Office Ordeal
Office Ordeal
It's Christmas Eve, you had to work late, and now you're late to the holiday party. Get downstairs before your Uber leaves to make it to the holiday party!
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Office Ordeal: A first-person puzzle game starring you! After a long day of work on Christmas Eve, you're running late to your holiday party! Your Uber is waiting for you, and will leave in 5 minutes. Can you make it downstairs in time? Only if you can figure out how to get your office's janky elevator working again... why doesn't this place have stairs!?
Gameplay: Navigate the office environment using the W, A, S, and D keys as you explore the intricate puzzles blocking your descent. Control the camera seamlessly by moving the mouse, click to interact with objects, and solve puzzles to unlock the way forward.
Objective: Your mission is clear—solve each puzzle swiftly to repair the elevator and make it to the ground floor before the clock runs out and you have to walk to the holiday party, uphill, in a blizzard. The spiked-nog awaits, but you must conquer a series of brain-teasing challenges to make it.
Controls:
- W, A, S, D keys: Move your character through the office space.
- Mouse: Control the camera to survey your surroundings.
- Click: Interact with objects and solve puzzles.
- Q key: Exit a scene or drop an item when needed.
Features:
- We made all the assets!
- Race against the clock to reach the holiday party.
- Intuitive controls for seamless navigation and puzzle-solving.
- Challenging and intricate puzzles designed to test your wit and speed.
- Shoutout to avndr for a last minute trip to a nearby hotel elevator to capture samples :P
Made for minjam 148 connections. The game is pretty much everything we set out to build!
Credits
- flyguy4247: code, modeling, concepts
- mrs. flyguy4247: devilish puzzle concepts
- avndr: audio production
- wmegla: cover art & copy
- echofiend: thanks for the QA
Comments
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Wow. I've tried so hard to think of puzzles, and I still can't... This was pretty good! At a certain point I got stuck so I came to comments for help. Overall, I like it. I did come out of it a bit frustrated, and I hope there is a way to make it clearer that the numbers are supposed to be upside down (I don't think I could make out the arrows easily).
Thanks for the play and feedback! Now that the jam is over, I have updated it to use a much better / less obscure code, and added more help text to the emergency help button. :)
Great game idea!
The concept is fun but I tried every number I saw (even #5892) on the lock and it still didn't open, I also had to bruteforce the color coded cables because I didn't know where to look for them, I still managed to get to the party in time by giving an 8 dollar tip to Alejandro xD
I found some funny bugs that I guess you'd want to fix if you're going to make this into a full game: you can infinitely click the elevator's roof which makes it go even over the wall
also if you run out of the elevator after clicking the button and before the door closes, you can call the elevator again and this makes for a funny situation where you are stuck inside an elevator but also with the door wide open:
I really liked the fact that you put some tips on the emergency button, smart game design :)
Thanks for testing and playing so thoroughly and finding some quirks :P definitely hard to get all the bugs out in 72hrs!
edit: now that game jam is over, spoiler removed, and spoiler added to the emeergency help button in the elevator :)
Ohh so that's why I didn't solve it, I've now finally completed it the way it's meant to, great game again :)
Awesome! Thanks again for sticking with it and playing through :)