Ludum Dare #51compo

Optimum Tasks

by somnium

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.67

Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.57

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.79

Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.14

Audio★★★★★★★★★★2.79

Humor★★★★★★★★★★3.54

Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.52

A dystopian puzzle game

Welcome, employee!

An unwise comment during a corporate Townhall meeting has earned you an unusual punishment: Manually sort tasks for the Corporate Mainframe, so that they fit within the 10 seconds window of execution for every task.

...though the tasks might prove to be somewhat more sinister than anticipated...

Information

"Optimum Tasks" is a puzzle game, made in Java, using the LibGDX framework. The art was made using Aseprite.

The game is controlled by mouse. Click on subtasks to move them between the task backlog and the current 10 second cycle.

Tools: Aseprite, libGDX

Comments17

indigo2 Oct 2022, 23:33

Fun that someone else would also come up with an NP-complete puzzler for the "10 seconds" theme.

Cute and funny game! And it has two endings. Basically open world!

Music would have been nice, but I suppose this is not the kind of company where you tune in on the radio while at work.

Nate9543 Oct 2022, 04:59

Oooh I like this! A little too difficult for me at 1AM but I'll come back to it later for sure! Love it so far :)

m113 Oct 2022, 08:27

Great job on the writing - really sold the dystopian corporate nightmare :)

LDJam user 3029873 Oct 2022, 08:30

Managed to finish both endings!

I really enjoyed the writing and humour in this. The sound contributed a lot to making the game feel a bit more immersive and fun to play.

Deniz ARAS3 Oct 2022, 08:31

Thanks to 1337-80Y I escaped and sell bunch of jets so that police can caught our boss.

This is one of the most interesting game ideas in the jam. It is not quite in line with theme but execution and the story was really enjoyable. Great job.

Roboolet3 Oct 2022, 21:23

Love the game. The gameplay in a vacuum is pretty decent, but the story makes it worth playing. I don't really have anything else to add to that, so keep up the good work!

LDJam user 3016204 Oct 2022, 01:08

Very nice.

chemicalcrux4 Oct 2022, 01:20

The last puzzle *almost* had me trying to write a script to brute-force it, which I think is in the spirit of the game (:

I like it!

LDJam user 2686475 Oct 2022, 06:33

Fresh take on the theme, and a unique one that

Corporation5 Oct 2022, 20:01

Amazing how you did put such an engaging story into some kind of math puzzle. I realy like my experience, most fun I had this jam for sure.
And you also made it more than one ending, very impressive!)

Shibaya7 Oct 2022, 20:37

That's an great story! Specially for a gamejam! Good job!

PurpledArtFrog10 Oct 2022, 07:51

Nice take on a puzzle game - a simple game mechanic which you managed make stand out :thumbsup_tone1:

Real_Human_100010 Oct 2022, 16:09

Great project! One would think that such a simple and monotonous puzzle would drive people away, but I got to one ending and decided to dive back in in the hopes that there would be more. And there was! I liked the story and narration. Everything is polished and works well. Very easy at first, but by the end is very challenging; I had to break out a calculator and really spend some time with one of the final puzzles to figure it out!

smilewood11 Oct 2022, 02:11

For puzzles that started off seeming simple that ramped up in difficulty quite quickly in the latter few puzzles. I liked that there were multiple endings, and the story of the game was interesting and worked well with the puzzles; good framing device. Overall a well executed puzzle game, well done!