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Known bug:
1. Play the game with gamepad
2. Complete the tutorial steps until the headline says "Get your reward"
3. Press B button to open menu
4. Press D-pad down to select Tech tree button
5. Press A to activate the tech tree.

Due to a bug, pressing A here also activates the Skip-button in the tutorial window below. This causes you to get the upgrade automatically and cannot complete the steps of selecting the upgrade and buying it.

I am sorry this slipped through as it is a bit confusing.

Work around:
For part of the tutorial, in step 4-5 above use your mouse to click the "Tech tree" button in the menu, and also use your mouse to click the upgrade to get and on Buy button.

Later on in the game you totally can use the Gamepad to navigate all menus including buying upgrades using d-pad and A button. (with the exception of the settings window due to it being used to configure the gamepad bindings)

I will make a post-jam update to fix this, but due to judging embargo, just making a note here what is going on. 

Thank you for the feedback. I sure lost some time to this game during development. 😂 Just wanted to help the virtual people out. So kinda knew the game could hook you but was afraid players would not get past the initial confusion on how to learn to play the game and understanding its mechanics. Or be too frustrated by the elevator controls.

Thank you for the warm words.

Interesting game idea and use of the theme.

One thing that was a bit unclear for me was if the game would give me instructions to use the D-pad or if I was supposed to do that on my own and just press the button corresponding with "A" or "B" on my gamepad when they shows up?

On my xbox compatible gamepad (8BitDo), the hardware X button produces a B and the hardware B button produces a A in the game. Is this because the game was calibrated for a different type of gamepad? 

Despite the dystopian game, I must say the people how they walk in this game is just soo adorable cute. The music and UI was very well fitted for the game.

One thing that would have helped me is if there was like some brief moment to just grasp the game UI before it starts. But maybe that is part of the game idea that it should be a bit overwhelming.

I love the touch where you get to name your own TV show. It is such a powerful thing for the player to co-create their immersion. 

I liked your game even if I never got past section 3 in the first level. I do like the music and the carry out with the effects in the game making it a well put together game. 

One suggestion is that after calibrating the gamepad it would have been nice if you could navigate the menus with the gamepad. But I also know game jams is a lot of hard prioritizations to get the game done. 

I took a peek in the source code and was interesting to see how you made your controllers inherit from Component and HasGameReference to make the inter-controller wiring that way. I've been doing very explicit prop-drilling for inter-state read/writes which has its pros and cons.