📡 Data Fixer 📡
About:
"Fix, strategize, conquer. Crowfield's digital saviour? That's you."
Description:
Welcome to Data Fixer, where you embark on an exciting journey as an aspiring data fixer in the bustling city of Crowfield. In this unique simulator game, you'll step into the virtual shoes of a young Computer Scientist who's just rented a small office and bought basic equipment to enter the data-fixing business.
Your mission is to build a data fixing empire from the ground up, starting with small job requests and working your way up to becoming the go-to data fixer in Crowfield's thriving digital community. Solve intriguing data corruptions, each presented as engaging puzzles that challenge your problem-solving skills.
Manage your growing business, handle incoming mail and requests, and keep an eye on the Crowfield Gazette for updates on the city's technological advancements and data corruption trends. With each successful fix, earn positive customer feedback to enhance your reputation and unlock more lucrative contracts - or mess up and fail miserably. Furthermore, with digital crime on the rise, you can choose to help Crowfield's police, or become a criminal yourself...
Will you build a thriving business empire, or will you falter under pressure and let your rivals take over? The future of data fixing in Crowfield is in your hands!
Help:
(Read if in-game tips are not clear enough)
Every day, you want to read all new mails, which can contain contracts or inform you about story events. If a mail contains a contract, you can accept the job using the accept button displayed underneath the mail. A job accepted this way is automatically tracked and can be worked on in the code editor.
Desktop:
To end the day, press the home button in the bottom left taskbar.
Each day, new jobs and emails will be generated and sent to you.
Double-Click icons on your Desktop to open them.
At the moment, the only ones you'll need are:
Mails: is used to view emails and accept jobs
Codeworks: is used to complete jobs by solving little puzzles
Completing Jobs:
To complete a job, the program that is opened in the code editor needs to be accepted.
!! This only happens if all code lines are executed !!
You can view what type of code line will be generated next by hovering over the number underneath the run/stop/reset buttons in the code editor, which displays the remaining amount of code lines.
The main method (green block) will always spawn the current code line once the prior one has reached its target.
This may sound tricky at first, but you'll get the hang of this quite quickly.
The puzzles involve blocks you can place that can be found in your code arsenal on the right-hand side. To place blocks, left-click on an item in the arsenal, and then left-click on any free spot on the grid that allows placing blocks. You cannot place a block on a spot that already has a block.
To remove blocks again, left-click them again.
To rotate blocks, right-click them.
Blocks:
Main Method (green block): the starting node of your program. Bugs and features will be spawned here and move to the right.
Application Endpoint (yellow block): this is where you need to place all features! But beware, if a bug enters your program, the simulation halts with an error!
If-Condition (blue directional block): If the current line you coded is a feature, it changes its direction, which is marked by the arrow icon. However, it lets bugs through. Right click to rotate.
Breakpoint (red block): Eliminates a code line. You want to eliminate all bugs, but beware, if a feature is eliminated, the simulation halts with an error!
Internal Library (light gray block): Cannot be removed.
Licenses:
- vscode-icons under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License -- https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-icons
-thispersondoesnotexist: for fake people using AI
Build:
Current build is Alpha 1.9.
+ Added weekend actions
+ Added notification alerts
+ Added instructions to mails
+ Added contract icons
- Fixed inconsistencies and bugs
