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The Inglorious Yet Highly Stimulating Life of an Underpaid Graduate Student 2 by Kyle Farwell

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made by Kyle Farwell for Ludum Dare 50 (JAM)

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Some say there are only three certainties in life: life, death, and an overused trope. But we're here to tell you about a fourth: Losing your sanity at a dead end tech support job.

Welcome to The Inglorious Yet Highly Stimulating Life of a ~~Corporate Drone~~ ~~An Underpaid Graduate Student~~ An Alcoholic Axolotl

Also known as The Inglorious Yet Highly Stimulating Life of a An Underpaid Graduate Student 2, or TIYHSLOAUGS2

You are an Axolotl at his last-chance job. As a Customer Synergy Specialist at MegaCorp Industries, you answer all the questions for all their highly valued customers. Hopefully this job sticks for you, but you know better. But maybe you can delay the inevitable, and keep yourself from falling back on the bottle...

A Gelato Labs Production for Ludum Dare 50

The Gelato Labs "G-Team" for LD50 is:

Programming:

Kyle Farwell (kfarwell), Matthew Petry (fireTwoOneNine)

Art:

Fuugul, Hirokun, Maly

Music and Sound:

Alice Dalton (AliceVibes)

Voice Acting:

Jared Kelly (J A R F), Alice Dalton (AliceVibes), Matthew Petry (fireTwoOneNine)

Writing:

Ryan Refcio, Matthew Petry (fireTwoOneNine), Kyle Farwell (kfarwell)

Link https://gelatolabs.itch.io/the-inglorious-yet-highly-stimulating-life-of-an-underpaid-graduate-student-2
Link https://gelatolabs.itch.io/the-inglorious-yet-highly-stimulating-life-of-an-underpaid-graduate-student-2
Link https://gelatolabs.itch.io/the-inglorious-yet-highly-stimulating-life-of-an-underpaid-graduate-student-2
Original URL https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/50/the-inglorious-yet-highly-stimulating-life-of-an-underpaid-graduate-student-2

Ratings

Overall 224th 3.92⭐ 27🧑‍⚖️
Fun 537th 3.52⭐ 27🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 165th 3.86⭐ 27🧑‍⚖️
Theme 503th 3.82⭐ 27🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 134th 4.4⭐ 27🧑‍⚖️
Audio 164th 3.96⭐ 27🧑‍⚖️
Humor 38th 4.327⭐ 28🧑‍⚖️
Mood 189th 4⭐ 26🧑‍⚖️
Given 17🗳️ 28🗨️

Feedback

TheMentalSheep
05. Apr 2022 · 02:20 UTC
Leaving this comment before I actually download and rate the game but I was having an issue getting the game to run with the HTML5 version on both chrome and edge browser i'm getting an error reading "Error: Uncaught RangeError: Maximum call stack size exceeded (see JavaScript console for details)"
firetwoonenine
05. Apr 2022 · 02:27 UTC
@thementalsheep yea, we're realizing RenpyWeb is full of bugs, unfortunately. We're removing the web build.
Stenblood
05. Apr 2022 · 02:31 UTC
OK , THAT WAS VERY COOL
TheMentalSheep
05. Apr 2022 · 02:48 UTC
Omg that was great , I work as an IT intern and it was super relatable. I lasted only a few days before I got reunited with some old friends. The humor was great and the game play was smooth and polished well done!!!
cactusdan
05. Apr 2022 · 02:52 UTC
the best game that i have ever played i loved the sus background
DoctorBilbo
05. Apr 2022 · 02:58 UTC
Awesome game! I really liked the visual novel style and the witty humor
Adrien Tremblay
05. Apr 2022 · 05:46 UTC
Very cool! Liked the graphics. Gameplay did get a bit boring for me however (maybe that's just me)
teenythanos
05. Apr 2022 · 05:49 UTC
As a current grad student, this made me laugh! I think the idea is great, and I love that you got to choose your ringtone. I did have a serious audio issue with the "WOOOOOO" at the end of a successful day--if mixed better, that could have been great, but as it was, it was just too much audio information.

The art is the perfect amount of weird and great! The detail in the background is fantastic.
DecadeDecaf
05. Apr 2022 · 05:54 UTC
This was an extremely good game!! I ended up seeing some repeats, but the solutions and writing for what DID exist was astonishing. Loved the voice acting, especially the "WOOOOOOO AHA NICE" when you get a perfect day.

