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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Overall | #52 | 3.888 | 3.888 |
| Innovation | #75 | 3.951 | 3.951 |
| Visuals | #81 | 4.336 | 4.336 |
| Audio | #91 | 3.803 | 3.803 |
| Enjoyment | #161 | 3.836 | 3.836 |
| Gameplay | #168 | 3.672 | 3.672 |
| Theme | #176 | 3.730 | 3.730 |
Ranked from 122 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
How does the game fit the theme?
Working in a budget shop where you are the only employee at the till, with a never ending queue, a faulty system, and even people trying to cheat by sticking discount labels onto normal goods, are surely going to go well. Surely Nothing can go wrong... right?
What code and assets did you not make from scratch during the jam (if any)?
All audios only
How many people worked on the game?2
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Played your game on stream. If you wanted to watch me go through it I've got the vod below timestamped to your game
Love the art and sound - really nailed the supermarket vibe, and the frustrations of working in retail! My first run, I was lost because I didn't see the monitor, but then saw the tip about using left click to drag it out - which was admittedly unintuitive for me.
I think it's a very successful game! The minigames were a nice change of pace. Whole experience felt silly, but positive, and satisfying. Great work!
Thank you for playing! Yup the monitor issue sucks and we've got a lot of comments criticise that. Totally agreed with them, and we should do a better job conveying that information. Anyway, thanks for your kind words and I am glad you enjoyed our game!
The only potential bug I've noticed is that the smaller the time you hold LMB while scanning, the less chance you have of BSOD.
Thank you for playing! The BSOD is caused by scanning when the system is loading, so the shorter the time you scan, you do get less crashes. We've thought of making random crashes too, but it feels too punishing as it wastes around 10 seconds each time you reboot. Anyway, glad that you enjoyed the game!
It was really fun after I understood how the game works! Great visuals too :)
Thank you for playing! Glad you enjoyed the game!
Very cool game, love all the little mechanics such as the blue screen and having to turn the barcode reader around! The only criticism I have is that even with the instructions, it took me a few losses to understand what was going on. Awesome work overall though!
Thank you for playing! Thanks for the kind words and glad you enjoyed the game!
Played and rated :) Really enjoyed this one, super polished and well thought out, some very fun mechanics and a nice 'stress simulator', the how to play diagrams were a little hard to understand but i think i figured most of it out before i got fired! The only problem was the lack of far cry references ;)
Thank you for playing! Ha ha at least our game is constant enough that doing the same thing twice won't yield different results ;) Jokes aside, glad you enjoyed the game! Thanks!
Hello,
This is really solid premise and I absolutely love any kind of simulator type games anyway. The music is nice and I can vibe with for a long time. I really enjoyed the fake discount label things. I failed the first time because I kept trying to scan the barcode with the qrcode scanner because I didn't know there was a difference. In hindsight it's pretty obvious.
I also like that you made sure no one could start the game without clicking on 'how to play' so that's nice.
I absolutely am going to get carpal tunnel from having to use those scanners. I don't know if that's how they are supposed to work. But whenever I would pick up those scanners with right click, they would just keep spinning in circles which meant I had to hold the button for longer. I can see what you were going for but I felt that one was a unfair.
Good luck!
Thank you for playing! Glad you enjoyed the game! There are quite a few people that talked about the ever spinning scanner. Sounds weird when I think about it deeper. I should take a deeper look into that. Thanks!
A very fun experience. Love the idea. The game play was initially hard to figure out. But once you understand the mechanics. It's a really great and fun experience. A really well polished game! Keep up the good work.
Thank you for playing! Glad you enjoyed the game.
Just a minor question that's not related to the game/comment. Are you by chance using Firefox when typing this comment? I had that issue too, and I found out itch on Firefox will automatically change spaces to non-breaking spaces. Changing to chrome solved this issue for me, but it's still good to know it's not just me having this problem :)
Well, That's right. I am using a firefox based browser. And I didn't know what was wrong but something was pretty wired when typing comments. Guess it's a common issue then. :)
My first impression for this game wasn't so smooth, because I didn't know how to move the monitor. Then I figured that out and I had a very joyful gameplay experience. Sometimes the pop-ups ruined my scanning and I find it a little unfair, but I think that's how the pop-up is supposed to be. After the game over I did replay the game a couple times, trying to reach the 10th customer, but the game is so hard.
