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Loved the ending scene as well.\n\nI love this, I think it's super impressive and a great achievement for a jam, huge well done.","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1064792,"author_name":"Erivas_Soulares","author_uid":"erivas-soulares","epoch":1713551943,"text":"Taking it from a game perspective, it still lacks a bit. But I can see it as a passion project with a very specific purpose and limitations in mind. You'd choose a hardware, embraced its limitations and built a funcional project. It's creative and well built.\n\nIt's always nice to jam alongside with such creative drives! Keep your work, I really want to see it with more content and Features later!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1064849,"author_name":"asfdfdfd","author_uid":"asfdfdfd","epoch":1713552857,"text":"You have my respect for GBA programming. Also great pixel art. Really production quality!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1069150,"author_name":"Kyrio","author_uid":"kyrio","epoch":1713710673,"text":"@dan-allison Thanks for sticking to the end! I just uploaded a new version after being too tired to work on it this week. It now has a timer at the top showing you when your creature will evolve, and I also added the rest of the animations my teammates made during the jam, so it's a lot more lively and responsive! Each stage is shorter, too. I wish these things were in the jam build so it's a little less frustrating, but we're a lot more happy with the game now :slight_smile: ","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":1069576,"author_name":"monika","author_uid":"monika","epoch":1713724556,"text":"Love it! The pixel art is fantastic. Lost one run because my real cat was demanding attention, and my second run had different starters but a same middle evolution - do you have the full evolution tree somewhere? \n\n![monster.PNG](\/\/\/raw\/ed8\/1\/z\/64a1f.png)","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1069621,"author_name":"Kyrio","author_uid":"kyrio","epoch":1713725886,"text":"@monika The next form you get depends on your most filled stat at the moment of evolution; we have three forms per stage with each one corresponding to bloodlust, wrath and swagger (I particularly like the final swagger form). So it's not really an evolution tree but I'm told this is what Tamagotchis were like :smile: Thanks for playing!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1069962,"author_name":"Ale","author_uid":"ale","epoch":1713736332,"text":"HOOOOOMEEEEEBREEEEWWWWWWWW!!!!\n\n![IMG_20240421_174015_878.jpg](\/\/\/raw\/8fb\/z\/64a62.jpg)\n\nI'd forgotten how shitty the screens are on these things lol. It's a neat little idle game with great art. I actually played through it a few times because I was curious to see the different monsters. It does get kind of boring after more than a few playthroughs, but I enjoyed it :)","format":"md","likes":3,"spam":"N"},{"id":1069995,"author_name":"Kyrio","author_uid":"kyrio","epoch":1713737304,"text":"@ale Yeah, it's actually a little surprising when you go back to those ancient LCDs with the front light... We even adjusted the palette because it was too pale on that screen.\n\nI guess a lot of homebrew enthusiasts have modded screens or maybe even the rare backlit model (AGS-101). But I only have my trusty old SP. I did manage to try it on a Game Boy Micro and it's a lot better :wink: ","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1072745,"author_name":"Ben Toosey","author_uid":"ben-toosey","epoch":1713951349,"text":"Firstly, the creature design\/art is fantastic! It wasn't too clear what B, W and S stand for, and although the game is a little slow\/easy, I still had a lot of fun discovering the different creature designs. Great work making it compatible with Gameboys too!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1072825,"author_name":"TheSmellofOxygen","author_uid":"thesmellofoxygen","epoch":1713963418,"text":"Thought I was missing something at first because gameplay just consisted of cycling between the three buffing actions. It's a bit passive. Impressive that you developed it to work on gameboy though, and the art is very good.","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":1076089,"author_name":"Whirlguy","author_uid":"whirlguy","epoch":1714411076,"text":"That was a really fun and unique game! Loved the art and the fact that whatever you choose to sacrifice changes the type of demon you get to summon. The game was a bit easy, I was hoping for it to get a little harder towards the end. I also really missed having audio. Still, I'm always amazed to see games that actually run on old consoles making it into the competition. I'm really glad I found this fun little game, great job guys! <3","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1076270,"author_name":"Kyrio","author_uid":"kyrio","epoch":1714433157,"text":"@whirlguy Thanks for the kind words! It ended up being a _little_ ambitious to make something for the GBA in three days when we had no experience with it, so the game had to be quite smaller as a result. We usually have a composer with us but he couldn't make it this time. Perhaps next time we can make something more well-rounded!","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":1077402,"author_name":"kanity","author_uid":"kanity","epoch":1714605909,"text":"My baby <3\n\n![mybaby.jpg](\/\/\/raw\/c93\/65\/z\/64ec0.jpg)\n\nThat was cute and chill, made me nostalgic (I played tamagochi as a kid!) and it wasn't too long, so I played fine in browser, just taking care of my lil monster non-stop x) \n\nLoved the transformations, each one is cooler than the other! Really nice visual style ^^","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"}],"format":"md","images":["ldjam-media\/sha256\/66\/66156ff9ce627e6d7f5f18b7c12f4c8eeed29ba81b98636a8148bacf0c16d4dc.png"],"links":[{"url":"https:\/\/kyrio.itch.io\/doomsday-care","text":"Link"},{"url":"https:\/\/kyrio.itch.io\/doomsday-care","text":"Game Boy Advance"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"93857","g_author":"1006165","g_event":"LD55","g_eventkey":"120","g_subevent":"JAM","g_urlkey":"440296","g_title":"Doomsday Care","g_status":"WAYBACK","g_place":"957","g_commentcount":"16","g_site2_node_id":"388480","g_hide":"N","g_has_icon":"Y","g_rqueue":"0","g_random":"0"},"nds":{"n_key":"388480","n_urlkey":"440296","n_parent":"383062","n_path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/55\/doomsday-care","n_slug":"doomsday-care","n_type":"item","n_subtype":"game","n_subsubtype":"jam","n_author":"6165","n_created":"1712952355","n_modified":"1779435108","n_version":"1237837","n_status":"WAYBACK"},"node":{"_collation":{"body_sanitizer":"TextUtils::SanitizeHTML via existing importer","event":"LD55","removed_author":false},"_superparent":9,"_trust":5,"author":6165,"body":"![Miniature.gif](\/\/\/raw\/518\/1\/z\/633ec.gif)\n\n**Doomsday Care** is virtual ~~pet~~ monster game for the **Game Boy Advance**, made entirely in three days. 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We designed it to be played in the background while you do other things, which the HTML5 emulator doesn't really let you do, so it's a good idea to download the ROM and play it on a modern emulator such as [mGBA](https:\/\/mgba.io\/). The latest version of the game is much quicker to finish though, so it's less of an issue now!\n- On your browser, use the arrow keys to move, **X** to confirm and **Z**\/**W** (whatever is left to your X) to cancel. On the GBA, use the A and B buttons as usual.\n\n**Rules**\n- Try to keep your creature's **B**loodlust, **W**rath and **S**wagger above zero! They will go down over time \u2013 the longer your bar, the faster it goes down. A stat of zero means death! \n- To raise your stats, use the :anger:**Actions** at your disposal! They may have side effects on monsters, so keep an eye on how they affect your stats.\n- After some time, your monster will **evolve** to the next stage of revolting-ness - look at the timer! 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