds. Something unbalanced and disturbing about it all - lol great stuff!
dremelofdeath
19. Dec 2012 · 13:01 UTC
Wow, that was messed up. I played it at like 5 AM and I think between staying up for it and eating Taco Bell is going to give me permanent nightmares. Definitely nailed the themes and the watercolor environments gave this game its character. Great work.
Gazok
19. Dec 2012 · 23:32 UTC
This is my favourite game so far.
I'm not sure what that says about me.
Yngar
21. Dec 2012 · 20:26 UTC
Yep Romney sure is a jerk
Darkfrost
21. Dec 2012 · 20:37 UTC
pretty wacked but alright
ddionisio
22. Dec 2012 · 04:03 UTC
Man, what a depressing game...I had fun though! The art works out well, and the music is good!
goerp
23. Dec 2012 · 21:49 UTC
Thanks for the warning, I played it anyway. Enjoyed it as well, altough it was a bit disturbing.
I like the hand made graphics and the humor. the music was impressive but got on my nerves after a while (but that might have been intentional). Were that real instruments.
just curious, but what scripts did you have to use?
This game also scores good on mood.
Original game.
🎤 jackspinoza
24. Dec 2012 · 00:54 UTC
thanks for the comments,
@goerp - I made the "music" with my strat and my synth and used tape distortion on my voice. So, almost real instruments. I used a script for the text and one for the menu, I spent too much time on the music and nonsense.
Tom 7
26. Dec 2012 · 19:20 UTC
Wow. This is the most fucked up LD game I've ever played. It's quite hard to endure, but I'll give you credit for doing something daring, and the ending was somewhat redeeming. Definitely a standout in LD25, for better or worse.

The music was great, though unsurprisingly I liked what the radio was playing before Mitt's beast mode disc.
AyCe
27. Dec 2012 · 23:39 UTC
WOW! This is either brilliant or crazy. That music, the graphics, the blackest humour just made it a real experience! :O Great job!
BlackBulletIV
28. Dec 2012 · 00:03 UTC
Yeah, that was pretty disgusting, although the rest wasn't too bad compared with the end. The music was... disturbing. I muted the game after the radio changed.

I didn't really like it, but I'll certainly give points for innovation and mood.
Zelen3d
28. Dec 2012 · 00:16 UTC
What the !!!! tHIS WAS fun! you should run(shift) by default.
🎤 jackspinoza
28. Dec 2012 · 02:22 UTC
nice comments thanks.
I'm with you BlackBulletIV.
Spelchan
28. Dec 2012 · 06:44 UTC
Calling this game disturbing is a huge understatement. The problem with art games, which I consider this to be, is that they focus more on making a statement then being fun. Worth playing but not a fun game.
🎤 jackspinoza
28. Dec 2012 · 15:16 UTC
Haha, right Spelchan, in fact I think I'm trumped at almost every hurdle when it comes to the ratings, not just the "fun" aspect. Oh well...
MrEvilGuy
29. Dec 2012 · 05:17 UTC
The doll-man beating at the end was my favourite part. I felt too much in control of everything but I think that added to the idiosyncratic strangeness of it. :)
cappelnord
30. Dec 2012 · 13:26 UTC
Would love to see that game but no Windows :-( A gameplay video would be awesome!
Jeremias
30. Dec 2012 · 18:12 UTC
Good job in creating a uncommon mood.
nate427
31. Dec 2012 · 17:05 UTC
Very... original. Strange and disgusting but in a good way somehow.
csanyk
02. Jan 2013 · 03:30 UTC
I didn't get it, beyond stamping on pigeons was there more to do? It doesn't feel complete, or I am missing something.
🎤 jackspinoza
02. Jan 2013 · 05:37 UTC
@ csanyk: I think you're missing about 4 fifths of the game. Try exploring a tiny bit more - you can go in most doors.
🎤 jackspinoza
02. Jan 2013 · 23:54 UTC
...having said that, you aren't missing much.
Porpentine
05. Jan 2013 · 06:49 UTC
i really like the music

the ending is horrifying. genuinely horrifying.

the most pervasively depressing and fucked-up mood of the competition, out of the 50~ games i've played so far
Worse
05. Jan 2013 · 13:30 UTC
The art was just spectacular. Humor and music are great. But I didn't like how the gameplay was forced - couldn't proceed until doing specific things that the game told me to do :(