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A jam submission

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Connect the calls and watch out for scams!
Submitted by majormellon, 898MathYou, jujubeepole — 8 hours, 5 minutes before the deadline
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  • Thanks for joining our jam! I think it was an interesting concept, although the gameplay was a bit sparse. I misinterpreted a call on the second day that just sounded like it was somebody inviting somebody else to dinner. It was very extremely half-century old American coded, and a lot of people would miss the colloquialisms without being familiar with both the history and way of speaking. I did enjoy the choice of background music, very old-timey, and it was interesting to read little tidbits about random people's days back then. The art style was a little too simplistic, being a brown maze on a black background with some whitebox text and a map in the upper right I didn't really pay attention to. I understand that the fundamental gameplay is just picking between finishing the maze or rejecting suspicious calls, but if the role was to be a switchboard operator, I think it would have been more fun to do something that related more to that, such as having an actual switchboard to make connections between callers. I do see the vision with the maze though, although the randomly generated mazes were sometimes a little too easy. Handmade mazes might have actually been better so you could manually escalate the difficulty and ensure that no maze was too easy.

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Submitted(+1)

Made it up to day 2, until I misinterpreted a call 😆 Loved the background music! Would maybe change the type of puzzle proposed because the labyrinth didn't feel very in line with the theme! 

Keep up the good work!

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One scam call a day! Please click through and play =]