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72CoCSD

By togis

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall2783.7332
Fun5273.3632
Innovation773.9332
Theme824.1532
Graphics5833.4832
Humor1803.6832
Mood3413.5632

Comments

togis 2017-12-02 01:01

test

lawrence 2017-12-04 21:31

There seems to be a problem with itch.io page:

[It was fixed]

togis 2017-12-04 21:38

@lawrence Thanks for the info! It should be ok now, you were super fast :) The game may still change a bit in the next few hours before the end of the Jam. The balance is probably a bit too hard for now passing day 3 but I have time.

wheffle 2017-12-04 21:46

Woah it's me! I'm famous!

togis 2017-12-04 21:55

@wheffle Hehe I didn't even pay attention, I hope you don't mind :D If you do please tell me and I'll change the screenshot ;)

lawrence 2017-12-04 22:01

At first I was like, what is this keyboard layout - that's not what I'm typing. :smile:

Great game! I found a secret as well [EDITED] *wink wink*

Good job. :slight_smile:

EDIT: I know it's way out of jam scope, but it would be awesome to have minesweeper in there as well. :smile:

wheffle 2017-12-04 22:05

@togis Not a problem, don't mind at all! Looking forward to trying the game out later!

togis 2017-12-04 22:09

@Lawrence edited wink wink ^^

And minesweeper, yes, we think alike, here was my todo list:

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I may still do it but post jam if I'm too dead to code during the next 4 hours.

randomhuman 2017-12-05 15:16

That's so fun, I love the faithful recreation of the WinXP interface, and it works just realistically enough. Challenging gameplay, lots of fun little jokes, great stuff!

steel-dev 2017-12-05 15:19

I love the classic Windows OS feel/UI

ditzel 2017-12-05 22:25

This reminds me of emily is away. Nice idea and it fits perfectly to the theme.

iseeicy 2017-12-05 23:08

Oop, had a customer shout at me, turns out that I was typing the wrong response multiple times in a row. On top of that, the game seems to have [blue-screened my computer!](https://i.gyazo.com/2a99373fee65ed0a971543ec4a81ce17.png)

Good job on the game, cool and unique!

togis 2017-12-06 00:15

@iseeicy Dam! I hope your computer recover, I'm not an expert, but that seems to be a serious issue :p

Thanks for playing my game everyone!

nammflow 2017-12-06 01:49

Man this is really clever! here are some particular things I like about your game: - Very INTERESTING game system. It's an interesting commentary about chat support systems and fits really well with the theme of this LD. - In it's own quirky and wierd way, its hilarious. All the sound effects, windows login sound, blue screen of death, pop up windows that will come up while you're mid-sentence. - Everything looks and fits very accurately with Windows XP simulation!

I'd love to see what more can be made out of this, I see your list of future items for thsi game and will look forward to come back and seeing what you add!

wheffle 2017-12-06 06:41

Very awesome! Had no idea what to expect. Such a cool idea. Kind of a mix of a windows/customer support parody and a speed typing game. It especially tickled me being able to face-roll the keyboard in the cutscene sections and have my auto response get typed. Super original, extremely well executed, and a ton of fun!

dunin 2017-12-06 17:52

Nice nightmare game! when you don't have choice to answer "yeah sure...", what an horrible clever idea...

szekeres-szabolcs 2017-12-06 18:32

I liked it so much

ham-and-swiss 2017-12-06 19:21

Great game! I got stuck at the start because every time I opened train bot the guy would message me again. Eventually realized he would talk to me in the same IM window.

Otherwise that was well thought out and felt like a real new job. I was learning the responses and it got easier in a way but harder with more customers. Good typing exercise as well.

mathiouza 2017-12-06 22:19

I have to sleep, so I will continue playing it later x) But the game is really cool ! Great job ! An you know, I have some real problem with my view and I make typos every time, so that game could be hard for me ^^' But anyway ! Cool game :)

Keep coding :) Et au prochain Ludum Dare ;)

togis 2017-12-06 22:37

@Mathiouza I thought about people with reading issues or dyslexia, I make typing mistakes all the time too. You can reduce the difficulty of the game to allow you to play.

In the start menu - control panel application, slide the "Simplicity" slider to something like 0.5 / 1.0. This will allow you to make mistake 1 letter out of 2. It start's at 0.85 so you have to be 85% accurate but if it's too hard, don't feel bad about changing it.

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aaronw 2017-12-06 22:44

Very cool concept, and I'm happy to help you reach 20, cool concept! My game also needs one more rating to reach 20, so I feel your pain.

akusan 2017-12-06 22:46

Wow! I have never played a game like this before. Thanks for making such an innovative game with well use of the theme. Games like these make Ludum Dare such a enriching experience. Good job!

Also I'm your 20th rating haha!

muffty 2017-12-06 22:49

eaoh! At first I was like "I absolutely don't want to play this.." Then I was playing it for quite a while ^^

Well done!

togis 2017-12-06 22:49

Thanks for everyone for playing again, I think you are 21th @Akusan :p @Aaronw won the race.

@Aaronw, let me come to the rescue too :D I'll test your game now.

racso 2017-12-06 23:00

Super cool concept, and the Windows simulation is quite awesome!

I got tired of typing after a while. As the words aren't real, it was difficult for me to optimize the process by memorizing the answers or typing at full speed. I think that if you somehow manage to procedurally generate real-looking sentences, this could become something seriously fun (and even useful for people learning to type).

I noticed that there's certain "hidden" included application (that may be useful for copying and pasting to optimize the work). That's a nice touch!

All in all, good job! Congrats!

jfraser314 2017-12-06 23:03

Hopefully I was number 20 for you. I liked it, and I kept playing longer than I thought I would. It was great.

smbe19 2017-12-06 23:13

Interesting concept but gets boring quite fast. There also isn't much of a challenge, just searching text in a list very fast and then type something, but that's not really difficult nor fun. But the XP clone looked nice.

gozz 2017-12-06 23:14

Good game buddy !! I really like it, it is fun to play and the concept is really cool. At first I was telling myself, this is gonna be a little boring and a played like 20 minutes without noticing :)

I reminds me a little of "Keep talking and nobody explodes" as you do not know what to answer and have to consult the documentation.

Nice work buddy ! Also I love the settings menu... well the control panel :p

zanzavar 2017-12-06 23:25

You had me at proceduraly generated language and then this nostalgic windows xp sound! Really nice idea, i can easily see this getting expanded with many things happening at the same time in your desktop like an actual employee in a dystopian futuristic company. Perhaps notifications, chatboxes and emails arriving all the time with tasks and windows and tabs piling up one on top of the other. Good job!

bismark 2017-12-07 02:50

Really fun :-)

imod 2017-12-07 17:22

Interesting idea, i like this.

fedor 2017-12-09 17:17

Nice entry, I didn't think I will play so long :)