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This is becoming a pretty fun  game!

Awesome! Congratz on the new release :D

Keep it up, it's coming along nicely :)

 I've had multiple people say the Boss reminded them of their IRL boss haha

Thanks for making the video! Watching it now :)

New update & Steam release coming in a few days!

Love the concept, I'm not that good at it but I very much dig it :D
EDIT: getting better at it, past wave 3 now :)

Being able to skip replays would be nice tho

Rakoona's playthrough of early access version 0.8.7: 

I pushed a small hotfix to make Day 6 a bit more balanced :)

Update 4-2-2024:

Been very busy this week finishing the game and today I finally did it: KiR is now at version 1.0.0!

The game should be bug-free, but I'll very likely release some small patches here and there in the coming month when more people play the game and give feedback :)

Here are all the fixes, changes and additions:

• Added various events to days 1 to 3 to make things more interesting and creepy,
• Boss now reacts to finishing your first box on day 2,
• Boss makes idle sounds at beginning of day now instead of waiting,
• Machines do not randomly break in tutorial (day 1) anymore, instead you are paid a visit and it breaks a machine,
• Machines breaking delay is much longer on day 6 now so players can acclimate to the new situation and monster better,
• Lowered Competitor spawn on day 6,
• Raised toy part spawn rate on day 4 so you don't have to play absolutely perfectly to finish the last box on time,
• Lowered toy part spawn rate on day 5 to make it more tense,
• Adjusted Boss anger music effects volumes and how they swell when he gets angry,
• Added proper death animation for when the boiler explodes,
• Fixed boss office glass having a grey color when the lights are off,
• Fixed some wrong values in the anger effects and polished the light flicker animations,
• Fixed boss kill animation not playing,
• Fixed parts counter never reaching zero,
• Fixed Clockwork Demon position being slightly wrong, causing clipping,
• Increased lantern scan rate so it feels more responsive,
• Added new slider to Custom Day for the amount of toy parts that are spawned (61 to 91 toys total) for new challenges,
• If Clockwork Demons are set active in Custom Day the lantern will now spawn regardless (but the lights will still be on if the lights broken option is not selected),
• Replaced "arm" with "competitor" in texts.

Check out the game here: https://evildraggie.itch.io/keepitrunning

Keep It Running is a first-person horror game, taking place in a factory during the Industrial Revolution.

You try to survive the 6 days of keeping the production of toys going, whilst under constant pressure from your relentless boss and various creatures that try to sabotage you. Keep everything running smoothly, from the boiler pressure to the engine speed to keeping the various machinery in working order. 

Time is your enemy as you have to complete the daily quota before your shift ends.
Should anything be wrong then the boss will become more and more angry, until you either fix the problem... Or become his next meal.

The game includes a Custom Day mode in which you can fully tweak the game's parameters and create your own fun challenges and experiments.

Looking forward to seeing you play the game (make sure to share vids/streams, love watching those) and hearing what you think!

I've been working on Keep It Running for a good while now and the project is in its last stages: https://evildraggie.itch.io/keepitrunning
I would've posted here sooner but... I had no idea ItchIO had this Community section until yesterday... Woops!

In the game you play as a new worker at a toy factory during the 19th century. In true Industrial Revolution fashion your monstrous boss intends to work you to death, but things are quite different in this particular factory...
You'll have to survive 6 days of hard work, whilst trying to keep the boss pleased, keep production going at a good pace and whilst fending off various creatures that try to sabotage you.

Since day 6 was still lacking something special I got the idea to add the Clockwork Demons: giant mechanical monstrosities powered by steam, which lurk in the darkness. So far the lights in the factory have kept them at bay...

But after they've sabotaged the factory's lights in day 6 you'll have to rely on an old lantern to light your way and to fend off these monsters.

Making the Clockwork Demon model was quite a doozy, loads of moving mechanical parts! Luckily I've gotten quite a bit of practice rigging making previous games, so the Demon turned out very nicely. I wasn't too sure at first as I only had a vague concept in my head for it, haha.

The game's already on ItchIO as early access, as it is feature complete, check it out and let me know what you think :)
Ratings and feedback are very much appreciated!

Expect more updates in this thread the coming few days :)

LOVE IT! Runs really smoothly (over a million particles on a GTX1060)

I did find it very entertaining :P

No problem!

Fun concept. Definitely was a challenge for me to get control of the vehicle but once I did felt real good :)

Gave me a good giggle. Car has a turning radius to die for :D

Okay this is awesome, love the concept and narrative :D

Going reverse at 250km/h in 6th gear somehow, I need me a car like that :P

Cute game, germany has no music though :(

Pretty fun concept, though a little bare bones. Then again it's a prototype, not bad! :D

Very simple, but pretty smooth for your first game :) congratz

Our official discord is: https://discord.gg/vV7KDVMBZz

What's stopping you? The Boss awaits~

Questions, commentary and bug reports are highly encouraged :)

That's a neat idea. Godot always seemed to be useful for more than just games, with the way it's structured. Would love to see more of GodotOS in the future :)

Disinfection is a Godot game with diegetic interfaces like that

Wow sorry about the delay, got rather sick due to a sudden burst of insomnia and had a busy week on top of that... Also the fullscreen/windowed switching was very broken haha

Gon' get it done this week!

Been grinning ear to ear playing this. It's super cute. A bit on the easy side too I'd say, but that's fine. The Davilex esque vibes really come across well too, well done.

I did have a bug that the game was stuck on 1997? Everything else seems to work fine :)

Good memories, those janky old Davilex games <3
David & Lex would be proud