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Space Office

By celdur and Gauphastus

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall3623.6264
Fun2853.6264
Innovation1363.8465
Theme2403.7566
Graphics3463.8467
Audio2613.5563
Humor1133.7866
Mood2773.7264

Comments

nachtwitch 2019-10-07 20:10

rate, play and comment on others games, its how ludum dare prioritizes games

kekkodude 2019-10-07 21:51

What, i got fired! haha, Neat entry, well executed! havent explored the... interface fully yet but going to give it some time, check out the other days.

so far, im loving it, really intuitive!

gauphastus 2019-10-07 21:56

@nachtwitch Yup, we had an entry previously though this is my first official participation.

@kekkodude Haha, yeah. It's a total nightmare. I just did the art and audio so when @celdur had me playtest I got fired pretty consistently. :0

dummydojo 2019-10-08 07:52

Lol really funny concept and made me feel weirdly nostalgic. Didn't get very far into the game because I couldn't figure out how to do my job at all, but that was part of the charm!

skalex 2019-10-08 08:03

Seems like a cool entry but its a little bit too hard and i didn't really know what i was doing. I understand I guess thats what you were going for but maybe give the buttons little hints as what they can do so it feels more like a puzzle instead of randomly trying different combinations. Still, really nice game idea and great job!

keithswanger 2019-10-08 08:45

Such an interesting concept, but wow is it hard! The computer is really fun to interact with though! Sounds are fantastic. Art is great. The puzzles are good as long as you're okay with being fired a few hundred times! xD

A very unique experience for sure!

crazywulf 2019-10-08 08:48

Very much fun to play! enjoyed the style of the game very much even if it was hard to figure out how to start. Didn't beat it tho.

jake-marks 2019-10-08 08:49

Figured out day 1 (with ABSOLUTELY no help). Awesome puzzle "management?" sim game!

ivananovakova 2019-10-08 09:57

What an awesome idea!! And it looks great too. Feels like irl expirience lol

vaibho 2019-10-08 20:32

Enjoyed the game but was not able to figure out what to do. The graphics were nice and the music felt good. Liked the concept and the game.

mao 2019-10-08 22:34

I like these sorts of puzzles, where you're thrown into a system with unknown rules and you have to find the objective. One possible glitch/oversight: It is sometimes impossible to toggle the top left symbol (unless I'm missing something?)

celdur 2019-10-08 23:12

@mao if you're on day 2 or 3 you might be missing something, yeah. New problems get added as the days go on and that should be part of one of them(unless I did overlook some bug).

mao 2019-10-08 23:35

Ah nevermind, I figured it out. Succsessfully completed all three days! These aliens really need a UI expert.

Speaking of UI, some keyboard shortcuts for the buttons on the computer would be nice. I felt like I was gonna break my thumb with all the clicking on a trackpad.

bassguitarbill 2019-10-09 02:25

Heck yes, this is excellent! It's funny, it looks awesome, and it made me use my brain.

danilo-freire 2019-10-09 03:27

If you can generate a mac or web build it would be great! : D

celdur 2019-10-09 04:27

@danilo-freire I'd love to, but I don't have the engine license for that right now sadly.

taylor-reynolds 2019-10-09 04:38

Great art style, I love the line weight of the character! I like the concept of figuring out the rules as you go.

derwenzl 2019-10-09 07:50

Like the idea!

don-fouts 2019-10-10 00:00

This was a really creative game and I loved the puzzles. I like how you brought the theme into this.

shrapx 2019-10-10 02:07

Fiendish crazy-computer simulator. Thanks for suggesting i play it :) I hope to go back to day 3 and finish it.

sirred 2019-10-10 02:26

I dont think I won. Interesting game I think I was figuring it out at the end there. Definitely throws you into the deep end. Good work.

idontknow 2019-10-10 02:55

Love the way I need to figure the rules out as you go. ...but it certainly took me way longer than I should have to notice the last basic thing I needed to not get fired on day 1... cleared day 3 eventually, but that was brutal.

ludumanthony 2019-10-10 04:31

That was a lot of fun to play. Super creative.

redimension-games 2019-10-10 09:58

Oh man my brain hurts after this. Interesting concept though.

washingmachinae 2019-10-10 10:12

Great art, but could have made it easier to figure out what to do. I ended up getting one of the cards right, so I thought I figured it out, but then following the same method the next card was rejected

celdur 2019-10-10 13:13

@washingmachinae Yeah, I assume you fell for the teal one. I made teal look way too similar to green, which was unintentional, and most people don't notice the difference at first.

kuviman 2019-10-10 15:58

game too ez, make more levels :D

chaosround 2019-10-10 18:47

Good idea, good jam.. I liked the art

joellikespigs 2019-10-10 22:04

I'm blown away by this I've never felt so lost and confused and had so much fun whilst being so. I managed to figure out how to play galaga and check the weather and time, but never how to fix the flashing yellow light. Day 3 murdered me and I'll never know how haha, great use of the theme, super unique idea. I loved it!

lars-erik 2019-10-10 23:09

Got fired two times and gave up, but was quite intrigued for a little while there. Fun idea and well executed! 👍

ltven0mi 2019-10-11 10:20

Couldn't quite figure out how to do my job but had fun pressing random buttons and flicking random switches. Cool art style btw :thumbsup:

xakkar 2019-10-11 10:23

I came home from work and played a game about work)

itsdanidre 2019-10-11 15:53

Man it took me a while to figure day 1 and 2, but my brain isn't big enough for that white on day 3 :sweat_smile:

tricky-fat-cat 2019-10-11 15:57

The concept sounds great, but I think, it needs some small help at start, however, it can ruin the experience of total disaster of the very first day at work which you didn't know how to do.

alexrose 2019-10-12 00:50

I can't believe I just gave this game a 5 for fun, fuck you and your excellent game which I hate.

Nothing this jam made me as happy as beating this game so it's full marks.

rodrigo-robles 2019-10-12 02:01

Great work, nice take on the theme, concept, graphics, humor. Of course it can be polished, it's a jam game. You should extend and polish the game, put this in the market.

wansou 2019-10-12 14:36

Ahh i don't get it, its so hard, i love hard games but this is just too hard, i see many people figured it out so i guess its a really hard but possible game, its still fun to figure it out, i think i almost got it though keep up the good work

kaeveris 2019-10-13 08:05

I like the idea of the game and the graphics, but was not able to figure out what to do XD

dock-frankenstein 2019-10-13 14:25

I like the computer. It reminds me of my jet engine.

andre-fremaux 2019-10-14 07:53

Very fun game, took a while to start to get the hang of things but really enjoyed the trial and error. If anything my only nitpick would be that dialogue goes by way too fast so its quite hard to read. Regardless, awesome work! Very well done! :smile:

karanveer 2019-10-18 09:04

this reminded of my 90s time when i used to watch cartoons on free tv channels at my locality...lol...good ratings jsut for that art work ..let alone the overall game play..GG!

alexrose 2019-10-30 01:29

game deserved a higher rating, pearls before swine