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As shown in the credits of the game, the background designs and the characters designs were made by two different artists, so I guess that's why there is a contrast. I am the artist who did the characters designs (and the cutscene), the other artist couldn't work with us this year so we let her background designs as they were from the 2024 version. We like it this way, but if a lot of people are bothered by the contrast maybe we will think of something after we finished debugging and polishing the game and addind the features we still want to add :)

We agree we need to help players try different routes more easily. A go back button is a polished option we have think of, but haven't implemented yet and are not sure to implement, because there is already a SAVE/LOAD menu (which works for the html version too). Maybe with a "skip already read dialogues" it would be nicer to make new walkthroughs, but for now we haven't had time to dig into this option. We will do our best to improve that aspect in a future version.

I am a bit confused what the problem was exactly and where it came from in your first comment, but I am glad you could reach the end of the game even if it was not the most satisfying of the 4 Endings ;D! I think I misunderstood what you were talking about in your previous post so I inadvertently spoiled something from another Ending lol, sorry about that.

I will clarify some stuff from what you said that may help understand what you saw:

The background of islands are changing when you come back to an island where you have settled a data collector in a previous mission. If you interacted with them before and after settling the data collectors, you will be able to tell that something might be wrong with them... ;) By the way, if you do that and talk to Bernard at cafés, you may reach a very differend ending.

But yes, in any cases once you have settled a data collector, the next time you will come to the island the projection won't interact with you anymore, you will only be able to listen to their thoughts (with one exception but in most playthrough that's what you will get). 

I am guessing now that the "wave thingy" you were talking about were inside the data collector mini-game? If the data collector wasn't showing, maybe you were on the wrong island. If you were talking about the signal, it is normal when the emotional weather of the Cognisea is bad (everything is blurry etc) that the island signal disappear from time to time when you are trying to match the signals, but we agree that it may look like a bug. It is on our list of polishing (we want to add a static sound like the signal is lost or something).

Thank you again for your feedback!

Hello! As I've written on your page, I think it is a good idea to have a template for people like me who are not good at coding. Like others said, I think useful/common options could be implemented. I'm thinking of a SAVE/LOAD option, which is often absent from little indie games. Maybe a little user manual in text for complete noobs? I've looked for it in your files but didn't find it, just the Licence details.
Good job and good luck for future development!

Good idea for people like me! We have a dev in our team but that's the kind of tool I would need for game dev if I was alone.

For Wendy maybe neutral/wrong options, or you didn't interact with her enough, or you didn't talk to her after returning from the last mission (romance dialogs unlock after the last mission in every case). Congrats for the Employee of the month ending! Not so easy to finish all missions on time. It is not the "true"/hidden ending though ;D.
If you are curious and try the game again later, try going back to previous islands where you've already settled data collectors and interact with Bernard more. Btw, I don't know if you've noticed but you can Save game to try different options/walkthrough. 

Hello! Good job on reaching the last island, it is a little bit hard to find :)
Does that mean you've reached the ending? Could you please tell us which one please? And if you romanced someone? Thank you very much for trying the game out! And yes, we are trying to still debug it/add more content, we are hoping to make another release this year :)

Hello!
I like cats and I like cafes, so of course I had to test your game first ;)

I agree with another comment saying the game should have an easier-to-read font and a full screen option. I also think it would be nice to have a downloadable version later on.

About the game itself, I think the features currently here work fine. I couldn't do anything beside adopting new cat/collecting money but I guess it's because the game is still in development. To be noted though: for now, when we finish the demo, we can't try the game again, at least it doesn't work for me. I've reloaded the page and I am stuck on the Start/Quit menu which I can't interact with anymore.

For now the game involves mainly waiting and clicking on the cats. I suppose it is planned, but it would be nice to have more playability (aka more things to do inside the cafe) and a "twist": something that makes this game unique compared to other games of the same genre. I don't know what exactly, but maybe you already have an idea :)

Good luck for the future development!

Thank you very much! Can you please tell us if you were able to reach one of the endings, and if yes, which one? Thanks for the feedback!
We will start to try the jam games after the weekend too!

