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I got bored with writing and started just randomly pressing stuff; we can say that I quit :D

But if the articles were %95 shorter, that would at least make me go through the end.

There was a game in Very Serious GameJam (or something like that) it had a typing mini game in it and you didn't have to accurately press the buttons, it was so fun just smashing keyboard, and reading a whimsical text.

I mean actively "typing"helps player read the thing and feel included(?), it felt like a game, so this mechanic is not to blame but too much realism and this boring office job becomes an actually boring office job lol

Thanks for the game it granted me some insight

P.S: There is nothing wrong with using stock photos, I honestly love seeing memey kinda stuff in jam games.

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I did the same thing lol. Then I realized the place was burning down. Employee of the month right here. 

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Hey, Thanks for a detailed feedback! It is really helpfull when it comes to gaining experience.

Now that i actually played it, it is kinda boring to play. Crazy thing to say for a dev, but yeah. As i have said in a post above, we were delaying balancing and QA, because we didn't really realized the scope of a project and thought that we will manage.
Initially, we were planning to have all kinds of stuff: mini games during typing (like answering to phone calls, or using a fire extinguisher to deal with burning, etc), ingame shop to add a progression to the game among other things. We ended up creating the bare minimum for the typing system and "kitbashing" basic visual assets in 5 days, with last 2 being spent to finish the essential parts and some polish.

As for the texts themselves, i don't think that they need to be THAT short, but shortening them would definitely help. The game actually has shorter texts, which are 2 times shorter. but they appear at level 2 and 3, and only after finishing the long one.
When i was searching about average typing speed of people, i found out it was something like 200 symbols per minute. And at the moment i though "hmm, two hundrod", and my brain just didn't click and i thought it was 200 words. So, yeah.