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Space Office by Celdur

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made by Celdur for Ludum Dare 45 (JAM)

It's your first day at work and you have no clue what you're supposed to do. With the theme being what it is, we took a long time to decide on what nothing should be, and we landed on knowledge. The real challenge of the game is figuring out what to do. It's a pretty difficult task, but if you mess around for a bit it'll start to make some sense. Each day has something new as well, so make sure to try them out.

Mouse controls everything. If you get stuck early on, make sure you try all the buttons on various screens. Actually, I lied, you can reset to the menu by pressing R. Oh, and I should add, this game is not friendly to the colorblind, I'm sorry about that.

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Programming/design: Celdur

Art/sound: Gauphastus

Writing: Sgore

Youtube https://celdur.itch.io/space-office
Original URL https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/45/space-office

Ratings

Overall 362th 3.629⭐ 64🧑‍⚖️
Fun 285th 3.621⭐ 64🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 136th 3.849⭐ 65🧑‍⚖️
Theme 240th 3.758⭐ 66🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 346th 3.846⭐ 67🧑‍⚖️
Audio 261th 3.557⭐ 63🧑‍⚖️
Humor 113th 3.781⭐ 66🧑‍⚖️
Mood 277th 3.726⭐ 64🧑‍⚖️
Given 85🗳️ 79🗨️

Feedback

NachtWitch
07. Oct 2019 · 20:10 UTC
rate, play and comment on others games, its how ludum dare prioritizes games
KekkoDude
07. Oct 2019 · 21:51 UTC
What, i got fired! haha, Neat entry, well executed! havent explored the... interface fully yet but going to give it some time, check out the other days.

so far, im loving it, really intuitive!
Gauphastus
07. Oct 2019 · 21:56 UTC
@nachtwitch Yup, we had an entry previously though this is my first official participation.

@kekkodude Haha, yeah. It's a total nightmare. I just did the art and audio so when @celdur had me playtest I got fired pretty consistently. :0
dummydojo
08. Oct 2019 · 07:52 UTC
Lol really funny concept and made me feel weirdly nostalgic. Didn't get very far into the game because I couldn't figure out how to do my job at all, but that was part of the charm!
Skalex
08. Oct 2019 · 08:03 UTC
Seems like a cool entry but its a little bit too hard and i didn't really know what i was doing. I understand I guess thats what you were going for but maybe give the buttons little hints as what they can do so it feels more like a puzzle instead of randomly trying different combinations. Still, really nice game idea and great job!
KeithSwanger
08. Oct 2019 · 08:45 UTC
Such an interesting concept, but wow is it hard! The computer is really fun to interact with though! Sounds are fantastic. Art is great. The puzzles are good as long as you're okay with being fired a few hundred times! xD

A very unique experience for sure!
dazedhead
08. Oct 2019 · 08:48 UTC
Very much fun to play! enjoyed the style of the game very much even if it was hard to figure out how to start. Didn't beat it tho.
Jake Marks
08. Oct 2019 · 08:49 UTC
Figured out day 1 (with ABSOLUTELY no help). Awesome puzzle "management?" sim game!
ivananovakova
08. Oct 2019 · 09:57 UTC
What an awesome idea!! And it looks great too. Feels like irl expirience lol
Vaibho
08. Oct 2019 · 20:32 UTC
Enjoyed the game but was not able to figure out what to do. The graphics were nice and the music felt good. Liked the concept and the game.
mao
08. Oct 2019 · 22:34 UTC
I like these sorts of puzzles, where you're thrown into a system with unknown rules and you have to find the objective. One possible glitch/oversight: It is sometimes impossible to toggle the top left symbol (unless I'm missing something?)
🎤 Celdur
08. Oct 2019 · 23:12 UTC
@mao if you're on day 2 or 3 you might be missing something, yeah.
New problems get added as the days go on and that should be part of one of them(unless I did overlook some bug).
mao
08. Oct 2019 · 23:35 UTC
Ah nevermind, I figured it out. Succsessfully completed all three days! These aliens really need a UI expert.

