Unstable connection by Daniikk1012

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made by Daniikk1012 for Ludum Dare 49 (JAM)

You want to download a game. It's not big so download won't take long. Unfortunately, you have unstable internet connection so you have to make sure that your download progress won't get lost! Like that's not enough, kids outside are playing with your electricity!

You do not have much time. Download the game on all the devices under 7 minutes!

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Links are updated with each update. If you want to have experience of the jam version, download version 0.1 from GitHub releases

Ratings

Overall 1490th 2.568⭐ 24🧑‍⚖️
Fun 1523th 1.977⭐ 24🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 1177th 2.886⭐ 24🧑‍⚖️
Theme 722th 3.568⭐ 24🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 1007th 3.318⭐ 24🧑‍⚖️
Audio 881th 2.857⭐ 23🧑‍⚖️
Mood 1186th 2.952⭐ 23🧑‍⚖️
Given 24🗳️ 20🗨️

Feedback

ScalphaMission
04. Oct 2021 · 13:34 UTC
props for making the audio yourself but maybe turn it down a bit. the artwork evoked a pleasant comfort.
🎤 Daniikk1012
04. Oct 2021 · 13:55 UTC
@scalphamission Thanks for your feedback! We will add settings to the game soon, so you will be able to control the volume yourself.
Pious
05. Oct 2021 · 05:20 UTC
Good idea, nice audio sfx but a pause button in the middle of the game for adjusting audio would be nicer, specifically the door creek sound. Graphics are nice and the music is homey and fits the vibe very well. Game is cool but hard
GreenXenith
05. Oct 2021 · 05:24 UTC
Lovely artwork. Seems the cabinet closing sound doesn't respect the sound setting. Really jarring squeak in an otherwise relatively peaceful game. Though ill be honest, I didnt do much more than sit in the breaker panel most of the time x)
🎤 Daniikk1012
05. Oct 2021 · 05:28 UTC
@pious Thanks, we will add pause button soon
🎤 Daniikk1012
05. Oct 2021 · 05:30 UTC
@greenxenith Hmm, probably it's just too loud compared to other sounds or it is a bug, I'll fix that. About sitting in the breaker panel most of the time, probably I should make internet connection loss more frequent
Papercypress
05. Oct 2021 · 05:35 UTC
Nice take on the theme! Wasn't sure on how to prevent losing the network connection though
The fusebox sound effect was also a bit louder than the other sounds
🎤 Daniikk1012
05. Oct 2021 · 06:12 UTC
@papercypress Thanks for your feedback! You cannot prevent losing connection, but you can prevent losing download progress if you react fast enough and click reload button.
🎤 Daniikk1012
07. Oct 2021 · 09:09 UTC
@scalphamission We have added settings into the game
@pious There is pause menu now
@greenxenith @papercypress I have fixed the volume issue
SunnyRx
13. Oct 2021 · 12:39 UTC
7 minutes have passed and I haven't finished downloading anything😢
🎤 Daniikk1012
13. Oct 2021 · 13:26 UTC
@sunnyrx thing is, download takes 5 minutes, which means you are only allowed to mess up your download in first 2 minutes of a game. If any download resets after that, you will certainly lose.
Eli Delventhal
13. Oct 2021 · 17:17 UTC
I gave you a high score for theme because I thought this was a very clever play on it. But, I had to score Fun pretty low because I think the game is missing something gameplay-wise. For this sort of game, I think you need to have kind of an overwhelming number of things to do and it needs to be clear what all the options are (imagine Space Team). Most of the time, nothing was really happening and I was just waiting for something to do. Then the number of things I *could* do was pretty low, and it wasn't clear when the power was off or the connection was dying to something. So mostly it was just clicking through things constantly hoping to find something to do. Then my download reset and I gave up.

I think you could definitely make something out of your clever use of the theme and the nice graphics if you keep working at it. A frantic fighting against the clock sort of game could work very well.
yodoG
13. Oct 2021 · 17:22 UTC
I love the idea of this game, but it seems that if you mess up after a certain amount of time there's no way to recover. I would have liked to see a bit more variation in gameplay somehow. Maybe more tasks to keep track of. The music was nice, but I would have liked it to be a longer track and not just the same four chords over and over. Agree that all of the sounds were loud initially, but I apprecited the web build having volume adjustments in the settings. I would turn down the music initially though. Great use of the theme!
Ozfolo
13. Oct 2021 · 17:31 UTC
Good game, very original very hard though
🎤 Daniikk1012
13. Oct 2021 · 17:34 UTC
@eli-delventhal @yodog Thanks for your feedback! Yeah, the game is kind of boring and there are not that many things to do. Initially we wanted to add some sort of captcha every time you open a device so you have different mini-puzzles to solve each time so you do not get bored and it will takes more time and effort to switch between devices which prevents you from just clicking through things constantly, but we could not implement that until the jam is over and after the jam is over we just got lazy.
Fractale
14. Oct 2021 · 18:01 UTC
You have to be patient to play this game... I became unstable
Fractale
14. Oct 2021 · 18:01 UTC
You have to be patient to play this game... I became unstable
Boon
14. Oct 2021 · 21:50 UTC
Fun little pixel graphics and nice music. You don't a lot of ~idle games in the jam so fun to get one here. Would have been nice to be able to see or hear more of what was going on without having to click in and out constantly. Overall nice work! :)