{"author_link":"\/users\/kavehes","author_name":"kavehes","author_uid":1010546,"comments":[{"id":850019,"author_name":"OP Sidearm","author_uid":"op-sidearm","epoch":1664845251,"text":"The game looks great, I wish I could play it","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":851939,"author_name":"LDJam user 236387","author_uid":"236387","epoch":1664861127,"text":"super fun!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":851949,"author_name":"LDJam user 237623","author_uid":"237623","epoch":1664861202,"text":"Had a good time playing","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":851956,"author_name":"LDJam user 97711","author_uid":"97711","epoch":1664861285,"text":"Loved this! the art was superb. The gameplay was cute and the detail on the monkey was amazing. cool use of the crank mechanic too! I'll admit the button mashing mud was slightly frustrating at times, but the level design was really fun regardless. Great job!!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":856860,"author_name":"ChillerTyp","author_uid":"chillertyp","epoch":1664895442,"text":"I just gave you 5 stars for the freaking cool graphics.","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":857041,"author_name":"Ussendayoo","author_uid":"ussendayoo","epoch":1664896304,"text":"What a great idea ! Love the art but couldn't play it i'm so sad","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":858135,"author_name":"Excy","author_uid":"excy","epoch":1664902216,"text":"Like others have said here I'm sad I can't play it but I have to give you 5 stars for art, you've done an incredible job with the 1bit palette.\n\nI'm inexperienced with playdate but forgive the silly question - is it feasible to port it to PC at all?","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":859401,"author_name":"Hydezeke","author_uid":"hydezeke","epoch":1664908439,"text":"Love love love the art style so much...great monkey animation and such nice polish in general. I had to play it on emulator (have yet to receive my playdate) but using the crank physically must be really fun!","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":880935,"author_name":"chromaphase","author_uid":"chromaphase","epoch":1665269662,"text":"Hey, I dont have the playdate but it seems very interesting, thanks to talk about it ! I could only see your video but the graphics looks really cool, as well as the game play.","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":883658,"author_name":"ChrisWiseman","author_uid":"chriswiseman","epoch":1665392234,"text":"Looks really fun, wish I could play it, sad face :((","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":893702,"author_name":"GodDoesPlayDice","author_uid":"goddoesplaydice","epoch":1666385256,"text":"Cannot play but I'm pretty sure that it's cool. 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Why ? Because this was a heist for a very valuable wind-up statue that's sadly very cursed and starts to ring every 10 seconds so you better crank it before it raises the alarm !!\n\n![playdate-20221004-000820.png](\/\/\/raw\/239\/2\/z\/513eb.png)\n\n![playdate-20221004-001441.png](\/\/\/raw\/239\/2\/z\/5148a.png)\n\nAs for the Jam itself, it was a very interesting experience to work outside of my usual tools and for a specific system. The idea for the game was to create a game where you would need to crank every 10 seconds, and make possible to focus so much on the game part of the screen that you forget to check the monkey. Really curious to see how the game will work with real players now and if this was successfull.\n\nSome features are missing that I'll probably add post compo and if possible I would really like to add a \"Speedrun\" mode as I had that in mind when making the diffrent levels. Also I'm sorry, all the music you get is a 10 second loops because I didn't find the time to improve it :\/\n\nIt was my first time using LDtK as well and I must admit that it is a wonderful tool for jam as it speeds up the ability to create levels and allowed me to have 20-ish levels of varying quality.\n\nEnjoy the game if you happen to be able to play it :)\n\nhttps:\/\/youtu.be\/6Yr5DvxxmgI","comments":11,"comments-timestamp":"2022-10-21T20:47:36Z","created":"2022-10-02T18:38:19Z","files":[],"files-timestamp":0,"grade":{"grade-01":15,"grade-02":15,"grade-03":15,"grade-04":15,"grade-05":17,"grade-06":14,"grade-07":13,"grade-08":14},"id":305708,"love":0,"magic":{"cool":78.044276477581,"feedback":5,"given":8.375,"grade":14.75,"grade-01-average":4,"grade-01-result":125,"grade-02-average":4,"grade-02-result":115,"grade-03-average":4.192,"grade-03-result":40,"grade-04-average":4.231,"grade-04-result":91,"grade-05-average":4.7,"grade-05-result":12,"grade-06-average":4.125,"grade-06-result":64,"grade-07-average":4,"grade-08-average":4.292,"grade-08-result":43,"smart":-14.134515922099},"meta":{"author":[10546],"cover":"\/\/\/content\/239\/2\/z\/51eab.png","link-01":"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/drive\/folders\/1LqG0veh0b06UW4nRIEhngSvgtI8HgsGq?usp=sharing","link-01-tag":[50],"link-02":"https:\/\/kavehes.itch.io\/a-simple-job","link-02-tag":[262150]},"meta-timestamp":"2026-04-18T21:47:52Z","modified":"2026-04-18T21:47:52Z","name":"A Simple Job","node-timestamp":"2022-10-04T14:16:04Z","parent":296586,"parents":[1,5,9,296586],"path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/51\/a-simple-job","published":"2022-10-03T22:21:59Z","scope":"public","slug":"a-simple-job","subsubtype":"jam","subtype":"game","type":"item","version":958302},"text":"Hello fellow jammers,\n\n![playdate-20221004-001231.gif](\/\/\/raw\/239\/2\/z\/5145a.gif)\n\nFirst of all, this is a game made for the Playdate console, meaning that unless you have the console yourself or the SDK on your computer, testing won't be possible as far as I know.\n\n![playdate-20221004-000657.png](\/\/\/raw\/239\/2\/z\/513ca.png)\n\n![playdate-20221004-000755.png](\/\/\/raw\/239\/2\/z\/513e5.png)\n\nNow then, A Simple Job is a very simple tile based game with keys, doors and magic portal and you need to go through several floors in order to escape from a skyscrapper. Why ? Because this was a heist for a very valuable wind-up statue that's sadly very cursed and starts to ring every 10 seconds so you better crank it before it raises the alarm !!\n\n![playdate-20221004-000820.png](\/\/\/raw\/239\/2\/z\/513eb.png)\n\n![playdate-20221004-001441.png](\/\/\/raw\/239\/2\/z\/5148a.png)\n\nAs for the Jam itself, it was a very interesting experience to work outside of my usual tools and for a specific system. The idea for the game was to create a game where you would need to crank every 10 seconds, and make possible to focus so much on the game part of the screen that you forget to check the monkey. Really curious to see how the game will work with real players now and if this was successfull.\n\nSome features are missing that I'll probably add post compo and if possible I would really like to add a \"Speedrun\" mode as I had that in mind when making the diffrent levels. 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