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A jam submission

Hired Up!View game page

Fire them!
Submitted by YGDA Studio — 4 hours, 16 minutes before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Audio#493.9093.909
Visuals#4953.6363.636
Overall#5363.2583.258
Gameplay#6393.0003.000
Enjoyment#7223.0913.091
Innovation#8932.8182.818
Theme#9023.0913.091

Ranked from 11 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 employees applying for the job cannot be trusted! Some are simply lazy, while others may be saboteurs.

What code and assets did you not make from scratch during the jam (if any)?
SFX were pulled online.

How many people worked on the game?
15

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Comments

Submitted(+2)

Visuals and sounds are awesome. Gameplay was a bit confusing. Had two employees lock me down with physics collisions so I had to fire one of them to escape lol.

Submitted(+2)

Love the animations and overall it's pretty cool

Submitted(+2)

great visuals the animation was so good! 

Submitted(+2)

Absolutely LOVED the Teto song!! Visuals were cute, concept was very fun to play with, but my only complaint was the gameplay, I felt a bit confused on what I was doing wrong, I wasn't able to get very far even after a few tries.. But I see a ton of potential here :o

Teto song maker here. Thanks for the love and support. Hope you enjoyed playing it more than we enjoyed making it lol.

(1 edit) (+1)

I love the games you guys make. They are creative and well-put-together. The music is amazing. I have always wanted to try adding vocals to a game but never have, and this is really inspiring me to try writing my own music or at least vocals for existing music. This game did feel rushed and there were some components that felt that they needed more polish (such as 100 being too many applicants, being able to hire the same applicant 5 times at the end, and VFX & SFX for when the day was almost done). In your previous games you guys chose a very intuitive game theme and it was very clear how to play and what to do in the game. This game was a little challenging figuring out how to play the game. In terms of hard skills, the art, music, coding, all seem to be solid. The main difference between this game and the previous games was the design of the game play (including its intuitiveness). With school starting and 15 people in the jam, the real struggle wasn't your skill or anything similar, but it was the large team size, with a short jam duration, with the pressure of school starting.

Although this might sound critical, I want you guys to know that you are all very smart and very talented game developers.  All the hard components are solid, but the main component holding this game back is just the design and polish. However, you guys have a unique challenge in that you have 15 people working on a game while school is starting. I cant imagine anyone (myself included) making a game even close to the quality that you guys made with those constraints :)

Also for the artists and musicians, I am planning on learning basic 2D art (including pixel art) and music design. Are there any free videos (on youtube or elsewhere) or articles that you guys recommend I read? I have never taken an art or music class (or even a  proper coding class) so I am starting completely from scratch.

Yeah, this one is certainly far from my favorite. Too many other things were going on at the time meaning it didn't get nearly enough attention. Thank you so much for your praise though!

Submitted(+2)

Nice one, I love the music and fired animation. It is little laggy though, when you colide with the worker it glitches, also the light is inconsistent in the corners and close to the walls. But otherwise with little bit more explanation or tutorial it is good jam game.

Submitted(+2)

COOL!

Submitted(+4)

I couldn't quite tell what the symbols above the employees heads meant or why I would fire them once hired. That said I fired everyone because the punch is really satisfying! 

Submitted (1 edit) (+2)

On the first run i fired everyone i could xD, the flow of the game feels good. great job! Please try my game out :)

Submitted(+2)

really good game

(+1)

Cool