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Potat-OS by JMad

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made by JMad for Ludum Dare 51 (JAM)

Help your loyal Potat-OS computer survive the surge of popups! Otherwise, your RAM might go over capacity...

👾Play on itch.io!👾

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Some mini-games had full assets done, but were not implemented during the Jam. They will be added shortly in a post-jam version, with some polishing and bug fixing!

/!\ Known issues :

  • attempting to move the starting popup may cause the game to freeze
  • ChampagneShower.exe has keyboard controls (W-S / up-down) - we sadly didn’t have time to implement the feedback animations and there were also other minigames requiring keyboard controls. However, the hitboxes are quite lenient.

Presenting the team

🗺️ Level design - @cdmaniac

🖥️ Dev - @mrkebab | @theludovyc

🎨 Art - @sersie | @wild-and-away | @jmad | @srccevert

🎶 Music & Sound Design - @vinsynth | @marjagil | Joë​l D

Bonus

🎧 Game Soundtrack is available to stream :

https://soundcloud.com/vinsynthmusic/sets/ludum-dare-51s-game-potatoes https://vinsynth1.bandcamp.com/album/potatoes

🔉 Sound assets are available to download :

https://marjagil.bandcamp.com/album/potat-os-sound-effects

🗃️ Source code here:

https://github.com/theludovyc/Godot_LD51

Link https://theludovyc.itch.io/potat-os
Original URL https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/51/potat-os

Ratings

Overall 432th 3.656⭐ 95🧑‍⚖️
Fun 303th 3.691⭐ 96🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 298th 3.645⭐ 95🧑‍⚖️
Theme 266th 3.984⭐ 96🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 526th 3.713⭐ 96🧑‍⚖️
Audio 290th 3.637⭐ 93🧑‍⚖️
Humor 87th 3.973⭐ 95🧑‍⚖️
Mood 329th 3.72⭐ 93🧑‍⚖️
Given 97🗳️ 190🗨️

Feedback

Sean Esopenko
03. Oct 2022 · 23:08 UTC
Clever theme, full of nostalgia. It was kinda hard to figure out what to do in each window. I like the sounds.
ActuallyTheMoon
04. Oct 2022 · 09:21 UTC
Nice little collection of minigames. The sounds were funny!
Ikvelibrium
04. Oct 2022 · 09:25 UTC
I really enjoyed this game, its a lot of fan, all this short puzzles are cool and i the joke with hot potatoes is the best
Iluvatar
04. Oct 2022 · 09:26 UTC
First I was like "Ok... this doesn't look so impressive". But after a while I finally understood the point of the game. And it was amazing. Funny, compelling, challenging, well executed. I loved how you could draw that duck! (or more like SHOULDN't! HAHA! Little details is what makes games great, especially in a game jam!
Chase of Bass
04. Oct 2022 · 09:29 UTC
this was great!! Really awesome mini games and loved the way it was presented as an old os (awesome name btw!! xD) awesome work on this!! :D
MaRJaGiL
04. Oct 2022 · 09:34 UTC
Thanks for playing everyone! We all had a blast working on it. @actuallythemoon & @ikvelibrium I will make the sounds available on bandcamp today as a free CC-BY pack, including the 'hot pahtaterrs in yer area' one, it should be in the links on the page!
Bacilika
04. Oct 2022 · 09:42 UTC
This game is very well made and fun to play! i got stuck on the champagne though :( and the memory game glitched once
MaRJaGiL
04. Oct 2022 · 10:20 UTC
@bacilika The champagne bottle can be steered up or down with W and S or up arrow and down arrow !
Jvdwijk
04. Oct 2022 · 12:19 UTC
That was a ton of fun! It took me a good minute before I understood the champagne one (I found your comment @marjagil which helped a ton!), I think it is mostly because that is the only minigame without a mouse which confused me! To fix this you could maybe put the input hints in the bottom left of the window?

