Mood Swings by Aaron Smith
Mood Swings
An Emotional Platformer

So I took the LD49 theme of "Unstable" in an emotional sense and built a platformer centered around emotion and literal mood swings. This one was a struggle and I barely finished on time.
WAD to control, should be very self explanatory.

A quick example of using the fear mechanic to get through level 2!

| Link | https://revoincubus.itch.io/mood-swings-ld49 |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/49/mood-swings |
Ratings
| Given | 3🗳️ | 1🗨️ |
I've added a small Gif to give folks the idea.
I think, in the end, this is a fairly wonky mechanic that requires a true tutorial and a full length game to get folks the idea. The Jam version of this was just too short for me to pack all that in in the time allotted.
I hope you give it another shot, the mechanic is a blast when used.
The game could deserve some small tutorial session where at least we are shown once that fear of another character makes you move horizontally very fast etc... But you mentioned that you barely finished on time so there's that!
Nice entry overall!
Graphics is cool, but I would've like for the player to have an idle animation, but it's good good.