Male Pattern Boldness by Choo

Oh no you're losing your hair!
But perhaps you can use something around to cover it up...
5 levels, 5 life events, you can do it!
Play In Browser
https://ahchoo.itch.io/male-pattern-boldness

Controls
Keyboard - arrows, z,x,c
Gamepad - thumbstick, A, LT, RT

Credits
Made for Ludum Dare 50 in 72 hours by:
Ollie Powell, Adam Butcher, Tom Carrell, James Pearson!
| Link | https://ahchoo.itch.io/male-pattern-boldness |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/50/male-pattern-boldness |
Ratings
| Overall | 172th | 3.963⭐ | 29🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 175th | 3.889⭐ | 29🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 96th | 3.981⭐ | 29🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 101th | 4.241⭐ | 29🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 528th | 3.852⭐ | 29🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 120th | 4.04⭐ | 27🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 10th | 4.519⭐ | 29🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 249th | 3.926⭐ | 29🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 38🗳️ | 33🗨️ |
WHAT A MASTERPIECE! I love weird games like this. It's so cool!
Your game is great (gameplay, music, graphics and humor), this is a very very nice submission.
I really enjoyed this game, even though the keyboard controls were *really* hard! It felt a lot like a WarioWare game in terms of humor/aesthetics, which I really dug! I really liked the facial expressions that the character made after each level, they were very charming.
The only real complaint that I have is that you couldn't readjust anything after placing it on your head - I had to replay the last level a few times because the wind kept blowing everything to one side of the head or the other, but not knocking it off, so I would end with very poor coverage, and it felt like there was nothing I could do about it.
Overall though, great job!
I really wish there was some clear feedback on hitting Z and grabbing. It took some struggling at the start trying to figure out what I had to do. A grab frame and a fail and succeed sound for instance would've helped. Currently pressing Z when there's nothing to grab doesn't tell me what Z actually does.
Loved the art, a nice and cooky style. Music helped set the tone. All in all a very fun entry!
it took me a while to figure out that the hairs were sticking to the face.
not sure what I am doing but I think I won :laughing:

Only nitpick is, in some levels, the white font of the score is unreadable against the clouds in the background. Otherwise, pretty awesome game, congrats!!
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Worked ok in Firefox.
Lots of fun despite the frustrating keyboard controls. Funniest part was when I tried to grab something that moved behind the guy and ended up grabbing his own tie to put on his head (and then he had another tie underneath, like he planned for this! Had to use that one too, of course). Only suggestion would be to leave more time with the score and the guy visible for taking screenshots. I thought I managed to do something… sort of stylish(???) but it faded to black while I was reaching for the screenshot keys.
Enjoyed this, really liked the audio at the end of the level where the main theme resolves itself, its very nice for the heart to feel.
Good job with this, in a few years I'll be grabbing an alley cat before my job interview too.