{"author_link":"\/author\/kylefarwell\/","author_name":"Gelato Labs","author_uid":"55003","comments":[{"author_name":"Eingya","author_uid":"55955","time":"Aug 25, 2015 @ 1:36am","epoch":1440466260,"text":"The game sorta of hung up on me, i was stuck on an endless telephone loop while notifications came from everywhere (also some choices sometimes don't work), I surely don't remember my Undergrad life being so exciting.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>From the small portion of the game I saw though it is a cool idea."},{"author_name":"jirrev","author_uid":"56675","time":"Aug 25, 2015 @ 1:39am","epoch":1440466440,"text":"Nice choice of subject, nobody likes those call-center people. The only problem I have is that requests come in faster than I can read them from time to time, and in other times I wait for minutes where nothing happens. Perhaps a bit too random in this case."},{"author_name":"ChosenCharacter","author_uid":"21666","time":"Aug 25, 2015 @ 2:27am","epoch":1440469320,"text":"God. The sounds. They are so annoying!\r<br\/>\r<br\/>And that's the point c:\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Now I get why I shouldn't go into IT."},{"author_name":"sararyCow","author_uid":"50072","time":"Aug 25, 2015 @ 2:56am","epoch":1440471060,"text":"A pretty addicting game, I can't stop to close tickets! :D This is a good reflection of call-center reality, very insteresting."},{"author_name":"Muush","author_uid":"40819","time":"Aug 25, 2015 @ 9:46am","epoch":1440495660,"text":"Good game"},{"author_name":"Warxen","author_uid":"57675","time":"Aug 25, 2015 @ 1:18pm","epoch":1440508380,"text":"I'd better reboot my mousepad and it worked! Nice game, only thing that annoyed me a bit was that I got called while i was on the phone with someone. Keep it up."},{"author_name":"jphelps","author_uid":"58096","time":"Aug 26, 2015 @ 3:29am","epoch":1440559440,"text":"great job. very origional"},{"author_name":"m3_on","author_uid":"50133","time":"Aug 26, 2015 @ 3:31am","epoch":1440559560,"text":"Haha, some of the replies were pretty good."},{"author_name":"glerikud","author_uid":"55555","time":"Aug 26, 2015 @ 12:27pm","epoch":1440591720,"text":"This game is such a good representation, that I feel like saying it's fun, would mean tech support is fun. Which clearly is (not). So I'll just say it's one of my favourites this LD! You are truly a monster"},{"author_name":"MrMordem","author_uid":"37532","time":"Aug 26, 2015 @ 4:31pm","epoch":1440606360,"text":"IT simulator in a nutshell :\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Get a call for having a computer imploded\r<br\/>Ask if the user tried to turn it on and off again\r<br\/>User tells he can't find the power button\r<br\/>Tells user to install gentoo\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Seriously though this was fun, a bit far from the theme imo, but still fits in a way :) also the tickets and calls may come a bit too fast"},{"author_name":"collaboration","author_uid":"57976","time":"Aug 27, 2015 @ 11:48am","epoch":1440675780,"text":"Dude, I just love it! 5\/5 soooo cool."},{"author_name":"Nurbs","author_uid":"3938","time":"Sep 6, 2015 @ 3:22am","epoch":1441509420,"text":"This game is too realistic and should be kept away from children"},{"author_name":"mzmiric5","author_uid":"35168","time":"Sep 14, 2015 @ 12:04am","epoch":1442188740,"text":"Very fun and annoying game :D loved it. I really liked the aspects of being able to upgrade your workplace and the tech. I am not sure how some of the options work but still fun trying to catch up with those constant notifications. Oh and yeah the sounds are killing me :P"},{"author_name":"Jupiter_Hadley","author_uid":"27744","time":"Oct 8, 2015 @ 5:22pm","epoch":1444324620,"text":"Fun, addictive game. I included it in part 31 of my Ludum Dare 33 Compilation video series, if you would like to take a look :) https:\/\/youtu.be\/ZV7CU8j_StI"},{"author_name":"kfarwell","author_uid":"55003","time":"Oct 28, 2015 @ 3:26am","epoch":1446002460,"text":"Jupiter_Hadley: install gentoo\r<br\/>\r<br\/>nice video :)"}],"images":["ld33\/55003-ea07bd3ad84a5c335fa3fa8612df01e6.jpg","ld33\/55003-c6bfe62dfbfe2333d4ba3c881b6e3ae4.jpg","ld33\/55003-264f3e37c0bc46d2064a81ad34e126cb.jpg","ld33\/55003-6938109d79eec63e2145817a64efb334.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"https:\/\/gelatolabs.xyz\/tiyhsloaugs\/","text":"Homepage"},{"url":"https:\/\/gelatolabs.xyz\/tiyhsloaugs\/source.tar.gz","text":"Source"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"8145","g_author":"55003","g_event":"LD33","g_eventkey":"29","g_subevent":"JAM","g_urlkey":"8178","g_title":"The Inglorious Yet Highly Stimulating Life of an U","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"378","g_commentcount":"15","g_site2_node_id":"0","g_hide":"N","g_has_icon":"Y","g_rqueue":"0","g_random":"0"},"nds":[],"node":null,"orig_images":["http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/479518\/55003-shot0-1440462345.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/479518\/55003-shot1-1440462345.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/479518\/55003-shot2-1440462345.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/479518\/55003-shot3-1440462345.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"If the computer blue screens as soon as you start, your browser is blocking third party cookies in the iframe. Unblock them or play the game directly at http:\/\/ld33.kfarwell.org\/game\/\r\n\r\nInspired by our net connections cutting out right after the theme was announced and fun times with ISPs' phone support, we made a game where you provide terrible support to innocent civilians for sweet cash to buy more phones on ePay. You monster.\r\n\r\nCode is distributed under the ISC license, and graphics under the CC BY license. See COPYING for details.\r\n\r\nhttp:\/\/kfarwell.org\/projects\/the_inglorious_yet_highly_stimulating_life_of_an_underpaid_graduate_student\/\r\nhttp:\/\/kfarwell.itch.io\/the-inglorious-yet-highly-stimulating-life-of-an-underpaid-graduate-student","title":"The Inglorious Yet Highly Stimulating Life of an Underpaid Graduate Student"}