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A jam submission

Trust No <Code>View game page

Do you trust developers to code reality itself?
Submitted by Spwil (@SpwilDev), yuki 🌨️ (@sutabuni), Gold Roingus Studios — 1 hour, 2 minutes before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Overall#124.0804.080
Enjoyment#284.1044.104
Gameplay#303.9253.925
Innovation#463.9553.955
Theme#464.2244.224
Audio#693.8513.851
Visuals#714.4184.418

Ranked from 67 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

How does the game fit the theme?
The game requires you to inspect code that can rewrite reality.

What code and assets did you not make from scratch during the jam (if any)?
None, All of it was made by us 3.

How many people worked on the game?
3

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Submitted(+3)

Great job with your scores! It was a great game and deserved the results!

Submitted(+2)

great game! Love the art and the innovation of the theme! The gameplay was great too

Developer

Thank you for trying it out!! I'm glad to hear you liked the art, innovation and gameplay!!

Submitted(+2)

That was a RUSH. At first I thought this was corporate sim with just reading your co-workers code. But it was like reading a story via code. DOOD FIREMANS NEEDS TO CHILL OUT.
The game is really fun and sometimes I forgot that there was a possible 2nd or 3rd file which made me make some funny mistakes. I also love the UI of the game and every visual aspect. This feels like a really well polished steam game. Really fun and great game, amazing work team :D

The only thing that felt a bit rough was scroll wheeling would jump me too much , and because if this it was hard to find messages I missed. But its a really small detail that it's not crazy important.

Developer(+1)

Thank you for trying it out!!! I'm glad you got invested with Firemans' shenannigans HAHA.

There are a couple of UX problems with the game as you've mentioned with the file check button on the top, and also the scroll wheel. I think those are something we will definitely fix later!

I'm really glad to hear that you had fun! Thank you again for the praise!!

Submitted(+2)

Oh my god, did I enjoy having a game version of basically my job :'D Fantastic work, loved the gameplay, visuals and audio was really immersive. The messages flooding your inbox that are not code related were very appreciated as well, adding that layer of just hectic energy while you are on your shift and it was fun to see story progression with some characters and basically how much more code is broken. Congratulations on finishing a game for the jam!

Developer

Thank you so much for giving it a go! I'm glad the game resonates with your job xD. I'm also happy to hear you appreciate the inbox with random references to pop culture as well! Highly appreciate your kind comment and your experience with it!

Submitted(+3)

This game is absolutely amazing! It was genuinely so much fun to play! Even the animations are super smooth, and the text in the code is written incredibly well. You did a great job telling the story through very short text—that's impressive. The animations are hilarious!
The controls feel really nice. Without exaggeration, this is my favorite game from this game jam so far!

Developer

Wow thank you so much for the high praise! I'm really glad that you resonate a lot with the art and narrative. Huge credits to my teammate for  that one! 

Submitted(+2)

I really enjoyed playing your game! I got really stressful, which I think was the intent. It is sort of funny though that doing right is the most boring option and if you do bad things you get rewarded with funny stuff happening on the camera. So it’s not only fighting bad code but also your own bad impulses.

I did have some issues with how much the text scrolled in the messaging app making it a bit hard to handle. I do think the number of messages and lack of priority to the ones that were new was intentionally bad UX, so I’m not gonna complain about that. But if the scroll step was a bit smaller would have been nice. There’s also a whole lot of work that must have gone into those meme-texts and the UX in the app combined with feeling stressed means I really quickly skimmed them. Which is fine, but also a bit unfair to the work that must have gone into them. =)

I did have a lot of fun playing though, so not really complaining.

Play-through with more feedback:

Developer(+1)

Heya! Thank you so much for your detailed feedback and even with your gameplay video as well! It was a lot of fun watching how you play and I must say, you're probably one of the most detailed and safest gamers I've seen so far! 

I noticed that you mentioned the code is a bit hard because of the font. We addressed that issue but its kinda hard to have a balance of aesthetics and also font at the same time. I originally wanted to add an accessibility setting to change the font but I didn't have time unfortunately. 

I do apologize if you felt overwhelmed when playing the game! The game kinda strives on chaos a bit more (which you kinda noticed after retrying the game to accept everything xD). Originally, we wanted to add some good rewards as well (like a plant changing in the office, etc) but as for game jams go, we didn't have enough time! I also find it very interesting that you rejected code with missing brackets () which was not really intentional in the game design xD. 

The scrolling is definitely the most common complaint in the game and you're not the only one! Definitely something that we should've take into account for. You've also mentioned adding a filter to the chat system which could definitely be something we look into more later on! The checklist and the X symbols also seemed to cause a bit of confusion which is really useful feedback for us! The consistency between the symbols on the game screen and the results screen needs to be fixed since right now, the game only keeps track on how many u rejected and accepted on the game screen but on the results screen, it takes into account how many u got wrong or right regardless if u reject or accept! 

Again, I want to give you the biggest thanks for playing our game and even sharing footage of it! It's super useful feedback that we can learn from! I wish you to have a super pleasant day!

