FoonLudum Dare ExplorerLD47 → BoreOut!

BoreOut!

By azsteak, 130n35 and hoolop

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall6113.6265
Fun3513.7364
Innovation8253.3163
Theme11853.2165
Graphics1
Audio1
Humor854.0766
Mood5803.5963

Comments

benslaney 2020-10-05 22:32

It's a fun mechanic of course, and I enjoy the workplace typing vibe that is given off. I think the managers are a bit too OP, I couldn't find a way to avoid them once I was spotted.

Great idea though, I would love a free play mode where different objects react differently when thrown!

kingofnova 2020-10-05 22:37

when I run the try to run the exe my windows says no so I am not giving it a go.

jag 2020-10-05 22:41

Interesting idea for a game! The graphics and level were awesome but I felt like the game was broken, there didnt seem to be much to do besides throwing items around

azsteak 2020-10-05 22:46

@jag The game might need more explanations. You need to make colleagues quit their job by throwing stuff at them ! At the end of the week you will have a summary of your performance

mohmehdi 2020-10-05 22:58

it was too heavy for my pc or it was very not optimized , i guess if there was just somthing to lower resoloution or quality or maybe removing thing player cant see can help , idk.

azsteak 2020-10-05 23:11

@mohmehdi Sorry, we tried to optimize as much as we could. maybe we overdid a bit too much with the small objects :(

130n35 2020-10-06 00:16

@benslaney We had this intention of a stealth game where you have to hide to commit your mischiefs, so we made the managers hard to escape :) It could have worked the other way though, throw then hide.

@kingofnova Windows says that to a lot of Unity games the first time. You have the option for executing the exe nevertheless

kp-gamedev 2020-10-06 00:29

pretty good overall...pretty slow, could use some optimization. This was my first gamejam so not too sure but good job

xenobey 2020-10-06 00:54

The idea is quite fun but I had a bug in which I was only able to move backwards and couldn't control my character as I liked. Neat Idea tho.

hoolop 2020-10-06 01:10

Thanks @xenobey ! Try to change between WASD and ZQSD you may have the wrong setting selected ;)

sieghart 2020-10-06 01:32

Interesting and fun concept!

trypants 2020-10-06 02:46

Nice concept!

melvinng 2020-10-06 04:31

Nice concept and good visuals!

usenrame 2020-10-06 04:33

Game need optimization, but overall it's really fun to play, and ambient sounds are so good!

snazghoul 2020-10-06 05:17

Hilarious. Let me kill the managers tho, even if it takes multiple hits. Escaping them is basically impossible and because restarting doesn't seem to always reset them some days just end immediately.

vem 2020-10-06 06:17

It's a vert cute concept :)

The managers end up being a bit too much a damper on the fun in the long run, but the game is definitely a mood.

shortbread 2020-10-06 09:46

Cool idea and would love to see it taken further! Performance is a big issue though, likely too many active objects at once, anything that isn't moving shouldn't be processing physics.

130n35 2020-10-06 11:07

@snazghoul We actually didn't even though about killing the managers. Either of that or the too hard escaping need to be tweaked to make them less OP I think. We like challenges here, but at the cost of accessibility unfortunately

@shortbread thanks ! We also would like to see it taken further, we keep that idea somewhere in our mind :) Concerning the performances, we already optimized the processing of physical objects. The bottleneck comes from the geometry that we didn't succeed to reduce it enough. Too many polygons, it may seem laggy on some machines but i can tell you that it was way worse at first :D

noah-kuhn 2020-10-06 18:26

I love this game! The sound effects and music were perfect :smile: Unfortunately my laptop can't run it very fast (but that's on me, lol).

amin-jk000 2020-10-06 18:35

My laptop couldn't handle the graphics (lol) but I liked the game play and lighting and everything great job :v:

hoolop 2020-10-06 18:37

Thanks @noah-kuhn and @amin-jk000 , but if the game is laggy it's because of us, we underestimated the number of polygons of all the small physical objects. We are so sorry about this !

virtual-turtle-studio 2020-10-06 19:30

Man, the isntant I started up this game I got Budget Cuts vibes and I loved it. The robots, the jazzy sound effects, the office setting. Awesome guys! I didn't do too well but I enjoyed the playthrough :) It was hilarious to see my coworkers fly across the workfloor!

euix 2020-10-07 02:52

A little disappointed that hiding after being caught was not a thing. Made it a lot harder than I expected. I managed to kill about half of the employees after a few practice runs. Overall it was pretty innovative and is easy to relate to. Really fostered my disdain for upper management.

jon-lizak 2020-10-07 04:00

Im a fan. I sucked at it but I had fun, and that's all that matters.

kevin-mooney 2020-10-07 04:01

pretty fun! i'd love to be able to escape from the bosses tho

vphyre 2020-10-07 05:13

Very fun and stress free game haha. Congratulations on the job, really really good.

