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Quarantine Routine by Almartmen

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made by Almartmen for Ludum Dare 47 (JAM)

Game made for Ludum Dare 47 Gamejam.

Theme: Stuck in a loop

THE GAME:

Due to an ongoing pandemic, the government has prohibited to go outside until further notice... ... but you still have to complete your daily tasks!

How many days will you survive without losing your mind because of stress?

INSTRUCTIONS:

  • Complete all daily tasks (marked with an e)

  • Failing the tasks will add stress!

  • Completing tasks takes time.

  • Time accelerates as days go on.

  • Uncompleted tasks will add stress at the end of day.

  • Keep a healthy garden to avoid stressing out.

  • Sleep at least 8h for optimal relaxation.

  • Not sleeping for a long time will carry consequences.

  • Keep your stress level under 100 at all times or it will be over!

  • There are secret ways to "relief" some stress. Can you find them?

Tasks/Minigames:

  • Garden: Take care of the plants by planting, watering and healing sick plants. Click to select the tools and click on each plant to use them.

  • Work: Write the words as written before. Try to do it as fast as you can. The font is barely readable, but that's part of the fun, innit?

  • Workout: Some exercise to keep you sane. Click the indicated keys to complete the game. There's no bonus points to do it following the music, but hey, it's immersive.

  • Cook: Select a recipe and drop the ingredients in the pot in the correct order. Cooking can actually be relaxing, but only if you do it properly!

  • Grocery Shopping: Move the character to the groceries and use E to throw them in the direction of your mouse cursor. Your goal is to throw them into the cart before you gain too much stress from all the hassle.

  • There are some secrets way to relief stress! Try to click E around some objects that may remind you to some relaxing activities of your day to day...

For the best experience we recommend to play in FULLSCREEN MODE. You can activate it by clicking the button in the bottom right corner of the game screen.

CONTROLS: For this game you will need a keyboard and a mouse.

Movement: W, A, S, D Use: E You will also need to use the Arrow keys in one minigame.

CREDITS: - House sprites (some of them modified by us): https://limezu.itch.io/moderninteriors

  • Object sprites (some of them modified by us): https://vectorpixelstar.itch.io/food

  • Workout song: (@dissonancelive) http://www.dissonancelive.com/​

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Youtube https://krankenkraken.itch.io/quarantineroutine
Original URL https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/47/quarantine-routine

Ratings

Overall 124th 4.096⭐ 28🧑‍⚖️
Fun 132th 4⭐ 29🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 119th 4.019⭐ 28🧑‍⚖️
Theme 344th 4⭐ 28🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 326th 4.074⭐ 29🧑‍⚖️
Audio 94th 4.115⭐ 28🧑‍⚖️
Humor 290th 3.54⭐ 27🧑‍⚖️
Mood 292th 3.88⭐ 27🧑‍⚖️
Given 50🗳️ 11🗨️

Feedback

Demetri
05. Oct 2020 · 16:54 UTC
I love the actual minigames and the sense of stress it gives the player, who is ironically trying to prevent stress. However I was unable to complete all tasks in a single day which I expect is just my fault. Nonetheless, it is fun and a cool spin to the theme.
Basileios
05. Oct 2020 · 16:55 UTC
The game is overall quite fun but some of the minigames don't make much sense. It's amazing you were able to make this in such short of a time!
ElllaDee
05. Oct 2020 · 16:57 UTC
Such a great game! Lovely and fun
zacharieg
05. Oct 2020 · 17:01 UTC
Nice game ! A little repetitive but the minigames are cool and the amount of work done is incredible, the music is also very cool!
Tutti Ankka
05. Oct 2020 · 17:03 UTC
Cool idea. Graphics and sounds are pretty good. Well done!
Verso
05. Oct 2020 · 17:05 UTC
Great game! Impressive variety for a short development period. The plant growing mini-game was my favourite, would love to see it expanded. The grocery mini-game was a little frustrating when the items go behind you or off-screen. A simple fix might be to let the player walk through items, or add a small jump to get over them.

Also, a tiny little bug - when you wake up, the day counter goes up properly but resets to 1 after you do the computer task.

Great job overall!
Eduard Hauer
05. Oct 2020 · 17:06 UTC
A fun game with interesting idea but if you fail you get stuck with no moving
doomerismo
05. Oct 2020 · 17:07 UTC
Overall good game and the first to use the concept of life as a loop i saw so far.
Guardaro
05. Oct 2020 · 17:08 UTC
I survived for 5 days! I think that grocery shopping singlehandedly did me in. I enjoyed it the most, but the difficulty ramps up pretty quickly on subsequent days.

I love the variety. It's amazing that you were able to finish all of this in one weekend! The controls for each minigame were nice and intuitive.
Leo Red
05. Oct 2020 · 17:09 UTC
The idea and game style is really good, But the font is a bit unreadable. It does not relate to the theme but it doesn't have to. Still, it is really good.
Zypo
05. Oct 2020 · 17:10 UTC
Great game! I love how there are different mini-games! I lasted 6 whole days! I think the "shoot eggs in basket" was frustrating at times, but I liked all of the other mini games. I didn't find out about the "alternate stress relief" or getting the proper amount of sleep until much later... maybe the outside getting darker might give me an awareness to stop doing so much stuff.
WiredSound
05. Oct 2020 · 17:10 UTC
Very impressive game to have made in such short time! Rare to see proper music in an LD game so that was a welcome surprise.
jmoocow2003
05. Oct 2020 · 17:11 UTC
This was pretty fun! The only gripes I had with it were the pixel text in the work mini game was a little hard to read at first, as some letters look like others, specifically o, a and e (you get used to it the more you play), and there was some weird delay with the clock every time you finished a task (it would take a few seconds to show the proper time instead of 8:00). Other than that, pretty solid entry :)
BobParis75
05. Oct 2020 · 17:40 UTC
I really like minigames plus your game is easy to understand and fun
Aterlamia
05. Oct 2020 · 20:13 UTC
So many mini games, well done. Very fun game. I had a bit of problems with the groceries because for me the left side was cut off (non fullscreen) and i did not see that there was a character there. But i love the mood your game sets.
BarelyEvenGames
06. Oct 2020 · 00:45 UTC
Very cute minigames. I have to say that they aren't all immediately intuitive on how to play. Some direction in game would be useful, especially the grocery minigame and the planting minigame.
Mattalarc
06. Oct 2020 · 01:09 UTC
Amazing game, lovely art and sound! only thing is that the movement could be a bit more tight, but it's great!
ilopes
06. Oct 2020 · 01:10 UTC
please finish and launch this game i look forward to playing a full version
Albuquerque
06. Oct 2020 · 01:11 UTC
5/5 WOW
Fun
Entertaining
Polished
Mini Games
Wow
qui
06. Oct 2020 · 10:01 UTC
Very cool entry! I loved the workout minigame, although all of them are well made.
There is a lot of variety in a single game. The audio is on point too.
Arad HamidSamiee
17. Oct 2020 · 07:21 UTC
Cool, covid style, huh? my plants kept on getting sick :( no matter how much I tried to heal them, and the spelling game was hard sometimes, especially with no backspace function. Loved the mini-games. good job