Some time back I made a D&D character (thief/Bard) who was a con artist instead of a traditional snatch and run thief, and this gave me some great flashbacks to it.
I like the simple premise; grab the valuable Erdium and convince the gaurd to let you through security with it. Between this and the next episode I actually managed 6/8 endings. Golly Joy-O-Bot took longer than it should have, I way over thought it, haha. I found the code dump but kept thinking alpha and delta would just write as "A" and "D" and when that didn't work thought that the binary description failure meant that the numbers I got might be backwards or something, then there was what I think was a glitch that sent me on some theories for a while, I'll talk about that in a sec but overall it was fun trying to figure it out.
I'm down to just the Joyful Worker and the Manager now, spent a lot of time trying to get it but am a bit stumped.
So I had potentially a glitch while I was trying to figure out Joy-O-Bot's? The Guard name was changing slightly, letters were being added to it. But it wasn't consistent as I would sometimes put the same things twice and the name would just go back to GUARD. The strangest was I think "lGaUrAeR?D" (yes including the question mark in the title) I kept thinking it was a clue to the Joy-O-Bot puzzle, but now that I got that one, I'm not sure what it was. Letters were slowly being added as I made mistakes so I feel like it's trying to spell something?
Anywho, the game was a lot of fun and rewarding to figure out. The subtle nod to Team Rocket gave me a good laugh. Very well designed, I hope another game like this comes out or more people/puzzles get added in. Thanks for the fun!