etrealjunior 2020-10-07 09:46

I liked your game my congratulations, I also did one if you want to know, and give me your feedback I am very grateful, this is the link https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/47/resurrection

130n35 2020-10-07 17:50

@euix @kevin-mooney hey, thanks for your feedbacks :) it's actually a thing, to hide from the managers. You can do it but it's quite difficult to do and I admit I didn't succeed since a long time :D We should have tweaked this to make it easier ! We keep that in mind ;)

keyurrana 2020-10-07 18:02

Had a lot of fun playing this. I wish there was a way to kill the managers though. Great job! :)

spacestrawberriesstudio 2020-10-07 19:53

I always wanted to say F**k to my teachers thank you !!

moffkalast 2020-10-07 19:58

Oh man so many props to use! I can't exactly figure out what constitutes as sus for the managers but they seem to be onto me very quickly. Best I got was 20 people remaining haha.

Would be a pretty cool VR game I think.

azsteak 2020-10-07 20:07

Thanks everyone for the reviews ! And we have thought about the VR since the begining @moffkalast ;) Maybe one day it'll be a full VR game

130n35 2020-10-07 20:21

@moffkalast Thanks ! The managers suspect a lot employees crouching in the office and waving items in front of them (you know, a post-it note can be a deadly weapon in the wrong hands). But the absolute rule is to never throw office supplies at your coworkers :D They have a large detection cone so it might be the why they are into you even if you are at the opposite of the office

thevideogamester 2020-10-07 20:30

Very fun. The sound design was top tier. I did wish that the managers were more clearly different as I sometimes had trouble telling them apart. I figured out where they were eventually but more than once I hit one only for it to be a manager. Definitely one of the funnest games of the jam I've played so far though. I had almost as much fun banning random items, like chairs and monitors, and seeing how the environment changed to compensate. The boxes and the paper taped to the wall replacements were hilarious.

jk5000 2020-10-08 08:34

A simple and funny little game. Well done.

kylie-trace 2020-10-08 08:43

loved it! great job!

ancient-pixel 2020-10-08 09:50

That was fun and satisfying, but for some reason I could only walk backwards. Is "walking forward" also prohibited in this office?^^

130n35 2020-10-08 10:45

@ancient-pixel god, you didn't think about walking forward in the office, did you ?!

Actually, as stated before, it is not a bug but more a feature maybe slightly misplaced ! It's a problem not common for non english speaking people as they usually have the common QWERTY keyboard, but as French people, we have a hard time with all the games that don't have any support for AZERTY keyboard, so we added one ! (also, it was easier for us to debug the game :D) The option is on the keyboard on your office, and it seems that you can switch between the two of them by accident. The default setting is QWERTY, so you don't have to think about that normally, but we might have to rethink about the keyboard or the option location :)

patchy 2020-10-08 11:21

Very fun idea!

curly 2020-10-08 13:42

Very funny concept, nice work, I think this game really good for jam and some many users! Good job and good luck!

codertrevor 2020-10-08 16:08

It was a little unclear to me how I interacted with the managers, and I would have liked to take them out when their backs when turned. I hate those guys the most! It seems like once they spot me the end of my day is inevitable. At first I didn't realize that I was playing out different days and not reloading the same level.

So much fun! Take THAT Robot Kyle, you crappy co-worker! Great humor and use of the theme; calling work being "stuck in a loop" seems cynical but apt. I don't even work in an office yet I found this game to be extremely cathartic. The audio fits the mood perfectly, and I loved that sound (trumpet?) when you hit a co-worker! Great job!

jharler 2020-10-08 20:33

I'm getting a pretty big "Job Simulator" vibe with this, which is cool. I liked the low poly look of the environment, but feel the other employees didn't match the aesthetic as much. Overall, very cathartic and well done.

eugenik 2020-10-09 02:37

very good atmosphere ^^

ruling-spear 2020-10-10 13:41

What a good stress relief! So wanted to throw a chair at the boss man. Great job!!

pedrocoden 2020-10-11 18:29

Nice game!

gamescodedogs 2020-10-14 15:25

Had a lot of fun playing this game. But controls are little messy unfortunately. Good job!

krysh 2020-10-15 11:27

Super cool! If it ran smoother I would have probably played a lot longer but it was still fun to throw stuff at colleagues! The managers are actually pretty scary, I didn't realize how quick they are. The first time I tried running away and turned around and saw one right behind me I got a fright.

jenny-bourke 2020-10-18 00:32

This was a ton of fun I love throwing thingssss!!!

pee-thief 2020-10-18 02:07

hahaha take that coworkers!

ddrkirbyisq 2020-10-26 09:41

Just like real life...all is well until the manager comes along...