Speaking of UI, some keyboard shortcuts for the buttons on the computer would be nice. I felt like I was gonna break my thumb with all the clicking on a trackpad.
bassguitarbill
09. Oct 2019 · 02:25 UTC
Heck yes, this is excellent! It's funny, it looks awesome, and it made me use my brain.
Danilo Freire
09. Oct 2019 · 03:27 UTC
If you can generate a mac or web build it would be great! : D
🎤 Celdur
09. Oct 2019 · 04:27 UTC
@danilo-freire I'd love to, but I don't have the engine license for that right now sadly.
Taylor Reynolds
09. Oct 2019 · 04:38 UTC
Great art style, I love the line weight of the character! I like the concept of figuring out the rules as you go.
derwenzl
09. Oct 2019 · 07:50 UTC
Like the idea!
Don Fouts
10. Oct 2019 · 00:00 UTC
This was a really creative game and I loved the puzzles. I like how you brought the theme into this.
shrapx
10. Oct 2019 · 02:07 UTC
Fiendish crazy-computer simulator. Thanks for suggesting i play it :) I hope to go back to day 3 and finish it.
SirRed
10. Oct 2019 · 02:26 UTC
I dont think I won. Interesting game I think I was figuring it out at the end there. Definitely throws you into the deep end. Good work.
Idontknow
10. Oct 2019 · 02:55 UTC
Love the way I need to figure the rules out as you go. ...but it certainly took me way longer than I should have to notice the last basic thing I needed to not get fired on day 1... cleared day 3 eventually, but that was brutal.
LudumAnthony
10. Oct 2019 · 04:31 UTC
That was a lot of fun to play. Super creative.
Redimension Games
10. Oct 2019 · 09:58 UTC
Oh man my brain hurts after this. Interesting concept though.
WashingMachinae
10. Oct 2019 · 10:12 UTC
Great art, but could have made it easier to figure out what to do. I ended up getting one of the cards right, so I thought I figured it out, but then following the same method the next card was rejected
🎤 Celdur
10. Oct 2019 · 13:13 UTC
@washingmachinae Yeah, I assume you fell for the teal one. I made teal look way too similar to green, which was unintentional, and most people don't notice the difference at first.
kuviman
10. Oct 2019 · 15:58 UTC
game too ez, make more levels :D
chaosround
10. Oct 2019 · 18:47 UTC
Good idea, good jam.. I liked the art
JoelLikesPigs
10. Oct 2019 · 22:04 UTC
I'm blown away by this I've never felt so lost and confused and had so much fun whilst being so. I managed to figure out how to play galaga and check the weather and time, but never how to fix the flashing yellow light. Day 3 murdered me and I'll never know how haha, great use of the theme, super unique idea. I loved it!
Lars-Erik
10. Oct 2019 · 23:09 UTC
Got fired two times and gave up, but was quite intrigued for a little while there. Fun idea and well executed! 👍
Ltven0mI
11. Oct 2019 · 10:20 UTC
Couldn't quite figure out how to do my job but had fun pressing random buttons and flicking random switches. Cool art style btw :thumbsup:
Xakkar
11. Oct 2019 · 10:23 UTC
I came home from work and played a game about work)
itsdanidre
11. Oct 2019 · 15:53 UTC
Man it took me a while to figure day 1 and 2, but my brain isn't big enough for that white on day 3 :sweat_smile:
Artyom Volkov
11. Oct 2019 · 15:57 UTC
The concept sounds great, but I think, it needs some small help at start, however, it can ruin the experience of total disaster of the very first day at work which you didn't know how to do.
alexrose
12. Oct 2019 · 00:50 UTC
I can't believe I just gave this game a 5 for fun, fuck you and your excellent game which I hate.

Nothing this jam made me as happy as beating this game so it's full marks.
Rodrigo Robles
12. Oct 2019 · 02:01 UTC
Great work, nice take on the theme, concept, graphics, humor. Of course it can be polished, it's a jam game. You should extend and polish the game, put this in the market.
WanSou
12. Oct 2019 · 14:36 UTC
Ahh i don't get it, its so hard, i love hard games but this is just too hard, i see many people figured it out so i guess its a really hard but possible game, its still fun to figure it out, i think i almost got it though
keep up the good work
kaeveris
13. Oct 2019 · 08:05 UTC
I like the idea of the game and the graphics, but was not able to figure out what to do XD
Franciszek Pyrć
13. Oct 2019 · 14:25 UTC
I like the computer. It reminds me of my jet engine.
Andre Fremaux
14. Oct 2019 · 07:53 UTC
Very fun game, took a while to start to get the hang of things but really enjoyed the trial and error. If anything my only nitpick would be that dialogue goes by way too fast so its quite hard to read. Regardless, awesome work! Very well done! :smile:
Karanveer
18. Oct 2019 · 09:04 UTC
this reminded of my 90s time when i used to watch cartoons on free tv channels at my locality...lol...good ratings jsut for that art work ..let alone the overall game play..GG!
alexrose
30. Oct 2019 · 01:29 UTC
game deserved a higher rating, pearls before swine