Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD46 → Linux Simulator 2020
By smbe19, shujal and DeinFreund
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 385 | 3.87 | 25 | |
| Fun | 769 | 3.54 | 24 | |
| Innovation | 120 | 4.02 | 26 | |
| Theme | 375 | 4.06 | 24 | |
| Graphics | 1175 | 3.66 | 26 | |
| Humor | 318 | 3.71 | 25 | |
| Mood | 965 | 3.52 | 25 |
Nice game, I spent a bit too much time playing it. But it's also a bit too difficult, I fail all contracts immediately, and I struggle with disk space most of the time. I wish I knew which services I had installed (and how many instances), so I can free up space more efficiently. All in all, well done!
@gajop Thanks for playing it.
`ps` will tell you which services you have installed. Pipe into more when you have many services late game.
In general the `tutorial` command should be rather helpful with debugging your setup once you've played through the scripted part.
Balance is surely off, so good to have any feedback. Edit: Changed the reward formula so you should be able to afford the necessary disk upgrades now without going bankrupt right at the start. Keep in mind the idea is to have servers dedicated for specific tasks, not all tasks on one server.
Very cool :/
It is not a game in typical meaning. It is just another day in Linux terminal :)
Well done bro! I thinks its a bit hard but still nice.
Looks like I'm a terrible system administrator. Constantly running out of money, need more hardware! :D I really like it. But one game-breaking bug: When I delete all files in bin folder the commands can still be executed. That's not realistic ;-)
Nice retro look and feel for a real modern problem. Nicely done. It's a bit on the hard side and feels like jet another workday for me.
This was a cool game! It was a bit hard to figure out what to do at first, but once I got it, it was a blast. The e-mails were hilarious.
Maybe you could make the `tutorial` a bit more comprehensive, and have a separate `progress` command to tell you what to do next
Realism is through the roof here. Make sure you shot some coffee before starting a new run.
PS: GUIs are for suckers. My mechanical keyboard agrees loudly.
@bredian May I refer you to issue #1: https://github.com/SmBe19/LD46/issues/1
Also thanks for the feedback everyone. It might still be a bit hard - I wouldn't expect somebody to get far on the first try, but sysadmins don't have it easy either :P
If there is some specific part of the game that seems impossible to pass, please let us know. Been using too many cheats for testing.
@kayahr Oh no, that's unplayable. Thanks for finding the issue.
@elmos-minion good idea.
Scarily accurate but very fun! It was a bit confusing at first but I spent a lot of time playing this once I got the hang of it. Great job!
That was interesting! It feels really hard and a lot of times I'm just typing commands and reading stats without really knowing what I have to do, replaying it probably will make me better at it, which is nice, I felt like knowing how to use a terminal really helped with the game, which is also nice. Reading emails was really interesting and I will probably come back to play more
Great game, but a very steep learning curve. I found that I didn't have time to follow the tutorial, and if I start off well, then requests increase faster than I can afford hardware. I only felt able to get the hang of it when I was stuck at 1 user.
At that point, about 24 requests were succeeding each day and 8 were timing out, but I couldn't diagnose why requests were timing out (I tried blocking various request types with iptables, and that didn't help me).
Nice idea, and I really liked the flavour text in the emails. It was a bit hard though, it was pretty difficult to tell what was actually causing things to go wrong. I kept getting to the point where I needed to install apache and qmail, and then I would not have enough space to install all the services I needed. It told me I needed more disk space, but I couldn't afford it. I'm not sure how I'm supposed to make more money before that point?