Overall, the game is really good. I was a little addicted.
Thank you for playing and for your kind words! Yeh, we should do a better job in coveying that information. 10th customers is very good considering not many people managed to get past 6 to 7. Well done!
Booted up the game and I got sudden flashbacks to working at a certain brand that starts with a K, even the bad management is similar :sob: really cool game! Yall could lowkey sell this with some small quality of life improvements. Really Cool Game!
Thank you for playing! Hope the game is not bringing you bad memories. I swear this is not intentional ;)
A fellow strange simulator enjoyer !
A bit hard to understand at first but very fun and well polished
Ha ha, a fellow crashing computer game creator! Well met!
Anyway, thanks for playing and I am glad you enjoyed the game!
Insanely polished game ^^! Everything is really good: the graphics, the sound design, the atmosphere, the gameplay... Daaaaamn that's cool, congratulations ^^!
Thank you for playing! Glad you enjoyed the game!
I really enjoyed the are style and game play! Great work!
Thank you for playing! Glad you enjoyed the game!
Super fun! It's a great idea to create a game like this. The visuals, UX, and UI are adorable and have a unique charm!
Thank you for playing! Glad you liked the game!
Wow, this game is so fun and innovative! I really love it—the art quality is fantastic too!
Thank you for playing! Glad you liked the game!
Really polished and fun game! I wish we could read the scribbles, but it make it feel more like the real budget shop experience. I also wish the computer would crash less. Other than that, would definitely play a full version of this!
Thank you for playing! Glad you enjoyed the game! The system will crash if you scan an item while it was either loading or an alert is showing. I should really convey this a bit more clearer.
The controls to pick the the scanners are a bit fiddly, but otherwise I think the game plays rather well. I liked the lofi how to play tutorial, though I couldn't make sense of it at the time. I may or may not have called the cops on innocent people...
Thank you for playing! Glad you liked the game! Sending innocent people to jail is super fun, trust me, I've unnecessarily spammed that button quite a number of times when I was developing the game too XD
The highest review I’ve given. This game has a very real chance of winning the entire jam.
Was very slightly infuriated by one particular label that was very poorly positioned and ate up an entire minute trying to get the barcode scanner to go the right way
The staff orientation was like trying to read Hamlet in French. I’ve read Hamlet, I know some French, but if I were to read Hamlet in French, I would miss some important details.
Heart system made the game forgiving enough without removing the challenge, I really liked that.
If anything, I would just add some more possible options for products on the belt.
The SFX were perfect and the music worked well. The visuals were really well drawn, I liked the style a lot.
Thank you for playing! Glad you enjoyed the game! We intentionally put the reduced labels in a way that it's not entirely horizontal or vertical just to make the game a bit hard, but it seems like you've got a particularly bad one. Hope that doesn't spoil the experience. It would be nice for more items too, as I felt 4 types are just too few for a game like this. It's due to time constraints, but I don't think this should be an excuse. Anyway, thank you so much for the kind words!
Cute game! Feels a bit too clunky for me but that might be the playstyle you're going for .. I got so many blue screens yo T_T
Thank you for playing! The blue screen only appears when you are scanning an item while it's still loading, or when you are scanning an item when a popup is present. Sorry for not clearly conveying that
Ohh. Well, I figured that was a possibility, that's okay. ^_^
The way I was holding the scanner it was spinning around like crazy and often spun and double scanned almost instantly haha. Skill issue XD
Really fun game! I like the style, concept and implementation! It was so fun to call police on some people. It takes a bit of time to adjust to controls but really cool all in all!
Thank you for playing! Not everyone have seen the police mechanic in action, which is our fault for not clearly explaining it, but glad you found it funny! Thanks!