(Revised) A robot doctor sim where you surgically get rid of those pesky glitches.
Okay, with the new version, the game now works fine and I was able to play it normally!
This was a nice, tranquil game. The gameplay requires you to not only look closely at files, but make sure you don't accidentally skip any folders. When I was doing it right, it put me in a sort of "flow state", just carefully removing glitch after glitch. I sort of felt like a machine, similarly to the actual machines you're removing the glitches from in the first place. This gameplay loop was nice and satisfying for me.
I was right in saying there was a lot here. Although it is really impressive how much playtime this game has...... oh goodness gracious. The later levels take FOREVER to beat. I'm fine with long levels, but I feel like the last couple could've been at least 15% shorter.
Also, at one point I missed a single glitch inside a folder inside a folder inside a folder (folderception) and had to spend minutes backtracking through them all just to find it. I think a great way to fix this would be to have the folder make a frowny face if it has a glitch somewhere inside of it, even if the glitch is within another folder inside it. That might cause a couple problems if there's not any glitches inside the folder when it spawns, though.
Another idea is to have a mechanic where you can right-click to mark folders, maybe by placing a flag on them like Minesweeper. After searching a folder's contents, you put a flag on it to let yourself know that you've already searched it. That'd probably work a lot better, and might make the game a little more relaxing.
Anyways, I really liked the writing and the overall message of accepting yourself for who you are. The music was great as well; really helped the game feel as tranquil as it is.
All the art in the game was really pretty, especially the background for the whole game. The gradient coloring on the tiles is really nice to look at, and all the computer-y popups are super charming.
Thank you for giving this game a second try and letting me know abt the bugs!! I’ll be sure to take care of that stuff next time I make a game!!
I do agree with you in that the later levels are too long. Originally I was planning on adding power ups and such to help speed things up toward the end but ran out of time :/
Anyways thanks for playing!! And thank you very much for all the feedback!!
A robot doctor sim where you surgically get rid of those pesky glitches.
There's a lot here. The writing seems great, there's a ton of really unique gameplay, multiple difficulties, beautiful artwork... if I played this without any distractions, I bet this would easily be one of my favorites.
I'm really sorry, but I just couldn't play much of this one. It's nothing to do with the gameplay or anything, though.
This game runs at forced full-screen and at an uncapped framerate, which is EXTREMELY unoptimized, and turns my computer into a loud unstable jet engine when I try to play it for more than a minute. Because of this, my experience was massively hindered.
At one point in a later level (one with 80 glitched files), I experienced a glitch where a file got stuck on the mouse cursor and I couldn't get it off. I pressed the back button at the top left, which DID remove the file from the cursor, but now I couldn't interact with anything. After a moment I decided to pause and return to the title screen, and when I went back into the game, I was pleasantly surprised to find that not only had the game saved my progress, but the glitch was now fixed and I could interact again.
By that point, though, the loud high-pitched whirring from my computer genuinely became too maddening and I had to quickly stop.
If a small patch to optimize this game releases, I'd absolutely love to give this game a fair shot, but as of right now I literally can't hear the nice music playing in the game because my computer's whirring is infinitely louder.
Oh no!! I’m so sorry that that happened!! If you don’t mind me asking could you tell me if you’re using a Windows, Linux, or a Mac? I have had problems with Windows before and thought I fixed it this time but I guess probably not :(
the game also should not be running in forced full screen nor did it do so when I was testing but I’ll also check that out!! Though, I did not know about capping frame rates so thank you for bringing that to my attention!!
I’ll try and see if I can get it all patched later today hopefully, but thank you very much for attempting to play this game! And I do want to apologize once more for the bugs and lack of optimization!!
hello again!! thank you for your patience!! I spent this morning doing some quick bug fixes and then testing it out on my old hp laptop and the game seems to be running a lot smoother now!! So I'm hoping it works out for you too!!
And if you do decide to play the game again then just trashing the old one and downloading the new optimized download should keep your progress (or at least it did on my hp laptop)! Anyways thank you again for bringing the bugs to my attention and for giving this little silly game a shot even if it is a bit poorly made!!
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(Revised) A robot doctor sim where you surgically get rid of those pesky glitches.
