The Simpler Times
The Simpler Times
"If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough." - Albert Einstein
The Simpler Times is a newspaper company, based in Simpler, USA, that is determined to deliver the simplest headlines in the nation. Gather words from around the office - while pushing through furniture and coworkers - and bring them to your computer to write your simple news story.
Controls
- WASD to move.
- E to interact with words, and to deposit them at your computer.
- Click and drag words in and out of the upper text field to create your headline.
Also, we'd recommend playing with sound!
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Attributions
Art:
- (most) furniture: https://sierrassets.itch.io/pixel-art-furniture-pack
- Walls and floors: https://gif-superretroworld.itch.io/interior-pack
- Characters: https://snoblin.itch.io/pixel-rpg-free-npc
Sounds:
- mouse click https://pixabay.com/sound-effects/computer-mouse-click-352734/
- plop https://pixabay.com/sound-effects/plop-sound-made-with-my-mouth-100690/
- typing https://pixabay.com/sound-effects/keyboard-typing-sound-effect-335503/
- swoosh https://pixabay.com/sound-effects/swoosh-026-454861/
- whip https://pixabay.com/sound-effects/whip-02-242215/
- stretch snap https://pixabay.com/sound-effects/stretch-amp-snap-rubber-173110/
- kitchen timer https://pixabay.com/sound-effects/kitchen-timer-87485/
- hair dryer https://pixabay.com/sound-effects/hair-dryer-179179/
- startup https://pixabay.com/sound-effects/startup-sound-fx-1-roland-mt-32-95204/
- step https://pixabay.com/sound-effects/st1-footstep-sfx-323053/
- room tone office https://pixabay.com/sound-effects/room-tone-office-12-59350/
- printer https://pixabay.com/sound-effects/printer-106935/
- clear throat https://pixabay.com/sound-effects/clear-throat-85636/
- phone ringing https://pixabay.com/sound-effects/phone-ringing-6883/
- stapler https://pixabay.com/sound-effects/stapler-99366/
- murmur https://pixabay.com/sound-effects/indoor-adult-murmur-small-groupwav-14573/
- vacuum https://pixabay.com/sound-effects/vacuum-running-idle-175614/
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made by JuniperDev and goobst in 3 days
for the Brainless Mini-Game Game Jam
Comments
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Monkey says, rain burns local man often 👍
Loved this game, very fun! Amazing work for just 3 days.
Cute little game. I like it.
I don't know if you are planning on updating it, but I think a retry button after publishing the article would be great.
Thank you for creating games and videos. :)
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Fun concept, and nice polish! Was struggling with a getting a very good word for my sentence through a tight corridor because it was too long (ended up not making it..).
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I had ''Causes always special, royal says!'' :D
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Rare! Police cat grows grandma and ends bad...
Just saw the youtube video on the game, my sentence was: Cat hates local janitor!
Awesome
This just in! Teacher says President was special but stupid.
Sick game!!! Love your videos Juniper de
cool game
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good game i give thumb up, sounds are best part
I love how the game sounds