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GitHub repository URL
https://github.com/RhineQueen/GameOff-Secrets
Game description
Dive into a company's files as you race against time to prevent the crash of a research station. This puzzle typing game will put you in the high pressure shoes of a corporate data recovery technician; watch the clock, check your manual, and just don't pay too much attention to those confidential company secrets.
Theme interpretation
I'm a big fan of language, codes, ciphers, ARGs, and when I was a kid I had a lot of edutainment games, including typing. Combining those seemed a solid way to convey a short tale of espionage, lies, theft, and obfuscation. All kind of secrets that get partially kept secret from the player through ARG like text decoding puzzles. This gave me an effective way to provide some interesting to solve secrets in a way that was achievable to my beginner programming skills.
Since my programmer friend got busy halfway through, the real speedrun was me finishing this. XD
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I had fun with this! I don't really understand the ending I got or if there was more to it, but the aesthetic and sound design was fantastic.
Either I missed something, or the game is lacking an ending? I liked the concept, but once I finished the game I got stuck in a terminal.
This was a neat little experience. Good use of ambient sounds, too. I couldn't make out what was said after getting 100%. It looked something like "Perfect Signal! Undying M????". It seemed like the game was still waiting for input, but I couldn't figure out what to do at that point, so I figured it was the end.
Nice work on this!
Unfortunately I only got a black screen. Pressing enter made a sound but that’s it. I am on Chrome/OSX.
Between the two versions you have one playable game - except then. I'm pretty sure I figured out how to responde to ((ContVal)) in red and still it wasn't liking my answer. The browser gives me the manual when I hit tab, but I can't really see the rest of the screen. In the windows version Tab crashes or exits the game. Open to giving it another go with fixes
broken in web browsers (game doesnt fit on screen, and worse the 'info book' UI overlays the main info so cant play), and the text is practically unreadable - I'd like to try after its been fixed, but currently literally unplayable. Looks like its a bug with trying to detecting screen size but not working in browsers (firefox latest)
I really liked this. I come from a cyber security/software engineering background so this felt really cool. I was able to get to 100% in the blue bar but I was completely lost on what to do after that. Good stuff though. It was fun to figure out the right thing to type.