Disgruntled Employee by Jmcrafty
Hey Jammers
I wanted to make a full game for this compo. I managed to get 10 levels and pretty interesting gameplay, so I'm proud of that!
You are Eugene. You are fed up with your dead-end office job and consider taking your miserable life with the gun in your cubicle desk. Suddenly you are interrupted by your boss who informs you that you will be working through the weekend and your birthday. Obviously you decide to save the single bullet for that greedy bastard, as you ascend the corporate prison to your fate.
Only works on PCs so far. Sorry bout that. Enjoy! (For non-Windows users try software called Wine: Thanks to caranha for that tip!)
Z-punch or pick up item
X-switch between gun and hands
Arrow Keys-Movement and aiming
Esc-Quit to title and again to close the game
I wanted to make a full game for this compo. I managed to get 10 levels and pretty interesting gameplay, so I'm proud of that!
You are Eugene. You are fed up with your dead-end office job and consider taking your miserable life with the gun in your cubicle desk. Suddenly you are interrupted by your boss who informs you that you will be working through the weekend and your birthday. Obviously you decide to save the single bullet for that greedy bastard, as you ascend the corporate prison to your fate.
Only works on PCs so far. Sorry bout that. Enjoy! (For non-Windows users try software called Wine: Thanks to caranha for that tip!)
Z-punch or pick up item
X-switch between gun and hands
Arrow Keys-Movement and aiming
Esc-Quit to title and again to close the game
Ratings
| Coolness | 65% | 3 |
| Overall | 3.36 | 230 |
| Audio | 3.06 | 218 |
| Fun | 2.94 | 436 |
| Graphics | 3.85 | 113 |
| Humor | 3.48 | 90 |
| Innovation | 2.75 | 605 |
| Mood | 3.24 | 210 |
| Theme | 3.30 | 263 |
The control a bit clunky and I can't tell whether other people will attack or run from you. Otherwise, I love the title screen (with the 'Z to return to work') and the art style.
I got these error on the floor right before the last floor:
ERROR in
action number 1
of Step Event
for object obj_guy:
Error in code at line 51:
if point_distance(x,y,instance_nearest(x,y,obj_ammo).x,instance_nearest(x,y,obj_ammo).y) < 16 {
^
at position 59: Unknown variable x
Also, I can't exit the game afterward, maybe related to error above?
Hey thanks for the game, I enjoyed it! I liked that you don't really have to kill any of the other workers - they just run away. You beef is only with the boss.
There was one bug of note. The first time I entered the boss room, I switched to the gun. Then the dialog started, and I had to press "Z" to forward the dialog, but it also meant that my gun fired at the end before I was ready :-(
Cheers, and thanks for the game!
But good and fun storyline =)
Damn but this is good! Great graphics, great audio, and the dialogue is hilarious. Probably one of the most polished entries of this LD. My only nitpick is that the AI of the other office workers is a bit dumb. (Also, it would be great to have even more things to use as impromptu weaponry, but that would just be an additional goody; the game is perfectly good as it stands.)
I haven't beaten it yet, but I'll probably come back to it. Can't let the job creators win.