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A jam submission

The Big ComputeView game page

A satirical game about AI companies
Submitted by bartholomheow — 1 hour, 4 minutes before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Narrative#19493.0773.077
Artwork#22753.6153.615
Audio#50942.6542.654
Creativity#59382.9622.962
Enjoyment#68412.4622.462

Ranked from 26 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

How does your game fit the theme?
My game is about the countdown until the AI bubble pops

(Optional) Please credit all assets you've used
see description for full credits

(Optional) What would you like to be called if GMTK features your game?
bartholomheow

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Comments

Submitted

I like the art style and how the feeling of seemingly arbitrary decisions and outcomes fit the narrative. It is very neat that new choices followed from previous ones. Kinda like a vertical-choice, gameboy-style Reigns for running a corpo.

Submitted

Oh yes, I love myself a good AI bashing session! I kinda wish there had been some increase in difficulty, so that the bubble would have eventually bursted, but I had fun with it nonetheless, good job!

Submitted (1 edit)

Game has very nice art style, but gameplay was medicore. I just clicked random stuff and did not felt that I make any progress :/

Submitted

Love the vision and style of this game! As a statement on the AI bubble it works well to have only a vague sense of causality and have the player feel like they're just frantically treading water. If you wanted it to function more as a *game*, then you'd need to give the player more immediate feedback on the results of their choices. Both work, but it's a tradeoff between concept and playability.

Submitted

Very good artstyle and sound, interesting idea to combine decision making game and countdown theme. Some of the lines really make me laugh :) Nice entry, well done!!!

Submitted

Ahaha, loved it and laughed quite a bit! I thought it was impossible to lose but then a few times over I paid for accepting with dignity... I liked the gameplay and the fast pacing of the whole thing. Highest rating hehe

Submitted(+1)

I think this game as a lot of potential! I like the minimal graphics, but maybe the window is a little too small for a text-based game, and clicking to read through each question felt a bit time consuming for a timed game. But I liked the art and music a lot, and overall the idea is pretty smart! Congrats!

Submitted

ok this is kind of funny and is a pretty good commentary of how stupid ai is getting. gameplay seems a bit strange tho

Submitted

For a text-focused game, I'm finding a lot of difficulty in finding correlation for the options that will keep the bubble afloat. It requires context for what the AI bubble is and why it's popping, but even then a lot of the prompts (especially from the robot) just don't offer clear-cut answers aside from the ones that give extremely obvious "do as many unethical things as possible" answers. A little bit more feedback would also have been good to communicate whether a choice was correct or not beyond removing time, maybe like a response from the people.

Submitted

The art is pretty good and the options are funny, also the company name is a nice reference lol

Submitted

A very unusual experience. There is barely any traditional gameplay—you mostly read a scenario and choose between two options. Since English is not my native language, some of the writing was difficult for me to fully understand, but several moments were genuinely funny, especially the joke about speeding up the demo by 4000%.

It works well as a piece of satire and as a humorous idea, but I’m less convinced by it as a game. As a joke or commentary, it definitely has something to offer; as an experience I would want to keep playing, it feels more debatable.

Submitted(+1)

I like GBA design and funny approach to theme.

Congratulations  on your submission!