Hello! Thank you for trying our game so quickly. I have a few questions to try to understand where the problem is coming from: 

/!\ SPOILERS BELOW for those who haven't played: 

Did you donwload the game or did you play the html version?
 
If I understand correctly, you were destroying the data collectors, destroyed the first three indicated by the purple ping, and then got stuck? Then you went back to Bernard, and he didn't interact with you?
We still have trouble with the wave parameters so I'm not surprise if you couldn't see it anymore, but normally you should have be able to stop destroying the data collectors whenever you want, get back to Bernard to reach the "Rage Against the Machine" ending. So yes it is a bug :/

So close to the rating limit but I did test your game!! Good job with the intro and the graphism in general, they are great! "Capitalism is the waiting room of fascism", can't agree more here. I managed to save 8/10 neightbours at first try so not bad I guess. Let's hope games like this will inspire people to disobey, protest and protect ;)

Yeeey thanks for giving it a try! Guess you reached Rage Against the Machine ending haha

Hello comrads!!

Just to tell you that Mediapart, an leftist independant French media (which specialises in investigation most of the time), has talked about this jam!

Original article (but you need to have suscribed to read it)
https://www.mediapart.fr/journal/culture-et-idees/060626/fuck-capitalism-jam-l-e...

The instagram post: https://www.instagram.com/p/DZPYTjbCGTU/

It's all in French though, sorry for non French-speakers.

Good jam game! I put a more detailed review on your game page ^^

Good game! The only way to win is to reach status 100, right? Seems to me like it is impossible to reach maximum happiness (or even 50 lol). That's quite dark but relevant for most people I guess, that's how our society work at least.

I'd say the animation of items during work time feels a little off. I think highlighting what needs to be clicked on would be a better choice than them moving on their own, I thought it was a bug or that I was supposed to click and drag them.

Also a hidden way to escape work and consumption would have been nice :p... Or is there one that I missed?

Besides that, very well polished game + fun to play, and that fits the Fuck Capitalism jam well!

Alright, thank to your tip I reached the end of the game. It's quite satisfying I must say! Congrats for the game.

If you were to improve it, I would say the game would benefit from being little bit less punitive. The easiest way in my opinion would be to link the step-by-step walkthrough in your game description, like that people who are stuck could check on it. I think having one or two chances before the game over (getting detected by the FBI) would be nice too, instead of the instant game over while you do something wrong. Like that, more people will reach the end of your game, which deserves the interest :)

Feels a little unfinished, could have more narrative design to fit the theme better and not just the ending :p The "!" boxes are not working (yet?) either, at least for me in the html version. Since you released the game 1 minute and 49 seconds before the deadline, I guess you were lacking time. The game has potential, I think a platformer for the jam would be a nice change. Hope that next time you will be able to finish it!

Hi there! Neither me or my team crew have tried the game yet, but just wanted to tell you that there is warning below when I try to download the game :/
Maybe you should check with itch why it is so, it could prevent people from trying your game, which seems to work fine since other people have played it.

Wow! Strong intro with the sample from Andreas Malm book. Very cool that he allowed you to use the theme and title of his book! 

The game is really well polished, I’m impressed that you could do all of that by yourself! Honestly it has almost no flaw in my opinion. I do have two questions:

- Is it possible to blow/destroy everything on the map before the countdown is over? I always got caught before :(

- Bug for feature?: I thought that hiding behind containers would prevent cops from spotting the team, but it seems they can see behing the obstacles lol.

Damn! One of the best games from this jam I've tried so far

Depressingly accurate XD Couldn't get my happy ending :')
Edit: I don't know what software you use, but I think a little bit of soundeffects and/or music would be a perfect bonus for this kind of game :D

Very well polished game, and excellent take on the theme!
I am stuck after I've made Elon and Donny lose all their followers and forced them to follow Greta/BLM/Free Palestine accounts. Or is it the end of the game?

Good jam game! I do love to expropriate private companies ;)
I think a way to improve the game if you wish to would be to add little "events" and storytelling notifications, like little pop ups which tells in a narrative way what happens when do you this or that, or when the Core fights back. I think the difficulty could be upgraded a little too, even if it's nice to win easily against Capitalism for a change :p

Regarding the other comment, I do think it's close enough to an idle game, but that's not a genre I'm really used to play so I could be wrong.

Yeeey it works now!

I love to eat too :') Well done for a game created in 1h :P Fits the theme. Hope next year you will create something too, and maybe with more time ahead, who knows!

Nobody else talked about it so maybe I'm the only one with the problem, but the game is off-screen for me in the html version, and I don't see an .exe :/

I LOVE THIS TAKE ON "THE FUCK CAPITALISM" THEME XDD!

First of all, the pixel art, the animations and the music are perfect! The game is very ambitious and well done. The mini-games are funny, I hope you will add more in the future if you plan to update the game! Are you going to particpate to the Josei or Otome game jam with this game? It could fit XD

Here are some bugs/inconsistencies I encountered (maybe spoilers ahead): - I didn't want to date Capitalism first, so I didn't show up to the dates (just went straight to sleep because he was an a-hole and I didn't want to see his face again lmao), but the interactions I had with Socialism and Communism and the texts I received made it look like I went. 

- I got Adam shoes, and since I didn’t go to the dates, I didn’t give them to Capitalism. Then Communism asked me to exchange a present for a letter, so I gave him the shoes. Then, I visited Communism again, who asked me if Capitalism liked the shoes? But I wasn’t supposed to have them anymore lmao, and hadn’t given them. But then finally I went to my first date with Capitalism, which was to the amusement park (guess there were different ones before but I skipped them). I gave him the shoes, despite supposedly not having them anymore. Next day, I saw that I could visit Communism if I had a present. I didn’t have any, but I visited him anyway… and then, when he asked for the present, I was blocked lmao. I had to start the game all over XD This time I bought and item and went directly to him, but I forgot to open the door to the delivery first, so I was blocked a second time and had to start all over again lmaaaao. It would be nice to block the possibility to go to him if we are empy handed XD

 - We wore mismatched dog/cat shirts in the amusement park. The text I received from his siblings talked about the frog shirts though.

- In the end, I couldn't fuck Capitalism and instead he evolved into… Neoliberalism I guess ahah. I didn’t try again because I had started over the game two times already, and sadly there isn’t a saving feature (…yet?). But also because ugh! I don’t want to satisfy this bastard! Where is Anarchy? Rebellion? Uh?? Want to date them instead ahah  

I had a lot of fun and it is a great jam game, definitely a 5/5 for me. I hope you will be able to update it and submit it to other jams maybe.

Ahah! I love the concept, too bad you couldn't finish it on time! Your possum makes me think of a French artist called Opposam, I don't know if you know him. He's a queer artist who is quite anticapitalist I think ;p I know he creates interactive stories featuring possums too.

Fuck AI, fuck big corps, fuck capitalism and thanks for living!

Great game that fits the theme perfectly through the subject of AI. Intro, levels, transitions, a boss, outro, autosave and settings... well balanced and polished, congrats!

Damn, great game!!.Very oppressive too, I was tense all long ahah. But well balanced, I reached the end without thinking it was too easy. I died at the boss once and I was glad that I could restart the fight right away.

Also, I agree. They really wasted a fuckton money on a plagiarism technology <3

Hello! I liked the atmosphere of the game. The game itself is well polished even if it's just the demo. The part about machines building other machines and buildings since who-knows-when made me think about BLAME! a little. And all the talk about their modern Utopia of Ian Banks novels' with his description of Culture. I didn't feel like the dialogues optiond had much impact though, is it just me ? Do you plan on making a game with different endings after the jam ?

I felt like the debate during this game was more like "is that kind of Utopia really what we want?" more than a criticism of capitalism, but it was interesting anyway. The dialogues are quite complex so maybe I misunderstood some points (I'm not an English native speaker so that's probably part of the issue). While I think it can be part of the charm, maybe it could be slightly more accessible? Just my opinion though :)

Ahah, plutôt sympa, ça m'a bien fait sourire :P Croisons les doigts pour les présidentielles 2027 !

Cool game give it a try comrades!

That's so cool that people from everywhere in the world are participating in this jam and sharing the same thoughts about capitalism!
I guess the bank system is the same everywhere at its core, credit score or not. In France it is very hard to contract a loan if you're not rich enough, but if you do, the interest rate is huge too, much greater than for the rich. And here too banks receive massive government support, but the opposite isn't true when there is an economical crisis.

