LudumData

Job at METeA by Kiseki

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made by Kiseki for Ludum Dare 50 (JAM)

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This is a game about a pure human selling drinks for a company in a cyberpunk era. Can he survive from being fired?（No, we do not fire people in our game.) In a time where machines are superior than human, can he still be himself or is he going to upgrade into cyborg just like everyone else? Maybe there's no option. It's for you to find out!

*Many bugs exist but that's inevitable! We did our best! This is our first completed game jam. It's hard to make everything we wanted into the project.

*The resolution for webGl is hard to measure. If the game screen is bigger than the browser window, try zooming out the window and click the blue "FullScreen" button.

*As I tested on itch.io, I found that most of the conversation lines were not shown due to the dialogue system bug... So here is the link to the full script of the conversation if you wish to see the full thing. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1F07Fl__T4Jk7P5PcxsjpCH6ZPw-PueVkWS5V0MhLx9Q/edit?usp=sharing

*Uh! I see that some bugs are confusing players. Too bad! I will fix them when the rating time ends. Sorry if you get lost!

Link https://kiseki1911.itch.io/ld50
Link https://github.com/Kiseki1911/LD50-METeA
Original URL https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/50/tba

Ratings

Overall 1228th 3.026⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Fun 1094th 2.974⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 997th 2.974⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Theme 1263th 2.947⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 1040th 3.158⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Audio 826th 2.842⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Humor 349th 3.579⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Mood 654th 3.5⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Given 27🗳️ 8🗨️

Feedback

Daniel Klautsch
05. Apr 2022 · 21:01 UTC
That was really fun. I enjoyed the humour a lot and when I did the final upgrade, the concequences of it got me did catch me offguard. Very good game.
Matt Rice
06. Apr 2022 · 02:10 UTC
The concept is great but the locations to interact with the items weren't super obvious and I unfortunately couldn't deliver orders.
CaramelCode
06. Apr 2022 · 02:13 UTC
I feel this game. Eventually AI will take over the world right?? Hit's pretty close to home. The dialog totally made me laugh out loud. And the graphics are so cute, and go well with the light-hearted feel of the game. Nice work!
superpokeunicorn
06. Apr 2022 · 02:15 UTC
Cute little game. I like how the social commentary was worked into the gameplay with the character slowly becoming a robot as you gain more upgrades. I will say that the game got pretty repetitive very quickly. Definitely could have used some more mechanics to keep it fresh. But overall a solid idea. Nice work!
Ming Zhu
06. Apr 2022 · 02:22 UTC
Great game! The upgrades were an interesting mechanic, was very surprised by some of their effects. The screen did zoom in a lot after I bought a bunch of upgrades at the same time; not sure if that was intended but it was a little disorienting. That said though, I enjoyed the game a lot. Nice work!
🎤 Kiseki
06. Apr 2022 · 03:21 UTC
@daniel-klautsch
Thanks for playing! If you wish to know the entire conversation script, please see the new link I provided below!
🎤 Kiseki
06. Apr 2022 · 03:24 UTC
@matt-rice
Thanks for playing! The interact locations are designed on their vertical axis. I should have drawn a HUD to highlight the positions, my bad!
🎤 Kiseki
06. Apr 2022 · 03:27 UTC
@caramelcode Thanks for playing! This is our first try in a game jam. Glad that you like it! The conversation script was actually longer than what the game actually shown (all due to stupid bug!). If you wish to see, I have a google doc containing all of it.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1F07Fl__T4Jk7P5PcxsjpCH6ZPw-PueVkWS5V0MhLx9Q/edit?usp=sharing
🎤 Kiseki
06. Apr 2022 · 03:39 UTC
@superpokeunicorn Thanks for playing! Yes, the game does get repetitive after a while. It was designed to be a roughly ~6 minutes gameplay, with different daily/upgrading conversation sentences. A second counter would appear with 2 other drinks (total of 5 types). Sadly the time were not enough to fix the bug for everything to go correct, I'm planning on fixing it after the rating period is over. If you wish to see the full conversation script, here's the link:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1F07Fl__T4Jk7P5PcxsjpCH6ZPw-PueVkWS5V0MhLx9Q/edit?usp=sharing
🎤 Kiseki
06. Apr 2022 · 03:51 UTC
@ming-zhu Thanks for playing! The final (after 4 upgrades) zoom-in was intended. Well, it was designed that only one upgrade can be bought a day but I suppose the constrain was buggy. 谢谢你喜欢！
byazzle
10. Apr 2022 · 02:14 UTC
A really solid entry (especially since I see it's your first)!
Things that worked well:
- The narrative. It was a fun little plot and some humorous writing as well as a good little twisty take on the theme!
- The art was cute and effective

Things that could be improved:
- The visual/UI feedback on collecting drinks. It sorta felt like the hitboxes missed sometimes. If something lit up, it'd make it more obvious where the hitzones were
- The controls all being on one hand makes for a tricky layout (You supported arrows keys which was good though)

All in all, a great jam entry. Bravo!
hmightypirate
10. Apr 2022 · 08:49 UTC
I liked the story, the dialogue and the game. The dialogue is particularly fun!

My only problem with this game is that i found very difficult to do the things right when I have to use the E,Q,F keys. Probably having more time when a new ability is needed will help the user to learn how to proceed.
DevVex
13. Apr 2022 · 03:13 UTC
"You have delivered 14 cups of dirnk!"

Great game! The starting scene seemed to be on a different level of polish than the rest of the game. The dialogue after could of used a little more pizzaz for how much text there was IMO. It also felt like I couldn't buy that faster movement for a few rounds, then all of a sudden could buy everything? The game itself eventually being taken over by AI was a great touch.
piscythe
16. Apr 2022 · 03:30 UTC
Unfortunately, the game bugged out in a bunch of different ways for me so I don't think I really got the intended experience. Repeating dialogue, customers stopping and never showing up, customers leaving before I could physically make a drink for them... Even before that, I really ended up feeling like I should just write a bot to play the game more efficiently than I could, and then I made my character into a bot that just delivers the same drink eternally. Still better than some irl jobs.
0238
18. Apr 2022 · 11:51 UTC
Good fun. Surprising amount of depth considering the gameplay cycle. Music may be a tad repetitive but still good for the time of the jam.
lilkrit
18. Apr 2022 · 12:28 UTC
Very fun. I liked all the jokes :)