Unreliable Bio
Cute guys with sketchy profiles! Unreliable Bio is a arcade dating-sim where you attempt to differentiate between someone real and a catfish.
The title of the game was given to me by a random name generator. I made it for RND GAME JAM II in the Godot engine (my prompt was Unreliable Bio as you have guessed)
The game is completely SFW and gets about as spicy as a Simpson's episode
It's still a work in progress; I plan to add more stuff in the future (like music?). I apologize for any glitches ;___;.
INSTRUCTIONS:
This game operates like a dating app. Swipe right to like someone, swipe left to reject them! Swipe up and down to read their profiles. Arrow keys can be used too.
Your goal is to read their profile carefully, and from their profile, guess if the person is a catfish or not. Then, swipe right on a real person to get points! Woohoo! It's like Papers, Please but dumb
However, swiping right on a catfish will lose you lives. Lose all 3 lives and it's game over!
Thankfully, catfishes cannot make perfect profiles; everything they make is just slightly off. Read the profile carefully (but not slowly! You only got 60 seconds to find hot dates!)
Guessing if they are a catfish is intuitive; don't think about it too hard. If you're having trouble, here's a list of all possible catfish properties:
- Their species doesn't match their profile picture
- Their height is freakishly tall (8 feet and above)
- Their career (below their name) is something wacky, like Time Traveler or Space Doctor
- Their hobbies include something wacky, like Eating Marbles or Drying Paint
- Their "About Me" section includes something wacky, like "Help I'm trapped inside your phone!"
Credits:
Writing: @sebthederg_ad, @doomboy64, @LeoWolperting, @thebarabandit
Photos Used (All under Unsplash License): Jelmer Assink (@jelmerassink), Pietro De Grandi (@peter_mc_greats), Q.U.I (@quinguyen), Jamie Fenn (@jamie_fenn), Patrick Szylar (@patrick_szylar)
Sounds used: Sidearm Studios (https://sidearm-studios.itch.io/ultimate-sound-fx-bundle)
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anyone know the artist that made the blue dragon dude? i want to look at his other artworks
Didn't work on my PC because my browser doesn't support WebGL or something like that. But I tried it on my phone and it's fun to play. The fake info is hillarous, and the artwork is beautiful. :)
While I love the idea behind this game the 'swiping' is very unresponsive. Very often when I swipe to the left or right it gets stuck or goes the opposite direction, leading to a very cool idea and very fun when it works, but otherwise an unfortunately frustrating experience.
Having had continued for a while now I understand why, it's not supposed to be a click and drag motion but rather a click, drag, and then click again on the appropriate side of the screen. I'm at least glad I got to figure that out and play the game, which is indeed fun when you realize your mistakes.
Hey,
The concept of this game is quite unique and interesting, however, the gameplay seems to be a Lil misinformation and hard to understand. I guess, improving this game with a good set of rules could make this a super interesting and highly demanding game ahead of time.