Loved seeing another OS game, and this one was very well executed, well done!
m11
04. Oct 2022 · 12:29 UTC
Super fun!
Vetche Studio
04. Oct 2022 · 15:33 UTC
Really cool game, good job
CarrotVan
04. Oct 2022 · 16:15 UTC
Nice try on the concept.Lots of minigames embedded.
LDJam user 0
04. Oct 2022 · 16:27 UTC
Very cool game! It's the first one I finished today ^^
theLudovyc
04. Oct 2022 · 17:01 UTC
Thank you all for your ratings o/

@jvdwijk Maybe a flappybird like version is better to do all game with mouse. More intuitive. We think about it.
Pusheeneiro
04. Oct 2022 · 17:26 UTC
![Screenshot_110.png](///raw/23d/22/z/520c3.png)
Great idea and art. Really nice game.
MaRJaGiL
04. Oct 2022 · 17:57 UTC
@pusheeneiro thank you for saving poor Potat-OS, and for petting the dog.
dp3rucha
04. Oct 2022 · 18:34 UTC
I find the mini-games interesting. It is a dynamic game that always keeps your attention. I had fun :)
Eugenik
04. Oct 2022 · 20:29 UTC
Top 10 games! Good work!.
ADerpyChickenStudios
04. Oct 2022 · 21:08 UTC
Really fun I just could never get the champagne bottle game to work I controlled it but couldn't figure out what to do I tried hitting him in the head but it never did anything?
MaRJaGiL
04. Oct 2022 · 21:18 UTC
@aderpychickenstudios You're supposed to make it so the bottle doesn't hit the character or anything in the scene
fermingimpel
04. Oct 2022 · 21:23 UTC
nice job, now you can work with ubisoft
OwlyCode
04. Oct 2022 · 23:11 UTC
The amount of mini games is impressive given the time constraint. I liked the retro look that reminded me of that good old windows 95. Also the bottle of Champaign is clearly a run killer, it's very hard compared to the other mini games.
MaRJaGiL
04. Oct 2022 · 23:20 UTC
@owlycode @aderpychickenstudios @jvdwijk we actually just figured out a good fix for champagne shower that will be in the post jam version of your game, thank you for your input!
clonze
04. Oct 2022 · 23:58 UTC
reminds me of wario ware games
Defrag
05. Oct 2022 · 00:01 UTC
Clever take on the theme. I like the different mini-games; hopefully it was fun spitballing different ideas. It took me a moment to realize that the name of the panels/games was actually a bit of hint.
Glacian
05. Oct 2022 · 00:01 UTC
Very entertaining - love the tinder-potatoes.
OminusGalaxy44
05. Oct 2022 · 00:03 UTC
very fun, original, and creative game :smile:
🎤 JMad
05. Oct 2022 · 00:08 UTC
@ikvelibrium @glacian I am so very happy you got my potat-jokes. Thank you :') I think most of the team still doesn't ahaha! Credits to @marjagil, our sound designer, for making it make sense.
Vader89gg
05. Oct 2022 · 00:11 UTC
Great Game, A bit confusing on what to do at the beginning but the fun and comedy is there, seriously a great game
auxC
05. Oct 2022 · 02:09 UTC
Ahh, this brought some old windows nostalgia. Liked the humour and variety; good job getting a lot of minigames in! I got rekt when one champagne shower got interrupted by another though, that was fun :D
fuzzybut
05. Oct 2022 · 02:35 UTC
Wow! The old windows make me feel old. Pretty funny game! I was only able to get through the champagne window because I read some of the comments above about W/S^ so I second including a note about controls somewhere!
beeplettuce
05. Oct 2022 · 10:43 UTC
I had so much fun playing this. Laughed a lot. I really struggled with the champagne shower, I'm a noob.
nyxkn
05. Oct 2022 · 10:57 UTC
Really great concept! I struggled with some of the games at first. I had NO IDEA how to figure out the champagne one until I tried the keyboard. It was an odd one out as all the others just needed the mouse, so quite confusing. After figuring that out I could win the game quite easily. Some of the voiceovers are a bit loud and annoying. Art is quite cute, and the visual style of old desktops feels very nostalgic. Overall great idea and quite well executed, with good amounts of polish. Well done!
Sanemsky
05. Oct 2022 · 11:19 UTC
Wow what a great idea! I couldn't understand what to do in some of the games but never the less, Well Done!!
LDJam user 305869
05. Oct 2022 · 19:18 UTC
Loved this game. The humor, graphics, concept was straight up my alley. This take on the theme was beautiful.
I'm giving this one HIGH points.

