BadPhone

by mormert
Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.62
Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.21
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★4.07
Theme★★★★★★★★★★4.48
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★4.21
Audio★★★★★★★★★★3.45
Humor★★★★★★★★★★3.75
Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.55

You are now the proud owner of a BadPhone! 📱


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Congratulations, you are now a proud owner of a BadPhone. Good luck! ✌️

Owning a BadPhone means serveral things, but most importantly: it has a severe issues with data storage, so it's up to the owner to handle these issues. Now, because YOU are the owner, this is your task: to manage the BadPhone.

This game challenges you to be patient,

but also to be fully awake at all times to make sure that BoxDrop doesn't sync too many images, causing your phone to crash, and also making sure that the phone is fully optimized at all times.

❓What to do❓

When you have entered the play scene, start the BadPhone by pressing the "on" button, located on the side of the BadPhone, below the two volume buttons.

Once the phone is on, and the moment you unlock it fully, you are from there on fully responsible of making sure that the BadPhone doesn't run out of data storage.

You do this by two primary actions: deleting duplicate photos (keep one copy of all photos) and optimizing the BadPhone in the settings.

If you somehow make the phone crash, which is... likely, then you will be given a score based on how long you could keep it running.

- You control the hand with your mouse.

#### How was this made? 🛠️
- 3D Software: Blender
- Game engine: Unity
- Sound editor: Audacity
- Sounds recorded with my mouth

#### Recommendations 👨‍💻
Play the game in fullscreen, preferably a 16:9 monitor. 👍

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Comments17

Syrapt0r
Syrapt0r13 Aug 2018, 00:25
This was stressful :D It's really hard to keep track of the images and needing to constantly optimize didn't help! It can get overwhelming at times though ^^
shinysteel
shinysteel13 Aug 2018, 00:28
Well done. The graphics are quite realistic, and audio is evident too. The theme is met and a great attempt in doing so.
DoubleBiceps
DoubleBiceps13 Aug 2018, 00:29
Really nice graphic ! Need more option to remove these datas !
Scornz
Scornz13 Aug 2018, 00:30
Awesome idea! I loved it, I lasted 3 minutes and 25 seconds. However, the "thinking" sounds from the person using the phone were *extremely* repetitive, and I eventually just turned off my sound. Other than that, great job!
Botl13 Aug 2018, 00:31
Very hard but interesting. Nice sound effects!
Cope
Cope13 Aug 2018, 00:34
All I can say is: Hmmmmmmmmmmm Ahhhhh
paulstraw
paulstraw13 Aug 2018, 00:35
Any chance of a macOS build? I tried building from source, but I'm on Unity 2018.2, and I think opening it messed some stuff up. 🤔
Teo Miklethun
Teo Miklethun13 Aug 2018, 00:38
Beautiful and extremely polished game for just 48 hours... that being said, the game play leaves a lot to be desired, but if you added more variety to the activities, that would be helped a lot.
schsam13 Aug 2018, 00:39
Fun game! I love the graphics and the interface. It also felt super polished. Very difficult though!
jka
jka13 Aug 2018, 00:43
Love it! It's funny because I think this is recognizable for anyone that has had the misfortune to have to deal with a crappy phone. :)

The graphics are great and the controls worked flawlessly for me. Only (really small) nitpick I have is with the phone's angle. I would have like to see it tilted slightly more towards the camera.
Mormert
Mormertauthor13 Aug 2018, 07:14
@paulstraw Sorry, no there's no macOS build. But you may play a buggy version of the game on this WebGL link: https://mormert.com/BadPhone/WebGL/index.html

Please note that for some reason, I don't know why, but the hand doesn't work properly in WebGL, but it works really well in standalone. Also, if you play in WebGL i recommend you to play in fullscreen.

Furthermore, the game was made with 2017.4.4f1, for your information. Thanks for playing!
mshopf
mshopf13 Aug 2018, 16:16
This is pretty hilarious! Really stressful, and while game mechanics are trivial, including a virtual user interface is an fantastic idea. Graphics is done extremely well, sounds are just... funny!
beanslasher14 Aug 2018, 05:25
I really really liked this game! I think it is very unique in how you have a physical phone. Felt like I was playing I spy, or something haha when deleting the photos. My phone crashed pretty often hahaha! I started to get the hang of it. But for real, I gave 5 stars across the board, as I personally thought that you deserve it. It played well, no janky controls. It was just a really solid project. I thank you for sharing your game, and I hope to see you all in the next game jam come December. Can't wait to see what you can do!
Julia-Lundman14 Aug 2018, 14:08
Excellent game! Simple, easy to understand and most of all really beautiful. The audio was cool too, I laughed a little ^^. I would like more functions, but then again, the game is actually quite difficult as it is! I really enjoyed this!
skytiger
skytiger16 Aug 2018, 01:19
Wow it's just like my real phone.

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