Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD50 → The Inglorious Yet Highly Stimulating Life of an Underpaid Graduate Student 2
By firetwoonenine, kyle-farwell, AstronautGuy, lduser125, Aliciana and Fuugul
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 224 | 3.92 | 27 | |
| Fun | 537 | 3.52 | 27 | |
| Innovation | 165 | 3.86 | 27 | |
| Theme | 503 | 3.82 | 27 | |
| Graphics | 134 | 4.40 | 27 | |
| Audio | 164 | 3.96 | 27 | |
| Humor | 38 | 4.32 | 28 | |
| Mood | 189 | 4.00 | 26 |
Leaving this comment before I actually download and rate the game but I was having an issue getting the game to run with the HTML5 version on both chrome and edge browser i'm getting an error reading "Error: Uncaught RangeError: Maximum call stack size exceeded (see JavaScript console for details)"
@thementalsheep yea, we're realizing RenpyWeb is full of bugs, unfortunately. We're removing the web build.
OK , THAT WAS VERY COOL
Omg that was great , I work as an IT intern and it was super relatable. I lasted only a few days before I got reunited with some old friends. The humor was great and the game play was smooth and polished well done!!!
the best game that i have ever played i loved the sus background
Awesome game! I really liked the visual novel style and the witty humor
Very cool! Liked the graphics. Gameplay did get a bit boring for me however (maybe that's just me)
As a current grad student, this made me laugh! I think the idea is great, and I love that you got to choose your ringtone. I did have a serious audio issue with the "WOOOOOO" at the end of a successful day--if mixed better, that could have been great, but as it was, it was just too much audio information.
The art is the perfect amount of weird and great! The detail in the background is fantastic.
This was an extremely good game!! I ended up seeing some repeats, but the solutions and writing for what DID exist was astonishing. Loved the voice acting, especially the "WOOOOOOO AHA NICE" when you get a perfect day.
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Some of that made me laugh out loud, very funny! I got stuck on the same few calls repeatedly though - not sure how many there are. I kept losing sanity as well - I guess that's just what happens in IT support? I made it 25 calls. Fun entry!
@thementalsheep @cactusdan @doctorbilbo @adrien-tremblay @decadedecaf Thanks for all the positive feedback! <3
@teenythanos Thanks for the kind words. Yea... the "woo" sound is too loud, to put it mildly. Once of those things that gets missed when we're rushing to finish on time. I guess I'll excuse it as making the player feel just like our axolotl friend does throughout the game. ;)
@natpat There are 14 possible calls you can receive. Unfortunately, the problem of repeats isn't just you -- the RNG that Ren'Py uses seems to pick favorites. I guess real tech support gets repeats like that too!
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO NICE
Really enjoyed this. One of my favourite takes on the theme yet. Very funny and the tone and mood was on point.
Great work, I liked the text input idea a lot. Sometimes it was getting a bit confusing with how the input was supposed to be when I first started, but after a while I got used to it.
Keep it up!
Really great stuff! Love the concept and the way it was executed. This one hits close to home to those of us who have had to give any customer support over the phone, awesome work!
well really well done
Divine art! I love stories like this about ordinary people. The gameplay is interesting, but it's boring to play for a long time :c I would love to see a continuation of this project!
The art style was beautiful, and good job on the voice acting :)
interesting idea, but only for those who know English
This was so cute and funny, I loved it. You have a great idea here and a nice sense of humor. Also that buff axolotl is something else hahaha.
Funny, looks amazing, cool mechanic, what can I say!
Felt hard to type, at first. Then got some cool jokes and the cunning spirit of support guy! Cool idea, though tutorial could be much faster. Thanks for the entry!
I enjoyed it, if I have any feedback overall i'd say the intro is just too long and there's too much of a delay between calls, made it take a LOT longer than playing it should have, the actual calls and responses were great though. I got a lot of duplicates, it seems like if you refer to sales maybe it bugs (or it's intended) that you get that exact same caller back over and over?
It is worth getting used to it, as it is customary that a graduate student receives little. While I aspired to be a graduate student in college and did all the homework myself, a friend of mine took the subject of "personal strengths" for example, used https://studymoose.com/free-essays/personal-strengths as an example and copied. However, now he receives more than 3 times the salary and enjoys the work. Life is very strange and incomprehensible thing. I do not understand...
I used to work in tech support. This game made me laugh and remember some of the calls I once got.
I survived 20 calls.
I had trouble figuring out what commands or sequence of words would work, but after a bit I think I got the hang of it, although I still wasn't sure what to do with a broken mouse.
The graphics were well done. I liked the echo the mechanical keyboard sound effects were making as I typed on my own mechanical keyboard. B-)
I found that hitting certain shortcut keys like "F" for fullscreen would trigger if the caller hung up while I was typing, resulting in a jarring change in window dimensions. I also accidentally opened the accessibility menu a few times.
I got a perfect performance review, and the screaming was very loud and made me glad no one else was home when I was playing.
Really funny and well written game! I included it in my Ludum Dare compilation video series, if you’d like to take a look. :) https://youtu.be/QO-q-Xmgol0
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