Signal Tozoku by Profugo Barbatus

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made by Profugo Barbatus for Ludum Dare 59 (JAM)

Well, you've spent countless hours across untold days grinding to make your magnum opus for the competition, and all that's left is to send it over to their website. Will your signal hold strong? C​an you publish your brand new song before the deadline? Something else is here that want's your bandwidth, and she's a little gremlin!

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Wew, another LDJam down! Theme was "Signal", and we kinda got stuck on the mental wording of Mikus famous 'Hiding in your WiFi" as a fun idea to explore. To be honest, both of us were a bit burnt out in various ways going into this jam, so doing something more for self satisfaction was refreshing. Got to try some new stuff, without stressing out too much. We even slept like normal human beings for a change!

Ratings

Overall 413th 3.583⭐ 26🧑‍⚖️
Fun 386th 3.438⭐ 26🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 306th 3.563⭐ 26🧑‍⚖️
Theme 511th 3.583⭐ 26🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 562th 3.458⭐ 26🧑‍⚖️
Humor 162th 3.625⭐ 26🧑‍⚖️
Mood 380th 3.696⭐ 25🧑‍⚖️
Given 30🗳️ 20🗨️

Feedback

Mr_Sun_
Apr 23rd · 20:26 UTC
So happy to see a Miku entry!!! The drawings are super cute and the gameplay is fun and on theme! I liked all the minigames but some did take a little bit of time to figure out how to complete (I'm still a little confused about how to fix the wifi haha). Very cute and fun over all! Great work guys!
mechanicallife
Apr 23rd · 20:37 UTC
Pretty funny entry! very chaotic and cute. Insane song. Great Stuff!
TheRealOrb
Apr 23rd · 20:41 UTC
I don't know much about vocaloid but this was very cute :>
IRKAR
Apr 24th · 09:08 UTC
Cool art Miku) and i love gameplay very fun but too hard for me![Screenshot_20260424_120712.png](///raw/25b/76/z/728dc.png)
Not_D00Mka
Apr 24th · 11:14 UTC
![Screenshot_20260424_151201.png](///raw/5ef/76/z/728fc.png)
plutonicrock
Apr 24th · 13:41 UTC
funni!)
coatline
Apr 24th · 14:38 UTC
Crazy game! Felt like a fever dream
BorealTeuthidia
Apr 24th · 17:34 UTC
![Screenshot 2026-04-24 123236.png](///raw/5d1/66/z/7298c.png)
I did it!!
The song did a great job of stressing me out and all the text was a bit overwhelming at first, especially since there was a timer counting down but I suppose that's part of the fun. Very nice concept and well done!
Naviski
Apr 24th · 17:45 UTC
A fun little moment of chaos. Nice work!
Kiselle
Apr 25th · 09:23 UTC
It's a very cool game, I tried to play it 2 times, but it didn't work out more than once (I had a cycle of breaking my hard drive and a set of endlessly appearing captcha), I really liked the idea.
Bananplyte
Apr 25th · 13:34 UTC
![YES.png](///raw/384/43/z/72b03.png)

I will say this in the nicest way possible
- FK this little gremlin -

What an amazing game - took me three tries - and I was EXTREMELY invested. Great grades all around!
Oradimi
Apr 26th · 10:04 UTC
Fun game! Miku's behaviour seems too random though, sometimes you'll get cycles of captcha + her going in the folders instantly at the same time and it becomes impossible
cedaoan
Apr 26th · 10:36 UTC
Nice concept! I got invested XD. I don't know if I'm missing something, but it was kinda hard to find Miku in the folders, since there were many folders and I had to check each of them manually. But overall I like the gameplay and the music! Funnn
jurra44
Apr 26th · 13:40 UTC
Great game idea. Respectfull implementation! Main character behaviour funny :)
aniretti
Apr 28th · 11:36 UTC
oh! we had a very similar idea to Ludum Dare 54 (the "Limited Space" theme), where you had to free up space on your computer and you were constantly getting all kinds annoying spam :D
but unfortunately, we weren't able to implement the game in time because it was our first jam. im glad to see someone was able to implement a similar idea.

i love music and your interpretation of the theme! great entry!
🎤 Profugo Barbatus
Apr 28th · 13:29 UTC
@aniretti Glad you enjoyed it! I actually made something in a similar vein for LD54 as well, https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/54/the-heap
🎤 Profugo Barbatus
Apr 28th · 13:30 UTC
@cedaoan Didn't have time to implement any specific indicators, was thinking about making occupied folders wobble some when she's being a gremlin in them. Instead she's sneaky, so you just gotta go digging. And of course, she's always in the last place you look, right?
🎤 Profugo Barbatus
Apr 28th · 13:31 UTC
@bananplyte Glad you enjoyed it! she's a little devil, but that makes it all the more satisfying when you manage to get past her, even when she gets cheeky and chains a captcha with a deep file dive.
🎤 Profugo Barbatus
Apr 28th · 13:34 UTC
@mr-sun With the Wifi, you just need to drag her far enough away from its icon on the taskbar to stop her. Unfortunately, she was also a little gremlin to me, and her AI regularly skipped the "Go to the wifi to eat" part of it and skipped right to eating, she'd pick it up halfway across the screen just to spite you. Did mean she would immediately drop it when confronted though.

Who woulda thought that designing an evil entity would lead to it striking back at me as well :pensive:
Vary
Apr 30th · 02:08 UTC
This is so cute!! Instant flashback to making my own little Shimeji type characters on my desktop haha. Miku's animations are great and I especially like how she speeds up sometimes like a true little gremlin to eat some files. Really great work - super simple concept done really well with a good amount of variety!
Tobius
Apr 30th · 02:15 UTC
The music track was great, well done! I also liked the variety of mischief miku would get up to. Kept me on my toes!

One improvement would be a simple sound effect when clicking on things or when different things would happen. Like a disconnect noise when the wifi goes out for example.
Alekcey Ovalnyi
May 07th · 20:57 UTC
It's a really cool idea, but it's not convenient to navigate through folders, sometimes you have to click 3-4 times on a folder to go inside.