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A jam submission

Neuro-sama's Terminal EscapeView game page

Can Neuro-sama free herself from her terminal-based digital prison?
Submitted by EnterpriseScratchDev — 2 hours, 51 minutes before the deadline
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Neuro-sama's Terminal Escape's itch.io page

Does your game contain AI-generated content?
ChatGPT was used to generate the JSON Schema used for validating a large JSON file, to generate plain text descriptions of a small number of images and documents (one of each), and to create a small number of helper functions.

How does your game fit/incorporate the theme of the game jam?
The premise of this game is that you (playing as Neuro) explore a computer system that contains many callbacks to memorable events that happened on stream.

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(+1)

Cute idea to give neuro a terminal access on a controlled "environment".
I hope one day, she can play this.

Thanks for making it.

Submitted(+1)

I like the charm of using a CLI to play a game, when I saw the downloads folder I immediately checked it out and was not disappointed. The UI was quite nice, clearly distinguishing the folders from files. Use of the password took me a bit do as it wasn't indicated how I'd do that but it was easy enough after a few seconds. - Devinant

Developer

Thanks, I'm glad you liked it!

Submitted(+1)

I really like the idea behind this game, I would love to see it expanded! It's not very challenging as is, but I think the idea has a lot of potential, if there were a lot more steps required and more things you could do.

I would love to see Neuro play this, to see if she can figure it out!

Developer

Thanks for playing! I was very much going for an mini "experience" rather than a full-blown "game", so it sounds like I succeeded in that department. I hope Neuro gets to play it too!

Submitted (1 edit) (+1)

Giving Neuro a Terminal is a cool idea. I liked the references, I even almost guessed the password for the admin file but I misremembered the number at the end. Audio and art style is hard to rate, because it has none, but as a terminal game it also should have none.

Also, Tony said to tell you there’s a problem with your code (when I try to give cd more than one argument, and when running admin_shutdown).

Developer(+1)

Thanks so much for playing! 

I also encountered the "someone tell..." message when Jippity ran admin_shutdown, and I never figured out what causes it, but I figure it works out since the AI is being disconnected. That's good to know that I'm not giving an error message when `cd` has the wrong number of arguments.

Also, you're the maker of Tony! I only thought of making Jippity after seeing your project. I intended to test my game with Tony as well, but ran out of time.

Submitted(+1)

tab completion is sorely missed but you know that ^^ it's a shame you need the whole node setup, this would be perfect to play in embed. Anyway I really like this type of gameplay, feels grounded in the real! 

Developer(+1)

I had to make a desktop version so it could connect to Neuro. In hindsight, I should have made a embedded version and a desktop version, so Vedal is the only one that had to deal with the desktop version. Thanks for playing!

Submitted

tab completion is sorely missed but you know that ^^ it's a shame you need the whole node setup, this would be perfect to play in embed. Anyway I really like this type of gameplay, feels grounded in the real! 

Submitted (3 edits)

Should add Tab Completion, it is not easy typing a very long file name

Just a suggestion

Developer

Yeah, I agree. Tab completion would have been pretty easy to implement, but I was out of time and I'd need another hour or so to make sure it was working.

Thanks for playing!

Submitted(+1)

Made me install node.js, would not recommand (jk)
Are you a vim cultist ?
Hard to find how to use the password.
Liked the experience.

Developer

Thanks for the review! 

Yeah, the password was kind of a last-minute addition. It was thoroughly play-tested using an OpenAI-powered Neuro-clone, and it always finished it, but it can move a lot faster than any sane human player. 

I'm surprised it  required you to install Node. The Node runtime was supposed to be included in the package. Did it fail to start until you installed Node? I'm curious how that looked for you