Night Job by AdamPhoebe
Ah, the wonders of life. Living! Laughing! Loving! Running an underground organ trafficking scheme with your imaginary friend!... Yeah...
In Night Job you are a surgeon! With your good ol' pal Sock and your illegal adventures!

GET THEM ORGANS FOR THEM MONEY'S

HOLY SHIT THAT'S FUCKING COCAINE DON'T SNORT IT-

PLAY NOW ON ITCH.IO
Fullscreen Highly Recommended - CW: Gore, Murder, Organ Trafficking, Drug Use, and REALLY Strong Language. Don't play this game if you're under 16.
| itch.io | https://adamphoebe.itch.io/night-job-ld52 |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/52/night-job |
Ratings
| Overall | 130th | 3.921⭐ | 21🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 367th | 3.421⭐ | 21🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 367th | 3.368⭐ | 21🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 99th | 4.211⭐ | 21🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 141th | 4.211⭐ | 21🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 129th | 3.789⭐ | 21🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 10th | 4.421⭐ | 21🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 51th | 4.167⭐ | 20🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 1🗳️ | 0🗨️ |
Just a couple nitpicks before I give this a full score. On the operation where I had to remove both kidneys I removed the right one first and then when I went to remove the left it wouldn't let me so I did the right again and the left kidney swapped out with the right one and removed the right one again. Also, in the last operation I removed the heart and nothing happened. I don't know if there was supposed to be an ending and the game just broke, but if there was something else I didn't end up seeing it.
Now for my score:
Overall, I gave it a 5. I thought it was a well put together project, and I'd love to see it developed further.
Humor and mood are such easy categories that seem under utilized in LD. 5's for both of those.
5 on graphics. Again, I feel like a lot went into this. If this was all made in the game jam I feel like I have so far to go. I love seeing stuff like this and just thinking "I will probably never be this good".
I gave audio a 4. I liked the music, but I didn't really think it stood out. Not a bad thing. It does what it's supposed to.
For fun and innovation I did 3 and 2 respectively. I did enjoy the game, but as far as mechanics go I would've liked to see more game play than just "click to do thing". When I think innovation I think innovative mechanics first, then theme second.
Again, I really did like this and would probably play this if it was a full game (or at least watch streamers/YouTuber's react to it :sweat_smile:).
Fun game, gave me a good laugh. I love the sock guy! Also, the vibe with the little screen flickers and the sound effects, great mood! I did lose a night because I took out the wrong kidney, it said the left kidney and I figured the body was on its back, so that means my right, right? Turns out I was wrong :D But after realizing that, it was no biggie!
Interesting concept, and a nice change of pace from all the reaper and farming games!
@rincs thank you so much for-to playing my game!
@kepsert @sliphtrex yeah, the night 2 kidney bug i figured that a minority of players would actually encounter that bug, so i didn't bother to fix it
@reflextions thx!!!!!
I'd love to see an expanded version of this with a little more interactivity, I think the dark theme and weird artistic decisions [along with the writing] go a long way towards finding a darkly comedic balance with a lot of potential for crazy scenarios. Also probably one of the better applications I've seen of film jitter and grain I've seen in an LD game.
There's a very fun dynamic to be had here with the sock character pulling you along into increasingly more strange and dangerous scenarios, and the artstyle of a more palatable 3D body with the most egregious wounds covered by stylized paper or comic art was a really neat idea. I feel like in such a short time you managed to put together a very stylish MVP for something bigger and I feel that there's a great commercial game and story just waiting to be crafted out of this.
I did run into a couple minor bugs but all in all, the only complaint I really have is that there isn't more of it... yet? :eyes: I'm asking for more content because I enjoyed it, and definitely not because there'sasockbehindmeandhehasaguntomyheadohplease.
@noeloskar that was actually a problem on debugging, didn't have time to implement it.
The dialogues are really good.
Good job to you!! :v: