THIS! This is my favorite so far! I love it!
I loved interfacing between all the levels: wrecking face in the shooter, to wandering the disquieting monochrome maze, to going back to console to bring myself back to life. It was so immersive! The room has such a nice, downbeat atmosphere to it, staring at a computer in my computer.
I loved the boomer shooter. It became especially fun when I realized that diagonal movement isn't normalized (this is not even a criticism it's very charming and helpful to replays). Those camo guys scared me a couple of times, coming out of nowhere with their creepy skull masks.
The "interruptions" almost always caught me off-guard. The unsettling way everything simply stops, the almost nauseating magenta and black checkerboard pattern reaching out, quickly switching off the power. The first time it happened, I became like a sitting duck; I'm glad the game over screen told me what I was supposed to do! The second time it happened, I accidentally turned off everything, not just the screen. I didn't make that mistake again!
I was expecting a scare in that long SPARK corridor! The fact that there wasn't is almost more unnerving than if it had.
The level 8 ending? Chills, man. I don't know why this doesn't have the "horror" tag on it
My biggest criticism is that a lot of the audio is unbalanced. The shoot sound is MUCH LOUDER than everything else; I had to turn down the game just for that. It wasn't quite loud enough to be problematic, but that would be the first thing to fix in a patch
My second criticism is the lack of balance between the shooter and platformer. While I liked the change of pace of switching to the platformer after completing the shooter, almost like a victory lap of sorts, it definitely feels like an ad hoc feature to show off the multiple programs. It's good that the platformer is there, but it definitely could be refined into a "whole game."
Also, not to throw shade on anyone, but this was one of the best-running games I've played this jam, and there are multiple 3D scenes and what-not. I got a smooth, crispy 60fps 99% of the time. That is commendable performance.
Awesome! Fantastic!