The darn champagne shower and Tinder games were the most difficult ones.
I wonder... is Potat-OS a reference to Portal 2?
Tyrannas
05. Oct 2022 · 19:37 UTC
Very funny game, reminds me of good ol fashion wario ware ! But I really couldn't understand the champagne one :/ I even try to use the keyboard to move the champagne to the head just like on the gif but it didnt appear to do anything. So i was stuck with a lot of champagne popus :( Anyway, really like the humor of this! (Hot potaotes in your area really got me haha)
MaRJaGiL
05. Oct 2022 · 19:46 UTC
@tyrannas Oh! Thank you for your feedback, we didn't realize that gif could be misleading, you're supposed to make it so the bottle flies clear of everything in the room, so nobody gets hurt.
🎤 JMad
05. Oct 2022 · 20:01 UTC
For everyone struggling with ChampagneShower.exe :
- we sadly didn't have time to implement the feedback animations before the submission deadline
- the controls with keyboard instead of mouse like the other games wer not supposed to be misleading, there were originally other minigames requiring keyboard controls that we didn't have time to code into the game either, we realise the lack of instructions can mislead
- the hitboxes are REALLY lenient

![champagnep.gif](///raw/906/d2/z/52671.gif)
BugByte14
05. Oct 2022 · 20:06 UTC
Really funny and addicting collection of minigames. It reminds me alot of Warioware. Great job!
thesnide
05. Oct 2022 · 20:21 UTC
I usually don't like mini-games at all, but here you got me hooked for quite long. So very good job!
(i admit to a rage quit on the champagne... :rofl:)

and, now that I read your comment... I'm even tempted to go back! :thumbsup:
LDJam user 43351
05. Oct 2022 · 21:21 UTC
Awesome and unique game. Really enjoyed it. Well done!
Lady
05. Oct 2022 · 21:56 UTC
I have a soft spot for potatoes. So this really won my heart. But also really funny game. I enjoyed the minigames. I don't think I ever figured out what to do with the champagne shower though.
asbjorn
05. Oct 2022 · 22:24 UTC
Stressfull game with a fun aesthetic.

I still don't know how to beat ChampagneShower.exe - so I presume that's what kills me errytime.

Thanks for making it!
busisen
05. Oct 2022 · 22:47 UTC
Hilarious and creative take on the theme. One of my favourite submissions. Well done!
pianoman373
06. Oct 2022 · 00:51 UTC
Very creative set of minigames! The overall vibe is on point and funny. It did take me a bit to realize the arrow keys move the champagne bottle until I saw the gifs below on the itch.io page. Those gifs really help if someone is stuck.
chitoyuu
06. Oct 2022 · 04:45 UTC
Had a blast with all the minigames! Took me a little while to figure out what I was supposed to do in ChampagneShower.exe. The GIF up there was very helpful! While each the games are simple, getting good enough to beat all of them within 10 seconds whenever they pop up was quite challenging. It's a ton of content overall. Also I like how the music morphs depending on which game is currently active. Very well done!
cobrajs
06. Oct 2022 · 08:20 UTC
Fantastic little collection of games! Very cool way to use the theme, and the art was all charming (the only game I've seen so far where different art styles mashed together works well haha). Well done!!
MaRJaGiL
06. Oct 2022 · 08:36 UTC
@chitoyuu HEy! Glad you noticed the music morph, that was @vinsynth 's idea. And I had a blast mixing the individual tracks (though track 4 almost took my sanity away). You can listen to them up on spotify or over on bandcamp, we aimed to have a complete professional music production pipeline for this jam. It was professionally composed and arranged, professionally mixed and professionally mastered!
Master Age
06. Oct 2022 · 09:36 UTC
I love this style of game, brings me back the nostalgia of early windows and not to mention the frustration of pop-ups! Really enjoyed the little minigames and constant interruption of new minigames was a great use of the theme. Good work :)
DiscoMusic
06. Oct 2022 · 11:44 UTC
I just wanted there to be hot potatoes in my area :_)
FreeRunner
06. Oct 2022 · 14:04 UTC
This game is really well done and a very good idea. I remember having thought of something similar just with "real" popups, what a horrible idea hahah.

