You're a prisoner of war to the nation of Kaspitov, forced to work as a wartime telephone operator near the front lines. With your wife and daughter's lives at stake, you begin working the switchboard — and staying alive another day becomes the goal.
Don't get distracted by the chaos happening around you, because something seems to go wrong or break down every ten seconds. Your trusty terminal is your new friend while you struggle to listen to calls and figure out where to connect them.
The game was originally made in 72 hours for the Ludum Dare 51 game jam by a five-person core team: Joonatan Siponen (Hugimugi) leading development, design, and direction with pixel art; Oliver Boyce on development and design; Cal Clarke on writing and sound design; Piervittorio Spina on music; and Langi Tuifua on voice acting, with a stack of secondary voices behind them.
How to Play
Listen to the incoming calls and use your terminal to figure out where each one should be connected — all while the war chews up everything around you. Expect something to break every ten seconds, keep the lines running, and maybe you'll stay alive for another day.
Controls
See the original itch.io page for the developer's control notes.
Tips & Tricks
Triage fast — the page promises something going wrong roughly every ten seconds.
The chaos around you is designed to distract you; the calls are the job.
Your terminal is the tool for figuring out where each call connects — make friends with it.
Features
You're a POW forced to run a wartime telephone switchboard near the front lines
Chaotic environment where something breaks down roughly every ten seconds
Listen to calls and route them correctly via your trusty terminal
Story stakes: your wife and daughter's lives hang on the job
Ludum Dare 51 jam game, originally made in 72 hours
Pixel art (Aseprite) with full voice acting and original music
Made with GameMaker; free in the browser with a Windows download available
Latest Updates
Added to PlayBloo
Work a wartime switchboard while everything around you falls apart.. Discovered on itch.io's new releases feed and added to the PlayBloo catalogue with verified source details.