Okay, with the new version, the game now works fine and I was able to play it normally!
This was a nice, tranquil game. The gameplay requires you to not only look closely at files, but make sure you don't accidentally skip any folders. When I was doing it right, it put me in a sort of "flow state", just carefully removing glitch after glitch. I sort of felt like a machine, similarly to the actual machines you're removing the glitches from in the first place. This gameplay loop was nice and satisfying for me.
I was right in saying there was a lot here. Although it is really impressive how much playtime this game has...... oh goodness gracious. The later levels take FOREVER to beat. I'm fine with long levels, but I feel like the last couple could've been at least 15% shorter.
Also, at one point I missed a single glitch inside a folder inside a folder inside a folder (folderception) and had to spend minutes backtracking through them all just to find it. I think a great way to fix this would be to have the folder make a frowny face if it has a glitch somewhere inside of it, even if the glitch is within another folder inside it. That might cause a couple problems if there's not any glitches inside the folder when it spawns, though.
Another idea is to have a mechanic where you can right-click to mark folders, maybe by placing a flag on them like Minesweeper. After searching a folder's contents, you put a flag on it to let yourself know that you've already searched it. That'd probably work a lot better, and might make the game a little more relaxing.
Anyways, I really liked the writing and the overall message of accepting yourself for who you are. The music was great as well; really helped the game feel as tranquil as it is.
All the art in the game was really pretty, especially the background for the whole game. The gradient coloring on the tiles is really nice to look at, and all the computer-y popups are super charming.
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sorry for a bit of a late reply!!
Thank you for giving this game a second try and letting me know abt the bugs!! I’ll be sure to take care of that stuff next time I make a game!!
I do agree with you in that the later levels are too long. Originally I was planning on adding power ups and such to help speed things up toward the end but ran out of time :/
Anyways thanks for playing!! And thank you very much for all the feedback!!
A robot doctor sim where you surgically get rid of those pesky glitches.
There's a lot here. The writing seems great, there's a ton of really unique gameplay, multiple difficulties, beautiful artwork... if I played this without any distractions, I bet this would easily be one of my favorites.
I'm really sorry, but I just couldn't play much of this one. It's nothing to do with the gameplay or anything, though.
This game runs at forced full-screen and at an uncapped framerate, which is EXTREMELY unoptimized, and turns my computer into a loud unstable jet engine when I try to play it for more than a minute. Because of this, my experience was massively hindered.
At one point in a later level (one with 80 glitched files), I experienced a glitch where a file got stuck on the mouse cursor and I couldn't get it off. I pressed the back button at the top left, which DID remove the file from the cursor, but now I couldn't interact with anything. After a moment I decided to pause and return to the title screen, and when I went back into the game, I was pleasantly surprised to find that not only had the game saved my progress, but the glitch was now fixed and I could interact again.
By that point, though, the loud high-pitched whirring from my computer genuinely became too maddening and I had to quickly stop.
If a small patch to optimize this game releases, I'd absolutely love to give this game a fair shot, but as of right now I literally can't hear the nice music playing in the game because my computer's whirring is infinitely louder.
Oh no!! I’m so sorry that that happened!! If you don’t mind me asking could you tell me if you’re using a Windows, Linux, or a Mac? I have had problems with Windows before and thought I fixed it this time but I guess probably not :(
the game also should not be running in forced full screen nor did it do so when I was testing but I’ll also check that out!! Though, I did not know about capping frame rates so thank you for bringing that to my attention!!
I’ll try and see if I can get it all patched later today hopefully, but thank you very much for attempting to play this game! And I do want to apologize once more for the bugs and lack of optimization!!
It's okay, I'm glad you're willing to fix this. I'm using a Windows computer.
hello again!! thank you for your patience!! I spent this morning doing some quick bug fixes and then testing it out on my old hp laptop and the game seems to be running a lot smoother now!! So I'm hoping it works out for you too!!
And if you do decide to play the game again then just trashing the old one and downloading the new optimized download should keep your progress (or at least it did on my hp laptop)! Anyways thank you again for bringing the bugs to my attention and for giving this little silly game a shot even if it is a bit poorly made!!