The Administrator

IMPORTANT NOTE : This game was produced as part of an exercise aiming to help us prototype games. Bugs are certain to arise, and this is not at all a finished product!

PITCH

You are an Administrator, a shadowy figure managing an underground facility filled with one of the few remaining members of Earth's population, now desolated and ruined. Nobody knows what or who you are... You're only purpose is to get behind your computer, and get to work.

GAMEPLAY

As your only tool to analyze and act, is your trusty old computer full of dust made only to manage those underground living spaces, and your keyboard. Type commands in the terminal, navigate between tabs and send your crew to explore the wastelands to bring back resources.

PROJECT ORIGINS & INTENT

This game was made in about two weeks (around 91 hours total) by three students. This project needed to follow gameplay elements such as :

• Singleplayer
• Evolving difficulty
• Text only - no graphics allowed
• The game must be serious, the player must feel tense
• 4 color palette
• Persistent game economy
• Random events

We chose to go for a management / sim game, as it was the most logical choice for us considering the imposed rules. The idea for making the game be played from a computer console terminal was not only because of our technical constraints, but also to help with making the player feel the tension of having to manage the lives of human beings while being disconnected from them by this virtual wall.

PLANS & FUTURE

We are aware that bugs exists (e.g. the game over screen not working), and we will find time to fix them, as well as tweak some elements to make the gameplay loop tighter and fun. Additional gameplay might be added but nothing is concrete as we will move on from this project to other ones.