Hello I.T.
My entry for WGJ 104.
This was pretty much the first idea that popped into my head. Sadly I didn't think it through too much and I managed to overscope a bit. Was able to finish the game, but not with the amount of iterations on the game design as I would've been comfortable with.
You play as an IT support technician and you have to resolve as many requests as possible in the given time.
Initially I wanted to explain very clearly how to handle each specific issue listed in the manual (well, ok, one of them just tells you what to pick), but I decided to leave it like this and see how people react. It's an experiment I guess...
Let me know what you think!
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This is really cool. My biggest issue was understanding how the internet connection table works. I had to come down and read your comment to understand. Other that that this is fun and I like the little animation.
very fun. i just played a few days in a row and i just wanted more. making the manual change from one day to another could be nice, but i know there were time limitations. i would really like to see this game continue growing and be released in the future
Really glad to hear you enjoyed it! Yeah, there was a lot of stuff to do to get this to work. I intended to add some visual/audio feedback after each solution to make it clearer if you failed or not. Also, give a few more hints on how the manual works. But yeah, as you mentioned, time limitations.
I intend to do a few more game jams to get more practice in, and at some point I'm thinking of picking one of them and developing it into a full game. But that's a pretty big step so I'm considering it carefully.
Anyway, thank you for playing!
Interesting game. Couldn't quite figure out how the internet connection table worked (More specifically what A and N were meant to represent). The simple animations and sounds worked really well (The talking, typing, etc).
For that one you get a code like <3 letters>-<3 numbers>-<letter><number>. Each letter represents a row, each number a column, and the final letter and number combination lets you know which row and column contains the solution.
For example if you get INS-701-N1, N is the second letter and 1 is the third number. So you look up row 2 column 3 in the table and that gives you a solution.
Thanks for playing!