Video Telefaxer 570X by Hammers
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I would advise the download version if you can :)
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You are the lucky guy at the office who gets to use the amazing VIDEO TELEFAXER 570X! It's like 2 Fax Machines in one! And a VCR. And a washing machine. And...
Your job is to send as many faxes as you can. Keep completing orders before they run out of time! Click on the orders to open the instruction manuals, and go to the given page to find out what to do.
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This game was designed to see if it was possible to make a game based on real life instruction manuals for real life appliances.
Yes that's right the instructions manuals used in this game are actual manuals from actual machines. I hope that isn't considered breaking the rules. I don't actually include them in the game, only link to websites where you already find them. And they're not really the game, just the way of telling you how to play the game.
There's more to this fax machine than faxing. If you get through a few orders you'll see there's some other stuff going on. I would have loved to include loads more appliance types and loads more manuals and loads more instructions, but alas this is the way of the game jam. I think I got enough in though for a quick bit of fun :)
Assets used
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Fonts:
http://www.1001fonts.com/digital-7-font.html
http://www.hipsthetic.com/alien-encounters-free-80s-font-family/
Sounds:
http://soundbible.com/851-Fax-Machine.html
http://soundbible.com/1070-Dial-Tone.html
I would advise the download version if you can :)
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You are the lucky guy at the office who gets to use the amazing VIDEO TELEFAXER 570X! It's like 2 Fax Machines in one! And a VCR. And a washing machine. And...
Your job is to send as many faxes as you can. Keep completing orders before they run out of time! Click on the orders to open the instruction manuals, and go to the given page to find out what to do.
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This game was designed to see if it was possible to make a game based on real life instruction manuals for real life appliances.
Yes that's right the instructions manuals used in this game are actual manuals from actual machines. I hope that isn't considered breaking the rules. I don't actually include them in the game, only link to websites where you already find them. And they're not really the game, just the way of telling you how to play the game.
There's more to this fax machine than faxing. If you get through a few orders you'll see there's some other stuff going on. I would have loved to include loads more appliance types and loads more manuals and loads more instructions, but alas this is the way of the game jam. I think I got enough in though for a quick bit of fun :)
Assets used
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Fonts:
http://www.1001fonts.com/digital-7-font.html
http://www.hipsthetic.com/alien-encounters-free-80s-font-family/
Sounds:
http://soundbible.com/851-Fax-Machine.html
http://soundbible.com/1070-Dial-Tone.html
Amazing sound design!
Never would I have thought that sending a fax could be fun :)
I really appreciated the detail that was put into making the whole environment interactive. I would very much like to see this become a series of games about retro appliances.
Congratulations for this great idea and excellent execution!
anyway, love the graphics, feels the oldies vibe from it
the gameplay easy to jump to, but some mechanic need a bit of understanding, the other like delay fax need reading a bit
but very immersive and realistic experience, props!
When I heard all these "beep" sounds I immediately remember my first attempt to use a real one. It was really hard that time, thou!
But it was so fun to use it again, btw.
The ability to load the pdf manual for the real fax makes me laugh.
It's a bit like "don't stop talking and nobody explodes".
It's really funny that you use a real fax notice.
I took time to understand and was looking the notice saying "huh..." i finally did it without notice.
I've lose after three completed orders but i've found the game a bit repetitive.
Also, this is a really nice game for a 48h made game.
Great job ! Continue ;)
However, this is a good job, continue like this, maybe try to include a "Help menu " instead of sending us to the instruction pdf.
Great job otherwise, keep creating games !
http://fireside.gamejolt.com/post/jam-favorites-ludum-dare-36-eyjmnpkp
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