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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Innovation | #21 | 3.886 | 3.886 |
| Game Design | #85 | 3.629 | 3.629 |
| Overall | #112 | 3.471 | 3.471 |
| Audio | #132 | 3.371 | 3.371 |
| Fun | #193 | 3.286 | 3.286 |
| Theme | #219 | 3.571 | 3.571 |
| Graphics | #363 | 3.086 | 3.086 |
Ranked from 35 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
How does your game fit the theme?
A major focus of the game is discovering lore about the company you work at. This lore gets weirder and more surreal as the game progresses, as you "dive deeper" into the rabbithole of conspiracy.
Did you write all the code and made all the assets from scratch?
Basically everything was made from scratch except a telephone sound heard in the background: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcgUnjohpKg
The main menu theme also samples an Amen Break, but the other parts of the song were made by me.
There's also a Terms and Conditions somewhere in the game, which was made by ChatGPT, but I just didn't feel like writing a whole TOS by hand.
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Interesting! I really enjoyed it. At first I missed the distraction part for half of the days but then I got distracted and basically got fired... I replayed it without getting distracted and he offered me a promotion :D Good job! Enjoyed it!
Thank you so much! 🧡
Very great game! I honestly didn't go to much into the actual story and honestly just mainly did the number punching and it was quite fun! From what I got from the story and reading the few messages I could get it was interesting.
Thank you! 🧡
Also you're the 3rd person who's commented that they focused mostly on the job portion. Not holding it against you, just an observation
Unique interpretation of the theme. Good visuals, the office ambiance worked well. I wonder how it would work if it was expanded on to something narrated like There is no Game or Stanley Parable. where the narrator teases you on getting distracted. Good job!
Thank you! 🧡
I have always wanted to do one of those "angry narrator" games, they just seem like they'd be a ton of fun to write. I have started on some before but nothing really materialized
great game! I love the concept
Thank you a lot! 🧡
Nice entry, well polished and executed. Also makes me realise I suck at maths lol
Well done :)
Thanks! 🧡 Sorry about the maths tho
I would never do anything behind my bosses back...
Unless it features a black and green cmd, I just can't resist something like that...
Tho speedrunning multiplication is my thing
note to self: make job portion of game LESS fun next time.
(ty for the comment tho 🧡)
Great game. its a simple and fun gameplay loop, and its a nice take on the theme, diving deeper in concpiracys. also, I really like how the game actually has different endings. (and the concpiracy itself is also pretty funny and good.) had a lot of fun playing this!
Great game. Keep it up♥
Thank you so much! 🧡
I enjoyed the searching for clues part of this game and the audio was great. One suggestion would be to make numbers lower then 5 more likely to appear. Other then that great job. :D
Thanks for the comment! 🧡
As for the "numbers lower than 5" comment, do you mean the individual digits of each number shouldn't be more than 5? (eg: 1324 would be acceptable, 2786 wouldn't)
If so, honestly, I personally liked that bit of difficulty. But I guess I could add a hypothetical "Easy" mode where those kinds of numbers don't appear. Otherwise, if you meant something else, def let me know! I'm curious.
Yeah that's what I meant. :D
Cool Game! but the camera moving side to side is way to fast and i didn't really use it anyways i just listened for audio
Thank you for the compliment! 🧡
Honestly the camera didn't feel that fast for me, but I definitely get where you're coming from. I was aiming for controls like FNAF, but I was operating just on my memory of what the controls felt like, and rewatching some videos...yeah FNAF's camera is a bit slower than mine lol. Probably should've added a sensitivity slider.
I propably played the game wrong since I just did what I was told :D I just did the week and surprisingly I didn't realize I could do multiplications so well in my head with 4 digit numbers :D
There was propably some easter egg hidden and I should have been distracted but I just did the clients.
So sadly not much fun but I learned a new skill that I didn't know I had in me :D <3
Hey! Glad my game helped you learn something about yourself!
But, uh, you know...you really should go back and do the distraction routes...there's 3 extra endings there, and some interesting content. ;)
Maybe I Will... 😂
Incredibly fun game and a unique concept! The only problem i have with this is that it's unclear at first that you can tab out of distractions by pressing space again, but otherwise very well done!
also, my comment for some reason was send thrice, sorry if that clogged up your notifications
Thanks! 🧡
Ah, instructions. A historical struggle for me. I did try to alleviate that a bit with the emails at the start of each day and always having on-screen instructions, but I guess I just figured "intuition is enough so I'll not tell the player about swapping back, they can figure it out". Thanks again for the comment. I've already been making a strong effort to make things clear to the player, so I guess all I can do is...make an even stronger effort to make things clear to the player! :D
The use of the theme is fairly unique, the concept is cool, and the story seems to be fairly in depth. Overall it's a good submission!
Thank you!! 🧡🧡
I like this different take on the theme. I wish I didn't have to do so much math though.
Thanks for the kind words! 🧡
Sorry about the math lol. I wanted something that was just easy enough for most players, but just hard enough so that it doesn't just become completely redundant
Great games, haven't gotten all the endings tho
Thank you! 🧡
Just a note, after you get an ending, you need to refresh the page in order to reset the game and get a different ending. That feature's bugged and I'll issue a fix later todayUpdate: Bug should be all fixed!
but he might leave because of relationship issues kek
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It seems to be a very good game although I haven't fully tested it (so I trust the other comment)
Great game, very polished and I loved the general concept. I think the difficulty of the "work" adjusts to you getting things right or wrong, if so, also very cool. The only thing that got kind of annoying is how quickly the background talking repeats, but it also adds to the monotony.
Thank you for the kind words! 🧡
Also...yeah....the work totally adjusts to you getting things right or wrong....hahahaha... (it actually doesn't but that'd be a brilliant thing to add if I ever expand on this!)
Nooooo you cant just use a calculator insted of your brain.
hahaha calculating go brrrrrrrrrrrr.
ye i used a calculator but it was pretty fun trying to slack off.
good concept
Thanks for the compliment! 🧡
Don't worry, I won't tell M.G.A.T that you used a calculator...mainly cuz theyre a fictional company
Would've loved if this game had multiple endings. But still, had me on my toes, trying to dig through all the secrets. Really liked it!
Edit: Game indeed has several endings, still like it
Thanks for the comment! 🧡
Also thanks for indirectly letting me know that the multiple endings wasn't working properly. That bug should be all patched up now!
Had some problems with understanding the rules but WOW it's really good
Thank you! 🧡