Space Office

by celdur
co-authored: @gauphastus
Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.63
Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.62
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.85
Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.76
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.85
Audio★★★★★★★★★★3.56
Humor★★★★★★★★★★3.78
Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.73
It's your first day at work and you have no clue what you're supposed to do.
With the theme being what it is, we took a long time to decide on what nothing should be,
and we landed on knowledge.
The real challenge of the game is figuring out what to do.
It's a pretty difficult task, but if you mess around for a bit it'll start to make some sense.
Each day has something new as well, so make sure to try them out.

Mouse controls everything. If you get stuck early on, make sure you try all the buttons on various screens.
Actually, I lied, you can reset to the menu by pressing R.
Oh, and I should add, this game is not friendly to the colorblind, I'm sorry about that.

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Programming/design: Celdur

Art/sound: Gauphastus

Writing: Sgore

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Genres: puzzle

Comments42

NachtWitch7 Oct 2019, 20:10
rate, play and comment on others games, its how ludum dare prioritizes games
KekkoDude7 Oct 2019, 21:51
What, i got fired! haha, Neat entry, well executed! havent explored the... interface fully yet but going to give it some time, check out the other days.

so far, im loving it, really intuitive!
Gauphastus7 Oct 2019, 21:56
@nachtwitch Yup, we had an entry previously though this is my first official participation.

@kekkodude Haha, yeah. It's a total nightmare. I just did the art and audio so when @celdur had me playtest I got fired pretty consistently. :0
dummydojo
dummydojo8 Oct 2019, 07:52
Lol really funny concept and made me feel weirdly nostalgic. Didn't get very far into the game because I couldn't figure out how to do my job at all, but that was part of the charm!
Skalex
Skalex8 Oct 2019, 08:03
Seems like a cool entry but its a little bit too hard and i didn't really know what i was doing. I understand I guess thats what you were going for but maybe give the buttons little hints as what they can do so it feels more like a puzzle instead of randomly trying different combinations. Still, really nice game idea and great job!
KeithSwanger
KeithSwanger8 Oct 2019, 08:45
Such an interesting concept, but wow is it hard! The computer is really fun to interact with though! Sounds are fantastic. Art is great. The puzzles are good as long as you're okay with being fired a few hundred times! xD

A very unique experience for sure!
dazedhead
dazedhead8 Oct 2019, 08:48
Very much fun to play! enjoyed the style of the game very much even if it was hard to figure out how to start. Didn't beat it tho.
Jake Marks
Jake Marks8 Oct 2019, 08:49
Figured out day 1 (with ABSOLUTELY no help). Awesome puzzle "management?" sim game!
ivananovakova8 Oct 2019, 09:57
What an awesome idea!! And it looks great too. Feels like irl expirience lol
Vaibho8 Oct 2019, 20:32
Enjoyed the game but was not able to figure out what to do. The graphics were nice and the music felt good. Liked the concept and the game.
mao
mao8 Oct 2019, 22:34
I like these sorts of puzzles, where you're thrown into a system with unknown rules and you have to find the objective. One possible glitch/oversight: It is sometimes impossible to toggle the top left symbol (unless I'm missing something?)
Celdur
Celdurauthor8 Oct 2019, 23:12
@mao if you're on day 2 or 3 you might be missing something, yeah.
New problems get added as the days go on and that should be part of one of them(unless I did overlook some bug).
mao
mao8 Oct 2019, 23:35
Ah nevermind, I figured it out. Succsessfully completed all three days! These aliens really need a UI expert.

