The Automation Department by Camden Cecrle

The Automation Department is a game about an unstable office environment where things keep breaking down and you can hardly keep up! Buy robots to do your tasks for you until you automate yourself out of a job!

This game is played with the mouse only.

Character Art & Environment Art Milo Moore @extyrannomon
Sound Design & Systems Programming Alex Cecrle @Alexzoin
Technical Art & Animation Camden Cecrle @Camzoin
Gameplay Programming & Implementation Jonathan Miller FalconDance.itch.io

| Link | https://falcondance.itch.io/the-automation-department |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/49/the-automation-department |
Ratings
| Overall | 76th | 4.156⭐ | 34🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 151th | 3.984⭐ | 34🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 305th | 3.719⭐ | 34🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 821th | 3.469⭐ | 34🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 7th | 4.766⭐ | 34🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 105th | 4.078⭐ | 34🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 147th | 3.938⭐ | 34🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 136th | 4.078⭐ | 34🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 31🗳️ | 38🗨️ |
In the option screen, the checkbox is not very clear because the shape doesn't change. A red cross to mark the option disabled will be better.
The drag and drop is too slow in my opinion.
The music works well, it creates a very stressful atmosphere.
Good job :clap:
Cool game. It has a nice gameplay, art and sounds. Especially nice idea to make it comic like and have the game play in a 'magazine'.
This is the first game I've played with a difficulty curve that goes down after peaking.
It'll wiggle. It'll jiggle!
Great job!
It overall feels very polished. Beat the normal mode, now going to try in hard mode :)
I did have trouble in one play through where I had the money for one of the bots but it wasn't accepting it when I clicked on it. I had tried the others as well, but it acted as if I didn't have enough.
Inspirations: Space Team, Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes, Wario Ware.
Other than that the game was really unique and interesting, great job!

But seriously, what a well done art style and a clear simple multitask game! Nice work!