First Contact Department!

W00! 

Happy to release this small game jam game: First Contact Department.

First Contact Department is a Papers-Please-like about working in an office where your job is to make first contact with aliens and translate their messages.

Made for Portland Indie Game Squad's Summer Slow Jams for June 2023.

The theme was "Idle" and "Mutation". I (Mickey) started thinking about "mutation" and eventually started thinking about making a "telephone" variant - something where a spoken message "mutates" as it gets passed along. I've been watching a lot of X-Files lately, so aliens and first contact stuff was on my mind. I didn't incorporate "idle" as much, though I started thinking about the idleness of office environments. I was inspired by the aesthetics of X-Files, They Live, Sorry to Bother You, Do Not Feed the Monkeys and Daria. Gameplay-wise, this game is inspired by Papers Please, Do Not Feed the Monkeys, and The Case of the Golden Idol.