A short text based game in which you play as the only person responsible for sitting right where they are, and not pressing the button that is in front of them.
The game basically gives you no direction at all, you'll have to figure it out. It's winnable, Don't give up!
This is brilliant! I think I watched the countdown three times before figuring out that there was more to it. Then it took a few tries to actually win the game. Very nice.
Quite good, but i would have prefered no spoilers in the description. Anyway, I keep wondering i the game can beaten (aside from the non-to-play tactic)
Thanks for the nice comments everyone! :) I've uploaded a new version fixing a tiny thing that could potentially break the game, just noticed it! I'll probably upload a post-jam version at some point with additions.
Really neat puzzle game! I liked the text dialogue. :) It took a few tries to figure out what to do after the entering the password. ugh.. and it was so simple.
Great take on the theme, and unconventional game indeed :D I like text-based games, you really hit my sweet spot with this :) It's a bit hard to navigate, but the idea is great. Good job :) !
had a good time :) Although you might want to add a little text to explain people that the command "help" is available, as programmers, it's our first reflexe but yeah, not everyone is a programmer :D
Interesting idea. You get lot's of cool points... about there are some things that annoyed me...
Good points: - I liked how you get to learn what the game is about by playing it - Woow! It's a game that simulates a terminal! - As far as I could tell, you generate a random password each time! Nice!
Not so good points (or things I'm going to nitpick since it's a "terminal simulator"): - 'dir' as a command? Seriously? As a Linux user, that was horrible. (jk) - The lack of auto-complete really annoyed me... - You read files by running them, instead of having the pass the file as an argument to 'cat' or another "program" - No numpad support (who types on the "normal" number?) - No auto-scroll nor limit for the screen's height
Still, those are thing that mostly annoyed me because I'm too used with using bash. People who don't use Linux (or terminals, in general) shouldn't care about that.
@GFM Haha, most of that nit picky stuff was going to be fixed actually. Especially numpad and auto-complete. It was down to time, I made this in a day more or less and I didn't think an accurate terminal was the most important thing on the TODO list. Thanks a lot though, glad you like it! :)
Love the idea. First time around I had no idea what to do. Sat there watching the timer. Only after a while I realized I could click on it and type stuff in. I think only programmers and people who use linux will get it though. Very niche audience. Either way, funny and i enjoyed it. Well done!
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Also nice touch with the randomized passwords!
Good job!
And great job on that intro. The game itself was unconventional! Loved it!
My only constructive criticism is to have a cursor in the terminal after you click the time, to indicate that typing should happen.
Other than that, I'd say it's perfect.
It took a few tries to figure out what to do after the entering the password. ugh.. and it was so simple.
very nice :))
that was great
check mine, it's something like yours
I liked that you have to fiddle around a bit to find the clues necessary to abort the launch.
Good points:
- I liked how you get to learn what the game is about by playing it
- Woow! It's a game that simulates a terminal!
- As far as I could tell, you generate a random password each time! Nice!
Not so good points (or things I'm going to nitpick since it's a "terminal simulator"):
- 'dir' as a command? Seriously? As a Linux user, that was horrible. (jk)
- The lack of auto-complete really annoyed me...
- You read files by running them, instead of having the pass the file as an argument to 'cat' or another "program"
- No numpad support (who types on the "normal" number?)
- No auto-scroll nor limit for the screen's height
Still, those are thing that mostly annoyed me because I'm too used with using bash. People who don't use Linux (or terminals, in general) shouldn't care about that.
Anyways, I really liked this. :)