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Personal Growth by Maniac

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made by Maniac for LD34 (JAM)
Welcome to GoodCorp, where we proudly allow our employees to use some time of their working hours for personal growth! But make sure that you don't dissappoint your boss, who will send you your tasks via e-mail.

This is a small story based game. Having programmed for 5 game jams this time I restricted myself to programmer art and an authoring tool aimed at non-programmers.

The game has a clear ending which can be reached in approx. 5 minutes if you know what to do. It is controlled almost entirely by mouse, with the exception of a single task. If you are stuck at one of the tasks a Skip-button will appear after some time.

Created by Christian Reuter at TU Darmstadt (Multimedia Communications Lab) using the authoring tool StoryTec and it's associated player application.
Web http://www.kom.tu-darmstadt.de/~creuter/personalgrowth/
Windows http://www.kom.tu-darmstadt.de/~creuter/personalgrowth/PersonalGrowth-win.zip
Original URL https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-34/?action=preview&uid=66116

Ratings

Coolness 53% 3
Overall(Jam) 3.10 724
Audio(Jam) 2.15 703
Fun(Jam) 2.86 758
Graphics(Jam) 2.93 770
Humor(Jam) 3.44 161
Innovation(Jam) 3.18 490
Mood(Jam) 3.21 518
Theme(Jam) 3.15 872

Feedback

SidewalkSleeper
15. Dec 2015 路 00:38 UTC
Liked it. Reminded me of my job.
flyingbear
15. Dec 2015 路 00:47 UTC
Enjoyable collection of minigames that got a bit tedious when they started repeating. I got tripped up during basic math section because I couldn't tell what was a 1 or 7
AM_Games
15. Dec 2015 路 00:50 UTC
Cool little story. I was going through the daily grind for a while until I realized that I needed some time for personal growth :P. I couldn't quite figure out the poker sorting game though. Am I supposed to put them in order from left to right? (i.e. K, Q, J, 10, 8, 7, 4, 2)?
馃帳 Maniac
15. Dec 2015 路 01:07 UTC
@AM_Games: It is supposed to be the other way around, starting from the lowest one. Maybe I should have taken more care in researching what sorting cards means in different card games.
NoradZero
15. Dec 2015 路 02:15 UTC
Nice remind my of advanture games i played when i was little.
blohod
15. Dec 2015 路 02:17 UTC
Nice graphics, the beeps of the audio got annoying though, overall good job!
KBF123
15. Dec 2015 路 02:21 UTC
Huh... Don't do work... I'll keep that one in mind!
x92rwzb
15. Dec 2015 路 20:12 UTC
I got angry every time I tried to read the emails and the character's boss told me to do something!
fullmontis
15. Dec 2015 路 20:22 UTC
Overall i enjoyed it. The minigames were interesting at first but got repetitive after the 4th or 5th time.
nihilaleph
16. Dec 2015 路 01:01 UTC
Pro:
+ Nice story, clever ending
+ Cool approach of the theme
+ Simple but effective
Con:
- So much loading x.x

Great job!
Quadnozzle
16. Dec 2015 路 23:06 UTC
Minigames were fun and well-implemented. Do you have to fully complete the first day? (Asking since I could only 'finish' on the second, despite wanting to tell my boss to go get stuffed.) Audio was a little grating. Overall, interesting and fun twist on the theme!
Strike
17. Dec 2015 路 18:55 UTC
I love the dark humor there
Mr MadCat
18. Dec 2015 路 14:56 UTC
Cool game.
First one so far with some meaning for real life so far :)
Blake_Lead
19. Dec 2015 路 16:49 UTC
Really nice game. Depressing though !