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A jam submission

Throbber Inc.View game page

A game where you have to load and manage browser windows with impatient users and fierce corporate deadlines.
Submitted by CrownSheep — 4 hours, 22 minutes before the deadline
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Throbber Inc.'s itch.io page

Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Visuals#19642.7623.444
Creativity & Theme#20602.8513.556
Audio#20792.4053.000
Overall#21742.6013.244
Seriousness#23642.6733.333
Enjoyment#23932.3162.889

Ranked from 9 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

Game Engine

Other/Custom

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Comments

Submitted

A simple yet effective game! It's got the bones it needs, and the premise is easy enough to pick up. I did have some small audio skips/bugs (popped a few times). It's an interesting twist on the theme to use the throbber for the spin mechanic.

- Mica

Submitted

This should be the poster child for Spin to Win. I have spun but I have yet to win tho. Great job, not sure if you fixed anything but i found the spinning very satisfying.The design even tho it's simple, it's really really clean. Great job!

Submitted

Hands down the greatest game name of all time. The split second decision making is pretty cool here, but the controls felt kinda janky and not very responsive (in more ways than what I thought was intentional. Wish the levels did more than just add more tabs, but what's here is pretty neat! Love the concept of a little guy who makes the throbbers in your computer turn.

Submitted (1 edit)

Love this game!! For me the mouse bug appears to be fixed when I went into fullscreen. The controls were a bit finicky at first, but once I got the hang of them they became fairly intuitive. My only other suggestion would be to make Day 1 a bit easier, so players can get the hang of the controls without failing several times first. But overall an awesome game :D

(btw you can set itch to always play the iframe in fullscreen in the game settings, under embed options!)

Developer (1 edit) (+1)

I made some bug fixes now, hopefully you should now be able to spin the mouse more easily and also hear the audio. Would you please consider rerating the game? (PS. took you advice and found the setting for fullscreen, thank you so much!)

Submitted

Rerated now! I love the choice of music - it suits the really well and immersed me in the game. and the controls are so much better now!!

Submitted

This is a cool idea but it's a bit buggy. I noticed that the mouse did not match the location of my real cursor so there were times where the custom cursor was in the center of the screen, but my mouse was outside of the play area. I also did not have any audio either. The game was also a bit difficult to spin the browsers even though I was moving my mouse in a circle. I think this has the potential to be a really good game, but these few bugs are holding it back a lot. 

Developer

I made some bug fixes now, hopefully you should now be able to spin the mouse more easily and also hear the audio. Would you please consider rerating the game?

Submitted

The controls feel way nicer now and the audio works! There is a new issue where I can't see the progress bars for the desktops, and I can't see the amount I need to complete the day. I updated my rating though.

Developer

Thank you so much, what resolution are you playing on?

Submitted

My res is 1920x1080. Hope this helps you figure it out. 

Submitted (1 edit)

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This game was a little difficult for me, due to the fact that the game seemed to not register me spinning the wheel. I would make circular motions, move side to side, and possibly every other way of moving a mouse, yet there'd always be a decent chance that the wheel would just spin side to side and then I'd lose. I was only able to make it to Day 2 before I couldn't spin anything. I don't know if it's something with my PC or mouse, or if I just played wrong but that was my experience. There was also no audio for me.

Developer

I'm aware of the audio not playing, and will fix it soon. The mouse issue, it needs a bit of practice but I agree it's kind of annoying it's a quirk with the browser where I can't force the mouse's postion I will try to adjust it.

Developer (1 edit) (+1)

I made some bug fixes, hopefully you should now be able to spin the mouse more easily and also hear the audio. Would you please consider rerating the game?

Submitted

I just replayed and rerated the game and I enjoyed it a lot more now. I felt the difficulty ramp up through days and ended up making it to Day 7 before I lost. The wheels are now easier to spin but the handles are still the same size so it felt stressful when trying to spin and you clicked off, which added a nice touch of difficulty in the later days. The sound effects are very good, and the music was also very excellent. Overall, great game!

Submitted

maybe (or definitely) just for me, but its just a white screen with the custom cursor
also the custom cursor is like MUCH higher than your normal cursor

Developer

I now added it to the description.

You have to play fullscreen, you can't play in the embed

Submitted

oh hey cool! sorry for rating your game really low just because i cant play it (i didnt know you can report the game for being broken to remove it from queue), but now ill do another one with honest review

Submitted

hey uh i tried the game the second time, i dont think it changed that much

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Developer(+1)

I made some bug fixes now, hopefully you should now be able to spin the mouse more easily and also hear the audio. Would you please consider rerating the game?

Submitted

hello! sorry for responding to this late, but i did rerate your game! just thought id let you know on what to improve before the jam ends so, here it is:

  • mouse randomly teleporting after completing a window
  • the progress on window seemingly taking a bit longer than what it looks? im not sure if this is intentional, but it made the game overall easier and idk if thats a good or a bad thing, but considering my next point its really a bad thing
  • ignoring a red window and just speedrunning the others dont really punish you, so the game becomes needlessly easier
  • i only ever got to day 3 because i was bored waiting for something to happen but, what does the time do? afaik it doesnt matter?

also uh on the audio part, i didnt play this game with audio on so it was pretty awkward but i didnt want to low it rate just because i didnt use audio, so i rated the audio category 3 stars!

overall good game to play for like 5 minutes (perfect for a gamejam!), and the art style like the ms paint drawings is really a selling point (at least to me)!