The Inglorious Yet Highly Stimulating Life of an Underpaid Graduate Student 2

by kyle-farwell

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

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.92

Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.52

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.86

Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.82

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★4.40

Audio★★★★★★★★★★3.96

Humor★★★★★★★★★★4.33

Mood★★★★★★★★★★4.00

Some say there are only three certainties in life: life, death, and an overused trope. But we're here to tell you about a fourth: Losing your sanity at a dead end tech support job.

Welcome to *The Inglorious Yet Highly Stimulating Life of a ~~Corporate Drone~~ ~~An Underpaid Graduate Student~~ An Alcoholic Axolotl*

*Also known as The Inglorious Yet Highly Stimulating Life of a An Underpaid Graduate Student 2, or TIYHSLOAUGS2*

You are an Axolotl at his last-chance job. As a *Customer Synergy Specialist* at MegaCorp Industries, you answer all the questions for all their highly valued customers. Hopefully this job sticks for you, but you know better. But maybe you can *delay the inevitable*, and keep yourself from falling back on the bottle...

*A Gelato Labs Production for Ludum Dare 50*

The Gelato Labs "G-Team" for LD50 is:

#### Programming:
*Kyle Farwell (kfarwell), Matthew Petry (fireTwoOneNine)*

#### Art:
*Fuugul, Hirokun, Maly*

#### Music and Sound:
*Alice Dalton (AliceVibes)*

#### Voice Acting:
*Jared Kelly (J A R F), Alice Dalton (AliceVibes), Matthew Petry (fireTwoOneNine)*

#### Writing:
*Ryan Refcio, Matthew Petry (fireTwoOneNine), Kyle Farwell (kfarwell)*

Genres: simulation

Comments28

TheMentalSheep5 Apr 2022, 02:20

Leaving this comment before I actually download and rate the game but I was having an issue getting the game to run with the HTML5 version on both chrome and edge browser i'm getting an error reading "Error: Uncaught RangeError: Maximum call stack size exceeded (see JavaScript console for details)"

firetwoonenine5 Apr 2022, 02:27

@thementalsheep yea, we're realizing RenpyWeb is full of bugs, unfortunately. We're removing the web build.

Stenblood5 Apr 2022, 02:31

OK , THAT WAS VERY COOL

TheMentalSheep5 Apr 2022, 02:48

Omg that was great , I work as an IT intern and it was super relatable. I lasted only a few days before I got reunited with some old friends. The humor was great and the game play was smooth and polished well done!!!

cactusdan5 Apr 2022, 02:52

the best game that i have ever played i loved the sus background

DoctorBilbo5 Apr 2022, 02:58

Awesome game! I really liked the visual novel style and the witty humor

Adrien Tremblay5 Apr 2022, 05:46

Very cool! Liked the graphics. Gameplay did get a bit boring for me however (maybe that's just me)

teenythanos5 Apr 2022, 05:49

As a current grad student, this made me laugh! I think the idea is great, and I love that you got to choose your ringtone. I did have a serious audio issue with the "WOOOOOO" at the end of a successful day--if mixed better, that could have been great, but as it was, it was just too much audio information.

The art is the perfect amount of weird and great! The detail in the background is fantastic.

DecadeDecaf5 Apr 2022, 05:54

This was an extremely good game!! I ended up seeing some repeats, but the solutions and writing for what DID exist was astonishing. Loved the voice acting, especially the "WOOOOOOO AHA NICE" when you get a perfect day.

natpat5 Apr 2022, 05:57

Some of that made me laugh out loud, very funny! I got stuck on the same few calls repeatedly though - not sure how many there are. I kept losing sanity as well - I guess that's just what happens in IT support? I made it 25 calls. Fun entry!

firetwoonenine5 Apr 2022, 06:06

@thementalsheep @cactusdan @doctorbilbo @adrien-tremblay @decadedecaf Thanks for all the positive feedback!

Kyle Farwellauthor5 Apr 2022, 06:36

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO NICE

Roitchie5 Apr 2022, 19:15

Really enjoyed this. One of my favourite takes on the theme yet. Very funny and the tone and mood was on point.

TheGameOverGuy5 Apr 2022, 19:20

Great work, I liked the text input idea a lot. Sometimes it was getting a bit confusing with how the input was supposed to be when I first started, but after a while I got used to it.

Keep it up!

ZacharyPinkham5 Apr 2022, 21:51

Really great stuff! Love the concept and the way it was executed. This one hits close to home to those of us who have had to give any customer support over the phone, awesome work!

sega233336 Apr 2022, 07:51

well really well done

SofiGnedova6 Apr 2022, 18:04

Divine art! I love stories like this about ordinary people. The gameplay is interesting, but it's boring to play for a long time :c
I would love to see a continuation of this project!

kuami66 Apr 2022, 18:16

The art style was beautiful, and good job on the voice acting :)

Allax6 Apr 2022, 18:17

interesting idea, but only for those who know English

Yaen7 Apr 2022, 00:17

This was so cute and funny, I loved it. You have a great idea here and a nice sense of humor. Also that buff axolotl is something else hahaha.

Jirushi7 Apr 2022, 00:19

Funny, looks amazing, cool mechanic, what can I say!

ardorugus7 Apr 2022, 22:25

Felt hard to type, at first. Then got some cool jokes and the cunning spirit of support guy! Cool idea, though tutorial could be much faster. Thanks for the entry!

LDJam user 1202138 Apr 2022, 00:48

I enjoyed it, if I have any feedback overall i'd say the intro is just too long and there's too much of a delay between calls, made it take a LOT longer than playing it should have, the actual calls and responses were great though. I got a lot of duplicates, it seems like if you refer to sales maybe it bugs (or it's intended) that you get that exact same caller back over and over?

TyronePemberton10 Apr 2022, 15:23

It is worth getting used to it, as it is customary that a graduate student receives little. While I aspired to be a graduate student in college and did all the homework myself, a friend of mine took the subject of "personal strengths" for example, used https://studymoose.com/free-essays/personal-strengths as an example and copied. However, now he receives more than 3 times the salary and enjoys the work. Life is very strange and incomprehensible thing. I do not understand...

gbgames21 Apr 2022, 17:22

I used to work in tech support. This game made me laugh and remember some of the calls I once got.

I survived 20 calls.

I had trouble figuring out what commands or sequence of words would work, but after a bit I think I got the hang of it, although I still wasn't sure what to do with a broken mouse.

The graphics were well done. I liked the echo the mechanical keyboard sound effects were making as I typed on my own mechanical keyboard. B-)

I found that hitting certain shortcut keys like "F" for fullscreen would trigger if the caller hung up while I was typing, resulting in a jarring change in window dimensions. I also accidentally opened the accessibility menu a few times.

I got a perfect performance review, and the screaming was very loud and made me glad no one else was home when I was playing.

Jupiter_Hadley2 May 2022, 13:19

Really funny and well written game! I included it in my Ludum Dare compilation video series, if you’d like to take a look. :) https://youtu.be/QO-q-Xmgol0

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