Connection Unstable by hotaloca
In this story driven adventure, you can play a psychologist to enter a patient's dream via newest neurolink technologies. Help stabilize his emotional conditions! Influence thoughts using a regular mobile phone (or other platforms). Simulate your finger taps for scroll by grabbing up/down with mouse.

Technologies used are Unity, Affinity Designer, cgMusic, Audacity, Garageband. For the web player I had no time to troubleshoot why the regular build would not work - so I used the Development Build. It works at my computer at least.
| Link | https://choices.hu/unstable/source.zip |
| Link | https://choices.hu/unstable/win.zip |
| Development Build | https://choices.hu/unstable/dev/ |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/49/connection-unstable |
Ratings
| Overall | 402th | 3.196⭐ | 30🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 465th | 2.786⭐ | 30🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 338th | 3.161⭐ | 30🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 241th | 3.661⭐ | 30🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 438th | 2.911⭐ | 30🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 237th | 3.241⭐ | 29🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 379th | 2.239⭐ | 25🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 51th | 3.911⭐ | 30🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 43🗳️ | 44🗨️ |
Your writing is great!
(Flicking with a mouse is ... weird. Took me a while to realize how to scroll is what I'm saying. Not really an issue if it's mostly intended for phones though.)
The only thing I was a bit annoyed at is that the text almost never hints at what the 'right' answer is to proceed. That does give it a very dream-like feeling though, so maybe that's what you where going for?
Sadly did not finish
:purple_heart: :dart: :frog:
@remco Yes I thought that a dream like story can manage more problems on story inconsistency, but that was not the aim to make no hints at all. And of course with more time things could have been proof read more... I had two primary intent:
1. Make self-reflection choices work vs. action - i also in my life realized i acted too fast, too soon without understanding the why. Understand your emotions better will help make you realize the why better.
2. In dreams things work different. All others in your dreams are really basically a part of yourself. So you are really debating with you all the time, and your mind makes it up. So if you can manage your emotions well in a dream like setup, your brain can make up any scenes you really want.
You've done a fantastic job setting up the mood / atmosphere while staying minimalist.
The story conveys the feeling of a dream very well. The themes, about actions vs introspection and 'the meaning of strength / weakness' really echoed with me.
Thank you for making this! :)
music and sound really get the mood. background change shows the unstable state very straight and clear.
auto save point is a good design too, i'm afraid of start all over again for the first time;)
The mood and the setting is fantastic! I made myself doubt if my choices were correct on the first go, though later on the choices you make later on feels like you're that person dreaming. The background was a good touch too, making sure it conveys their mental state!
The only thing I would like here is just the arrow or scroll wheel controls because that's the first thing I expect to do, but I forgot you guys designed it like a mobile phone, which make the scrolling make sense.
Very original idea which remindeed me of Master Reboot a little bit. Interesting take on the theme. The only thing I would improve is scrolling, but that was already mentioned couple of times. Nice one!