Speaking of UI, some keyboard shortcuts for the buttons on the computer would be nice. I felt like I was gonna break my thumb with all the clicking on a trackpad.
bassguitarbill
bassguitarbill9 Oct 2019, 02:25
Heck yes, this is excellent! It's funny, it looks awesome, and it made me use my brain.
Danilo Freire
Danilo Freire9 Oct 2019, 03:27
If you can generate a mac or web build it would be great! : D
Celdur
Celdurauthor9 Oct 2019, 04:27
@danilo-freire I'd love to, but I don't have the engine license for that right now sadly.
Taylor Reynolds9 Oct 2019, 04:38
Great art style, I love the line weight of the character! I like the concept of figuring out the rules as you go.
derwenzl9 Oct 2019, 07:50
Like the idea!
Don Fouts
Don Fouts10 Oct 2019, 00:00
This was a really creative game and I loved the puzzles. I like how you brought the theme into this.
shrapx
shrapx10 Oct 2019, 02:07
Fiendish crazy-computer simulator. Thanks for suggesting i play it :) I hope to go back to day 3 and finish it.
SirRed10 Oct 2019, 02:26
I dont think I won. Interesting game I think I was figuring it out at the end there. Definitely throws you into the deep end. Good work.
Idontknow10 Oct 2019, 02:55
Love the way I need to figure the rules out as you go. ...but it certainly took me way longer than I should have to notice the last basic thing I needed to not get fired on day 1... cleared day 3 eventually, but that was brutal.
LudumAnthony10 Oct 2019, 04:31
That was a lot of fun to play. Super creative.
Redimension Games10 Oct 2019, 09:58
Oh man my brain hurts after this. Interesting concept though.
WashingMachinae10 Oct 2019, 10:12
Great art, but could have made it easier to figure out what to do. I ended up getting one of the cards right, so I thought I figured it out, but then following the same method the next card was rejected
Celdur
Celdurauthor10 Oct 2019, 13:13
@washingmachinae Yeah, I assume you fell for the teal one. I made teal look way too similar to green, which was unintentional, and most people don't notice the difference at first.
kuviman
kuviman10 Oct 2019, 15:58
game too ez, make more levels :D
chaosround10 Oct 2019, 18:47
Good idea, good jam.. I liked the art
JoelLikesPigs
JoelLikesPigs10 Oct 2019, 22:04
I'm blown away by this I've never felt so lost and confused and had so much fun whilst being so. I managed to figure out how to play galaga and check the weather and time, but never how to fix the flashing yellow light. Day 3 murdered me and I'll never know how haha, great use of the theme, super unique idea. I loved it!
Lars-Erik
Lars-Erik10 Oct 2019, 23:09
Got fired two times and gave up, but was quite intrigued for a little while there. Fun idea and well executed! 👍
Ltven0mI
Ltven0mI11 Oct 2019, 10:20
Couldn't quite figure out how to do my job but had fun pressing random buttons and flicking random switches. Cool art style btw :thumbsup:
Xakkar
Xakkar11 Oct 2019, 10:23
I came home from work and played a game about work)
itsdanidre
itsdanidre11 Oct 2019, 15:53
Man it took me a while to figure day 1 and 2, but my brain isn't big enough for that white on day 3 :sweat_smile:
Artyom Volkov
Artyom Volkov11 Oct 2019, 15:57
The concept sounds great, but I think, it needs some small help at start, however, it can ruin the experience of total disaster of the very first day at work which you didn't know how to do.
alexrose
alexrose12 Oct 2019, 00:50
I can't believe I just gave this game a 5 for fun, fuck you and your excellent game which I hate.

Nothing this jam made me as happy as beating this game so it's full marks.
Rodrigo Robles12 Oct 2019, 02:01
Great work, nice take on the theme, concept, graphics, humor. Of course it can be polished, it's a jam game. You should extend and polish the game, put this in the market.
WanSou
WanSou12 Oct 2019, 14:36
Ahh i don't get it, its so hard, i love hard games but this is just too hard, i see many people figured it out so i guess its a really hard but possible game, its still fun to figure it out, i think i almost got it though
keep up the good work
kaeveris
kaeveris13 Oct 2019, 08:05
I like the idea of the game and the graphics, but was not able to figure out what to do XD
Franciszek Pyrć
Franciszek Pyrć13 Oct 2019, 14:25
I like the computer. It reminds me of my jet engine.
Andre Fremaux
Andre Fremaux14 Oct 2019, 07:53
Very fun game, took a while to start to get the hang of things but really enjoyed the trial and error. If anything my only nitpick would be that dialogue goes by way too fast so its quite hard to read. Regardless, awesome work! Very well done! :smile:
Karanveer18 Oct 2019, 09:04
this reminded of my 90s time when i used to watch cartoons on free tv channels at my locality...lol...good ratings jsut for that art work ..let alone the overall game play..GG!
alexrose
alexrose30 Oct 2019, 01:29
game deserved a higher rating, pearls before swine

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