I think the graphics are really original, and the whole windows 3.1 / XP feel is very nostalgic and works well together with the pop-up-hell :)
LDJam user 11377
06. Oct 2022 · 14:50 UTC
Funny take on the theme! Nice mini games. Very unique :)
MsPlanlos
06. Oct 2022 · 15:56 UTC
Very original idea and very fun to play! (:
ccsjk98
06. Oct 2022 · 17:01 UTC
This was one of the most funny games I played in this game jam... thank you for making it!
Alex5041
06. Oct 2022 · 17:51 UTC
Good job! There is a sense of discovery when you understand how to complete each minigame, and I dig that!
Motti
06. Oct 2022 · 17:54 UTC
Good job, great idea, W/S or up/down keys didnt function on my gameplay didn't know why!

check out me jam game
Ginxel
06. Oct 2022 · 18:28 UTC
I love the graphics and great use of the theme ! <3
SLEEPYMENACE
06. Oct 2022 · 18:34 UTC
Wow, that's pretty nostalgic! If only popups cascades were actually this fun back in the day, and didn't just cause your mother to confiscate your modem for downloading questionable content off of Limewire.

Nice game, good job guys!
ZungryWare
06. Oct 2022 · 19:22 UTC
Cool take on WarioWare-style microgames. The champagne one was a bit confusing (not just because of the unique controls), but each microgame was reasonably beatable. I'm not sure what the logic is on the "Feed the plant" game. Don't venus fly traps eat bugs, not humans? Any way, fun game. Nice work!
🎤 JMad
06. Oct 2022 · 21:35 UTC
Thank you everyone for the great feedbacks! We are taking everything into account.

@zungryware That's a small easter egg pointing to a game some of us worked on (LD46), we figured once you try a few, you would get the answer eventually hehe.
TranziT
06. Oct 2022 · 22:41 UTC
I had problems with some hitboxes, but overall I really enjoyed the game! Really fun concept!!!
I wrote it myself
07. Oct 2022 · 00:19 UTC
I saved the Potat-OS! Really fun and creative game, well done!
wildmusketeer
07. Oct 2022 · 02:23 UTC
Hey there! Really love your take on the theme and how you themed the itch.io page to the potato-OS! Have to give lots of props on the polish in a lot of the little details in art and even in soundtrack changes! My feedback is similar to others in that it took me a while to figure out the champagne one was keyboard controlled (since everything else was mouse only), and that it was super tricky to actually control! Also whats with the hate on ducks?! Overall one of my favorites from this jam, great work team!
UkuleleFury
07. Oct 2022 · 02:56 UTC
:D Wow, very frantic and delightful! I loved each minigame, some took a few tries to figure out, but all were very doable. I love the art. Great sounds. Nice music vibe. Very fun game!
Solar001026
07. Oct 2022 · 06:12 UTC
really cool~
SnappyPath
07. Oct 2022 · 10:37 UTC
The art in the game is beautiful, everything is kept in its own style. The concept is interesting too. Good job!
Roroto Sic
07. Oct 2022 · 17:14 UTC
stuck at champagne shower, else it was a funny experience :)
LDJam user 296917
08. Oct 2022 · 07:25 UTC
Very fun game, I like it.
wolderado
08. Oct 2022 · 09:02 UTC
Fun game! Interesting take on the theme. Was able to dismiss all the malware :smile: ChampagneShower was the hardest one
resacaGames
08. Oct 2022 · 12:45 UTC
Like many others, champagneshower was by far the hardest minigame. First I didn't know you had to use the keyboard, then I thought you had to hit the guys head, and when already knowing how to beat it, it was still kinda hard to evade everything, specially with other minigames poping up in the middle of a try.
Luckly this was a common issue so coming to the entry page solved all my questions.
Besides that, I liked the use of the theme very much, it was a nice way to be able to put different minigames in a group project.
Nice work!
Jag
08. Oct 2022 · 17:04 UTC
I thoroughly enjoyed playing this!! Personally I thought the difficulty was just right, didn't feel too hard to me, and the mini-games were fun and interesting. My favourite is hearing "HOT POTATERS IN YER AREA"! That was hilarious! I think the champagne bottle mini-game was a little too strict but everything else was solid. Great job!
GameDevTraum
08. Oct 2022 · 19:05 UTC
Excellent idea, I found it very original. Most of the minigames were intuitive.
Maybe would be nice if you could bring tabs to front by clicking on them, that way you can select which puzzles solve first.
Excellent work team!! :smiley_cat:
Paul Avallone
09. Oct 2022 · 17:57 UTC
Really funny use of theme. I love the art and the sound effects are on point. I wish there was more visual feedback and I was confused by what I was supposed to do for some of the minigames and even if I knew what to do it took me dying the first time to figure out what controls to use on my next playthrough. It seemed really hard as I would die often only getting 2 to 3 mini games in. The picture matching one doesn't give you enough time. The cucumber is very unresponsive. I think with a little more polish these things will be fixed. I still enjoyed playing your game. Great job!
Kalendhos
11. Oct 2022 · 14:23 UTC
Great effort for the multiple mini-games. Also with a paint game and all the potatoes. The interfaces were very cool and the result is very pleasant.