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natpat
05. Apr 2022 · 05:57 UTC
Some of that made me laugh out loud, very funny! I got stuck on the same few calls repeatedly though - not sure how many there are. I kept losing sanity as well - I guess that's just what happens in IT support? I made it 25 calls. Fun entry!
firetwoonenine
05. Apr 2022 · 06:06 UTC
@thementalsheep @cactusdan @doctorbilbo @adrien-tremblay @decadedecaf Thanks for all the positive feedback! <3

@teenythanos Thanks for the kind words. Yea... the "woo" sound is too loud, to put it mildly. Once of those things that gets missed when we're rushing to finish on time. I guess I'll excuse it as making the player feel just like our axolotl friend does throughout the game. ;)

@natpat There are 14 possible calls you can receive. Unfortunately, the problem of repeats isn't just you -- the RNG that Ren'Py uses seems to pick favorites. I guess real tech support gets repeats like that too!
🎤 Kyle Farwell
05. Apr 2022 · 06:36 UTC
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO NICE
Roitchie
05. Apr 2022 · 19:15 UTC
Really enjoyed this. One of my favourite takes on the theme yet. Very funny and the tone and mood was on point.
TheGameOverGuy
05. Apr 2022 · 19:20 UTC
Great work, I liked the text input idea a lot. Sometimes it was getting a bit confusing with how the input was supposed to be when I first started, but after a while I got used to it.

Keep it up!
ZacharyPinkham
05. Apr 2022 · 21:51 UTC
Really great stuff! Love the concept and the way it was executed. This one hits close to home to those of us who have had to give any customer support over the phone, awesome work!
sega23333
06. Apr 2022 · 07:51 UTC
well really well done
SofiGnedova
06. Apr 2022 · 18:04 UTC
Divine art! I love stories like this about ordinary people. The gameplay is interesting, but it's boring to play for a long time :c
I would love to see a continuation of this project!
kuami6
06. Apr 2022 · 18:16 UTC
The art style was beautiful, and good job on the voice acting :)
Allax
06. Apr 2022 · 18:17 UTC
interesting idea, but only for those who know English
Yaen
07. Apr 2022 · 00:17 UTC
This was so cute and funny, I loved it. You have a great idea here and a nice sense of humor. Also that buff axolotl is something else hahaha.
Jirushi
07. Apr 2022 · 00:19 UTC
Funny, looks amazing, cool mechanic, what can I say!
ardorugus
07. Apr 2022 · 22:25 UTC
Felt hard to type, at first. Then got some cool jokes and the cunning spirit of support guy! Cool idea, though tutorial could be much faster. Thanks for the entry!
LDJam user 120213
08. Apr 2022 · 00:48 UTC
I enjoyed it, if I have any feedback overall i'd say the intro is just too long and there's too much of a delay between calls, made it take a LOT longer than playing it should have, the actual calls and responses were great though. I got a lot of duplicates, it seems like if you refer to sales maybe it bugs (or it's intended) that you get that exact same caller back over and over?
TyronePemberton
10. Apr 2022 · 15:23 UTC
It is worth getting used to it, as it is customary that a graduate student receives little. While I aspired to be a graduate student in college and did all the homework myself, a friend of mine took the subject of "personal strengths" for example, used https://studymoose.com/free-essays/personal-strengths as an example and copied. However, now he receives more than 3 times the salary and enjoys the work. Life is very strange and incomprehensible thing. I do not understand...
gbgames
21. Apr 2022 · 17:22 UTC
I used to work in tech support. This game made me laugh and remember some of the calls I once got.

I survived 20 calls.

I had trouble figuring out what commands or sequence of words would work, but after a bit I think I got the hang of it, although I still wasn't sure what to do with a broken mouse.

The graphics were well done. I liked the echo the mechanical keyboard sound effects were making as I typed on my own mechanical keyboard. B-)

I found that hitting certain shortcut keys like "F" for fullscreen would trigger if the caller hung up while I was typing, resulting in a jarring change in window dimensions. I also accidentally opened the accessibility menu a few times.

I got a perfect performance review, and the screaming was very loud and made me glad no one else was home when I was playing.
Jupiter_Hadley
02. May 2022 · 13:19 UTC
Really funny and well written game! I included it in my Ludum Dare compilation video series, if you’d like to take a look. :) https://youtu.be/QO-q-Xmgol0
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