Jenny & the Guy by Sunzed

made by Sunzed for LD 40 (JAM)

You will be playing Mickael, the new CEO of a dating website. From your office in New York, you will have to make choices and to grant people's requests. What will be more important for you: the company prosperity? your employees' well-being? your relationship with Jenny, your lovely secretarian? Whatever it might be, keep in mind that money might not always buy happiness.

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We hope you will enjoy playing just as much as we enjoyed developping Jenny & the Guy. :slight_smile: There are two ends, be sure to try both to understand theme.

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Credits:

Programming - Loïc Escales @super-louwaque

Art - Loïc Le Mouël @louis-lechauve

Game design - Hugo Jacquet @sunzed

Translation - Marlène Goumy, the cookies Queen @Eldiwis

Music from Audio Library on Youtube

Special thanks to Ninon for your support!

A La La Band & Co. Production

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HTML5 (web)	https://lalaband.itch.io/jenny-and-the-guy
Windows	https://lalaband.itch.io/jenny-and-the-guy
Linux	https://lalaband.itch.io/jenny-and-the-guy
Original URL	https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/40/jenny-the-guy

Ratings

Overall	263^th	3.75⭐	24🧑‍⚖️
Fun	657^th	3.222⭐	20🧑‍⚖️
Innovation	597^th	3.143⭐	23🧑‍⚖️
Theme	576^th	3.444⭐	20🧑‍⚖️
Graphics	285^th	3.978⭐	25🧑‍⚖️
Humor	721^th	2.618⭐	19🧑‍⚖️
Mood	26^th	4.262⭐	23🧑‍⚖️
Given		18🗳️	5🗨️

Feedback

ramza

06. Dec 2017 · 16:58 UTC

I loved this game about running a dating app in New York. The writing was great and the atmosphere engrossing. Great job!

Poorwill

06. Dec 2017 · 17:19 UTC

My game broke after the second choice because the buttons were still active even though they were invisible. So I could endlessly reduce wages and then raise wages to get unlimited money and happiness.

Otherwise it's a nice concept - resource management with happiness and money. It fits the theme nicely also.

zantze

06. Dec 2017 · 17:49 UTC

The game has warm feeling to it. A lot of great writing and beautiful art.

Mags

06. Dec 2017 · 22:49 UTC

I was playing for some time and then it just stuck while my guy was at the meeting with the shareholders! A bit disappointing that there wasn't an ending...

Other than that very nice art and good choices. Maybe it would be ok to see how much a certain choice will cost or pay. Good job!

SaraFilipa

07. Dec 2017 · 08:46 UTC

Oh I loved this. This is one of the few games in LD40 that actually relaxed me - must be the combination of the music, audio, and writing style. Even after I got to $0 and my company went bankrupt, I got a happy ending with a pretty uplifting message. I love it when games do this. Original and beautiful. Congratulations.

Chem0pren

07. Dec 2017 · 10:18 UTC

Nice little game about true life aspects. Great work !

08. Dec 2017 · 17:02 UTC

I'm your biggest fan <3

Sibi

09. Dec 2017 · 20:32 UTC

What a lovely game. On my first playthrough I went bankrupt but had an amazing time and on my second run the game glitched out at the shareholders meeting.

The money values seemed a bit arbitrary and of course the decisions were a bit overly simplified but it served the purpose of telling this wonderful story :)

The unusual aspect ratio was also nice touch, although I would have loved to see more of the beautiful artwork which was covered up most of the time. Well I guess you don't get to enjoy the beautiful things as much when working all the time ;)
Oh and the section about loot boxes actually made me laugh :D

nahual

10. Dec 2017 · 01:36 UTC

Visual and music are great. Game has a good mood. In one moment i just starting watching how moon is moving on the sky and enjoying it :D
Joke about loot boxes was perfect. Also, I hooked up by the reference of a Ficght Club. Good job and wish you a good luck!

picapica

12. Dec 2017 · 00:33 UTC

It's cute! I replayed it and found that I was more entertained by making all the "bad" decisions (picking the "nice" ones came naturally, but the game ended so quickly). Then I think I ran out of story, there was one repeated choice (shareholders' meeting) and then I got stuck, very unhappy and with no more options. Not all that different from a boring job perhaps...

There was some times where the text didn't fit the buttons, and one time I had to scroll down to see the text in a tiny space. Anyway, it's nice to find a game that tells a story.

LeReveur

15. Dec 2017 · 23:54 UTC

It's more an interactive story than a game, but it was a good, positive moment, full of love movies poetry. Thank you for that!

shubart

15. Dec 2017 · 23:54 UTC

really enjoyed the concept (end the realization too) !!

🎤 Sunzed

31. Dec 2017 · 18:15 UTC

Thank you from all the team for your comments. You're amazing ! :smiley:

Eldiwis

10. Jan 2018 · 10:21 UTC

Thank you all for the lovely comments :)