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2025-05-26

D#17 (2025-05-26) #MINDWAVE #demo

Simply put, this is a #WareWare-like, with a seemingly dystopian storyline running through it. Protagonist Pandora has joined a competition where you enter your competitors' minds to beat them at various #MicroGames themed after their personalities.

The music is really catchy, and the pixel-art visuals are equal parts bizarre and cute.

The microgames have you following instructive prompts using the mouse, keyboard, or a combination of the two.

#VideoGames

A screenshot of the MINDWAVE demo title screen.

The whole thing is stylized to look like graffiti in red, pink, purple and blue. The 'i' in the the MINDWAVE logo has an illuminati look to it with yellow eye on an upside-down triangle at the top, but also a yellow/golden halo.A screenshot of the MINDWAVE demo.

Our purple-haired protagonist, Pandora, has just registered for the tournament and her details are listed on a screen.

Pandora
Date of birth: 8/4/XX
Age: 16
Address: (distorted)
ID: 7263672

Dialog at the bottom says:
"SCAN COMPLETE
CONTESTANT NAME: PANDORA"A screenshot of the MINDWAVE demo.

This is a microgame about popping bubble-wrap. In a gird of 7 by 4 bubbles, 4 of them are not yet popped and the player uses the mouse to control a hand with an outstretched finger to click on and pop the remaining bubbles.A screenshot of the MINDWAVE demo.

An intermission screen of sorts, where the character whose mind you have entered is seen along with the number of completed microgames and the remaining life count.

A blonde girl is visible in the middle of the screen, over a checkered background with drawings of cat, dog, bear and rabbit faces. The number 1 is to the left of her and 7 to the right of her, and above her are three red drawings of bear(?) faces for the life count.

As you progress through a "level", the difficulty increases in the form of reduced time limits and pop-up ads that get in the way of the rest of the gameplay. One of those ads is shown on top of the blonde girl in the picture, and the player is clicking the X button on it to close it.

The ad itself shows what looks like a red-haired girl with swirly glasses lying with her head on a pillow, and possibly wearing a straitjacket.

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