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A jam submission

Oprotting SystemView game page

my entry for eye jam #2
Submitted by VermilionStudio — 6 hours, 28 minutes before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Atmosphere#413.5883.588
Art#433.7063.706
Polish#463.1183.118
Overall#503.2063.206
Theme#523.0003.000
Gameplay#562.8242.824
Sound#573.0003.000

Ranked from 17 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

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Submitted

It's very good concept. I really adore such games. The art style is wonderfull and I am very happy to play such games - even small jokes like "just knockoff of the Linux". It's amazing!

I love what commands was included and clicking sounds of keys it's very satisfying.

I managed to go to "react" after i typed sh react.sh comune

I got to decide and unfortunatelly after that was stuck what to do next. I really wanted to finish that game and may be will do if I figure out what next.

Thank you for such intresting game!

Submitted

I really liked this one! The art and most of the sounds are great and as someone not familiar with commandline I really enjoyed the process of figuring stuff out. My one gripe and it's a somewhat of a big one, is the decayed keys. I like the concept of the keys decaying over time, but I'm not sure if I'm missing something but I ended up just kind of spamming the key until it eventually typed something, which combined with the quite loud SFX for hitting a decayed key, I found it very frustrating. If that is the intended way past, again I like the concept of disrupting you as you start to get comfortable with the commands and typing but it took far too many hits to actually get something out of them. Other than that, a great effort all around.

Submitted

I liked the idea and the whole thing looks very simplistic, yet pretty.  The sound worked well for me, both the ambience and the feedback sounds. Only the decayed keys sounded a bit out of place to me - I think that is a matter of tweaking the SFX assets here. However, the gameplay was a bit too obscure for me: I really had trouble figuring out what the game even wanted me to do and I was never certain, whether or not I was stuck or just had the wrong idea about my next action. 

Submitted

CONGRATULATION!

I couldn't have done it without the comments. I didn't quite understand the part at the end when only one of the two arguments appears until I scrolled down to read them. Still, it's a cool concept. I like the terminal games we've had in the jam, both share the same theme but have totally different concepts

Host

Aesthetically this game is so cool, I love the simple setting of person sitting at desk discovers ungodly shtuff. Sound was good and clicks felt nice. I'll be honest too, I'm not at all familiar with command line code, so I had to learn what commands do and how to maneuver around the game. It was a cool side effect of playing, but would have been way nicer if the game explained it in some way. It could have been a few persistent sticky notes as well, that would be way better than nothing. Overall I adore the setting, but gameplay could have been presented and introduced better.

Submitted

Loved this game; reminded me of traversing my own linux terminal, my only criticism is the keyboard kept loosing key so as im typing it got very frustrating example when trying to re run see.sh i would need to keep glitching out the screen so i could get it to re run to get the arg for react. Either way i loved it just the keyboard was annoying as it kept removing keys

Submitted

I didn't make it too  far, got to where I needed to communicate but couldn't figure out what frequency to give. I loved the keyboard clicky sounds and the fact that each of the keys moves when I click my physical keyboard. I think it would be worth explaining some of the commands a little more in the help command as my friend didn't understand how to play this game at all.

Developer(+1)

thank you for your reply. I was mimicking linux and windows's commandline, i couldn't figure out an elegant way to explain all the commands in time , if i had a few more days i would definitely do that. 

Submitted(+1)

I wouldn't get a "congratulation" without advice in comments.  Love the idea of decaying letters.

Submitted

I've gotten to "REACT" but can't figure out what it wants for arguments.

Developer(+1)

thank you for your reply. for react it wants the action "commune"(as said in the previous mission), but you can't just type it (because "e" has just decayed), you need some other method to do so.

Submitted (1 edit)

That's really obscure, my friend was also totally stumped at that point. although comically, I did try "Hail", "SeeTwo", and "Lorem Ipsum" so I was very close.

Submitted(+1)

CONGRATULATION! I did it :)

Submitted

And what do i do after that xD? Can't figure it out but i want to finish this game.

Developer (1 edit)

then you need to run the last script(decide.sh), it actually requires 2 arguments,first one "live" second one "die" (the hint only gives one, its a mistake i didnt notice during development, sad :( ), you need to type yes or no for them(and again, because there are so many decayed letters at this point you need to find ways to put them in). based on what you put in you will get different endings. (if you put in two "no" nothing will happen)

Submitted

Love the art and the atmosphere. Sadly i couldn't figure out how to communicate. 

Developer(+1)

thank you for your reply! the communicator.sh is asking you for a frequency parameter, and its hidden somewhere in the extracted data. since most of the data samples have status NO, could there be....?

Submitted

I was thinking that. But i just couldn't find one that doesn't say NO. Is there a way to scroll through the data. It prints way to fast for me

Developer(+1)

there isn't. actually you need to use a command that by far you probably haven't used yet, its listed in help.

I really liked the concept! I got stuck on the second post it note.

Developer

thank you for your reply! you need to get into a specific folder and read some text files.