Minigame: don't engage

Minigame: don't engage

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overall: 2.00
fun: 2.50
innovation: 2.00
theme: 3.75
graphics: 3.25
audio: 2.50
humor: 3.00
mood: 2.00
Try to leave work on time by identifying the social signals/clues.

“Do not reply” is a QTE (quick time event) game.

You are playing as a salaryman, and your goal is to leave work on time. There are challenges ahead—your coworkers like to chat before the end of the workday. To win the game, you need to engage in various types of conversations, but there is one type of speech bubble that you should not interact with: requests from your colleagues. Some of your coworkers will try to pass their unfinished work onto you, and since you always prefer leaving on time and dislike overtime, you need to carefully identify which conversations to engage in.

Some information you might want to know before playing:

Use of AI:
Due to a lack of programming knowledge, ChatGPT was used to assist with scripting. Apart from this, the game’s creative design, art, and sound assets did not involve AI and are not AI-generated.

Art Assets:
Self-made.

Sound assets: from MaouDamashii / 魔王魂 (https://maou.audio/)

Playing instruction

Playtime per round: 45 seconds

Interaction:
Press the keyboard key that corresponds to the coworker’s position to respond to different types of dialogue. Different types of conversations are represented by different icons.
The location of your friendly colleagues and the corresponding keys

Success conditions: Within 45 seconds, you do not accept any colleague requests and do not miss any normal conversations
【Congratulations, you can leave on time :D】

Failure conditions: Missing three normal conversations / accidentally accepting a colleague’s request
【You missed some juicy gossip…:(】

【You have kindly taken over your colleague’s work :D】

Hint:
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