Hold Up Mom! by Ntimi

Controls
Walk with WASD or the Arrow Keys and interact with the Spacebar.

Setting
After a day of playing games and fooling around you totally forgot to clean up your room and now your Mom comes back early!


Your Task
In this "Home Alone" simulator you have to try everything to delay your Moms entrance into your room by blocking her path with furniture or distract her with different interactable objects.
But be careful, if your actions are making her angry, the messy room is your lesser problem.


Extras: - Added sounds (2022-04-06)
| Link | https://ulm-awesome.itch.io/hold-up-mom |
| Link | https://github.com/schnuet/ldjam-2022-04 |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/50/hold-up-mom |
Ratings
| Given | 18🗳️ | 12🗨️ |
By timer, you mean the time as witten number (in seconds for example), in addition to the depleting bar on the right?
Some of the indicators weren't super clear, like the table. It tells you only cake goes there, but only when you have an item. Before that it seems to do nothing; and it's the first indicator you interact with so it leads to some confusion. Probably my biggest gripe though is that dialogue hints don't pause the timer; feels like I'm being cheated of precious time.
I wish there was a scoring system as well. It'd be fun to try and optimize your score around anger/delay time/etc.
Overall great work!
Its a lot of fun to experiment with this.
I also think that a scoring system of some kind would help to make it more interesting.
We actually had a very similar idea to this for our game. Its nice to see a different vision of it.
Good work!
overall, it really caught the kid trying to appease strict parents vibe :laughing:
I love the music ! Especially the change when the mother arrives very cinematic!
Well Done !