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Hey rookie! Congratulations on your new job at the First Contact Department: Earth's official welcoming committee™.

First Contact Department is a sci-fi office work sim 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.

Asset credits:

• monogram font by datagoblin
  • https://datagoblin.itch.io/monogram
    

• Static sound by groovyrandomness
  • https://freesound.org/people/groovyrandomness/sounds/171257/
• Hand Cursors for Mystery Adventure by René Bühling
  • https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/2d/gui/icons/hand-cursors-for-mystery-adve...
• And some screenshots of random paper products