Miss Inconspicuous Maid Cleaning Co.!
[EN/PTBR]
Welcome to Miss Inconspicuous Maid Cleaning Co.! Follow (or decide) the story of Ellie, a completely normal girl in a completely normal society, in this completely normal job!
Made in 72 hours for MelonJam 4 (theme: corruption) by:
cinnamew | code, story, dialogue
pocketnii | VN backgrounds, UI, character art and design, some story
effixs | minigame art
spiderface721 | minigame code
TRIGGER WARNINGS:
Mentions murder, drugs, blood, light horror, violent crimes, and sexual assault
[PTBR]
Bem-vindo ao Miss Inconspicuous Maid Cleaning Co.! Siga (ou decida) a história de Ellie, uma garota completamente normal, em uma sociedade completamente normal e com um trabalho completamente normal!
Criado em 72 horas para o MelonJam 4 (tema: corrupção) por:
cinnamew | programação, história, diálogos
pocketnii | arte dos planos de fundo, IU, arte e design dos personagens, parte da história
effixs | arte dos minijogos
spiderface721 | programação dos minijogos
ALERTAS DE GATILHO:
Menções a assassinato, sangue, terror leve, crimes violentos e violação sexual
P.S. For $2 extra*, you can support us and download high-res versions of ALL the art, work-in-progress screenshots, funny little chatlogs, an easter egg (though it's mentioned in the comments below), and more <3
*If you choose to pay through Ko-Fi (below), please message in my Discord!
Download
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Development log
- MIMCO ptBR TRANSLATION!Dec 13, 2023
Comments
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this is such a fun game, the art is very good! only thing is i wish there were more of the cleaning game, or you could clean the last crime scene, I actually have a lot of fun with that.
I kind of love how it goes from... uh... what happens at the end straight to bright, cheery music.
LMAOOOO yes!!! v happy game :D
Man, what a great game... I've never played such a good visual novel since playing DDLC. I like that we have minigames here instead of only clicking to see more text. The ending made me think about those things for a moment. Honestly I think that Miss did the right thing, she saved probably tens or hundreds of people. Poor Ellie, I really like her as a character. She has that happiness, kindness and energy. I have 1 question: how many endings are there? Because at the end we have 3 options and at the start we have 2 options.
I played your game on a yt video (bottom of the comment). I don't get many views but maybe someone will decide to play the game on their own. Maybe it'll help with making the game more popular hah.
I also saw that you have more games created. I'll surely play few of them. Sorry for such a long comment but I just like to write extensively XD
Have a good day!
Oh, I almost forgot. I gave this game a 5 star rating. Great job!
THANK YOU SO MUCH :'))) this means so much... i love when people are resonated by the game :'D thank you for playing!!! and yes dermimi's is a little similar :) more horror less morality struggle hehe
there are 2 real endings & 1 joke ending!! there were supposed to be 3 real endings but i ran out of time ;(
I'll surely play that one you mentioned!
I'll also try to get 2 remaining endings in this one :D
LOL that is a lot of work, if you'd like to skip to after the last minigame you can click the lower left corner in the About screen :) (the other ending/the joke ending is in the beginning)
okie! Thanks for telling me that. I'll let you know what I think about these endings later :)
man i can't be against miss for doing what she does to those sorts of vile people. poor ellie though, girl was just doing her job and got roped into a nice dose of trauma
true 😭😭😭
i really liked this game! the aesthetic is very cute. im gonna go play dermimis after this
Eu gostei muito do jogo e o plot twist no final do jogo até me pegou de surpresa. Jogo com todos os Finais e em Português PT-BR
Obrigado!! Estamos super entusiasmados por saber que o jogo está a chegar ao público global hehe
😊
Sim , tem em português e achei bacana.
Hello, cinnamew!
My name is Zogar, and I am very interested in your game "Miss Inconspicuous Maid Cleaning Co.". It impressed me a lot with its story and atmosphere, and I'm sure it could become even more popular if it was available in other languages.
I would like to offer you a translation of your game into Russian. This will help you to expand your audience and attract players from Russian-speaking countries. I am ready to translate it myself and provide you with translated files for integration into the game.
If you are interested in my proposal, please let me know and I will be glad to discuss all the details.
Thank you for your creativity and attention!
Hi!! I saw your email; I emailed you back :)) so many translations coming in..!! 😵💫 very excited hehe :D
its pretty good. it just needs more gameplay
it's a visual novel 😭 this is like saying to "surviv.io is good, it just needs more story"
i love the surviv.io reference lmao, but i agree, weird critique
WHOOPS i forgot about that
Accidentally have stumbled upon your game and OMG I love it! 🤩 Actually, I would be glad to translate this game into Ukrainian. If you don't mind it then how can we get in contact to discuss my offer? Have a nice day!!!
I would love that so much!!! Please email me at cinnamew.art@gmail.com :))
i did the ending where ellie teamed up with Miss(shes way to fine<3)and then i reseted and just picked i'll pass:),in genral the game was amazing and great job to all the coders,animators, and also where did you find thats cute cursor??Its so cute!,i love all your games CinniMew!!!
WAHOO THANK YOU!! it's all hard work from the team :) if you'd like to see the last ending, you can skip to the end of the last minigame by clicking the lower left corner in the about screen
you should check out dermimi's if you haven't yet, it's similar to this one :0 and the cursor was made by nii!
omg thx for replying!!and thanks for telling me!!
i like the song. i wonder where are they from
hey!! which one? they're all from dova-syndrome :)
the one where after ellie witness miss murdering a man. i really like it
ahh i think that's called The Girl Disappeared?
