-waste 15 minutes massaging, beating, and praying to the space bar to install the first patch
-finally get it done
-unity error, must reload game, progress is gone.
Terrible mini-game, ruins first impression and any interest in the game as-is. You need a visible heat meter, not just a color and noise. staying in place should lose heat, not keep it basically stagnant, and it seems like it overheats faster as you get to the end, making it even harder and more like to reset at the very end, which is just frustrating, not entertaining. AND the end of the visible meter isn't actually the end, leading you to literally just have to guess whether you're moving forward or not, causing you to struggle even more at the very end as well, making it even more likely you'll fail and have to start from scratch, which is not FUN.
I'd honestly suggest completely reworking this system as even with it perfectly working. it will still be completely uninteresting. A wire connecting or snake-like puzzle would be fit just as well if not better. although I understand these require making multiple levels, rather than a one and done system. Plenty of other mini-game types would suit for this, you just have to think outside the box a bit. e.g. minesweeper to "install the new software and isolate the anti-virus nodes". Whatever it is, it shouldn't take more than two minutes MAX to complete, especially for starting levels.
Anyway, I like the overall art design and creative direction, but it also feels very stilted and, for lack of a better description, generic right now. Plenty of time to improve and add more polish so I'm not too worried about that yet.
I know it's a somewhat harsh review for a prototype,/early version, but I really want to make it clear how NOT it this current system is (in my opinion of course), in the hopes that you can consider changing or greatly improving it.
This absolutely has potential, as long as you remember you shouldn't be trying to frustrate the player with a difficult/time-consuming minigame, but engage them with it, or at the least, they go past it without any complaints :p