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Installing Engine

By kinami

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall1414.0437
Fun4473.5638
Innovation584.2338
Theme1254.3036
Graphics5623.6237
Audio6842.3729
Humor164.4736
Mood1634.0236

Comments

triangle-point 2023-10-02 17:21

You’re giving me PTSD, a little too realistic! I liked the graphics and it worked surprisingly well. I had such a laugh whiled playing! Great game!

hangovergames 2023-10-02 18:32

Crushing dreams is too painful dude Have some mercy

danyvk 2023-10-02 19:33

What did u do dude? I did not expect that thing. It's like Windows when my uncle download an FBI virus. Quite curious game!

panda-king-976 2023-10-02 19:37

Too realistic(in a good way) but thank you for giving me another reason to switch to Godot, this was a genuinely enjoyable experience and it seems well made too!

kinami 2023-10-02 19:40

I may have been a little too realistic @triangle-point @hangovergames. Sorry about that πŸ˜…

kinami 2023-10-02 19:51

Thanks @panda-king-976!

I use Godot myself for most of my projects, it's great how the entire install is just ~100MB with an included code editor! I can even run it on my phone! Of the major engines available right now, it suffers the least of the issues I demonstrated in this game πŸ˜„

kinami 2023-10-02 19:52

Thanks, @danyvk!

I can assure you, no viruses of any kind were involved in the making of this game πŸ˜‰

I'm glad I nailed the "scuffed OS" feel though πŸ˜†

panda-king-976 2023-10-02 19:55

@kinami I was amazed myself at how small and optimised Godot was, I can't believe I used to put up with Unity's compile times! I can tell that tis game came from personal experience.

tesseract 2023-10-02 21:23

Not the most painful installation process I've been through recently, I'm sorry to say. I hope you treat a low score for fun as a sign of success :) .

kinami 2023-10-02 22:14

@tesseract all according to plan! πŸ˜‰

This is more of a statement or a piece of expressive art, which is kind of a first for me. Usually I make silly little games πŸ˜†

sabasa 2023-10-02 23:15

Great game, so real πŸ˜†. I loved the pet and cursor details haha. Good job

t90 2023-10-02 23:49

God, this is genuinely terrifying. While I exclusively use Godot, I personally had a lot of similar experiences with engineering software that worked that way. I once had to go buy an external drive so I could dump data somewhere and install some urgently needed tools.

Great little game!

kinami 2023-10-03 09:51

Thank you @t90 @sabasa ! 😊

empyreans 2023-10-03 10:31

"pledge my first born child to your company" sounds about right xD

Nice game and legit OS simulator. Installation steps may have triggered my PTSD :)

diadem-games 2023-10-03 16:39

Wow, the desktop-simulation is really impressiv for a game-jam! I loved the whole rat-tail with dependencies and everything. This is not only the case with game engines, but also with quite a few other "enterprise-level" development tools. One of the reasons I am using my own engine now ;)

quasilyte 2023-10-03 17:19

This is probably the most unexpected game I played during this jam so far. :D

I tried to open many files, but the game won't let me see them. :[ How can I start doing a real gamedev if it doesn't let me procrastinate?

> (Crushing of) Hopes and dreams

The game delivered.

The art style is good. The content of every New Document (1), (2) and (3) is great. I recommend everyone to check them out.

kinami 2023-10-03 17:42

@diadem-games Yeah, I also used my fair share of "enterprise" tools as well, and a lot of them do this 😒

It is so cool that you are using your own engine! 😯 I usually use Godot or hand-write Javascript like this.

kinami 2023-10-03 17:51

@quasilyte It's important to not be distracted when doing gamedev πŸ˜‰

Jokes aside, I did not get around to making contents for the files.

primed-pixel 2023-10-03 19:44

A solid game with a bunch of hidden secrets, and also reigniting pain. lot's of pain :D

kinami 2023-10-03 20:41

Thank you @primed-pixel! πŸ˜„

spaint 2023-10-03 21:25

Looks like this for me on Vivaldi and i can't interact with windows on the bottom half

Otherwise cool concept, loved the deleted files percentage at the end 2023-10-04 03_21_11-CN=Microsoft Windows, O=Microsoft Corporation, L=Redmond, S=Washington, C=US.png

kinami 2023-10-03 21:31

That's odd @spaint, it seems that in Vivaldi `display: grid` on the parent takes precedence over `position: fixed` on the child. Since it's all Chromium based I assumed it would work the same as on Chrome. Seems like I need to add Vivaldi to my list of browsers to test with πŸ˜…

I'm glad you were still able to play the game! πŸ˜„

nicekot 2023-10-03 21:59

My friend, you really need to upgrade your hard drive. This is incredibly painful but very funny. And cute, haha :)

supersayafynn 2023-10-03 22:24

That was really funny and a creative take on the Jam theme, great job! Deleting all those memories was tough.

rhanzoc 2023-10-04 07:10

VERY creative spin on a theme! I love it but I also hate how relatable it is :laughing:

mocadium 2023-10-04 07:22

Ahahaha I love this! I was feeling so upset about deleting everything, what an awesome (and purposefully painful) experience, well done!

kinami 2023-10-04 16:49

Thank you @nicekot @supersayafynn @rhanzoc @mocadium ! πŸ˜„

I do upgrade my hard drives quite regularly, but I still always end up running out of space 😐

ryrumeli 2023-10-05 06:34

Darn, this is too real, I too have a small SSD, this game wins points for reality! It was creative, honestly. Oh all the times I had to install Umbelievable Engine I to IV, with all the updates that added new incomplete systems and tons of adorable corporative bloat.

Also on the deleting aspect, it felt weird deleting memories and files like that, almost like I was sorting my own HD. The art was on point, and it was fun, I really enjoyed this very creative take on the theme.

mathkarma 2023-10-05 08:14

I really liked playing this game, i finally can become a gamedev, but at what cost

skel3ton 2023-10-05 18:03

this really pissed me off :D I finally installed it but it wasn't worth it.

that's a joke of course, and i enjoyed the game... i ended up deleting almost everything except the document that says don't delete :) i had fun

kinami 2023-10-05 21:20

Thank you @ryrumeli @mathkarma @skel3ton !

I'm glad my emotions got across as intended with this game πŸ˜‰

Hope I didn't traumatize you all too much πŸ˜„

akulove 2023-10-06 22:09

That's a great idea! And very good realization. Sat with a smile for the rest of the game. Very cool conveyed the feeling of this situation. Are the stats at the end really collected from the players?

kinami 2023-10-07 16:34

@akulove Thank you for your kind words πŸ˜„

Yes, the stats are collected from other players!

alexis-brochec 2023-10-08 20:40

Really frustrating, I was on the verge of giving up (before realizing it's just a game) Really well played, annoying music and sounds with each crash/error message could amplify this (even put input controls in the registration if you whant to be devilish)

Great, right on topic.

soul-grinder 2023-10-08 21:17

Very creative way to tackle the theme and simulating a hard drive with memory. The graphics were great also, a lot of effort was put into this by the looks of it. Good work!

tpace 2023-10-14 20:52

I hate SmallFluffy Inc. so much

kinami 2023-10-15 15:48

Thank you all!

@alexis-brochec I wanted to add some error sounds, but I felt they were a little too annoying πŸ˜„ Maybe I'll add it as an option though.

@soul-grinder Thank you 😊

@tpace Yeah, they make a lot of annoying products 🦊

very-dark-lord 2023-10-18 17:02

Hahaha, oh man, this felt too real, and these trade-offs when deleting files were harsh as hell. :D Really funny idea, well done!