Life of ITman

by bozont

co-authored: @miiyuka, @remus, @szaszm

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.92

Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.82

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.38

Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.70

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★4.04

Audio★★★★★★★★★★3.66

Humor★★★★★★★★★★4.08

Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.72

*"Because he's the hero this company doesn't deserve, but the one it needs right now. So we have him fix our computers, take care of servers and stop hackers. Because he can do it. Because he is not our hero. He's a silent guardian, a watchful protector."*

*"He is ITman"*

Become the techie, the unsung hero of every modern company, making sure the servers are okay, all hackers are stopped and every employee has their problems resolved.
No wonder they drink more caffeine than the rest of the office combined.

Features

- Help co-workers with "useful" advice
- Resolve "issues" with the server
- Stop hackers from blowing up computers
- Drink unhealthy amounts of caffeine
- Probably still get fired
- Online leader board lets you compare your performance to fellow ITmen (only in desktop version)

Known issues

- The leaderboard doesn't load on the browser version, nor can high scores be submitted in that version (It works on the downloadable version

Post jam plans

- Android release
- Better visual feedback on item pick up

Tags: #2d, #funny, #high score, #isometric, #pixel art, #retro, #singleplayer

Genres: simulation

Tools: Unity

Comments39

marcusnystrand21 Apr 2020, 00:23

10/10 intro music

Tbrax21 Apr 2020, 00:25

Art looks very clean.

Timo Strating21 Apr 2020, 00:28

This is a little bit to close to reality haha. Very nice concept and not too repetitive because of the constant switching of the task. Also a thanks to the person who mad the itch.io page design. That looked really well.

sayumeki21 Apr 2020, 00:30

Polished entry all around - as a tech employee, I had to laugh at a lot of things in this game.
The loading / tutorial screen is a really good touch, and the music was very solid.
I found the gameplay to take me just a second (I didn't realize fire extinguishers went in my inventory) but once I got it I found it intuitive.
Nice work!

Quincy900021 Apr 2020, 00:30

This is very good! I think it's a little bit too easy, maybe force the IT guy to drink more often. :)

Jonas Michael21 Apr 2020, 00:31

Amazing game! I love the sounds and the graphics!
I do feel like the game is maybe a little too hard and the gameplay is pretty repetitive, as far as I can tell.

Still, amaing job!

GammaFlight21 Apr 2020, 00:32

Lots of fun, great job. The music is fun to listen to, I'm pulling my hair out fixing burning servers, I'm dishing out classic advice to coworkers, and I'm fired with a hilarious animation. Fantastic job!

CodSalmon21 Apr 2020, 00:38

Overall great game! The art and music are fantastic. The itch page looks great as well. The controls can be a bit touchy. It would have been nice to have some kind of feedback for when you were standing in the appropriate place to interact with items. Figuring out what can be interacted with and where exactly i need to stand to interact with things was one of the only issues I had. Similarly, it would be nice to have some kind of indication that you are out of energy or fire extinguisher. Maybe if you try to run or use the fire extinguisher when you can't, the energy/fire extinguisher ammo UI could flash or do something to grab the player's attention. Those are the only tiny improvements I can think of. Great job!

Hamzeh21 Apr 2020, 00:38

accurately represents the life of an IT employee :laughing: , VERY nice graphics and addictive gameplay, would make for a great simple android game

hiisileiri21 Apr 2020, 00:44

Awesome game! Good idea, but a bit hard to play. Coding would be better, while you are able to 'stand on the walls'. On the other hand, the energy drinks looks like a small batteries. Also jokes related to employees working should be visible for longer time. Anyway, this looks really fun and the main feel is there's much fun things to do and explore while the office having a big chaos.

I prefer the new name to the game: "A hour before you get fired"

Nachodlv21 Apr 2020, 00:49

Overall really good. It was really hard to find the batteries. Love the dialogs

Lyrdl21 Apr 2020, 00:52

I feel just like IT man. I found it a little tricky to trigger the fire extinguisher and the intro was probably a few too many screens to page through. Loved the art, he even looks like me! I got fired as I couldn't keep the servers online :( leaderboard was a master stroke except it would load for me. Very impressive!

Andrew Hoyer21 Apr 2020, 02:11

Enjoyed this one enough to bookmark for later, and shared on Twitter as well.

Azo21 Apr 2020, 08:32

Nice music, art style and nicely fits the theme. Good job!

kara21 Apr 2020, 14:28

I felt like I was part of the IT crowd's playing this game. The art, animation, everything is really well done! Well played!

"I'll just put this over here with the rest of the fire".

Bozontauthor21 Apr 2020, 15:29

@hamzeh Thank you, our artist is very happy to hear all these nice comments! We are actually planing on making an android version post jam

Nitero21 Apr 2020, 15:31

Simple concept, yet very fun. Only nitpick I have is that it's a bit hard to notice if you have picked something up or not (apart from the sound effect). An animation would be helpful.

