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A jam submission

[WIP] Job Bot: A Life (and Death) SimView game page

Made for the GameDev.tv game jam '26
Submitted by emgee — 1 day, 11 hours before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Sound#7611.0442.000
Story#7661.0442.000
Music#7710.8701.667
Fun#7931.2192.333
Theme#7961.0442.000
Mechanics#7991.2192.333
Aesthetics#8041.2192.333
Overall#8051.2192.333

Ranked from 3 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

How many people worked on this game in total?
1

Did you use any existing assets? If so, list them below.
Font, Palette (see in-page description)

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Comments

Submitted

I honestly didn’t really understand how to play the game or what the main goal was. No matter what I pressed, I mostly just heard the robot’s squeaky voice. But it’s cool that you added sound feedback, and I think you did a really nice job with the fonts and overall text style

Developer (1 edit) (+1)

It's a bit lost in translation as the submission page doesn't contain the context of the main page, but the goal is given on the primary objective (second? screen in the game). Essentially to keep your fuel count above 0, so that you can stay alive. However, the game is largely unfinished due to outside time constraints that took me away from the jam. I really appreciate you checking it out, especially as a download - thank you. P.s. the materials editor in Unreal is really cool and may have spent way too much time on that part, I do love the outcome with the animated fonts though - thank you for noticing! ;) 

Submitted

I can't say I fully understood what was going on, but it was definitely an unusual experience 😄 The concept is interesting, although I have to admit the main bot's voice could use a little upgrade.

Maybe I should develop a voice modulator for him so he can finally speak with different voices and sound a bit more professional 😁

Developer(+1)

Thank you for playing. I had gotten used to the idea that as it's a download, people weren't likely to bother, so really appreciate that you did. Yes I found the voice changer page without much time spent! Actually I really like how the voice came out and it was pretty much how I  envisaged it to be. It keeps some underlying hint of humanity that (to me) ties well with the idea of the robot being a worked metaphor for us all "adulting" through life and sometimes falling apart in the process.

Submitted(+1)

What a beautiful face that robot has! The setting touches deep philosophical questions, and will teach us all a few important lessons in the end! Also, You will have to make voice overs for my next game! :)

Developer

Thank youuuu, I'm improving at Aesprite too! I already planned the items, tasks and probabilities for each item, but as you know had to stop and just couldn't get to it. I would love to do the voices (as long as you like Dalek)!