Along the way, he is forced to make choices that permanently affect both his own well-being and that of his party members. In Lisa: The Painful, the player controls Brad Armstrong, a balding, middle-aged man with a troubled past who journeys through the wasteland of Olathe in search of Buddy, his adoptive daughter. Lisa: The Painful is the second installment in the Lisa trilogy, preceded by Lisa: The First (2012), and followed by Lisa: The Joyful (2015), a standalone DLC that concludes the series. The game was written, designed, and composed by Austin Jorgensen, and was released for Windows, OS X, and Linux on December 15, 2014. Lisa: The Painful (stylized as LISA: The Painful) is a 2014 post-apocalyptic role-playing video game developed and published by American indie studio Dingaling Productions.