I didn't see the game with the little guy from Lil Trash Friend ! But his presence in description is still cool. ;)

I had too some problems to understand the champagne game. But I quickly understood. And I don't know if you could have this game with the mouse.

Good job !
🎤 JMad
11. Oct 2022 · 20:50 UTC
@kalendhos Thank you for your feedback! I bugged the devs for mouse controls ahah. We have a post-jam version where it is a thing, that we will release after the ratings period is over. Hopefully we will have some additional minigames for variety, and a less random popup selector! Too many of the same minigame can be a total run killer.

GarbageSnackz.exe sadly did not have time to be implemented. Glad you liked @sersie's boi, Morgz! His game would be a small labyrinth, where you have to collect his dinner.
Krasimir Balchev
12. Oct 2022 · 12:48 UTC
What a great game with a great theme, all of the mini-games were either funny or had sth fun and engaging to do! The overall aesthetic and vibe are excellent, the integration of scores and UI within the OS itself, very well done! One thing I think can be improved is feedback on whether the mini-game you just played closed on successful completion. I got used to it after a bit and payed attention but at first with all the open windows on-screen it was hard to tell the difference when I successfully finished a gama and it closed or when a new pop-up showed up.

But that's only a very minor gripe, Potat-OS is definitely one of my top games from the jam :)
Rincs
17. Oct 2022 · 12:10 UTC
I saved my potato OS! Everything was pretty easy to figure out and the only one I had issues with was the champagne shower game. Since everything was mouse-related, that one didn't seem to work on mouse for me so it took me a while to figure out. I managed though! :)
dzolkin
17. Oct 2022 · 21:32 UTC
Damn, this is so cool, the game reminds me of something that I have already seen somewhere, but I don’t even know, the humor is at the level of the games of the Portal series
fabula_rasa
17. Oct 2022 · 22:47 UTC
It's like you took every joke about bad OSes and made it into a game :laughing: Great humor and definitely a unique approach to the theme. Each minigame feels unique - it must have been a hell of a job to code it all in jam time.

Without reading the "Known issues" section, I'd never figure out that the Champagne minigame is controlled with a keyboard (as literally everything else is mouse). That feels a bit silly. It would also be nice to actually grab and drag the things to the plant in the feeding game.

My favorite one was the Memory - both for the gameplay and the graphics (love the colors on that one!).
VPhyre
19. Oct 2022 · 15:22 UTC
Fun game! The mechanics of playing several minigames in 10 seconds are very creative, to try to keep the OS functional hahaha. The graphics are interesting, and the sound is very good. The gameplay is solid, although I was a little confused on how I should play some minigames. Overall it was a very good game. Good job!
Danial Jumagaliyev
20. Oct 2022 · 16:40 UTC
Potat-OS - the best OS I've ever used. Aside from the confusing champagne mini game, overall I liked the concept and the puzzles I had to go through! Clever and creative use of the theme :)
Suchista
20. Oct 2022 · 23:21 UTC
Very cool idea! I like the aesthetics.