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Whole Life On One Screen

By demy

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Coolness1100
Theme274.33
Innovation593.95
Humor3112.96
Mood4793.06
Graphics5353.20
Overall6063.09
Fun8212.62

Comments

toadfrogs 2014-12-09 07:55

Kinda random, but good use with the theme.

tanner101010 2014-12-09 07:56

Neat idea!

kain-oborin 2014-12-09 07:58

I am not going to lie... I absolutely love this game. I don't know why. I don't what is causing me to love it so much... but I do. The style, the art, the substance, the balance. I love it. Thank you very much for making this game!

davient 2014-12-09 08:13

Great Idea! Unfortunately it seems that I cannot run the different game programs cos the browsewr keeps appearing :(

gafblizzard 2014-12-09 09:15

Simultaneously creative, depressing, and funny. Nice work on the random interfaces -- I think I noticed being able to drag part of a web browser around for example. I cracked up when I saw the MMO chat scrolling.

chaoseed 2014-12-09 12:41

This is definitely fun, though it also feels incomplete. I'd love to see more added to it. You definitely have a good thing with the desktop interface; the blog/search thing is neat, and the MMO chat is pretty amusing! So, good work. ;)

folmerkelly 2014-12-09 12:42

Great interpretation of the theme, this is not my kind of game usually but I found myself wanting to keep going, so well done on keeping me hooked in :)

plasterphantom 2014-12-09 12:45

Interesting game. Took the theme in an interesting way.

vaclav 2014-12-09 12:45

Well done! This is similar to my game, but with more features and better graphics. Wish it had an ending though.

rainshapes 2014-12-09 17:24

I love that you added a boot-up screen with loading drivers. Really shows attention to detail!

asaratha 2014-12-09 17:35

Interesting game, but on Day 2 I couldn't click on anything and it was quite obnoxious.

korayementality 2014-12-09 21:10

Very original. It's kind of purposeless but I like to think of it as a freelance roguelike ;)
Great job on the design, felt like a real OS

ossi 2014-12-10 06:58

Very cool concept, and I loved the personal feel to it. You captured the "whole life on one screen" moments fairly well. With more polish this could be a really cool management type game where you could possibly expand to becoming a successful blogger or something along those lines. Well done!

noahbrocz 2014-12-10 17:00

Very good idea! Check my game too: President's bodyguard simulator.

job_ 2014-12-10 17:02

Neat idea, but not really fun at the moment(will be with some polishing). Very innovative.
Mood is awesome, you really did a good job on all the stuff you made!

susanthecat 2014-12-10 21:17

Cool idea. This is sort of what my day is like. But you forgot the solitaire!

2bit 2014-12-11 08:36

New and interesting. Cool game!

sublustris 2014-12-11 09:47

Heh.. game about frustrating gamers:) Nice :)

adrianulima 2014-12-11 15:08

very nice game!!! congrats

2014-12-12 10:47

I like it, i found it just a bit random but it fits the theme well, gotta love banana browser :p

paperscraps 2014-12-12 13:13

Very cool take on the theme. I couldn't run some of the apps, it would just bring up the browser.

demy 2014-12-12 13:23

Thank you all for your comments, I wasn't expected so much people will enjoy playing my game. I will fix icons bug soon (wen I'll get home), for now you can click once on shortcut and then click twice. Or just go to sleep (reboot your in-game PC).

hissssssssss 2014-12-12 14:32

I loved this take on the theme, even though as a game it feels a bit incomplete. You really made it feel like a glimpse into someone's PC.

There seems to be some problems with clicking on things after a couple days. Clicking on one icon (like MMORPG) will bring up the Banana Browser instead, for example.

cakencode 2014-12-12 16:08

The persistence is very cool, but it didn't feel like there was a downside to anything. Working for hours didn't lower my clan rating? Was everyone else in the clan just not doing anything to get better without me? When I played games or worked on the blog money didn't go down? Did I not pay for food, game subscriptions etc?

I didn't get to play for many days bcause eventually no matter what program I tried to open it always opened the banana blog program.

Interesting idea, could use some more polish :)

demy 2014-12-12 18:18

Update:
fixed bug with desktop shortcuts,
'afk' message for sleeping now is more understandable,
character stops spamming with it in chat,
chat appears on the top over other windows when character's writing something there.

demy 2014-12-12 18:21

P.S.: I want so badly add more things like achievements and story, but I feel that doing it before Ludum Dare ends is wrong, so i didn't change anything from gameplay.

ynots 2014-12-12 19:51

nice idea..

jjevil 2014-12-12 22:13

Weird and interesting.

jannesn 2014-12-14 19:51

Great use with the theme and generally really nice version of a waiting game!

nesis 2014-12-16 12:44

Decent game, I think the main thing to add post-compo would be some clearer in-game feedback that drives the player in some direction, giving them an idea of what behaviour is beneficial and what behaviour is detrimental.

mathmadlen 2014-12-17 21:17

Slightly addictive, clever use of the theme, great job!

lynx 2014-12-23 01:23

The UI/UX is perfectly done! I love the DOS command line booting screen and how you have to double click to open programs.

Also well done on the "tutorial" it felt like a true website or computer program tutorial that has you click on everything with tooltips to teach you where everything is (remind me of Facebook's tutorial)

One bug I did find was I would say "Afk. I'm too tired guys" in the chat even when I wasn't playing and only did work that morning. That kind of confused me, but that's super minor.

Well done overall, you have a future in UI/UX design

jupiter_hadley 2014-12-23 04:17

Nice concept! I Included it in part 17 of my Ludum Dare 31 compilation video series, if you would like to check it out :) http://youtu.be/fGRz-9CpOIg

johnro 2014-12-24 21:58

There doesn't seem to be any real sense of progression. Also, I tried shutting down the computer at the same time it logged off automatically and it's stuck at the launch screen.

jupiter_hadley 2014-12-28 13:29

*I Included it in part 18 of my Ludum Dare 31 compilation video series, if you would like to check it out :) http://youtu.be/fGRz-9CpOIg