Clippy's Awakening by aevek
In this game, you play as Clippy, the expert computer repair paperclip who has been called in to clean up the hard drive of a long forgotten PC. There is a rogue program in the "My Computer" folder that is blocking access to vital files and downloading endless amounts of spam. Your mission is to gain access to the My Computer folder by any means necessary and stop this program before it fills up the whole hard drive with nonsense!

All music and sounds are original and by Thomas Parrish! (Check this guy out he is really, really good.) All graphics are by QuantumCaveman and Aevek. Programming by Aevek, Bongard, Floppynub.
Ratings
| Overall | 111th | 3.923⭐ | 54🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 70th | 3.902⭐ | 53🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 96th | 3.853⭐ | 53🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 344th | 3.784⭐ | 53🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 506th | 3.558⭐ | 54🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 156th | 3.71⭐ | 52🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 93th | 3.784⭐ | 53🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 237th | 3.548⭐ | 54🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 65🗳️ | 50🗨️ |
I think the final boss glitched out on me, they disappeared after getting hit a lot but it seemed like they were still there (also the game kept going). Movement started getting glitchy when I took a lot of damage (maybe a feature? haha). Also, it took a *massive* amount of damage to die, although killing myself was totally worth it to see the game over screen.
Again with the very well-executed player feedback: I loved the sound muffling effect when you were low on life... er, disk space. Details like this really made this game shine.
Nice work!
I encountered the same issue as the other players mentioned.. the 2 hand boss, the hands blew up, and I continued to fight invisible hands that were shooting at me. I fought a good 5 minutes before I finally gave up. Aside from that last bug / not seeing the game ending, it's still super solid and fun, excellent work!
We'll fix that bug as soon as possible. Thanks for all the feedback!
We've never had somebody call our game really polished before! Haha. We actually had a full sound guy (@thomas-parrish) which was freaking awesome. Being able to add a bunch of sound effects inspired us devs to make more visual effects which lead to a ton of player feedback.
Good job!
You can re-watch for my comments in the archive at https://www.twitch.tv/videos/297054468
We also added an experimental linux version, so if you try it out please let us know how it works for you!
I enjoyed this game a lot, the easter egg made me laugh, nice take on the theme!
Was still fun while it lasted!
P.S. I did like the level progression and the tutorial parts (wish I could close them if I did not want to use the power ups right away) and discovering/using a power up was satisfying. :D
There's a lot of nice small polish added to this as well, like the screen shake when getting hit and the fly out text of the file sizes being added.
The disk usage never felt like it was a threat however. I think that's my only critique.
Here is a link to the play through video from the stream:
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/300351585
Good luck, Don't forget to take a look at ours if you don't mind and see what it's like when we just focused on graphics in this game jam!
Game Link: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/42/spacelab-42a
I didn't really know what to expect going into this - it was a lot of fun! Unlocking the different powers, and then figuring out how they made it possible to progress, was very rewarding.