WildGuess by Rashid

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made by Rashid for Ludum Dare 49 (JAM)

Imagine that you are a family psychologist​, but remember that the fate of two married couples is in your hands!

Smiths and Wilsons are completely different couples with different problems, but they still have something in common ;) Their love is unstable, your task is to help them not to lose it!

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Ratings

Overall 1139th 3.216⭐ 39🧑‍⚖️
Fun 1172th 3.014⭐ 39🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 1221th 2.838⭐ 39🧑‍⚖️
Theme 978th 3.284⭐ 39🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 460th 3.905⭐ 39🧑‍⚖️
Audio 663th 3.27⭐ 39🧑‍⚖️
Humor 491th 3.351⭐ 39🧑‍⚖️
Mood 870th 3.297⭐ 39🧑‍⚖️
Given 131🗳️ 57🗨️

Feedback

Nerisma
05. Oct 2021 · 10:17 UTC
Amazing work ! Loved everything about it, really beautiful, really moody, really fun to play, restart the dialogs and everything, really good game !
Magic_mike
05. Oct 2021 · 10:24 UTC
Nice atmosphere and great game overall! I think the connexion with the theme might be a little thin, but it is enjoyable
xpoho
05. Oct 2021 · 11:16 UTC
О бедная, бедная семья! Как же тебе воссоединиться! Или не распасться. Хорошо, когда есть те, кто помогают в этом.
Спасибо за игру!
Kowara
05. Oct 2021 · 12:51 UTC
Quite an entertaining story to play through! The graphics work wonderfully for the narrative, and the sound design (music and SFX) is nicely done, especially the character's voice blurbs--would be nice if there were more variations available, though.

Some issues: at some point after replaying the game a few times, the music stopped playing completely. Also, the volume of Eugene's voice blurb is a bit louder than the other characters' blurbs. Additionally, the 'Start' option seems redundant since you can just choose the family you want to talk with through the 'Families' option.

I wondered if there was a secret ending that you can get if you break up the two families since the story implied that there were certain relations that could potentially occur if that happened... Overall, it was a fun game that could easily be expanded (post-jam) to have more families included in it.
Plotnikov Ilya
05. Oct 2021 · 12:52 UTC
Great usage of visual novel mechanics and great artwork! This was fun to play but sad that game doesn't have more families
LDJam user 0
05. Oct 2021 · 12:52 UTC
Robo waifu
Ghatazorg
05. Oct 2021 · 12:57 UTC
Great game ! It's a nice experience, funny, with cool graphics !
fegabe
05. Oct 2021 · 13:02 UTC
It's an original concept and fun to read and play it. Graphics and sounds are pretty well done. Being able to make a couple of stories with endings makes it better. Good job!
Mac Dragoness
05. Oct 2021 · 13:03 UTC
this is super solid, I really like it although it's sad that the game is pretty short.
Moritz14
05. Oct 2021 · 14:41 UTC
Looks very polished! Nice Work!
wvagen
05. Oct 2021 · 14:59 UTC
The graphics are great ! i like the role where you're a doctor to solve couple's problems xD i need those kind of people in my life.. Good job ;)
Anaxie Studio
05. Oct 2021 · 15:00 UTC
Really neat game! The art and atmosphere is good and we like the characters' different personalities. One thing that we would have liked to see is a bit more user feedback, for example buttons lighting up to show they are being clicked or hovered.

(Spoilers ahead)
It was a bit hard to see what the right choice was. Siding with the wife in the Wilson family leads to a loss, which implies that the right path (which MUST be taken) is to stop her from going outside and enjoying her hobbies which sounds rather morally dubious. (Perhaps this is on purpose?)

The voices and sounds are a nice touch. We also like the spin on the theme.

Cool project, guys!
Bomb-X
05. Oct 2021 · 15:01 UTC
Experience was pretty short but great! I hope you will not have problems with that girl robot voice ;D
(you should put your unity files in a folder before zipping it)
Well done!!
ChristianB
05. Oct 2021 · 15:03 UTC
Funny game. Good job!
LDJam user 244283
05. Oct 2021 · 15:05 UTC
really nice games one, and i love this cute robo-woman
Saltysa
05. Oct 2021 · 15:40 UTC
I really liked the idea, as being a fake (?) psychiatrist giving weird advices sounds really fun. I replayed it to see what other choices were there

//spoilers// Not a big fan of having to keep the robot away from her hobbies tho but maybe the fact that it's a bad advice (even tho it worked to keep the couple together) was intended? I feel like those people really would be better off with other partners but once again maybe that was the point?

The drawings are really nice, and the voices were a nice touch!
uboretsky
05. Oct 2021 · 15:52 UTC
Create mind randomly, lmao.
Very cool art and sounds
Irina Nikulina
05. Oct 2021 · 15:59 UTC
@anaxie-studio Thank you! ( and yes, this was on purpose ;) )
Sloyka
05. Oct 2021 · 16:17 UTC
@kowara Thank you for your detailed feedback!
antbrl
05. Oct 2021 · 17:04 UTC
Interesting idea, nice execution!
Muros
06. Oct 2021 · 00:12 UTC
This is a pretty interesting game. Made with humor, cool characters and good graphics. Especially the voices of the characters made me laugh.
Irina Nikulina
06. Oct 2021 · 10:49 UTC
@muros Thank you so much!
Ekaterina
06. Oct 2021 · 14:25 UTC
Great humor and character elaboration! The dialogues are funny, interesting to read and see where your answers to their questions lead.
Kraghan
06. Oct 2021 · 19:33 UTC
The art was great but I'm not really client of this kind of game. Some choices were really morally oriented and characters descriptions were a little bit... Offensive (from my point of view). I won't make some therapy theory here but if you want to help people, you probably shouldn't taking them down at first sight. But still a good game :)
MarkVeligod
07. Oct 2021 · 17:00 UTC
Oh gods the sounds are amazing!
Ivan Nosov
08. Oct 2021 · 15:08 UTC
Good interpretation of the theme. Cool style. It could be in a store. I would buy.
blobo
09. Oct 2021 · 20:00 UTC
Wow, I love the character designs! The art is super charming! I love the typo on the diploma, ha! The story was nice, and I helped everyone one first try! The little mumble noises the characters make are real fun too! It's a bit short, and I wish there were a few more families to help out. Cool game, and nicely done!
DarthBoseiju
10. Oct 2021 · 21:50 UTC
I liked the noises the characters made, and the art. As others have mentioned I felt bad for the robot!

also (spoilers here) was it implied that the robot leaves to go with the husband of the other partner? The flowers link definitely made me think so!

I would like more families, and also a transition when time changes happen - even just a fade to black after you make a suggestion. But good!
Irina Nikulina
10. Oct 2021 · 23:51 UTC
@darthboseiju Yes, you right about robot! And transition.. we tried to make it but we don't had so much time, so.. And Thank you for your comment!
ZacharyPinkham
13. Oct 2021 · 23:17 UTC
Interesting premise to make a game about a marriage counselor, though I admit, I actually have some gripes with the premise that the way to "win" the part with the robot is to just make her stay home and deprive her of her joys in life. However, I still think it was pretty well executed given the amount of time we had, and I like the fact it had multiple endings!
coolestdoggie
20. Oct 2021 · 16:08 UTC
Good work! Dandy idea! A little buggy and I don't like replica speed. It was too slowly and what's a pity that I can't do anything with this. I like graphics! Congrats!