The Inglorious Yet Highly Stimulating Life of an Underpaid Graduate Student

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.38
Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.37
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.65
Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.04
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.19
Audio★★★★★★★★★★3.13
Humor★★★★★★★★★★4.04
Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.32
Coolness★★★★★★★★★★49%
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Inspired by our net connections cutting out right after the theme was announced and fun times with ISPs' phone support, we made a game where you provide terrible support to innocent civilians for sweet cash to buy more phones on ePay. You monster.

Code is distributed under the ISC license, and graphics under the CC BY license. See COPYING for details.

http://kfarwell.org/projects/the_inglorious_yet_highly_stimulating_life_of_an_underpaid_graduate_student/
http://kfarwell.itch.io/the-inglorious-yet-highly-stimulating-life-of-an-underpaid-graduate-student

Comments15

Eingya25 Aug 2015, 01:36
The game sorta of hung up on me, i was stuck on an endless telephone loop while notifications came from everywhere (also some choices sometimes don't work), I surely don't remember my Undergrad life being so exciting.

From the small portion of the game I saw though it is a cool idea.
jirrev
jirrev25 Aug 2015, 01:39
Nice choice of subject, nobody likes those call-center people. The only problem I have is that requests come in faster than I can read them from time to time, and in other times I wait for minutes where nothing happens. Perhaps a bit too random in this case.
ChosenCharacter
ChosenCharacter25 Aug 2015, 02:27
God. The sounds. They are so annoying!

And that's the point c:

Now I get why I shouldn't go into IT.
sararyCow
sararyCow25 Aug 2015, 02:56
A pretty addicting game, I can't stop to close tickets! :D This is a good reflection of call-center reality, very insteresting.
Muush
Muush25 Aug 2015, 09:46
Good game
Warxen25 Aug 2015, 13:18
I'd better reboot my mousepad and it worked! Nice game, only thing that annoyed me a bit was that I got called while i was on the phone with someone. Keep it up.
jphelps26 Aug 2015, 03:29
great job. very origional
m3_on26 Aug 2015, 03:31
Haha, some of the replies were pretty good.
glerikud
glerikud26 Aug 2015, 12:27
This game is such a good representation, that I feel like saying it's fun, would mean tech support is fun. Which clearly is (not). So I'll just say it's one of my favourites this LD! You are truly a monster
MrMordem
MrMordem26 Aug 2015, 16:31
IT simulator in a nutshell :

Get a call for having a computer imploded
Ask if the user tried to turn it on and off again
User tells he can't find the power button
Tells user to install gentoo

Seriously though this was fun, a bit far from the theme imo, but still fits in a way :) also the tickets and calls may come a bit too fast
collaboration27 Aug 2015, 11:48
Dude, I just love it! 5/5 soooo cool.
Nurbs6 Sep 2015, 03:22
This game is too realistic and should be kept away from children
mzmiric5
mzmiric514 Sep 2015, 00:04
Very fun and annoying game :D loved it. I really liked the aspects of being able to upgrade your workplace and the tech. I am not sure how some of the options work but still fun trying to catch up with those constant notifications. Oh and yeah the sounds are killing me :P
kfarwell
kfarwellauthor28 Oct 2015, 03:26
Jupiter_Hadley: install gentoo

nice video :)

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