The Department

owtuvammo 2024-04-15 18:13

I don't entirely understand what affects the focus bar in the meetings, but I think there's an interesting idea here!

As a former corporate office worker, I absolutely love the slide art.

magui 2024-04-15 18:14

Great game for a compo! I loved the idea and the design for the company's employees. I wish there was some kind of sound design, but it wasn't a problem. Good job!

pincushion 2024-04-15 18:20

Cute names. "this game has no ending due to budget problems" bwahaha. funny.

I couldn't figure out how employees were losing focus and if there was something I could do about it. They did it at different rates. Maybe I just needed to fire the ones who lost focus too fast?

chusmimax 2024-04-15 18:33

Cool game, altough I can't really gasp how to do well.

One question, the game doesn't seem too intensive, why not also upload a web version? Having to download it will scare off some people.

pebkac 2024-04-15 19:59

Hey, thanks for having me on the stream. Fun game you made too, good concept and nice graphics!

hylazu 2024-04-16 01:25

Love the concept of this game. The slides are particularly hilarious. Had issues with not being able to do second quarter.

jsmcag 2024-04-16 08:35

The humor makes this game!

It's harder than it looks. You gotta spend money to make money and sometimes things don't go to plan. Keeping employees focused is both hard and expensive!

fenix131113 2024-04-16 18:33

Interesting game, nice work

zirrrus 2024-04-16 18:36

Interesting idea! You're right, the generated avatars are really cool, well done! My employees must be very chatty, when I had one they were making me tons of money. But with 5 in one meeting they were all gone almost immediately.

rainybyte 2024-04-16 18:39

I'm super glad to see a more creative take on the theme. Good humor! This kind of thing could be a silly game whether left as it is, or expanded upon. Is the focus draining slower in tutorial? I feel like it suddenly gets harder if you aren't doing the tutorial

milq 2024-04-17 11:34

Great game! I love how you've embraced the concept of 'summoning' in the sense of ordering someone to come to a particular place or officially arranging a meeting. The salary and 'effective' parameters are very well-adjusted, and the avatar system is excellently implemented. I do miss having some music, but I understand that accomplishing all this in 48 hours is quite a challenge. Fantastic game, I loved it!

josion 2024-04-18 02:19

This is such a creative interpretation of the theme, and I really enjoyed the humor! The art style is fantastic as well. Great work!

itsboats 2024-04-22 21:09

i love the slides in the meetings lmaoooo i played for quite a bit but then wasnt sure what exactly my goal was, i kept hiring dudes until it got too hard and had to do a massive layoff and fire a bunch of employees xD

pretty cool u got the randomized dudes with their names too!

schwede 2024-04-24 21:03

@owtuvammo

Thanks for playing the game! I used this game as a therapy session after those countless meetings! I believe you know what I mean? :D

@magui

Thanks for dropping by! You are absolutely right. Just a little bit of sound would have made it much more complete and maybe funnier.

@pincushion

Thanks for your feedback and your awareness of the humor in the game! When you do the next slide in a presentation, the employees will regain some focus. But I had some balancing issues in the first version of the game, which could be the cause of your experience.

@chusmimax

Thanks for your review and feedback! You are absolutely right! Normally I always go for a web version, but the current Godot (C#) version doesn't support WebGL. But I just love Godot and C# so much that I decided to go this way.

@pebkac

Thanks for your comment and dropping by in the stream!

@Hylazu

Thanks for your support! I am sorry to hear that and you were not able to finish the quarter. At that time a bug was in the game, which stopped you from completing the quarter.

@JSMCAG

Glad you enjoyed the humor! Maybe you also know this feeling of being stuck in presentations?! :D

@fenix131113

I thank you for taking the time and playing my game!

@zirrrus

Nice to hear that you got 5 employees! If more employees attend a meeting, the faster they lose their focus. Just like in real life. :D But I am sorry to hear that the game balancing was not good.

@rainybyte

I am happy to hear that you enjoyed the humor! I believe that people who are really stuck in those meetings could enjoy such humor. Maybe you got more employees after the tutorial, because when you get more employees the meetings get harder. Thanks for leaving your feedback and comment!

@milq

Thanks for your very kindly written comment, I really appreciate that! But you are so right! That little extra of music would have turned the game into something completely else. Especially, I could have boosted the humor with sound and music!

@Josion

Thanks for dropping by and leaving a comment! Nice to hear you liked the humor!

@itsBoats

Thank you for your comment and dropping by in the stream! Nice to hear you played the game like a real manager! :D Currently, I am trying to make the avatar system as a plugin for Godot, so you could easily create avatars.

alexandru-barbanoua 2024-05-01 19:34

Cool game like it. Great job 👍

lcstark 2024-05-03 19:59

Hey! Nice to see you back doing LD! And also having switched to Godot, nice! ;)

You've used a really funny idea for the game, running a departament in a company that generates all its income from internal meetings and watching slides. I think I know some people that do actually think this is how it works in the real life. :D

An idea for an expansion - give the player several different types of actions to perform during the presentations, like "add a motivational slogan" or "throw in a funny quip". On one hand, that would give the player something else to do during the slide show instead of just waiting for a timer to fill. On the other, you could use that to have people with different personality types, so some would react better to certain actions while others would ignore them, giving the player several options to balance the entire team.

Oh, on the topic of actions during the meeting one idea just came to me - have some of the losing focus people occasionally start doing some things like tapping on the desk or clicking their pen, which makes others lose focus faster and you need to look at the person to make them stop. :P

The graphics are cool, I loved the idea of having an avatar generator! Having several different slides for us to see as we make our presentations was also nice to see. All that was missing was some sound and music to round everything up.

At first I thought the game would be too easy, as people lost focus too fast and I rarely needed to change even a single slide. Then I got more employees and things got really tough, nice balancing mechanic! And it's always great to see a compo game have a built-in tutorial. :)

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