Good Idea!
"To leave the room, feed the box an item. It will give you something in return."
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Made for the Jame Gam #28
A sorta prequel to Good Job!
Content Warning:
- absurd deaths
- occasional screen shakes and flashes
Features:
- 4 Dead Ends and 1 True End (One DE activates randomly!)
- Playtime: ~ 20 min
- ~ 1500 words
Controls- Mobile:
Touch screen with one finger - walk around/interact/confirm
Touch screen with two fingers at once - open menu /back
Controls- PC:
Arrowkeys to move
Enter to confirm
Shift to run
Esc-Key to open menu
Credits:
Music: Raine Eera
Sound Effects: Raine Eera, RPG MAKER, Pixabay
Plugin: Jackkel Dragon (Persistent Data Plugin), SRD (Skip Title Screen Plugin)
Note for Web-Players: If the game somehow is stuck while playing, please refresh the site!
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Install instructions
Development log
- FIXED WEB + WIN-VERSIONMay 24, 2023
Comments
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I really love your games but i don't have time to play them so most of the times i watch ppl play and talk about the loreee
New fan of your games!
review:
damn you make a lot of games that its making me look forward to the next game youll make. anyways, this was the chronological prequel of good job, it was very short, like, very... but i was curious to find out what would happen after the end. in short, kathinka always delivers with the art style even tho i literaly played almost all the kathinka games today, i found it nice, ty.
Thank you for playing all of my ga(y)mes, haha! I love making fun, short games <33 I hope you'll enjoy the next game UvU
cool game!!! i thought i'd keep exploding XDDD
i kept exploding but eventually i got the ending ! :D
I can't get all the endings, I only got the Scissors one, the Key one, and the axe one lmao I need help
NVM! Everytime I did the scissors, they exploded. I thought that was the ending. Got the True Ending
key one? What’s the key one
This was a delightful game, played it directly after Good Job! However, I did get the explosion ending about 70 percent of the time, which I assume wasn't your intention haha
I am back, I finished the game, I swear bro Kathinka's games are actually good, And just like "Good Job!" I WASN'T EXPECTING THE PLOT TWIST BRUH, those plot twists be amazing, Overall, just G.O.O.D even if it was shorter then her other games, I still enjoy playing your games Kathinka.
Olivia DLC is literally the perfect title for this lol
Also I'm rly happy that you enjoyed this game (and especially the plot twist - they're the most fun to think of hehehe) ^^
OH MY DAMN GOD, IT IS OLIVIA'S DLC!
Megon here, If this is another one of Kathinka's game, I gotta try, Also it just looks like Olivia DLC.
this was a cute short game. wish there was more but i really loved it. keep up the good work!
Thank you sm for playing!! Your reactions to the Dead Ends were rly fun imo haha
Also if you're interested in more story, "Good Job" has more to offer! This game was a little project for a short game jam to introduce a new chara :>
ooooooo!!!! I'm so down for more! can't wait!
I FORGOT U MADE A NEW GAME AND FINISHED IT IN 1 DAY!! I GOT THE ENDING: TRUE,death 1, sissors ending, falling into void ending, and the one where the roof collapses- (I CANT REMEMBER THE REST BUT YOUR GAMES ARE ALL AMAZING! AND IM PLANNING TO PLAY ALL OF EM SINCE I ONLY TRIED 3 (the dress up, Good job, good Idea)
I'm happy to hear that you liked this game!!! Also congrats on collecting all of the endings hehe ✨✨
AAA TYSMMM!!!!!!!! (love yur games sm<3333333333)
This was fun! I really liked how this game changed things up from "Good Job!" whilst also keeping its minimalism, and I liked learning more about Olivia's past.
happy gays just don't exist anymore like they used to. you know back in my day the husband would go off to war while the lovely lady next door stole his wife/j (I loved the game I played good Job! and Heartburn You are so cool
Thank you very much for that story idea... I'm taking notes rn 📜 🖋️
But fr, thank you sm! I'm glad you enjoyed my games^^
Aw thank you sm for your nice review^^ I'm happy to hear that you enjoyed both games! :3 (Especially the silly deaths... It was fun to come up with these!!)
Also generally, I'm happy to let you translate the games - I just need to figure out a efficient way on how that could work haha
Feel free to write me on discord regarding that^^
Show post...
doing my job to dilike your posts to take you back after you did dislike me.
YOU AND DIOSHIBA ARE WORTHLESS IDIOTS WHO FOOLED ME AROUND.
Fantastic!!!! Simple, yet intuitive. Your games are really unique!!!!!! Keep up the good work ! :)
How sweet of you! Thank you so much!!! ^v^
This was a very fun game; I enjoy the art style and the way the room is drawn. It reminds me of Hello Charlotte in a way. Can't wait to see what happens to these tragic lesbians next
I'm glad you liked my art and the game!! :3 (I am going to make these lesbians suffer <3)
Also, Hello Charlotte is one of my fav games, so ig this was inspired by it haha
11/10 nice prequel to good job
I finished the game! It was so hard to get all the four dead endings (especially given just how many times I've suffered from an explosion) so that was pretty cool. I loved it--from artsyle, gameplay and music. I also like that it's b&w in a way because it kind of represents "devoid of life" to me and it works so well with the general idea. Like it can have colours but it's better without it.
I'm commenting before I play because I immediately recognized the art style and knew exactly who the developer is so yeah I just had to say that lol, brb will comment again after gameplay!
This is just as addictive as GJ and I love it <3 Following you, dev!