Aaah I didn't try spacebar, good to know thanks! It's cool that you implemented the feature. So if I understand right, in your game if you obey you get fired anyway (I like that take and agree with it. Even if we are being encouraged to do so, being a corporate scum isn't always rewarding - and even if it was, at what cost. We took the same take in our game). So the only good thing you can do is leak the files before being fired, right? Or there is another possibility I missed?

One can always polish their game endlessly, but I think your game is pretty cool as it is.

In "paper please" kind of game, most of the tame you have to check a lot of data and compare to instructions, I like that here it is only the score and you are supposed not to take care of the rest. That's a very realistic take on how our society work too, with grades, etc. I used to work in Research and nowadays even researchers have a score, called the h-index. Most of the time, universities and such recruit them or not depending of this score, and not the quality of their work or their ethics. Much easier to base everything on a number instead of doing a little bit of investigation work, right? 

Anyway very good game that fits the jam very well! 

J'arrive pas à ouvrir les boosters X'D ! Ni voir la collection, du coup. Je peux juste cliquer sur le bouton pour en obtenir un et attendre 150 secondes que ça charge x_o (pourquoi autant de temps d'ailleurs, une raison?) snif snif

Je sais pas si je suis la seule, si c'est un souci de mon navigateur (firefox) ou autre

Same! Fuck capitalism and fuck banks :P!

Really liked the game! I wish there was a feature to skip the text typing slowly because when I'm doing new playthroughs I know what it says already. Is it normal that in day 4 the instruction says to disapprove every file, but when you refuse for the first one you still get a warning? Anyway, I managed to get to the end of day 5 while approving almost all files and leaking the files from day 4, but I got fired in the end anyway :P Couldn't see what happened when you obey all the instructions cuz that goes against my convictions ahahah!

I'm always amazed at this credit score thing because it doesn't exist in France. In our country it is very hard to contract a loan except if you are rich already.

Let's take come co... coca-cola! The intro is funny and the art is promising, I hope you will finish this game for after the jam :)! Note: it would be nice to be able make all the text lines appear when pushing enter, space or clicking instead of skipping them when clicking :D some people like me read fast and can't wait for the text to appear on its own ahahah

Yeeeey un jeu sur la grève XD topez-là camarades !

Très amusant et big up pour le "les CFDP ont trahi" XD et plein d'autres clins d'oeil qui m'ont fait sourire. J'ai un souci par contre mais peut-être suis-je la seule: pour moi votre jeu dépasse de mon écran sur navigateur, je n'arrivais donc pas à tout lire snif. J'ai pas réussi non plus à mener le mouvement social jusqu'au bout, était-ce juste pour dire que la lutte ne s'arrête jamais, ou c'est que j'ai raté quelque chose hors champ?

Comme disent les autres un peu plus de feedback visuels aurait été top mais en même temps on fait ce qu'on peut dans le temps d'une jam :P c'était sympa en tous cas !

Hello! So, I've downloaded your game cuz I like RPGmakers game :3 Here's my review: 

- Good job on putting a menu, with the possibility to save/load and options for the sound! It lacks in some games (mostly because people don't manage to put this feature on time) 

- Cool intro at game start :D 

- I like to kill everything but I had to give up at some point because the character is too slow to explore and we can't upgrade their speed XD also at some point it was just long and it didn't feel like it had a sense to do it. I was just looking for the upgrade item and then the stairs. I don't know if that's normal that monsters can see you through the walls? 

- I met the minotaur and had to hit him three times to engage combat, then I beat him, but he was still there. I just decided to bypass him, but when I entered the room after him, there was no map it was just blank, nothing happened, and I couldn't come back. Was it normal? Was I supposed to do something? 

- I have to admit that during my gameplay I didn't see the link with "Fuck Capitalism" theme?

It works now ^^ at least at could launch it on Windows. We can't do much in the game except pick water and enter the shop I think, but the graphism is ambitious - did you do the 2D and 3D assets yourselves or you used itch database :D? It looks great and I like the vibe. Hope you will be able to finish it after the jam!