Pre Call by zimennik
You can smell the 1960 in the air.. You’re a telephone operator, working in a huge company. Your work is pretty simple - you have to connect two people who need to talk to each other.

Your own working time and successful communication depends on how fast and how correctly you’ll dial other people.
Usually, you’re working from 12pm to 6pm. If you make a mistake and set up the wrong connection - the Demon of Time steals your working time. Thus your entire working day goes backwards and becomes infinite. And, yes, today is a really strange day…
If you want to somehow finish your working day you have to dial everyone who calls you in a proper and quick way.
At first you hear a call, someone tells you who you need to connect with. The connectors are arranged in pairs - top and bottom.

During the call you’ll get the minimum of information about the person you have to find and to dial. Everything else you’ll find in the Log Journal.
Next step is a piece of cake! You take a connector from same group (ABOVE or BELOW the first) and link all those people!

When the talk is finished - don’t forget to unplug the connector.
And yeah… if you accidentally or by any other reason plug in the connector in the wrong socket - you done, dear. Time goes backwards, and you stuck in a loop
If you manage to connect all the people - the Demon of Time will be defeated, and you will be saved from the infinite loop of your working day. Good luck!

Dev Team:
Roman Zimenko aka @zimennik - Programmer, Game designer
Artyom Obryadin aka @lostsense - Programmer
Vlad Mykhalytskyi aka @vmykhali666 - Programmer
Tanya Voronkova aka @corax - 2D Designer, Content Maker
Anton Tkachenko aka @tonyt - QA, Content Maker
Yuriy Mykhalchenko aka @tokugawa1983 - 3D Artist
Changelog:
Update 0.2
- Fixed several text / voice inconsistencies.
- Rework difficulty (now you can complete the game lol). Old difficulty stay as an option.
- Few graphical changes
| Youtube | https://zimennik.itch.io/pre-call |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/47/pre-call |
Ratings
| Overall | 155th | 4.045⭐ | 24🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 484th | 3.609⭐ | 25🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 48th | 4.217⭐ | 25🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 703th | 3.717⭐ | 25🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 123th | 4.364⭐ | 24🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 81th | 4.136⭐ | 24🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 224th | 3.667⭐ | 23🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 37th | 4.364⭐ | 24🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 11🗳️ | 9🗨️ |
Anyways, very well done!
Something that I'd recommend adding:
- More levels, make each longer and more difficult, maybe add less connectors so that we have to put them together more.
Very good entry, hope more people find this!
It's one of those hectic-but-fun games. Good job!