Janitorment

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.46
Fun★★★★★★★★★★2.76
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.90
Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.48
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★4.38
Humor★★★★★★★★★★3.41
Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.25
Coolness★★★★★★★★★★93%
This is the story about one unfortunate (or may be not) human and one brave cleaning robot. They're connected together by the console input string and will fight to protect our world from a D0CT0R R0B0T, an ultimate janitor villain.

Commands:
- PUNCH [-S] [-F] [-H]
- BLOCK
- DODGE
- W (without Enter) - active pause

Some extra hints: if you'll type first character(s) from the command and then press [Tab] the command will be autocompleted.
You can use arrows [up] and [down] to navigate between previous commands.

(If something in game doesn't fit the screen please try to resize your page back to 100% and refresh it. Sorry for some resize bugs)

Code: Demy (Elena Gavrilova)
Graphics: Doragon (Natalia Logunova)
Game design: Dmitry Shytov

Special thanks to:
Felipe Wang for editing of English texts and
Thatiany Miranda for awesome space image
wolf4life.bandcamp.com for cool background music.

Comments30

theStartlestare21 Apr 2015, 08:57
Nice concept with the console. But typos lead to death maybe some sort of autocorrect could make it more accesable.
Demy
Demyauthor21 Apr 2015, 09:12
theStartlestare, you can press Tab to autocorrect command, like in a real console
Druid
Druid21 Apr 2015, 10:48
Cool idea, but not for slow typers like me :D
TeamCalcium21 Apr 2015, 10:54
Nice Game! For me it feels a little to fast-paced regarding the controls by typing, and then again a little too easy if figured out that you can copy and paste the commands. (I was mashing ctrl+v and enter constantly) Still very appealing Graphics and nice Humor.
Mouch21 Apr 2015, 11:01
I love the graphics, especially the intro. I like the console idea too, but i think gameplay can be improved, but absolutely acceptable for LD.

SPAMMING "punch -s" ftw !!!
jk5000
jk500021 Apr 2015, 11:42
Too difficult for me. But it looks amazing.
samwest21 Apr 2015, 14:37
Cool Idea! Too bad I'm to slow to type in English
Mathieu Muller
Mathieu Muller21 Apr 2015, 16:21
Like other said, nice concept. However, the whole console input is a bit harsh. You should introduce pauses after the robot finish it's move, so it's a bit more tactical.

I could defeat almost all robots by simply inputting a command, then arrow up and spamming the command.
Evergreen Games21 Apr 2015, 21:14
cool fighter game! the graphics are amazing and the gameplay is solid too. i like the fact that you can stop time, theres a lot of strategy
SpringCabal
SpringCabal22 Apr 2015, 13:50
Great ideas here, and this game is certainly innovative, but it's also not fun; Copy+enter on "PUNCH -S" is enough to defeat the first three robots, which is when I stopped as it got boring. The story's great, and art's not bad, but I wish it had music as well.
rectangular Tim22 Apr 2015, 13:53
Well this was frustrating. I liked the story and the graphics though.
Ludonaut
Ludonaut22 Apr 2015, 17:45
Cool concept. I love the comics, well done.
mike110123 Apr 2015, 09:51
Great story. Very cool comic book. Wished I could have kept reading. But when I got to the console ... Nothing worked. I see instructions and a text box but nothing I do when I type in ... does anything ?
ermrk
ermrk23 Apr 2015, 09:55
Great comics! Game was too fast without pause and too slow with it. I would appreciate some queue for commands. However I like programming feature, it is good.
Demy
Demyauthor23 Apr 2015, 10:00
mike1101, the last instruction in first help was to type "start" into console input below to start the game.
Horsed
Horsed23 Apr 2015, 10:05
I liked the comics. The console mechanic didn't grab me. With just repeating "punch -s" I managed to kill all robots, which made the game too easy.
frnknstn
frnknstn24 Apr 2015, 11:48
Great idea, great presentation
OrangeSpikyGames26 Apr 2015, 06:05
Fun to play, but it was very difficult at first.
Boberro26 Apr 2015, 10:16
And to think you still had time to make an intro comic...
SimianLogic
SimianLogic27 Apr 2015, 20:39
All the art is super cute. I'm a pretty fast typer, but I wasn't able to keep up with even the first robot (even with pausing). Maybe I just suck at fighting games? Maybe if you had command history so you could press up and repeat jabs?
Stechas
Stechas2 May 2015, 14:43
I was only punching hard, works for every opponent. It could be more difficult... but regarding story and beautiful graphics it's really hard to say something else than good job guys!
Zener2 May 2015, 18:06
Great idea, makes me remember MUD games. Graphics and intro are awesome!
TeamFlare
TeamFlare3 May 2015, 12:21
I love the controlls - seriously! this has great potential.
I'm not familliar which how to use a console , but the typing in itself is challenging and fun.It's just a little tough though.. I'd have loved to type stuff like kick, punch, jump.. short stuff..
Great gfx as well :)
Saker Games4 May 2015, 13:21
Cool concept with the console :D
Very interesting game and good looking graphics. Well done!
freaknarf
freaknarf6 May 2015, 09:27
Great work on comics and visuals ! That was a weird gameplay, like if a mad coder wanted to share his pain :]

Maybe i found a bug : I felt like i was in control of the garbage collector with the console once, while Janitor just took the hits...
Shit i want to beat him :)
Nice !
KaiseanGames8 May 2015, 06:22
Well done! Very nice execution.
Smirnov48
Smirnov4810 May 2015, 07:59
Interesting concept. Good realisation. Good job!
Photon11 May 2015, 01:12
Really interesting idea, but I couldn't even get past the first robot. I feel like the programming aspect doesn't work very well in real time (Pause feels kind of like a band-aid fix.) Tis' a shame since the graphics and narrative are rather interesting.
Yoon
Yoon11 May 2015, 10:57
The graphics are a blast. Loved the idea, the robots' design and the little comic to introduce the story.

The gameplay is unexpectedly hard to handle, even with autocompletion by pressing TAB.
Also I noticed that once a "punch -H" connects, you can just keep spamming it because the opponent hasn't the time to recover. TBH I won all the fights this way.

One suggestion : You should allow a "punch" command without arguments, because reaching the '-' and one of the letters on the keyboard is very time-consuming, combat-wise.

I played the post-jam one, and I can't get over the robot's cuteness.

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