Damn! This is really good. It seems so simple but has hidden complexity. Great job man!
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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Visuals | #41 | 3.429 | 3.429 |
| Fun Factor | #58 | 2.857 | 2.857 |
| Gameplay | #60 | 2.714 | 2.714 |
| Overall | #77 | 2.690 | 2.690 |
| Audio | #85 | 2.286 | 2.286 |
| Theme Implementation | #87 | 2.643 | 2.643 |
| Special Object Implementation | #100 | 2.214 | 2.214 |
Ranked from 14 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
How is your game related to the Theme and Special Object?
The theme "Freeze" fits my game because viruses cause the computer to freeze and stop working properly.
The special object "Whistle" appears as Mr. Whistle, an antivirus helper who alerts the player with a whistle sound whenever a new virus infects the computer.
Comments
Very cool!! I loved the presentation of this and it was engaging and enjoyable. Great aesthetic!! I liked how there were variations on the virus minigames, it kept it more interesting (though I do wish there was some sort of punishment for doing them badly- like missing the buttons/ pressing while it was set to 'wait'). I did also have some lag issues, but it was quite minor even though I did all upgrades, and I managed to complete the game just fine!
Super happy I checked this out, congrats on managing to pull off such a polished looking & complete little game :D
Great game. Clever take on the freeze theme with the virus freezing the BTC miner and the whistle anti-cheat.
I had a great time playing this! The Windows98 aesthetic is always good fun. There were enough interconnected mechanics to always give me something to do, which is important for this type of game. Though I wish I could have moved the windows around so I could see multiple at once.
Very cool game, I had a very similar idea and it's good that I didn't try to make it as you probably have implemented it much better then I could ever have. I won the game but at some point it started freezing (lol) alot because I was generating too much BTC (probably too many nodes spawning at once). gj
I love the take on the theme! Really fun and smart. Just so you know, on Firefox I had some issues with the text as it's not appearing (it's making weird squares) but it's working fine on Safari.
Also, at some point the game started lagging like crazy which prevented me from paying my debt (I reached like 100k$). I think it's the multiple occurence of the numbers in the botton which must be huge at some point. I hope you can fix it so I can finish the game!
Congrats!
The style? 10/10 I will pay for a game with this style. The gameplay is just repetitive and I dont' think the theme is really good implemented and interesting. I agree with the others comments so nothing really new to say. I got to 100.000 and after that is just all about the same. Really neat and I can see its full finished.
I thought it was well-put-together. I didn't love the viruses -- instead of feeling like an enjoyable challenge, it just sort of felt like a chore, eventually a "click on another tab and hit a snooze button" chore. I don't think I needed more than 1 or 2 levels of the virus thing, I don't think I ever used more than two charges before one came back.
I like the idea of a market and timing it, but in this case I'm not sure it added much -- given how slowly the market moved, and how often upgrades would give you big increases, it seemed like the best move was just "sell regardless".
If I ever got a virus that whistled at me like that constantly, I would get a new computer. I really liked the different virus mini-games. I would have like to be able to purchase some sort of automation for selling BTC without needing to hold the button down. I spent the majority of the game on that screen, even ignoring viruses and going mad while waiting to hit $1,000,000. I didn’t bother fully upgrading everything. I liked the exchange mechanic too, but it would have been nice to see the price changes be more meaningful. Maybe bigger swings would make me want to focus on increasing my mining capacity while the price is low on exchange and focus on selling when high. In the current state there was really no reason to wait for a better price. Overall a great game, very polished, and I enjoyed it! Nice work!


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