Midnight Technician

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.57
Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.40
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.02
Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.36
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.33
Audio★★★★★★★★★★3.52
Humor★★★★★★★★★★2.78
Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.13
Work your night shift from 12 AM - 6 AM to keep the terminals up and running. If they run out of power, you lose! Can you beat all 3 difficulites?

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There are 4 terminals to keep track of. Charge a terminal by walking up to it and left clicking. Every time you charge a terminal, your risk meter rises. The risk meter shows the % chance of a terminal breaking down the next time you charge it. When a terminal breaks down, you need to go to your bench and grab your wrench with right click. Walk back to the terminal, fix it, put your wrench away and get back to charging as fast as you can!

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There are also many powerups that spawn in the room. The clock freezes the terminal with the lowest charge for 10 seconds, the POW cube doubles your charge power for 10 seconds, and the battery instantly refills the charge of every terminal. Managing your powerups and using them at the right time is essential to getting through the night, especially on harder difficulties. There are also many interesting interactions between powerups, eg, freezing a broken terminal instantly repairs it so you don't need to get your wrench.

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From the start you have easy mode and hard mode unlocked. Beating them gives you 1 star each. Once you get 2 stars, you unlock impossible mode. I'm pretty sure that impossible mode is actually impossible without an autoclicker/insanely unobtainable godlike luck, but I would love for somebody to prove me wrong. When you beat impossible mode you unlock the 3rd star, and have 100% completed the game. Stars automatically save at the end of each night.

Game made by me, BillehBawb. I make YouTube videos and apparently games now too:
https://twitter.com/BillehBawb
https://youtube.com/billybob9876

Music made by my friend Slinthn, he is a developer, artist, and musician:
https://twitter.com/Slinthn
https://slinthn.me/

I hope you enjoy the game!

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Comments16

Bozont21 Apr 2020, 00:35
Great work on the sound design, really gives it that good arcade feel.

The music is amazing!
LukeBandy21 Apr 2020, 14:48
Really enjoyable, but damn it's a challenge when the terminals need repairing!
Xenith
Xenith21 Apr 2020, 19:51
stress levels peaked in this one, was good fun :)
wheybags
wheybags21 Apr 2020, 20:40
Nice game, sounds + music were good, gameplay was fun + the graphics were nice too. I love the dither around the the edge :)
Blue Pin Studio
Blue Pin Studio21 Apr 2020, 20:46
Loved this game! Couldn't find any of the stars you mentioned in your credits but i did manage to last a really time before it got out of control! Love the game in general, one of the top ones i've played so far!
BillehBawb
BillehBawbauthor21 Apr 2020, 20:51
@blue-pin-studio The stars show your completion of the game, you get them for beating the various difficulties. It isn't endless, you just have to survive until 6 AM :)
Tomyomy21 Apr 2020, 21:10
Extremely fun and stressful game, I loved every second of it. The difficulty was expertly tweaked and I liked the music and art style quite a bit. Very fun to play and kept me on my toes - great job!
vartagh23 Apr 2020, 20:57
player sprite is so cute! fun..
LukeBenkart
LukeBenkart23 Apr 2020, 22:46
Very fun game! You should definitely make a later versions where there are more tasks to juggle!
SpiRiTs24 Apr 2020, 18:29
The music was fantastic, the game-play felt very nice! just a little to challenging, but overall very well done
GOD COLO
GOD COLO24 Apr 2020, 18:51
This game is so amazing! The music and the sound FX is just perfect!! Did I forget to mention that the pixel art is awesome! It is also super fun!!! :laughing:

Greato Jobu! :smile:
SAVVU
SAVVU24 Apr 2020, 21:37
Well done the pixel art is awesome and the idea is smart as well! An idea would be to change the machines as you progress or have even more things to do in order to keep them working. Well done and good luck.
J-Star26 Apr 2020, 07:43
Amazing job on the art and audio! The game design is also really good, I found it quite challenging (just like in real life I could feel the stress). Good job, solid entry!
ilikescifi
ilikescifi26 Apr 2020, 07:52
ohhhhh yes! This is insanely fun! Love the music or lets say the audio really a lot! I can totally connect to the main guy haha
Bradalli28 Apr 2020, 21:00
Nice, solid, and fun game! Only complaint I have is the length of the nights combined with the button mashing (my arm is throbbing haha) But the 'spinning plates'-esque gameplay was really enjoyable.

Great entry!
Link
Link10 May 2020, 11:06
A really good game, really nice graphics and sounds/music. It can become hard when a terminal brokes (not too much, it's balanced). Nice game!
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