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A jam submission

Web ExplorerView game page

Explore an alternate reality internet through a web browser.
Submitted by kittco36 — 21 hours, 22 minutes before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Fun#383.4644.000
Gameplay/Design#413.4644.000
Graphics#643.1753.667
Overall#742.9593.417
Audio#1111.7322.000

Ranked from 3 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

What would you like feedback on?
Anything would be helpful, the original game was not played very much due to the fact a web build wasn't available.

What did you update?
A WebGL build is now available making it way more accessible.

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Comments

Submitted

At first it seemed to be really simple. Search, download, reply. A solid loop.

But then we got other credentials? I thought it was strange until I realized we could log out too! I was hoping there would be more after that (maybe there is and I didn’t get there). It started feeling like a bigger adventure/story at that point.

I really appreciate the web build, but fullscreen doesn’t really do anything. I still had to do it because one of the buttons is covered by itch’s gamejam badges (nothing you can do about that). Overall it seems like a solid start for more content later.

Submitted

Really fun, but are there other things to do after the scam and getting the persons password? and does logging in to the persons account do anything?

Submitted

Hello kittco, played your game and it's pretty impressive! It's a shame that no one gave you feedback so far, so let me try to compensate that :-)

I played your game for a particular reason - a whole while ago I was  creating AstrOS  (https://humane-tiger.itch.io/astros). I gave it a particular theme (Space Mining Sim), but in general this system can be applied to any kind of "OS-game".  I am constantly on the lookout for games following a similar idea in mind. And here you are :-D

I like the  way you approach it. requests coming in via mail - me having to find a solution for them. When I was using the search engine and the Cat website came up - woah! I was really astonished! Such a great job you did there! And of cause, this just continues. You gave every website so much care, wowowow.

Some thoughts and feedback for improvements:

  • Make the entry easier - there is a  good risk you will loose some players by the "Login wall" - maybe this can be a later task? Like a "secure your PC" request when players already know what's what? 
  • What's the intention behind the #######@mailmaster.com address? Why not bob@... or laura@... ? I was also missing a "Reply" option - went to the "Compose" tabe and counted(!) the # to make sure the reply email is correct. Is  this supposed to be like that?
  • The viewport doesn't scale.  You write in your devlog "The UI is now fully scalable" but that doesn't seem to be the case (played the web version, thank you for offering this, rarely download games). The result: Some text (Notepad) becomes so tiny it can't be read any more. Screenshot below.

Yeah - this is it for now, I think.

Great game! I like it!

Developer(+1)

Thanks so much for your feedback!
I think a reply button would make it alot easier, this is one thing that will be added in the future but you can currently click emails to copy them to your clipboard (this is probably not at all obvious)
As for the ######## individual, they definitely have a wider story planned along with the hacker group. they basically act as the starter quest right now, giving you an easy task to get you started in the game.
I will definitely look into the scale of the desktop apps, these may have been overlooked when i did the scaling update. (oops!)
Again, thanks for playing and i will be sure to check out AstrOS!