Bozontauthor21 Apr 2020, 15:47

@nitero Thank you for playing, and for the feedback! I agree with you from play testing, we do plan on doing a post jam version, where we will hopefully add more animations.

Endymion21 Apr 2020, 18:37

I hear Bee Gees, I vote up. But honestly, it's a nice little game you developed. Good Job!

Torh22 Apr 2020, 06:34

Hi! Nice work! I want to make a video with the best games of LDJam46. Something like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOdTsWE7iIk .

Can I find your game also on indiexpo website? The channel is linked with them.

Bozontauthor22 Apr 2020, 08:55

@torh Hi! Thanks for the kind words. We have added an indiexpo page, you can find it in the Downloads and Links section on this page. We recommend you download the desktop version.

seano22 Apr 2020, 10:08

Great game! I like that spraying water on servers fixes them.

Vesper22 Apr 2020, 16:04

Ha, great central concept, and the time management mechanics were fun and challenging. Nicely done!

minibobbo22 Apr 2020, 19:26

Having worked in IT and on a help desk I can verify this is exactly what working in IT is like. The only thing you forgot was helping people move their desk around.

room60622 Apr 2020, 19:53

Haha. This game is really funny and has a lot of humor. I reall laughed a lot from all these phrases: "Not a real Nigerian prince", "You canno use password 123", "Just run ccleaner" :clap: :laughing: That is awesome idea! Game looks very complete and has all basic features nedeed: intro, help, balanced gameplay, humor. I also liked pixel art isometric projection, rare stuff currently.

I've git 240K points till was fired finally :sunglasses:

Btw, does LeaderBoards feature work? Did not wait for my position in global rating and just closed browser page.

Bozontauthor22 Apr 2020, 21:39

@room606 Sadly, the leaderboards feature doesn't work from the browser, as of now.

Thank you for your kind words, the isometric view was often a pain to work with, but I think it was worth it.

Jishin23 Apr 2020, 12:39

Pretty funny little challenge, I only wish there was a bigger variety to the "advices" :laughing:

It was worthy trying it, cute little jump back in my early days of working :laughing:

DespediteErik23 Apr 2020, 12:57

It's a bit messy (most jam games are), I'll give you that, but it is pretty damn addicting! Some visual feedback for when you pick up a fire extinguisher or an energy thingy would be great, I played it on mute and had no idea I picked it up. Otherwise, great little arcade game!

Nick Rafalski23 Apr 2020, 13:04

This was awesome! Nice job. It had a really good difficulty ramp. At first everything was fine, but soon ... everything was on FIRE! It felt very tactical the way I had to wait for the few seconds of downtime in order to drink an energy drink, or refill my fire extinguisher. Well done!

Convg23 Apr 2020, 13:29

Really funny idea. I love the graphics and the gameplay is smooth too. Good job guys!

Manderxan23 Apr 2020, 14:28

Got 600809. :sunglasses:

Very stressful, which I would call a success. Plays well and I quickly learned to grab fire extinguishers without stopping. Nice art and fitting soundeffects, though the music got annoying after a while. Especially since I was able to keep going for quite a while.

Fun, but I wouldn't want that job IRL. :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

Bozontauthor23 Apr 2020, 15:45

@manderxan Sadly, the leaderboard doesn't work in the browser version, that would be the highest score on it right now. Thank you for your playing!

johnnysix27 Apr 2020, 23:23

That was epic from start to finish. Love the chiptune beegees. Max points for theme haha.

I struggled a bit with keeping caffeinated enough to move around with sufficient speed.

This'd be a cool game to develop more with bigger levels, and maybe some additonal IT people to send off to various tasks, like command and conquer style. :coffee: :coffee: :coffee:

JMad28 Apr 2020, 23:16

Woohoo!

The couple IT advices were quite fun. Nice sprites and animations. Pleasant music that fit well. It got a bit too repetitive and exhausting to keep up at one point, so I may have let go in order to go to bed :p

Great work there!

Bozontauthor29 Apr 2020, 17:01

@jmad Congrats on being top of the scoreboard! Thank you for playing, and taking the time to give feedback.

Molpe30 Apr 2020, 20:09

I appreciate the Stayin alive theme in the background! Nice job!

stolen_biscuit5 May 2020, 10:38

Great graphics, great gameplay! Enjoyed the funny scenario (and speaking as an IT guy, very *very* accurate) Awesome work! Thoroughly enjoyed it :)

Disthron8 May 2020, 10:16

OMG! You get +1 points for being able to turn the sound down!

This was pretty good, though as your movement speed slows down it becomes a death spiral. Also, there is no indication of anything happening when you take a fire extinguisher which is a little off-putting. Like it took me a while to realize that my fire extinguisher count had gone up and I don't think I ever got over it. Even when I realized there was no feedback I would still find myself standing there hitting the key waiting for the guy to grab the extinguisher before remembering that it doesn't do that.

Bozontauthor9 May 2020, 09:06

@disthron Thank you for the feedback! I agree, better visual feedback upon picking up items would have been better, if we get to building a post jam version, that will be the first improvement we add.

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