Just press the button by Harksa

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made by Harksa for Ludum Dare 51 (JAM)

Description

Welcome to Button Press Corporation, your new ecologically-conscious, profit-driven, first family-friendly working environment. It's your first day, and in these times of crisis, how lucky should you feel to be our employee. We hope you follow our state-of-the-art training, so as to turn you into a happy, useful, and above all productive member of our noble company. Remember : there is no such thing as stupid work.

Screenshots

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How to play

Simple WASD to move around and space to jump, if you ever wanted to jump. You don't need to jump, but you can, but why would you ?

Thanks

My friend Zalfos with his sexy voice. No, he doesn't have an OnlyAdmirators account.

This was again a simple little game to create. Something about a little bit more of a narative this time. Not my cup of tea so yeah my friend helped me here for the dialogs. Maybe one day I'll be able to write somewhat of a story ! Hope you enjoy it as much as I enjoyed creating it :smile:

Edit

I'm very aware about some players having the game always turn on the right. I think it's a Firefox issue (not sure). I tried to correct it , but to no avail and I simply broke my own code trying to do so. I should have simply created a windows build. I'm very sorry for the inconvenience :(

Ratings

Overall 773th 3.326⭐ 25🧑‍⚖️
Fun 576th 3.391⭐ 25🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 644th 3.239⭐ 25🧑‍⚖️
Humor 81th 4⭐ 25🧑‍⚖️
Given 18🗳️ 27🗨️

Feedback

Usenrame
04. Oct 2022 · 00:05 UTC
I was not pressing this button!
polipyc
09. Oct 2022 · 15:04 UTC
Funny game, one of the best I played on this jam, thanks
jk5000
09. Oct 2022 · 15:09 UTC
I love the idea and the voice over. The instruction was a bit unclear, and it took me some times to understand exactly what I was suppose to do. And I was not able to press the yellow button for some reason in the right way. But anyway a good game. Well done.
Rolly
09. Oct 2022 · 15:10 UTC
Nice storytelling, nice humor!

The constant rotating to the right was really bugging me, I guess it is not intended? (Probably missing some constraints on your rigidbody to prevent that).

It could have gone a bit crazier, with clicking color combinations, or clicking the correct button in the dark. :p

Nice entry!
MrBamboo
09. Oct 2022 · 15:11 UTC
Loool ! I loved the humor. It took me 2~3 shots to understand how to press the light button. I did it :)
🎤 Harksa
09. Oct 2022 · 15:13 UTC
@rolly Thanks for the feedback. You're not the only one telling me about that constant rotation. I don't have the problem and I'm not getting why it is happening. I'll search for it though.
Thanks for your feedback !
sulfur cretin
09. Oct 2022 · 15:17 UTC
Pretty good time, but the checkpoints don't seem to work. Once I clicked retry the color the narrator said was always wrong.
Jac-Man
09. Oct 2022 · 15:19 UTC
Really fun story !
stmatn
09. Oct 2022 · 15:28 UTC
This was a really nice game! One thing that drove me mad was that the view kept slowly turning to the right, while the game was focussed, so after each klick I hit escape. That mede it playable as long as the mousecursor was in the screen area of the game. Once it left, I obviously lost control. I hope this is a problem only I encounter. If the turning was intended, please remove it, since it is only annoying and drove just short of quitting. Besides that, it is quite fun and until the end I could not predict if there really wasn't anything scary in the dark or if there would be a jumpscare at the end. But I will not spoil it for the other people here ;) Nice job!
🎤 Harksa
09. Oct 2022 · 16:15 UTC
@stmatn No it wasn't intended at all :slight_frown: I don't really get why it is doing that but I'm looking into it
stmatn
09. Oct 2022 · 18:22 UTC
@harksa Don't worry about it. It seems that other people have the same problem and I noticed it on multiple other games now. It seems to be a problem with either Firefox or the web player. I suspect that you wont be able to solve that. Just so you know it: I did not let that influence my rating of your game, anyway ;)
ArmenBalian
10. Oct 2022 · 16:52 UTC
Really fun ahah it remember of The Stanley Parable
3ncryp73d
17. Oct 2022 · 20:36 UTC
It's cool to see that the game keeps you going with such a stupid task. I feel like you could move to the slightly more advanced presses a little faster or give the player something to do, 10 seconds is a bit of time so sometimes the pacing is a bit slow.

I think your supervisor telling you stories also helps keeping it interesting.

Having a fullscreen option would be cool :)
hadri
17. Oct 2022 · 20:40 UTC
Hahaha nice game, a shame I don't have a mouse nor a qwerty keyboard otherwise I would have made into the highscores!
On Firefox (105 for linux) and no problem with hqving to turn always to the right.
Ian DeJong
18. Oct 2022 · 04:16 UTC
I found a bug where, if you press the correct button immediately after the time runs out it will start from 0 and count infinitely into the negatives on your next try. There were also some times when the timer would not count down until you pressed a button and other times when I was sure I pressed the right button but it still failed me anyway. Those issues, combined with the constant turning, made the game too difficult to play so I unfortunately didn't finish it. I really like the concept though.
themorfeus
18. Oct 2022 · 20:14 UTC
I really love these types of games, and this one is wonderfully executed for a jam! I would love to see this more fleshed out into a full game
aligator
18. Oct 2022 · 20:17 UTC
I DID IT!
This is a very funny playthrough. Thanks to you and your friend for that :-)
One time I got a bug where after a reset the buttons did not reset to the correct constellation. (just after it gets dark). But luckily the BIG RED button, I needed was still there^^

Well done!
LuckyFeathers
18. Oct 2022 · 20:29 UTC
That's really cool! I had the same idea and made a game about just pressing a button! It's awesome how much you can do with a game that's literally just about pressing a button! Your take was a bit different than mine though. Feels a bit like The Stanley Parable in some ways, breaking the 4th wall and all that. I'm really glad you added checkpoints, otherwise there's no way I would have finished it :D For some reason I couldn't move right? Like, the D button didn't work. Was that intentional? It was really annoying! Love that you can jump for no reason! :D
MaximeG
21. Oct 2022 · 19:25 UTC
I loved to be driven by a voice to progress in a game!