Submitted(+2)

Game was extremely enjoyable from start to finish. Everything is incredibly polished. The only complaint I could have is that the scrolling is too fast. Other than that - peak experience.

Developer

Thank you for trying it out and for your high praise! I'm really glad you find the game extremely enjoyable! I completely agree with you! Clicking the scrollbar with your mouse is a much better experience but I forgot to take into account people's first instinct to just scroll with their scroll wheel which is a bit too harsh in terms of speed, so you're definitely not the only one! Again, thank you for your kind words!

Submitted(+2)

I like the gameloop and all the little references in the game.

Developer

Thank you for trying it out! I'm glad you liked the gameloop and the references! xD

Submitted(+2)

As an IT person, my email inbox would never be that small, because I'd get lost trying to scroll through it. I would've made the screen adjustable, but aside from that, it's a very neat management game for coding.

Developer

Hey! Thank you for trying our game! Yeah that's completely fair, you're not the only one who's struggling with the size and the scrolling. I think I should've made the scrolling less harsher as well but we didn't have time to playtest unfortunately. Glad you liked the game though!

Submitted(+2)

pretty nice, though i feel like my attention was pretty divided

Developer (1 edit)

Thank you for trying it out! There is quite a bit going on but that's completely intentional! Though the main focus of the game is reviewing the code to prevent bad things from happening. I do apologize if the game divided your attention too much!

Submitted(+2)

Seems to be a papers please type game but code approval and a lot of fire!

Really nice idea, it was fun watching the office in flames.

Developer

Indeed it is! Not just fire, there's other wacky stuff if u get to more days xD.

Thank you for trying it out! I'm glad to hear that you had fun!

Submitted(+2)

Audio was a bit loud, but gameplay was very fun and there was a lot of content! One minor thing, the scrolling is a bit inconvenient, especially with the pinned boss message + the 30 message spam making it hard to navigate...

Developer (1 edit)

Heya! Thanks for playing our game! Sorry to hear that the audio was a bit loud! There is a settings icon on the bottom right that you can adjust the volume of the music and SFX on!
   


I don't disagree with the scrolling being inconvenient! You're not the only one who's struggling with it and its definitely something that we need to work on more after the game jam!

Thanks for the feedback!!

Submitted(+2)

really nice game, thanks for sharing :)

Developer

Heya! Thank you for trying out our game!! Glad you liked it! ^-^

Submitted(+2)

This is incredibly polished and impressive for the 1 week jam limit! I may have set the office on fire out of curiosity for what would happen. This also triggered some deeply rooted trauma since my job also involves doing code reviews daily. 10/10

Developer

Thank you for your kind comments! I'm sorry this game brings up your trauma but I'm glad you still enjoyed it!

Submitted(+2)

Very creative and very funny. And I appreciate it being mobile friendly! It's very well polished, too. It feels like a complete game!

Maybe I tapped the wrong buttons or wasn't paying attention, but I'd like to see more going on in the apartment scene. Something like PC parts and takeout boxes piling up!

Developer(+1)

Thank you! I'm glad you liked the game!! 

Originally, we were planning to add PC parts of when the player bought more PC parts (we even had the sprite ready) but I wasn't able to implement it due to time constraints. Perhaps in the future we might add it!

Submitted(+2)

5 stars all the way across. I may or may not have set the office on fire. The steady stream of office humor emails and music was so fun. I'll add this one to my favs and finish it out later.

Nice job of introducing coding concepts without requiring code - also making it more about fun than the code lol.

Developer

Wow thank you for such a high score!! Welp, it do be like that sometimes xD.

I'm glad you liked the office humour! I came up with like a bunch of them! I'm glad you liked the music as well! Props to Dan my teammate for that! 

I'm happy to hear you liked the concept introduction as well! Yuki, my teammate came up with the level design for it and I would say she did a pretty good job!

Submitted(+1)

Great pixel art and music! I didn't expect to be reading code inside the game though lol.

Developer

Thank you!!! I'm glad you liked the pixel art and music! Props to my teammates for those ones! I hope it was a pleasant surprise xD

Submitted(+2)

Good idea, i loved the way you implemented the thème with your game and everything is flawless. 

Developer

Thank you for trying it out and for your kind comment! I'm happy you liked the idea and how we implemented the theme within the game!!

Submitted(+2)

I had a lot of fun playing it, congrats ! i wish there where some audio feedback if you had a great day or a bad day, and there were no music, i don't know if that was normal... But the art is really cool, and the concept really fun to play, congrats again !

Developer

Thank you! I'm glad you had fun with it! There's supposed to be multiple music when the day starts and when the day ends. May I ask which platform you play the game on? 

Also I'm glad you liked the art and the concept!

Submitted(+2)

This was a very fun game! I like games where you have to examine code, it feels kinda meta. I loved how some of the code can change the world, it was very funny getting the Australia effect. Great job to the team!

Developer

Thank you!! I'm glad you liked the game! I'm glad you liked the Australia effect as well (I came up with the idea and I live in Australia lol). I'm also glad to hear you liked the code changing the world mechanic. Wished we did a bit more effects though but I guess that's how game jams usually are xD.

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