Embol by azlen

Description
Uh... Embol is a game about umm... talking. Yes, it is a game about... talking. Turns out talking is err... much harder than it seems huh? Like uh... really, who would've known?
JON is just trying to live a normal life, but he keeps stumbling over his words; can you help him? (bonus points if you feed him chocolate :wink:)
Controls
Click to interact
Notes
- If you get stuck, try clicking on the map icon to move to a different area
| Source code | https://github.com/azlen/LD40 |
| macOS | https://azlen.itch.io/embol |
| Windows | https://azlen.itch.io/embol |
| Linux | |
| Linux | |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/40/embol |
Ratings
| Overall | 58th | 3.944⭐ | 65🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 53th | 3.944⭐ | 64🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 11th | 4.31⭐ | 65🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 100th | 4⭐ | 65🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 241th | 3.532⭐ | 65🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 210th | 3.298⭐ | 64🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 28th | 4.008⭐ | 63🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 31th | 3.914⭐ | 60🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 50🗳️ | 48🗨️ |
* Idea and gameplay are unique and i see a great potential in this mechanics!
* Graphics are minimalistic and very pleasing to look at. They remind me of Edmund McMillen's graphic style
* Sounds and music was very cool. They sound so polished.... that at this point I don't believe that you made it in 2 days. If it's true - all the world's respect to you, man, if not - it's still a fucking good game.
Well, if you ever need a co-worker, would be glad to help with something
However, it's a little bit easy to get stuck( I guess maybe I click too many not-related bubbles?) The First time I stuck at second place, the second time I even stuck in tutorial :(. but That's still a good entry, at least I really enjoy the process before I get stuck!
Also, I love you let the character look at the cursor position! It let me feel he is really thinking!
Making my character constantly spew strings of "uhhs" and "uhhms" was just so fun, every time. The characters were great, that shop owner was definitely an evil alien robot in disguise!
I'd love to see this expanded, I'd definitely buy it! Really great job!
I WOULD BUY IT !
I encountered some game ending bugs, when I was spamming just all the errs and uhms into every sentence - because at some point I had no bubbles anymore no matter how often I changed maps.
The artstyle remembered me of the old dark newgrounds cartoons like saladfingers - so that's definetly a plus in my book! Good work!
As others have said though, it would definitely be interesting to have more ways to screw up, but solid work!
(also, would have been nice to have had a linux build since you did make it in godot, but i ran it through wine and it worked so :D)
Hope you expand on it! :D
Want more ;)