First Day At The Job - A Monsters Story by Meursault

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made by Meursault for LD33 (JAM)
"First Day At The Job - A Monsters Story" is a point and click adventure. You play a monster that has a new job: to scare small kids. You try to make his first day at this job successful.

Information on how to play you will find in the game. I suggest to try out different item combinations.

The game has three major issues:
- no pathfinding for the monster, you have to walk manually around objects
- and you can pick up items without being near them (so walking is acutally not required)
- no sounds

Despite that I wanted to submit it because its the first game I ever finished and my first Ludum Dare.

I used: Unity 5, C#, Visual Studio 2015, Pyxel Edit.

If you have questions or anything: @storymechanik on twitter.

Ratings

Coolness 54% 3
Overall(Jam) 2.93 786
Fun(Jam) 2.81 718
Graphics(Jam) 2.74 823
Humor(Jam) 3.44 213
Innovation(Jam) 2.54 864
Mood(Jam) 2.88 696
Theme(Jam) 3.59 418

Feedback

Jeroen Kappé
24. Aug 2015 · 20:04 UTC
Funny and nice
Perkovec
24. Aug 2015 · 20:16 UTC
Unfortunately couldn't take the oblects and put them into inventary. Nice idea though!
Deadpan-Gamez
24. Aug 2015 · 20:18 UTC
Awesome and Funny... That sheep is damn cute!
mantis
24. Aug 2015 · 23:13 UTC
Cool game :)
Reccy
25. Aug 2015 · 11:22 UTC
Funny little game, the pixel art is quite good too
Razoric
25. Aug 2015 · 12:41 UTC
The game is hilarious. Great job!
Tortoise
25. Aug 2015 · 12:49 UTC
Hehe I was the scariest monster: A teacher
Wish there was audio though, would have made it much better!
icedvariables
25. Aug 2015 · 12:49 UTC
Quirky but fun. Like the pixel art.
Darius
25. Aug 2015 · 12:57 UTC
Funny game !
Coac
25. Aug 2015 · 16:50 UTC
Haha makes me a little nostalgic to point and click games !
It's very fun, well done
zatyka
28. Aug 2015 · 02:31 UTC
I think I figured out all the combinations. I like the premise, and have a soft spot for point and click adventures. There's plenty that could be improved upon, but I still enjoyed playing. Congrats on your first LD. Hope to see you again.
n8b
28. Aug 2015 · 19:45 UTC
Try with unity, can't take the object.
Biruts
31. Aug 2015 · 15:18 UTC
Very nice project guys, i really love it, please check our game too and if you liked it give us a vote. Look for Road to hell and enjoy.
DrZanuff
02. Sep 2015 · 14:37 UTC
Cool game. You could put more actions. I finished with the three main scare options.
🎤 Meursault
11. Sep 2015 · 12:56 UTC
Thank you all for the nice words. It means a lot to me. I learned a lot during development and know about all the weaknesses. The game is clearly missing content because i was struggeling with some other parts of development. But every single positive word here in the comments gave me motivation for continuing game development. Thank you!
UekiShurei
11. Sep 2015 · 13:04 UTC
Reminds me of a particular Flash game where each thing you do produces an ending. It also gives the monster a goofy twist, so congrats!