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A jam submission

Am I The Binary?View game page

A game where you work in a job doing binary.
Submitted by Daq_Vid — 17 hours, 56 minutes before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Audio#203.4713.471
Art#223.8243.824
Polish#243.3533.353
Overall#343.1653.165
Gameplay#482.8242.824
Theme#602.3532.353

Ranked from 17 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

Arcade

No

Not an Arcade Game

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Submitted(+1)

i have been tricked into learning new abilities and expanding my horizons in the realm of mathematics  :(

Developer

Hah! Welcome to the realm of education :D

Thank you for giving it a try!

Submitted(+1)

For a game jam, this is the most informative tutorial ever. The game really turned a hard topic into an engaging one. Quizzes were so shocking, tension raised every time when needed to answer byte length binaries.

Developer

Hah! Thank you for your comments.

I do wish I could implement more of a "shocking" theme towards the game, but I continued to make it more towards an educational-style game.

Thank you for trying it out regardless!

Submitted(+1)

I actually loved this, and did not expect to because I hate math. However, you made it approachable and fun to work through. A very original idea, and well executed. I love it. Great job!

Developer

That was a scary read LOL. I'm glad that you enjoyed the game, even though it was math-intensive :)

Regardless, thank you for your feedback!

Submitted(+1)

this is probably the most original game in this jam!! i didnt expected any of this!! it was surprisingly calm and i HOPE that i learned how to read binary code now.. i'll proably play it again to understand it better, the voice acting was also a peculiar choice and i liked the art as well! for an education game, its good!

Developer

Thank you for those comments. I hope you enjoyed learning a new skill! 

I was quite split between educational and an actual game, so I did my best to blend them both. 

Submitted(+1)

you really nerd sniped me with this one!

i love the artstyle, it's super cute and you're explaining it pretty well, though i think it might be helpful to include decimal analogies, e.g. in decimal each digit increases by 10x, which is why there are 10 digits (0-9), while in binary it increases by 2x, which is why we only need 0 and 1

in the binary practice section i got the same numbers, like 1111, or even just 1 repeatedly a few times in a row, which might make it seem like it's broken, i also got that occasionally in the levels but not as often

i couldn't buy a drink the first time for some reason? even though i had enough

it's nice for education, but it does get pretty repetitive as a game, if you want to expand on this, i think it could be cool to do more programming related binary things, like boolean logic, bitwise operations, etc. maybe even encodings like ASCII or UTF-8 (though don't make people remember the codepoints haha)

Developer

That's amazing to hear! I was considering the decimal analogies, but I was just not sure how I could format it.

I also am aware of that repeated bug, which I thought would be fixed, but I guess I didn't execute it correctly... And sorry about not being able to purchase a drink.

Thank you for your suggestions and detailed opinion! Much love to you, binary lover.

Submitted(+1)

Cool education tool, but not that fun as a game, because it gets very complex very fast, but nice idea!

Developer

Glad you gave it a shot. Thank you for playing!

Submitted(+1)

I showed this to my friends on university, they're thinking to translate it to our language and show to your teachers! I love this education game. Even tho I got only pass the tutorial, I really learned more about binary and in a really fun and challenge way. Great job bro!


Also some bugs I found during gameplay: on the step where you have to answer Yes or No, the game is case sensitive so if you write "yes" in lowercase, the game may softlock you, I don't know if on windows / linux builds this will work but on the web version this caused a softlock.

Developer(+1)

That is very heartwarming to hear. Thank you for learning along with Simon!

I am not at all aware of the softlock on the text, but thank you for bringing my attention to that. And thank you for your feedeback! 

Submitted(+1)

Nice education tool!

I only managed to get through 2 days before I felt like I was actually "working" and my brain checked out.  Knowing binary and being able to quickly sum powers of two helps a lot.

I loved the voice acting and the tutorial section!

Good game!

Also please play my game! <3

Developer

Glad you enjoyed, and thank you for the feedback!

Submitted(+1)

Honestly, I thought the idea was really fun. Great tutorial and voice acting. I made it through a few levels, but my brain was already tired, so I ended up stopping. Still, it’s a great game, congratulations on your work! 

Developer(+1)

Thank you sir!

Submitted(+1)

Nice artwork, and a topic I am fairly well versed in. Didn’t see the message about not clicking the music box in the web build until after I clicked it. My bad for not reading. I liked the way you taught binary as I’m sure those who didn’t know beforehand know well now.

Great job.

Developer(+1)

Hah, yeah. The boombox actually made some websites go "Boom" as well, which I cannot reason why it's broken. 

And for someone who's experienced in binary too, I'm glad to hear that I taught it well. Hope you enjoyed the game, and thank you for your feedback!

Submitted(+1)

I wanted to listen to some tunes, but clicking the radio froze the game for me. Luckily I played enough in the practice round to have my fill and i was pretty satisfied with my experience already. (Honestly I wasn't really looking forward to "time to work" when the real game began)

although I didn't want to continue after 5 minutes, the game was presented very nicely and i enjoyed it!

nice atmosphere, relaxing, and well presented topic! A good edu-tainment type of game with an interesting clean art style. I could see this as a fun homework assignment in middleschool/highschool. Well done!

Developer

That's relieving to hear! I did focus on half being a teaching aspect, and another half being a "homework" type of section. I'm sorry about your experience for the boombox, but I could not figure it out for a good while, haha.

Thank you for your feedback!