WOW I JUST GOT THE ENDING THE REAL ONE!!!!!!!!! I LOVE IT.
I feel so honored that you recognized my artstyle?? Really sweet, hahaha
I'm also happy to hear that you enjoyed this game as well^^
Thank you sm for also playing Good Idea! I loved seeing ur LP (even if I don't understand anything), because your voice sounds so nice ^v^
And I get you... I feel the same about Olivia TvT
A prequel to Good Job where you are an incompetent AI trying to escape | Good Idea(All Endings)
I really hope you can make more games for this story, both of them are so fun!
I love my girlies too much to not make another game lol
its a good prequel to "Good Job" and i would like to know how the story is going further. Good work :D
Thank you :D Hopefully I'll have time to work on a sequel this year haha
It's a great little prequel to "Good Job"! Would be interesting to find out more in future games! Thank you for your hard work :)
good job sequel pleaseeeeeeeee
Good Job Sequel in which neither Olivia nor Ellen appear 😍😍
Is she gay?
Yes of course
That was really nice! I really liked the atmosphere, it felt like a really full experience despite how small it was. It kinda reminds me of Yume Nikki. I wasn’t able to get all the endings due to some crashes but I’m definitely gonna play the rest of your games now! I made a video of me playing it. About 5 minutes into the video a got an error that you might wanna look into. Honestly, the art and simple but effective story telling was so endearing that I didn’t mind the crashing.
https://youtu.be/jPDwsEtMwHs (Itch won’t let me embed my video so here’s a link if you wanna check it out)
Thanks for playing^^ I'm glad to hear that you enjoyed the game and my artstyle :3c
The game closing on itself was intentional^^ It closes after every ending. There is a version that doesn't automatically close, but I only put that up for windows and the web-version :') The mac-builds of my games aren't downloaded super often, so I didn't think there would be any demand haha
Also if you wanna have a hint for getting one of the endings you're missing:
You need to click below the scissors :') The game is actually supposed to be played with a keyboard (arrowkeys to move, enter is for interacting and esc to get out of the box menu), so that's probably why you missed it :'))
That’s completely fair. I realize I’m an outlier who downloads everything to my Mac. I’m used to running into weird issues no one else seems to have, haha. Also thanks for the hint! I really do like the game and I’m really impressed with your work~ (‘▽’)
Not Bad! by the way why cant you just add some... Hints?
What kind of hints are you thinking of?
1:If the player dont find the key- i mean Food for the box, an line will appear leading to the correct food to get past the rooms, only 3 chances
only this hint :/... ill think of another some time
Seeing that there are only three items you can put in and that all of these items disappear once you put one item into the box... I don't think that a line that tells you what the items are is necessary.
It's part of the gameplay to interact with everything in the room - Making it too obvious would take out the fun imo^^
Also HOW THE HECK YOU CHANGE THE PFP?!
Account -> Settings -> Profile Pic
The pic has to be very small tho :')
btw can you please play my first game? :< pls
I wasn't expecting this story, I love it!
I'm happy to hear that :3
Wow I liked this so much!! How cute and charming! I really want to do art of the characters, I love the style. Simple and to the point but just detailed and cute. <3 The story itself is interesting; I haven't played Good Job yet so I'm excited to play that next!! Thank you for the game!
Thank you for playing my game^^ I'm happy that you liked it (enough to want to play Good Job haha)
It was really fun to watch your LP :D Since this game has some spoilers for Good Job, I'm also looking forward to watching ur LP for that x'D
nice
I think there's a bug with the Scissors dead ending in the web version. Every time I put the scissors in, the box explodes, and I read through the comments and it looks like it's supposed to happen randomly, not every time. Is it supposed to be like this?
I just tried it and I was able to get the ending (after two explosion endings tho :'))
Idk how long you tried to get it, but I suppose you got a bit unlucky;; Maybe try putting another item in before trying scissors again?
AAAA HOW DO I GET THE TRUE END?
nvm found it
HOWWW
Get all four dead ends💖💖 The true end starts by itself^^
Yeah, I finally got the true ending!
But I thought I needed all four bad endings for it, not just 2, 3 and 4?
Oh so you didn't get the explosion ending?? :oc
I did originally, back before it was updated.
If it was on browser, the game remembered that you already got the ending x'D
Seems when I put the scissors inside the box, I receive this error:
Huh, I've never seen this error before...
Are you playing on web or did you download the game?
Does this happen with the other items as well?
I was playing online. Using the browser:
Iridium Version 2023.03.111.0 (Official Build) (64-bit)
And the only extention I had running on that browser is 'AutoplayStopper'.
If you happen to have installed some in-game console, I could try opening it, trigger the error again, and copy/paste the information here. (All I'd need is to know how to open that UI console.)
From what I could gather, the Iridium Browser doesn't let websites save Cookies and the likes, correct? (To secure personal data ig)
This game uses cookies to save the progress (because it tracks the Dead Ends via global variables)... So maybe that could be the reason why the access was denied. At least that would be my guess :')
Sadly I don't have an in-game console installed (actually i don't think my engine comes with one);; If you want to try sth, you could try the game in another browser of your liking and see if it works there?
the thing in the final ending got the spamton eyes
This is super cool!! At first I was super confused but after clicking over and over I got a cute and satisfying ending!! I noticed that KI55 looks like kiss which is just stinkin' adorable. Looking forward to more of ur games <333
Thank you sm for playing!! I'm glad you liked my game hehe
Also yes!!! It's meant to mimic Kiss - because KI55 has so much love to give ^3^