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Gratification Crisis

By zorfmorf

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Theme154.50
Coolness351
Overall643.84
Humor703.63
Mood863.65
Graphics1113.94
Innovation1423.81
Audio1663.41
Fun2233.48

Comments

gwil 2014-12-08 10:56

Great use of the theme :P

eruditespirit 2014-12-08 12:45

Very enjoyable; curiosity kept me going till the end.

lintfordpickle 2014-12-08 12:53

Wow, really nicely done! It took the first play through to realize how to keep the boss happy but I thought this was unique and pretty fun game

dohxis 2014-12-08 13:58

Nice done!

tinimations 2014-12-08 14:20

I couldn't figure out how to keep him happy. I tried clicking on all the monitors but I couldn't get any form of indication that I could write.

lekochen 2014-12-08 14:30

LOL well done.

edve98 2014-12-08 14:33

Very nice game, this one is one of my favorites :)

zorfmorf 2014-12-08 14:38

@Tinimations: Damn I feared that it would not be obvious enough. You need to click on the brown application (supposed to be a text editor) and type something on your keyboard (your actual one, not the ingame one)

jnyknn 2014-12-08 19:36

I first thought this game is just another boring point-'n'-click game, but it turned out the game is much more! I love the way you used the theme! Great job!

octoteam 2014-12-08 23:48

Really fun and great art :) Five stars!

havi 2014-12-08 23:59

Very unique and cool game! Great use of the theme. I liked the ending music :)

pjchardt 2014-12-09 00:00

Great idea. use of theme and mood! I must say I just typed a string of insults at my boss :) Very cool, definitely enjoyed this game.

rene-damm 2014-12-09 00:00

Indeed, nice use of the theme. Well done all around. No clue what the widgety things you build actually do but it was fun building them while randomly hitting keys in the manager console. Building an antenna then suddenly ended the game :)

lapskaus 2014-12-09 00:22

Kinda hard to know what you're supposed to do, but fun to explore for five minutes. I love that you have to do something completely pointless to keep your boss happy. Just like real life :P

headchant 2014-12-09 11:00

Love the concept! Had to die once until I found the editor, but that's not a problem :) Great idea

puppetmaster 2014-12-09 19:14

Well done! My kids laughed about my typing. :-)
Graphics style is also cool.

vrld 2014-12-09 22:04

Work is good for me!

Audio is good, graphics are beautiful and surprisingly detailed and the use of the theme is pretty clever. However, a short tutorial would have been helpful.

yosh 2014-12-10 03:16

Breaking the 4th wall! Loved it :)

nuno 2014-12-10 14:40

ahah loved the LD website ;) greetings from another Löver ;)

hexagore 2014-12-11 09:47

I wouldn't let your boss see this game :P Lovely idea though, great twist on the theme.

boxedmeatrevolution 2014-12-12 05:53

I won! Built a space colony *and* was complemented by my boss for writing a page full of profanities.

Liked:
- Interpretation of theme
- Unique idea
- Nice art, lots of little touches (the sun, the mouse moving, the LD webpage...)

Disliked:
- Length of gameplay. Even though it was short, it felt long because it was very easy to "win" once you knew what to do

Overall, I like the creativity of this entry, though the gameplay felt lacking.

jed-tiotuico 2014-12-12 06:29

Work is good for you 10/10

acuity 2014-12-12 06:41

Interesting, but a little repetitive.

ddrkirbyisq 2014-12-12 06:42

Yessss, the moment where you zoomed out to the monitor and saw the mouse moving, that was brilliant. That made the game, seriously. Nice touches on the graphics details, yes, the LD website...yes.

zorfmorf 2014-12-12 09:59

@BoxedMeatRevolution Thank you for the detailed feedback! I totally agree with the repetitiveness, got really annoying on Sunday night when I playtested it for an hour :D

zkenshin 2014-12-12 19:03

This was lovely, nice job.

redsigmagroup 2014-12-12 22:38

Well done! I'll just agree with everyone and say that your use of theme was great. On top of that though, the visual were very pleasant and the audio was nice, especially that ending music. All in all: Good job!

mechabit 2014-12-15 13:03

hah, brilliant

rjhunter 2014-12-17 02:07

Superb interpretation of the "one screen" theme.

The game itself wasn't *super* fun but the idea and the graphics were great. I would have liked a *little* bit more differentiation in audio between the two screens.

I spent some time trying to figure out how to reply to the boss, and thinking the command prompt window was just a nice piece of interaction detail.

Wonderful work.

01rafael 2014-12-20 22:30

Great use of theme!
I'm not really much dig in gamplay. :(

stackattack 2014-12-25 16:51

Nice use of the theme. I kept the boss happy but was in a bad mood