Jenny & the Guy

by sunzed
Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.75
Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.22
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.14
Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.44
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.98
Humor★★★★★★★★★★2.62
Mood★★★★★★★★★★4.26
You will be playing Mickael, the new CEO of a dating website. From your office in New York, you will have to make choices and to grant people's requests. What will be more important for you: the company prosperity? your employees' well-being? your relationship with Jenny, your lovely secretarian? Whatever it might be, keep in mind that money might not always buy happiness.

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We hope you will enjoy playing just as much as we enjoyed developping Jenny & the Guy. :slight_smile: There are two ends, be sure to try both to understand theme.


Credits:

Programming - Loïc Escales @super-louwaque

Art - Loïc Le Mouël @louis-lechauve

Game design - Hugo Jacquet @sunzed

Translation - Marlène Goumy, the cookies Queen @Eldiwis

Music from Audio Library on Youtube

Special thanks to Ninon for your support!

*A La La Band & Co. Production*

Important: Your antivirus can prevent you to launch the game. If it is the case, disable it before launching.

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Genres: role playing
Tools: Godot

Comments14

ramza
ramza6 Dec 2017, 16:58
I loved this game about running a dating app in New York. The writing was great and the atmosphere engrossing. Great job!
Poorwill
Poorwill6 Dec 2017, 17:19
My game broke after the second choice because the buttons were still active even though they were invisible. So I could endlessly reduce wages and then raise wages to get unlimited money and happiness.

Otherwise it's a nice concept - resource management with happiness and money. It fits the theme nicely also.
zantze
zantze6 Dec 2017, 17:49
The game has warm feeling to it. A lot of great writing and beautiful art.
Mags6 Dec 2017, 22:49
I was playing for some time and then it just stuck while my guy was at the meeting with the shareholders! A bit disappointing that there wasn't an ending...

Other than that very nice art and good choices. Maybe it would be ok to see how much a certain choice will cost or pay. Good job!
SaraFilipa
SaraFilipa7 Dec 2017, 08:46
Oh I loved this. This is one of the few games in LD40 that actually relaxed me - must be the combination of the music, audio, and writing style. Even after I got to $0 and my company went bankrupt, I got a happy ending with a pretty uplifting message. I love it when games do this. Original and beautiful. Congratulations.
Chem0pren7 Dec 2017, 10:18
Nice little game about true life aspects. Great work !
8 Dec 2017, 17:02
I'm your biggest fan
Sibi
Sibi9 Dec 2017, 20:32
What a lovely game. On my first playthrough I went bankrupt but had an amazing time and on my second run the game glitched out at the shareholders meeting.

The money values seemed a bit arbitrary and of course the decisions were a bit overly simplified but it served the purpose of telling this wonderful story :)

The unusual aspect ratio was also nice touch, although I would have loved to see more of the beautiful artwork which was covered up most of the time. Well I guess you don't get to enjoy the beautiful things as much when working all the time ;)
Oh and the section about loot boxes actually made me laugh :D
nahual
nahual10 Dec 2017, 01:36
Visual and music are great. Game has a good mood. In one moment i just starting watching how moon is moving on the sky and enjoying it :D
Joke about loot boxes was perfect. Also, I hooked up by the reference of a Ficght Club. Good job and wish you a good luck!
picapica
picapica12 Dec 2017, 00:33
It's cute! I replayed it and found that I was more entertained by making all the "bad" decisions (picking the "nice" ones came naturally, but the game ended so quickly). Then I think I ran out of story, there was one repeated choice (shareholders' meeting) and then I got stuck, very unhappy and with no more options. Not all that different from a boring job perhaps...

There was some times where the text didn't fit the buttons, and one time I had to scroll down to see the text in a tiny space. Anyway, it's nice to find a game that tells a story.
LeReveur
LeReveur15 Dec 2017, 23:54
It's more an interactive story than a game, but it was a good, positive moment, full of love movies poetry. Thank you for that!
shubart15 Dec 2017, 23:54
really enjoyed the concept (end the realization too) !!
Sunzed
Sunzedauthor31 Dec 2017, 18:15
Thank you from all the team for your comments. You're amazing ! :smiley:
Eldiwis10 Jan 2018, 10:21
Thank you all for the lovely comments :)

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