The Inglorious Yet Highly Stimulating Life of an Underpaid Graduate Student by Gelato Labs

made by Gelato Labs for LD33 (JAM)

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Inspired by our net connections cutting out right after the theme was announced and fun times with ISPs' phone support, we made a game where you provide terrible support to innocent civilians for sweet cash to buy more phones on ePay. You monster.

Code is distributed under the ISC license, and graphics under the CC BY license. See COPYING for details.

http://kfarwell.org/projects/the_inglorious_yet_highly_stimulating_life_of_an_underpaid_graduate_student/
http://kfarwell.itch.io/the-inglorious-yet-highly-stimulating-life-of-an-underpaid-graduate-student

Homepage	https://gelatolabs.xyz/tiyhsloaugs/
Source	https://gelatolabs.xyz/tiyhsloaugs/source.tar.gz
Original URL	https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-33/?action=preview&uid=55003

Ratings

Coolness	49%	1226
Overall(Jam)	3.38	378

Audio(Jam)	3.13	380
Fun(Jam)	3.37	309
Graphics(Jam)	3.19	618
Humor(Jam)	4.04	44
Innovation(Jam)	3.65	126
Mood(Jam)	3.32	381
Theme(Jam)	3.04	811

Feedback

Eingya

25. Aug 2015 · 01:31 UTC

The game sorta of hung up on me, i was stuck on an endless telephone loop while notifications came from everywhere (also some choices sometimes don't work), I surely don't remember my Undergrad life being so exciting.

From the small portion of the game I saw though it is a cool idea.

jirrev

25. Aug 2015 · 01:34 UTC

Nice choice of subject, nobody likes those call-center people. The only problem I have is that requests come in faster than I can read them from time to time, and in other times I wait for minutes where nothing happens. Perhaps a bit too random in this case.

ChosenCharacter

25. Aug 2015 · 02:22 UTC

God. The sounds. They are so annoying!

And that's the point c:

Now I get why I shouldn't go into IT.

sararyCow

25. Aug 2015 · 02:51 UTC

A pretty addicting game, I can't stop to close tickets! :D This is a good reflection of call-center reality, very insteresting.

Muush

25. Aug 2015 · 09:41 UTC

Good game

Warxen

25. Aug 2015 · 13:13 UTC

I'd better reboot my mousepad and it worked! Nice game, only thing that annoyed me a bit was that I got called while i was on the phone with someone. Keep it up.

jphelps

26. Aug 2015 · 03:24 UTC

great job. very origional

m3_on

26. Aug 2015 · 03:26 UTC

Haha, some of the replies were pretty good.

glerikud

26. Aug 2015 · 12:22 UTC

This game is such a good representation, that I feel like saying it's fun, would mean tech support is fun. Which clearly is (not). So I'll just say it's one of my favourites this LD! You are truly a monster

MrMordem

26. Aug 2015 · 16:26 UTC

IT simulator in a nutshell :

Get a call for having a computer imploded
Ask if the user tried to turn it on and off again
User tells he can't find the power button
Tells user to install gentoo

Seriously though this was fun, a bit far from the theme imo, but still fits in a way :) also the tickets and calls may come a bit too fast

collaboration

27. Aug 2015 · 11:43 UTC

Dude, I just love it! 5/5 soooo cool.

Nurbs

06. Sep 2015 · 03:17 UTC

This game is too realistic and should be kept away from children

mzmiric5

13. Sep 2015 · 23:59 UTC

Very fun and annoying game :D loved it. I really liked the aspects of being able to upgrade your workplace and the tech. I am not sure how some of the options work but still fun trying to catch up with those constant notifications. Oh and yeah the sounds are killing me :P

Jupiter_Hadley

08. Oct 2015 · 17:17 UTC

Fun, addictive game. I included it in part 31 of my Ludum Dare 33 Compilation video series, if you would like to take a look :) https://youtu.be/ZV7CU8j_StI

kfarwell

28. Oct 2015 · 03:21 UTC

Jupiter_Hadley: install gentoo

nice video :)