Nuke Tech Experiment Labs

by ubershmekel

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.89

Fun★★★★★★★★★★4.04

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.68

Theme★★★★★★★★★★4.09

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.02

Audio★★★★★★★★★★3.96

Humor★★★★★★★★★★4.39

Mood★★★★★★★★★★4.11

Will you push the button?

Hello, and thank you for volunteering for our study here at Nuke Tech. The personal information you provided will not be used against you. Nuke Tech, we’re not evil, at all. Let’s Begin!

Credits

* Music - Or Litany
* Story - Rom Weissman
* Code & art - Yuval Greenfield

Spoilers and clues

!> Experiment 4 - drag away bugs to reveal the button then press it
!>
!> Experiment 5 - tap the right side of the rock
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!> Experiment 6 - tap all the fake buttons to find the real one
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!> Experiment 7 - tap on the right side of the button to push it left, tap its top to push it down. Get the button into the socket at the bottom left.
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!> Experiment 8 - drag away the bugs quickly. This is hardest with a touch pad, easier with a mouse, and easiest with a touch screen.

Comments26

mudlee3 Oct 2022, 15:04

I feel lucky to be the first reviewer. This was awesome! All the music, the graphics and everything was well aligned. I played through all variants, but could not manage to finish any of them, because I have only a touchpad now, so the insects coming towards to the button stopped me clicking :) I loved the best the sarcastic lady ;) Where did you get those tracks? Text to speech?

Hora-Timer3 Oct 2022, 15:06

Wow!! that's amazingly simple. I really liked your creativity

OldDog3 Oct 2022, 15:23

oh~ yes,yes, I like this simple game but funny game so much,but how to pass the 7 th level,pull this button to the hole? alse , nice game idea

ubershmekelauthor4 Oct 2022, 08:12

Thank you for the kind words. I'm glad you enjoyed it. @mudlee The voices were either recorded live or generated with AWS Polly.

der_finski4 Oct 2022, 12:38

Nice game, never thought id enjoy clicking a button,
the challanges werent too hard (thank god)

Kaech4 Oct 2022, 12:59

It feels so good to press that red button... Great minigames!

Nahuelito5 Oct 2022, 01:27

This was absolutely amazing. I don't have anything to add. Amazing game, super creative and extremely well executed

JuanRod7075 Oct 2022, 01:47

Such a great experience, kudos to you for getting all that content in the game.

jabsatz5 Oct 2022, 12:51

loved it, the subsequent playthroughs added a lot :smile:

Helzinko5 Oct 2022, 19:00

Simple but really fun entry, enjoyed playing it. Good job

OwlyCode5 Oct 2022, 22:06

The mechanics are simple but the writing is so good that it feels immersive and fun to play. I had a minor bug on collisions, sometime clicks were not taken into account (the button that moves up and down triggers the click sound but the level doesn't end).

ubershmekelauthor5 Oct 2022, 22:51

@owlycode thanks for the report. I had that experience too. What's happening is that you click-down (press) on the button, but click-up (release) outside the button, which cancels the click. That's how most buttons work on the web (including this comment's "publish" button). This is a bit surprising, especially with the way the sounds work. I might make the click-down sound a bit more like a "tap" sound and the mouse-up sound more strong, because it feels like a bug. So you can tell when you really clicked it.

@olddog I added spoilers to the description above - what you need to do is to tap on the side of the button to *push* the button to the hole.

IzhVaryag6 Oct 2022, 03:25

It was fun and some times hard. Good job!

T1mon6 Oct 2022, 06:13

Wow, that's cool. Sooo simple but fun. You're a genius!

Faust_Mi6 Oct 2022, 08:12

Great idea with a theme and a red button press! Good job!

ruruie6 Oct 2022, 16:03

This was actually hilarious!

Keenan Woodall7 Oct 2022, 15:50

Aw I love this! Really fun game idea and execution - great job. My best was 16.09 seconds total

Sweedy7 Oct 2022, 17:02

Honestly one of my favorite LD51 jam games. Funny as hell, hard as hell, tricky as hell. Love this one

MarcoDeevil7 Oct 2022, 17:07

Simple, fun just great game! dialogues were neat!

amarokczukay7 Oct 2022, 18:12

i loved it! i was laughing all the way thanks to dialogues. it's an extremely clever idea! i really wanted to see a graph of when i was better at the end of the loop, but that's ok. great job!

Wouter527 Oct 2022, 18:53

Such a fun game to play! Pretty dark also, made me think about those experiments in the 80's where someone would click a button believing they would shock someone at the other side.

Voice acting is very well executed.

jk500010 Oct 2022, 13:52

This was really funny. Well done.

ubershmekelauthor10 Oct 2022, 21:40

I have some data to share. The average level reached on the first try, depending on the control group (n=38 unique players based on ip address):

* positive: 6.5
* sociopath: 4.375
* threat: 5.8
* hot: 5.75
* negative: 6.0

So I guess people like encouragement, and prefer not to kill people.

rsninjadev11 Oct 2022, 04:59

Super fun, even was replaying to try to get my time down, got a 15.071. Gives me nostalgic impossible quiz vibes. I would love to see more levels!

LavaMagmo17 Oct 2022, 08:07

Fun game!

Sahan17 Oct 2022, 09:09

Nice game! Has a solid gameplay loop and well executed humor, however it could do with a few more levels :3