FruitQA

How to play

The game is about doing quality assurance in a fruit factory. When starting the game, you will be told the name of the fruit that is processed during the work shift, when this particular fruit is seen on the conveyor, no action is required by you. All other fruits must be discarded by pressing either the "Space" or "Enter" key on the keyboard.

The goal of the game is to last until the end of the work shift, which last 10 minutes. If any mistake is made before the end of the shift, the game is lost and you are fired from the job.

After each minute that passes, the speed of the conveyor is increased. Also, every time 10 fruits are processed, the game switches between the normal and déjà vu states, in the normal state, fruits will have their expected color, but in the déjà vu state, fruits can be of any color. Fruits should be processed depending on their type and shape, not by their color.

Game Jam

This is my entry for the Mini Jame Gam #50.

For this game jam, there was a main theme, which was "Deja Vu", and a special object that had to take an important part in the game, the special object was "Fruit".

So to express the theme, I went with the premise of being a factory worker doing a very boring job, where at some point the worker loses the sense of reality.

That feeling of being in a place that you know well, but being borderline like a dream.

As for the special object, I made the factory work being about processing various fruits.

At the beginning of a game, you will be told which fruit is accepted through, and you must discard all the other fruits.

But the process is boring, so you fall into an altered state of mind, where you are not sure if you are in a dream or in reality.

In the altered state, your job stays the same, but fruits bear different colors, often unnatural for their kind, but without any change to their original properties.

This means that you still have to process them appropriately on their actual type, without being fooled by their color.

Credits

Everything in the game was made by me, with open source software without any help from AI.

Everything in the V1 version of the game was made during the weekend of the game jam.

The V2 version is an improvement that was made after the game jam was finished, without any time constraint.

• The game was made using Godot.
• The music and sound effect were made using LMMS.
• The graphics were made using Inkscape.