Play 'night shift'
1999 Midnight Dispatch's itch.io pageResults
| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Creativity | #253 | 4.327 | 4.327 |
| Enjoyment | #427 | 4.010 | 4.010 |
| Audio | #674 | 3.692 | 3.692 |
| Narrative | #1008 | 3.452 | 3.452 |
| Artwork | #1344 | 3.913 | 3.913 |
Ranked from 104 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?
Everything counts down: the shift clock, every fire's fuse, every road closure. At 00:00 the shift ends and so does the century.
(Optional) Please credit all assets you've used
Synty Studios POLYGON packs, Ultimate SFX Bundle, Universal Retro SFX, 100Free_01 (Musik-Bundle)
(Optional) What would you like to be called if GMTK features your game?
Sam
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WOW this game was so engaging, actually was fighting for my life (or job) there!! Great typing practice too!!
Feel free to check out mine!
OK wow! This game is a well done typing game. took me a bit to realize I could queue continuously, but it was intuitive and I probably just missed an instruction.
I’d love to hear vague radio chatter sounds. Congratulations on making it!
Wow, this game is incredible! Is this really your first game jam? I don't know about the narrative; I didn't really get it. But I love the concept! It's just so fun to type and move your units. I only played rookie mode, so. But hey, maybe you should develop this into a full game. Amazing work!
What a nice game, mate! The way you implement the typing game is so smart. The artworks are also incredible, just by looking at the map I already imagine a really big world build behind your game. The use of SFXs is reasonable, which made your game really responsive, the BGM in the main is also cool. Great jobs done for this game <3
Awesome game. I haven't seen this control mechanic (typing words) used this well before. Good job coming up with a game where it actually makes sense (street names and call names). My only nitpick is that sometimes cars cover up a few letters of the street name. Anyway, the game makes you actually work hard, and I like that.
thank you
It's very impressive to come up with such a game. It's just works! very cool game, very polished. feels good to play
Good job!
Thanks!
Really creative typing game! This is fun to play and really enjoyable. The SFXs are really nice, and the map is really nice. Great game.
Amazing typing game, I really enjoyed it! Sometimes the cars cover the street names, which can be inconvenient, but after a while I started reading the route in advance to work around it. Great artwork and music!
thank you
Hello! A management typing game was not on my list. XD
I really like the visual aspect of this idea, seeing everything on the map gives a good sense of a dispatcher indeed. If was a little unsure if I could avoid taking damage, since sometimes it felt like a lot of events for the same car spawned together. Would be very cool to see a full game with a story built around this!
Here's the VOD (game is at 2:59:00)
thank you very much to playing it!
Wow I loved this! I love typing games, and this is such a creative application of that! Good job!
Really good game !
Pretty cool take on the theme.
we love typing games
thank you
I felt like I was saving a quiet mountain snowy town! I love the particles and voice lines. Took a bit to get the hang of the controls, but once I did the dispatching tension was super fun!
I took a little time to understand the game because I don’t quite understand English! BUT after understanding it, you quickly get sucked away from the game because you want to keep playing. It’s a game that I don’t think will become addictive very soon, and for me, it’s very creative!
Very creative, as you saw on stream took a minute for me to get to grips but once I was into it I was fully immersed in being a dispatcher!
thank you for playing!
This is pretty good! It took me a second to understand how to issue the commands, one street at a time. Once I figured it out, I had fun! Great job!
incredibly creative and a lot of fun!
thank you for the playing!
The game is really fun! I love the art style and sound for the game! The idea is very creative. Its very polished too. Definitely a solid entry :)
This game was a lot of fun! The gameplay flows really well and all the visual and audio feedback work very well, especially when you make a typo because you immediately know you need to correct it. Another small thing I noticed was that typing Space when the textbox is empty does nothing, which felt great because I have a habit of pressing Spacebar after every word hahaha
As others said, I also struggled to read the road names when the units were over them on Normal difficulty. Perhaps this could be solved by drawing the road names over every other text, maybe bolded so it's even more visible.
The only thing that left me a bit confused were the calls saying it's already past midnight for them. I checked them twice, but nothing seemed to really happen, so I was confused about their purpose. It didn't impact gameplay negatively, but it did leave me curious.
Overall, amazing job!
thank you for feedback!