The Gelato System 2K38

by kyle-farwell

co-authored: @aliciana, @firetwoonenine, @lduser125

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.71

Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.07

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★4.02

Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.71

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★4.00

Audio★★★★★★★★★★2.33

Humor★★★★★★★★★★3.76

Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.64

*You’re a hardliner open source enthusiast who just installed the most Free (as in beer and as in freedom!) OS that you can: Gelato System: 2K38 Edition. But as soon as you finish the installation, you realize that you don’t have functioning graphics or audio drivers! Such is the life of an open source enthusiast…*

The Gelato-Labs "G-Team" for LD49 is:

Kyle Farwell (kfarwell) -- *Programming and Writing*

Matthew Petry (fireTwoOneNine) -- *Programming and Writing*

Ryan Refcio -- *Writing*

Alice Dalton (AliceVibes) -- *Audio Design*

The Gelato System uses many open source projects:

xterm.js - *terminal emulator framework (MIT license)*

winbox.js - *windowing manager (Apache-2.0 license)*

98.css - *visual style (MIT license)*

Changelog:

Post-release bugfix 1: *system no longer gets in an infinite loop of fatal errors (GSODs) with certain display drivers installed*

Tags: #operating-system, #retro

Genres: simulation

Comments18

ELVEVERX5 Oct 2021, 00:39

Loved the meta aspect of the game, also the classic green on black hacker terminal is beautiful

Marossi5 Oct 2021, 00:42

Interesting game, I enjoyed the look of it and IT'S very well made, grats!

circle5 Oct 2021, 00:43

Very weird, very interesting. The idea is honestly really novel. It felt very immersive which is nice.

Jeffrey Hwang5 Oct 2021, 00:47

Interesting game! My brain is toasted right now after the jam, but this was a very interesting take of the theme. I wasn't able to get to the point that the screenshot shows, and I wasn't able to see the nsfw chair picture for some reason, but I at least got to see a poop. 10/10

Rayredd5 Oct 2021, 00:49

I love it! The idea of creating an OS as a game. Reminds me of my childhood trying to figure out how DOS even works :joy:

Gurt5 Oct 2021, 00:50

Extremely weird, but very cool. It seems really well made, but honestly I stare at a terminal enough during my day job so I didnt have much patience this time!

KeichiTS5 Oct 2021, 00:50

Very good idea and excellent execution.

I realy like it.

Congrats!

Feesh5 Oct 2021, 00:52

I really loved this idea. The game immediately drew me in and I definitely think you played into your audience's hands very well xD. Amazing graphics and aesthetic, overall just amazing.

ADerpyChickenStudios5 Oct 2021, 00:54

Its cool I got lost tho lol im not cut out for this life

Sorrer5 Oct 2021, 00:56

Love the alternate reality feel to the game. Exploring the system to try to find the puzzle elements really felt good! One bug, up arrow doesn't properly get the latest command, it broke at some point of the game.

mactinite5 Oct 2021, 00:58

As a linux user this was a bit too real lol.

CorbenG5 Oct 2021, 00:59

Really unlike anything else I've played! It was fun trying to figure out what each next step was. Really feels like an old command line OS! Nice work :)

tykenn5 Oct 2021, 01:14

Great parody of IT troubleshooting. Well done, you got some good laughs from me!

finbobby1235 Oct 2021, 01:24

This is incredible. Very well thought out and executed and thoroughly enjoyable.

EOShadows5 Oct 2021, 02:41

Neat game! I can't believe you've simulated so much of the bash shell for the theme! I can't help but notice something sinister is about at the same time, such as how clippi's title mentions something about purgatory, though maybe it's a play on the pain of the experience you are portraying?

Unfortunately I wasn't able to enjoy much of it, though. Out of curiosity I set a driver that said it was from the future (the date command said it was the 20th century but the driver was supposed to be from 2001) and then after that the game went into an infinite loop of shutting down the computer because of fatal errors. I can't seem to figure out how to restart the game so I can try out other things.

firetwoonenine5 Oct 2021, 03:12

Thanks for the positive feedback, everyone!

@eoshadows I just pushed a fix for that bug. If you load the game again, it should give the error message one more time, then boot successfully back to the terminal.

Rustywolf5 Oct 2021, 04:08

I love the CLI mystery genre (having made one myself for a previous jam). The look of the screen and the work that went into the output did not go unnoticed. Awesome, awesome entry

loyance9 Oct 2021, 17:43

Reminds me of how I tried installing certain graphical drivers of a certain GPU manufacturer, except less painful and things worked first try. Great game with a lot of depth and fun!

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