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We Have Important Work To Do by Five Side Studios

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made by Five Side Studios for LD 42 (JAM)

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Welcome to CeleryCorp, home to the most advanced technology of the 20th century. Employed as a low level tech, keep their computers clear of pesky, RAM hogging ads, and don't crash the system before its quitting time!

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Controls: A Mouse! That's it.

Some tips: - Some Ads cause a variety of effects if you click them, including emoji spam and pop up speed ups! Watch where you click! - There are a variety of tools purchasable from CeleryMart in the menu, but they're also huge RAM hogs. Be smart how you use them! - Your handy programs are highly prone to crashing after a short while - keep an eye on them when they do, and be ready to launch them again when they are available!

Five Side Studios and Friends Are:

Nick "Chunko" "ItsBigPurp" Smalley - @ ItsBigPurp

Ray "Skeletons" Grice - @ DebugDrawRay

breadotop "bread" breadotop - @ breadotop

Dawn "im dawn" Nyancat - @ peachhugs

Victor "Metasight" Gabriel - @ metasighty

Moi "miku is my bff" Shobon - @ beat_shobon

Myles "smyles" Cox - @ combotent

Special Thanks

Alex from catering

rawrderder

Kitsu, A Good Boy

http://www.twitter.com/fivesidestudio

http://www.fivesidestudios.com/

Source Code https://github.com/DebugDrawRay/we-have-important-work-to-do
HTML5 (web) https://debugdrawray.itch.io/we-have-important-work-to-do
Original URL https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/42/we-have-important-work-to-do

Ratings

Overall 91th 3.971⭐ 36🧑‍⚖️
Fun 202th 3.676⭐ 36🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 172th 3.691⭐ 36🧑‍⚖️
Theme 30th 4.353⭐ 36🧑‍⚖️
Audio 19th 4.235⭐ 36🧑‍⚖️
Humor 3th 4.576⭐ 35🧑‍⚖️
Mood 16th 4.25⭐ 34🧑‍⚖️
Given 12🗳️ 0🗨️

Feedback

paraxite
14. Aug 2018 · 13:02 UTC
Excellent take on the theme! And the ads were spot on.
gil4
14. Aug 2018 · 23:16 UTC
The most atmospheric game I've seen thus far, haha. Sound is especially fitting, but everything is nice. Well done!
Swini
14. Aug 2018 · 23:44 UTC
I like the pc based Interface. But some animations are quite funnyXD Good gameXD
FussenKuh
14. Aug 2018 · 23:49 UTC
Kudos to whoever on the team created the green dancing alien. I actually greatly enjoyed that piece of spam. The game put a smile on my face, which, I think means it's a job well done. Great work!
Allen Oliver
15. Aug 2018 · 00:57 UTC
dude this is great! Might be my favorite so far.

We made a game with a similar aesthetic, but different play style. You nailed the style wayyyyyy better than we did.

## Great Job!
### [Here is our game, check it out? :)](https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/42/tcgd-antivirus-98)
Adam Harms
15. Aug 2018 · 01:20 UTC
This is amazing! I love the graphics
Shredmer
15. Aug 2018 · 01:25 UTC
This game is hilarious and was fun for about the first two minutes. Then it starts to become a chore. I love the art and sounds tho. It's a great use of the theme and very creative haha
Tattomoosa
15. Aug 2018 · 01:30 UTC
I have mixed feelings: Basically everything about this is awesome but it also made me super anxious
Lavinski
15. Aug 2018 · 01:33 UTC
I want to cry. This game me anxiety! so Good!
ManBeardGames
15. Aug 2018 · 07:25 UTC
Enjoyed this one. The different pop ups were very reminiscent of the Windows 95/98 error things. It was nice as well that there were a good amount of variance to them with different effects for some. Hatsune running round the screen was hilarious as hell. And what was up with that oyster pic lol.

Fits very well with the theme. Playing on easy didn't feel like I needed the additional items from the market to complete, but on Hard they were of great help. Solid entry.

Here is a clip of the playthrough we did on stream
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/297555372
Crave
16. Aug 2018 · 04:32 UTC
The art and audio were pretty solid, awesome work!
JSD
16. Aug 2018 · 11:22 UTC
This was so late 90/early 2000s that I simply love it xDDD

Kind of reminds me of when I had to work in an office as IT xP
Dave Grey
16. Aug 2018 · 13:01 UTC
Nailed it. This is too well done haha.
suve
16. Aug 2018 · 17:12 UTC
Yet another desktop simulator... but how nicely done! The ads are reminiscent of the early interwebz, and the malware effects are just plain awesome (especially Miku-chan). I also loved the "old computer" background noise.
mediyaz
16. Aug 2018 · 21:52 UTC
I love this! Wow computers were so whack backattack in them days
Wendel Scardua
17. Aug 2018 · 03:57 UTC
The ads were great, sometimes I had to click them just to see what they did. But I got confused because one of the ads were in portuguese - I'm from Brazil and the game surely couldn't have detected that, so what gives?
Team Infernus
17. Aug 2018 · 20:29 UTC
That was a lot of fun! It gave me a lot of nostalgia. I liked the addition of the background noise. It felt like it didn't get very difficult tho, I kind of expected it to amp up a lot quicker.
moonlightbomber
19. Aug 2018 · 05:56 UTC
Another game that feeds on computing nostalgia. Glad I didn't fall for those pop-up ads.
Sam Machell
20. Aug 2018 · 21:45 UTC
hey really liked this game a lot! i thought the sound was especially great! really fun! dont have much else to say really O Y S T E R
agar3s
20. Aug 2018 · 22:56 UTC
I know that the idea is to keep cleaning the screen, but you made a lot of funny programs that I just wanted to watch them all.
Good theme approach, It's pretty easy to play but is very entertaining.

(ノ・∀・)ノ -( BTW )
We also have an HTML5 entry if you want to play it and rate it.
kaiclavier
24. Aug 2018 · 01:55 UTC
Made my day to see the Yo Noid! 2 ad, haha. Reminds me of the good ol' days... so many pop-ups.
adrisj7
24. Aug 2018 · 03:26 UTC
Oyster

The ads made me laugh on multiple occasions, even after seeing the same ones again. They perfectly portray how over the top web ads were (and in some cases still are), and I loved it.

I also especially loved how clicking on the ads actually had effects, and I ended up clicking on some of them on purpose to discover their secret effects.

My only complaint is that the game on easy mode was a little bit long for me, if it were shorter that might make all that clicking feel a little more hectic!

But overall, this is a goldie!
ToadieTechnika
27. Aug 2018 · 02:04 UTC
My favorite ad was from Miku, so jolly to play more haha.