Whole Life On One Screen by Demy

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made by Demy for LD31 (JAM)
This is a story about freelancer, blogger and gamer at the same time.
Have fun with writing blog posts, participating in MMO raids (8 p.m. each day), working and relaxing playing shooter. And don't forget to sleep well sometimes.

The idea was to use theme as a description of situation - literally, all character's life on his own PC screen.

(Well, it doesn't actually look finished - i really want to add some endings, like money loss and blog fail, and some achievements connected with different activities. And text quests. Chatting with friend... Ah, so much things to do. Anyway, i love the way it looks now, so have fun.)

Ratings

Coolness 100% 1
Overall(Jam) 3.09 606
Fun(Jam) 2.62 821
Graphics(Jam) 3.20 535
Humor(Jam) 2.96 311
Innovation(Jam) 3.95 59
Mood(Jam) 3.06 479
Theme(Jam) 4.33 27

Feedback

Roan Contreras
09. Dec 2014 · 07:50 UTC
Kinda random, but good use with the theme.
PoQA Games
09. Dec 2014 · 07:51 UTC
Neat idea!
Kain.Oborin
09. Dec 2014 · 07:53 UTC
I am not going to lie... I absolutely love this game. I don't know why. I don't what is causing me to love it so much... but I do. The style, the art, the substance, the balance. I love it. Thank you very much for making this game!
davient
09. Dec 2014 · 08:08 UTC
Great Idea! Unfortunately it seems that I cannot run the different game programs cos the browsewr keeps appearing :(
GAFBlizzard
09. Dec 2014 · 09:10 UTC
Simultaneously creative, depressing, and funny. Nice work on the random interfaces -- I think I noticed being able to drag part of a web browser around for example. I cracked up when I saw the MMO chat scrolling.
Chaoseed
09. Dec 2014 · 12:36 UTC
This is definitely fun, though it also feels incomplete. I'd love to see more added to it. You definitely have a good thing with the desktop interface; the blog/search thing is neat, and the MMO chat is pretty amusing! So, good work. ;)
folmerkelly
09. Dec 2014 · 12:37 UTC
Great interpretation of the theme, this is not my kind of game usually but I found myself wanting to keep going, so well done on keeping me hooked in :)
PlasterPhantom
09. Dec 2014 · 12:40 UTC
Interesting game. Took the theme in an interesting way.
Vaclav
09. Dec 2014 · 12:40 UTC
Well done! This is similar to my game, but with more features and better graphics. Wish it had an ending though.
rainshapes
09. Dec 2014 · 17:19 UTC
I love that you added a boot-up screen with loading drivers. Really shows attention to detail!
Asaratha
09. Dec 2014 · 17:30 UTC
Interesting game, but on Day 2 I couldn't click on anything and it was quite obnoxious.
korayementality
09. Dec 2014 · 21:05 UTC
Very original. It's kind of purposeless but I like to think of it as a freelance roguelike ;)
Great job on the design, felt like a real OS
Ossi
10. Dec 2014 · 06:53 UTC
Very cool concept, and I loved the personal feel to it. You captured the "whole life on one screen" moments fairly well. With more polish this could be a really cool management type game where you could possibly expand to becoming a successful blogger or something along those lines. Well done!
NoahbroCZ
10. Dec 2014 · 16:55 UTC
Very good idea! Check my game too: President's bodyguard simulator.
joppiesaus
10. Dec 2014 · 16:57 UTC
Neat idea, but not really fun at the moment(will be with some polishing). Very innovative.
Mood is awesome, you really did a good job on all the stuff you made!
SusanTheCat
10. Dec 2014 · 21:12 UTC
Cool idea. This is sort of what my day is like. But you forgot the solitaire!
2Bit
11. Dec 2014 · 08:31 UTC
New and interesting. Cool game!
Sublustris
11. Dec 2014 · 09:42 UTC
Heh.. game about frustrating gamers:) Nice :)
adrianulima
11. Dec 2014 · 15:03 UTC
very nice game!!! congrats
nokusu
12. Dec 2014 · 10:42 UTC
I like it, i found it just a bit random but it fits the theme well, gotta love banana browser :p
Paperscraps
12. Dec 2014 · 13:08 UTC
Very cool take on the theme. I couldn't run some of the apps, it would just bring up the browser.
🎤 Demy
12. Dec 2014 · 13:18 UTC
Thank you all for your comments, I wasn't expected so much people will enjoy playing my game. I will fix icons bug soon (wen I'll get home), for now you can click once on shortcut and then click twice. Or just go to sleep (reboot your in-game PC).
hissssssssss
12. Dec 2014 · 14:27 UTC
I loved this take on the theme, even though as a game it feels a bit incomplete. You really made it feel like a glimpse into someone's PC.

There seems to be some problems with clicking on things after a couple days. Clicking on one icon (like MMORPG) will bring up the Banana Browser instead, for example.
Cake&Code
12. Dec 2014 · 16:03 UTC
The persistence is very cool, but it didn't feel like there was a downside to anything. Working for hours didn't lower my clan rating? Was everyone else in the clan just not doing anything to get better without me? When I played games or worked on the blog money didn't go down? Did I not pay for food, game subscriptions etc?

I didn't get to play for many days bcause eventually no matter what program I tried to open it always opened the banana blog program.

Interesting idea, could use some more polish :)
🎤 Demy
12. Dec 2014 · 18:13 UTC
Update:
fixed bug with desktop shortcuts,
'afk' message for sleeping now is more understandable,
character stops spamming with it in chat,
chat appears on the top over other windows when character's writing something there.
🎤 Demy
12. Dec 2014 · 18:16 UTC
P.S.: I want so badly add more things like achievements and story, but I feel that doing it before Ludum Dare ends is wrong, so i didn't change anything from gameplay.
ynots
12. Dec 2014 · 19:46 UTC
nice idea..
JJEvil
12. Dec 2014 · 22:08 UTC
Weird and interesting.
Team Klappermann
14. Dec 2014 · 19:46 UTC
Great use with the theme and generally really nice version of a waiting game!
nesis
16. Dec 2014 · 12:39 UTC
Decent game, I think the main thing to add post-compo would be some clearer in-game feedback that drives the player in some direction, giving them an idea of what behaviour is beneficial and what behaviour is detrimental.
mathmadlen
17. Dec 2014 · 21:12 UTC
Slightly addictive, clever use of the theme, great job!
Lynx
23. Dec 2014 · 01:18 UTC
The UI/UX is perfectly done! I love the DOS command line booting screen and how you have to double click to open programs.

Also well done on the "tutorial" it felt like a true website or computer program tutorial that has you click on everything with tooltips to teach you where everything is (remind me of Facebook's tutorial)

One bug I did find was I would say "Afk. I'm too tired guys" in the chat even when I wasn't playing and only did work that morning. That kind of confused me, but that's super minor.

Well done overall, you have a future in UI/UX design
Jupiter_Hadley
23. Dec 2014 · 04:12 UTC
Nice concept! I Included it in part 17 of my Ludum Dare 31 compilation video series, if you would like to check it out :) http://youtu.be/fGRz-9CpOIg
Johnro
24. Dec 2014 · 21:53 UTC
There doesn't seem to be any real sense of progression. Also, I tried shutting down the computer at the same time it logged off automatically and it's stuck at the launch screen.
Jupiter_Hadley
28. Dec 2014 · 13:24 UTC
*I Included it in part 18 of my Ludum Dare 31 compilation video series, if you would like to check it out :) http://youtu.be/fGRz-9CpOIg