Elephant In The Room by binroot
Control the conversation at dinner for as long as you can!
You can type in anything, for example:
- "spider man"
- "elden ring"
- "chess"
- "norway"
- "hotdogs"
- "daft punk"
- something vulgar
- etc.
The game ends when people notice the elephant in the room.

Controls: type words and press enter
Credits: * Game engine: Godot 3.4.4 * Sprite editor: Piskel * Audio editor: Audacity 3.1.3 * Music virtual instrument: superlooper * Font: Gluten (from Google Fonts) * Topic map: Wikipedia API * Analytics: Rudderstack + ElephantSQL * Hosting: Netlify
| Source Code | https://github.com/BinRoot/ludum-dare-50 |
| HTML5 (web) | https://elephant-ld50.netlify.app |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/50/elephant-in-the-room |
Ratings
| Overall | 95th | 3.85⭐ | 22🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 133th | 3.725⭐ | 22🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 1th | 4.85⭐ | 22🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 39th | 4.2⭐ | 22🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 351th | 3.325⭐ | 22🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 259th | 3.316⭐ | 21🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 21th | 4.25⭐ | 22🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 152th | 3.579⭐ | 21🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 12🗳️ | 15🗨️ |
Super-innovative approach. It's probably unlosable if you don't get bored, but it's really fun to play around with for a little while and see what happens.
That being said, this is a really fun idea and I loved my few minutes with it. Very well done. Getting these little goofy mouse people to talk about random things was amusing, but seeing them segue into related topics was even more entertaining.
Not much game but certainly entertaining. Well done! And for a jam game? Congrats!
It's also really interesting how you could easily lose, while distracted by the conversation and then not come up with anything when music gets intense and they start to notice the elephant. I had my wife sitting next to me so we kind of cheated the game coming up with ideas together and at some point I decided to just stop. So increasing difficulty overtime might be a thing you'd like to do. Anyways that's a really well done compo entry!
I was streaming and recording my playthrough of your game, here's a link in case you'd like to see it https://youtu.be/xAmitsB_F9k