COMPUTER BUGS STOLE MY GRANDMAS TAX FILES AND I GOTTA GO GET THEM BACK IN CYBERSPACE
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YOU CROSSED .RIP REAL GOOD AND NOW THEY STOLE GRANDMA'S TAXES! YOU GOTTA JUMP INTO CYBERSPACE AND GET 'EM!
A short comedy adventure game where you must delve not-that-deep into the folder structures of cyberspace to retrieve your poor granny's taxes. Search the highs and lows of the Space Bar to learn more about .RIP, crack their firewalls, and disturb a number of wild little diodes along the way!
File unzipper required to play, download the rar file, unpack, and get ready to unpack some more!
Design, Art, Writing - Shane Hosea
Design - Will Lewis
Made for the Portland Indie Game Squad's Summer Slow Jams 2022 event, with "Stealth" and "Critters" as the themes. Play from all of the jam games here!
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what a thing
feel free to tell me to delete this comment and i will, but heres a walkthrough google doc, for anyone who wants it.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Cc6f0-fPTY3ucIQ73iqUvWlbuUwS7Fx5kfHeixnyKHw/...
i absolutely loved this game, and if there is ever a 2nd one, i would be the first person to get it i swear, just amazing.
Thanks Minty! I hadn't noticed that the first clue was a clue. After seeing that part I was able to breeze through the rest of it. When I played the first time I spent too much time trying to figure out what to do with what ended up being the last clue.
this is so good!!! It hits on everything, the design is great, love the art, it's really funny.
what are the .ini files for?
Those should just be for displaying the character gif as the main folder image. Normally folders will just display whatever is alphabetically first. I wanted to make it clear you were about to talk to a character.
Thanks for pointing this out, I didn't realize it had created an .ini file for that so I had to look into why!
would you get really mad at me if when (if) I finished this I made it into a first person psx game? I'm not saying that would actually happen, just a question.
That would be totally fine!
dope!!
An INI file is a configuration file for computer software that consists of a text-based content with a structure and syntax comprising key–value pairs for properties, and sections that organize the properties.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/INI_file#cite_note-1" ]<1]<="" a=""></a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/INI_file#cite_note-1" ]<1]<="" a=""> The name of these configuration files comes from the </a>filename extension INI, for initialization, used in the MS-DOS operating system which popularized this method of software configuration. The format has become an informal standard in many contexts of configuration, but many applications on other operating systems use different file name extensions, such as conf and cfg.
so is there software or a vm that I could view the files in that uses the .in? Base windows file explorer doesn't seem to use it.
Finished the game, was really fun. I decided to cheese the hangman game by creating a small java program to search the contents of /usr/dict/words and print out words that were the correct length, contained letters in the right places, and did not contain already used letters. I got 13 results, and got lucky with the first word I picked
I figured out the lightbulb puzzle. Click on the provided link for the solution, keep in mind this is a spoiler for the puzzle
Puzzle solution here *SPOILER*
love this but im stuck in the lightbulb thing😭
This is one of the most creative concepts I've ever seen. REALLY cool!
I've never seen anything quite like this
bro help me i am stuck at the lightbulb thing, great job btw
The answer is rifling through the junk drawer where the janitor is sleeping. Try copy/pasting the bulb type you find there!
this s really cool tbh great job
This game is so hilarious and such a clever concept. I love puzzle games like this. Bravo and I hope there will be a sequel
I never imagined that something so creative could be created, I love it