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Last Brain Cell by CO5MONAUT

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made by CO5MONAUT for Ludum Dare 59 (JAM)

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How to Play

WASD — move around
To collect a Thought, just walk into it.
To throw a Thought out of your Backpack, hold Space and scroll the mouse wheel back and forth to switch between Thoughts.

How to Win

The Megabrain gives you Thoughts in a specific order.
To build the phrase correctly, you must remember that order and throw the Thoughts into the Speech Apparatus in the exact same order.

Date Mood

DATE MOOD gradually decreases over time.
You start with 100 DATE MOOD.
If you deliver all Thoughts, you get +20 DATE MOOD.
You also get +10 DATE MOOD for each Thought placed in the correct spot.

Lose / Win Conditions

If your DATE MOOD reaches 0, you lose.
If you finish all the phrases, you win.
There are 10 phrases in total.

You play as the last brain cell of a guy who’s going on a date!

Mega Brain comes up with cool lines, but the last brain cell struggles to get those thoughts to the speech apparatus! Along the way, the thoughts might get jumbled up or even lost—and then the date is definitely doomed!

Take on the role of the Last Brain Cell and help the guy have a great date!!

Gameplay

https://youtu.be/KOb_dzmYU6A

build on itch.io https://co5monaut.itch.io/last-brain-cell
Original URL https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/59/last-brain-cell

Ratings

Overall 723th 3.075⭐ 22🧑‍⚖️
Fun 422th 3.375⭐ 22🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 315th 3.55⭐ 22🧑‍⚖️
Theme 583th 3.395⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 543th 3.5⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Audio 554th 2.474⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Humor 70th 4⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Mood 490th 3.526⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Given 45🗳️ 16🗨️

Feedback

rezonanc
Apr 20th · 18:46 UTC
where is the game bro
kkotova1
Apr 21st · 17:28 UTC
Thoughts are so hard to collect when you are on a date lol. super fun
LDJam user 409682
Apr 21st · 20:54 UTC
Haha, the title is amazing. The idea overall is great too — how did you even come up with this? It’s really funny!
🎤 CO5MONAUT
Apr 21st · 21:06 UTC
@fassenberg
Thanks!
I'm putting together a quick postmortem on this topic. In short, it was just a coincidence and a meme I remembered at the right moment, haha
Alexander Stepanov
Apr 22nd · 20:08 UTC
Very fun concept and movement! but the gameplay is very frustrating....
LDJam user 407703
Apr 25th · 11:44 UTC
Haha, great game! It’s a bit confusing at first, but once you play for a bit, you get the hang of the controls. The theme and humor are awesome!

I sometimes ran into an issue where I would immediately collect something again right after dropping it, which made it hard to deliver the thoughts properly. Also, some subtle background music with increasing tension could work really well.

Congrats on putting this together so well!
🎤 CO5MONAUT
Apr 26th · 10:54 UTC
@anszwa Thank you! You're right, the music and sound effects really aren't enough. I even recorded all the voiceovers, but I didn't have time to edit them out. Maybe I'll add them after the jam :)
alexey_bobrovskiy
Apr 27th · 11:51 UTC
ahahaha, how do you know that I'm afraid of women?
zimennik
Apr 27th · 13:21 UTC
Unfortunately, I wasn't able to launch it due to an error related to Vulkan.
According to the rules, you are allowed to update the game after the submission date if it contains a critical bug that prevents it from launching.
Discomorphine
Apr 29th · 09:01 UTC
Very fun, I love it!!!

I would appreciate more difference in words' colours so it would be possible to drop them right way.

Also, with some progression like power-ups or upgrades it would be a great one-evening game for a stream or a company if you add multiplayer!
Theogen
May 02nd · 05:49 UTC
This is hilarious. For full immersion, I recommend playing it at 2:00 AM like I did :laughing:
yuwei
May 07th · 06:17 UTC
Playing as the last brain cell trying to save a guy’s date is such a funny premise. The thought‑throwing mechanic feels chaotic in a good way.
VenomousMouse
May 07th · 07:41 UTC
Very cool and fun idea. Great job!
LDJam user 379026
May 07th · 20:48 UTC
Hilarious premise, little clunky but there's a charm to it, I think the controls could be explained a bit better and while the order of the spheres come out is fairly straightforward it might be best to clearly state that objective or to have the player initialize the thinking rather then relying on them looking the right way at all times, took me a couple of reloads to understand as I was too busy looking around.