You've Got Mail! by macs

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made by macs for Ludum Dare 51 (JAM)

Working from home is easy right? That's why you decided to take up several jobs at once while you relax in your beach house. What you didn't consider is how many emails you'll need to respond to. Employers are constantly assigning tasks while spam emails try to steal your credentials. You find yourself tethered to your desktop...haunted by the sound of incoming emails every 10 seconds.

Play Now on Itch.io!

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How To Play:

  • Win by making it to the end of the work day (17:00) without being fired.
  • You get a strike every time you fall for spam or fail a task. Three strikes and you're fired.
  • Let your emails pile up too high (10 emails) and you'll be fired.
  • You'll receive more emails every 10 seconds.

Credits:

Main Game Music: "blast off!" by syncopika

A project from Bowl Monkey Labs. Created by Dan Colom, Gabriel Hardwick, and Max Lepkowski.

Ratings

Overall 113th 4.024⭐ 23🧑‍⚖️
Fun 20th 4.286⭐ 23🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 278th 3.675⭐ 22🧑‍⚖️
Theme 40th 4.357⭐ 23🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 436th 3.833⭐ 23🧑‍⚖️
Humor 2th 4.595⭐ 23🧑‍⚖️
Mood 141th 4⭐ 22🧑‍⚖️
Given 14🗳️ 20🗨️

Feedback

Igor Morgun
04. Oct 2022 · 16:20 UTC
I get mails,yeee
Joshua Pitaniello
04. Oct 2022 · 16:27 UTC
I love it. Your sense of humor reminds me of mine lol. Also I think my game kinda similar to yours https://jpepicpro.itch.io/weighty-weenie
(He took those pills)
yoko-san
04. Oct 2022 · 18:49 UTC
Quite hectic, but nicely done!

It doesn't look like it at first glance, but our games are very similar :D

Check it out if you like!
SofiGnedova
05. Oct 2022 · 08:20 UTC
Hello! We played each other's games on the LD50. I'm glad you're participating again! :heart:
Game is great! Plays fun. I even giggled in a couple of places. Spamming about the African prince and watering the flowers in the shower :3
IzhVaryag
06. Oct 2022 · 04:30 UTC
It was fun! Good job!
loginaut
06. Oct 2022 · 04:33 UTC
I always like these short fast-paced minigames, and I think having an inbox of then fill up is a really nice touch. Having an inbox limit for all of the games added a lot of tension, and it was a nice (short) break whenever I got 2-3 spam emails I could just click through to clean the inbox out.
Solar001026
06. Oct 2022 · 04:37 UTC
I like it
theheheo
06. Oct 2022 · 19:05 UTC
Amazing! It was really fun and the whole game felt super polished in terms of feedback, visual effects, sfx and UI. Overall really great entry! I just wish Billy would stop eating so much dirt...
ben_throop
07. Oct 2022 · 13:05 UTC
Loved this! Super funny and charming.
Langotriel
07. Oct 2022 · 15:50 UTC
"just one more try"

Quite an addictive, high tempo gameplay loop! Clever use of AI generated art, too ;)
Wouter52
08. Oct 2022 · 18:23 UTC
Oo I like this one. Quite chaotic but easy to understand. After a while you get to know what emails need which response. The only feedback I can give is that it is not very clear in the beginning what answer is needed. So the first tries I got fired a lot haha

Great game though, I love the music! And the minigames are very well done.
Ausstein
08. Oct 2022 · 18:42 UTC
![mail.jpg](///raw/7a3/22/z/52df7.jpg)
I think the game does not display correctly for me?

I have a 4k display on chrome
dhim
08. Oct 2022 · 20:27 UTC
On my mac os/chrome the UI is broken...
![Screen Shot 2022-10-08 at 22.26.50.png](///raw/c6b/3/z/52e1f.png)
edit: firefox as well.
Rendow
09. Oct 2022 · 14:25 UTC
The minigames are all fun and it feels satisfying when you complete them. The graphics and spam email are quite amusing and the difficulty feels fair. Overall a very fun game, well done!
fgamer99
09. Oct 2022 · 17:43 UTC
Simple jet effective
Jackaljk
11. Oct 2022 · 19:46 UTC
Super funny and fun! This really works well with the ten seconds theme.
Erlioniel
17. Oct 2022 · 17:53 UTC
Yey! I won and actually it was harder than it's in real life. Probably the antispam filter should be configured better :smile: Thanks for the entry!