Super cute, fun little game! I loved how it added extra elements beyond the visual novel aspect. Really pretty art. Gtg, Miss needs my help 👼🏻
WAHOO!!! hehehhee so glad you enjoyed!
This was so good! The art and music is lovely, I love both of the characters and it was longer than I expected too. Great game and in such a short time too, I can't wait to see the sequel if you all end up making it <3
YAY thank you so much!!
I will play this on my phone and upload on my YouTube
idk if it works on phone but hopefully..!
bet (my channel)
there's plans for one!! it will be set in a diff time :)
omggg exciting!!! passion projects >>>>
what engine are you on? & i think you could add it if you'd like, but graphics-wise the coloring doesn't seem to match too well?
LOL dw i love scratch!! link the project when ur done :)
非常好的游戏！！！！但是作者什么时候出中文呀 看不太懂QAQ
我现在在跟一个中文粉丝讨论中文版本！我们把title screen弄完了，现在就要真的游戏改成中文。。。如果您想要帮一下的话我会特别特别感谢啊。。。请送我一个邮件！cinnamew.art@gmail.com :D
我有時間的話也可以幫忙處理繁體中文翻譯 對了這軟體有開元的打算嗎？
那太好了！你觉得一部分繁体一部分简体可以吗。。。？这游戏有点长，我觉得全部都一个人翻译有点太多了哈哈
刚刚看见你的邮件 我等下回答！I'd open-source and share the repository, but unfortunately it's under the other coder's GitHub account and I only have Write permissions :( Although our other/similar game, Dermimi's!, is already open source.
Teacher, I sent you an email. Can you receive it?QAQ
peak game 👍
THANK YOU!! u might like our other game dermimi's? it's a similar style :000
cool I will try it out
are they Lebanese 😞♥️
yes 😞🇱🇧🇱🇧🇱🇧
SUCH AN ADORABLE GAME!!!! LOVE IT<3333
This comment contains spoilers:
I had a question, but I think I found the answer in this paragraph: Why Miss murdered Ellie? If Miss said that she were cleaning the world from very corrupted people and is obsessed with Ellie's innocence, and also support Ellie all time. Ellie trusted Miss even after she saw the truth. And even after that she didn't behave with a person who had just killed someone else and could kill her. (yes, it shows she is stupid too). She tried to convince Miss that her murders weren't right. And even thought that she was going to open the door when she was going for kill her. By morals view of Miss, Ellie is less corrupted then herself. And Ellie could do nothing against Miss, she knew nothing about her, she is only a weak kind. They have a kind of sapphics relationship (that is the reason why the game have a tag "LGBT", I think). It seems that Miss is like a big sister to Ellie. And she didn't feel something similar to the previous employee, compare "an eye for an eye … my heart for a neck" "she took my eye and you took my heart. Yes, I noticed "For people who don't even give me a second glance unless I'm giving them all I have?". Seems she is really searching a partner that is more than co-worker. But phrases "What will happen next time? Can I keep going like this?" and "I can only keep going on. Perhaps it's time to find someone new, just one last time." show that she went completely mad and can easy kill not only corrupted people, but also employees or even more. She continue hire new employee.
What will happen in other timelines? If select the last options. Will Miss kill Ellie after or during the cleaning? They have a similar phrase "I wouldn't ever push you to do anything you don't want to do". In rejection timeline she murdered her after that, but in undecided timeline she said "Not even in a different timeline, had you said something else." And she can notice that she will no more work together.. Maybe she know too much to control Ellie.
I find in the comment that Ellie is also horrendously hypocritical, but don't understand where? If it's only about "No one should go through this. Except you.", I think a lot of people can think similar when dying. I don't write much about Ellie: She is stupid, naive, fearful and lies to herself. And also too much love money.
Interesting, that even store clerk said "Ah, were you part of the drug…".
Thank you. The game is really good. I prefer the best ending when Ellie pass the job. I only registered to write the comment. :)
OH MY GOD THANK YOU!!!! as the writer i was waiting for the day someone would try to dissect my 4 am yap lines HAHA. yes ellie is stupid. she is so so naive and i tried to make both characters super hypocritical (the game is supposed to make you think about your own hypocrisy regarding world issues)!! yes they are basically sapphic hehehe and like the lines you noticed (THANK YOU FOR NOTICING THEM i've been dropping hints and revealing it in the comments) she is used to not being so close to coworkers (to answer your question on why miss kills ellie, it's bc she thinks of ellie as a "failed experiment" and is used to just disposing of them like that), but she felt some sort of attraction/pull towards ellie so she's really depressed about it.
miss's hypocrisy is knowing she's not really doing anything for the world but doing all this anyways (she even hurts innocent ppl like ellie) + the timeline thing you noticed :). ellie's hypocrisy is still the "No one should go through this. Except you." line bc she is super adamant that no one deserves to die even with that dead guy committing so much harm (arguably way worse than what miss's killing), yet she doesn't apply it to herself when she's at the other end of the knife. of course it's normal for people to think like that -- it's so normal for people to speak like they're heroes then turn around and act in a way that shows they're not. this was an allude to "pro-life" supporters who get abortions (or don't support policies that would support peoples' lives after birth) or anti-lgbt politicians who lead an lgbt life under the table (have you seen the sharp rise in grindr usage during republican conventions? it's rly funny).
and LMAOOO is the best ending really just the speedrun ending?? 😭 it could be argued that it's not though bc ellie would've kept living in naivety
also i wrote an essay abt mimco (cited it as an indie game... my prof doesn't know i wrote it 🤭) and this comment reminded me of that HAHA
It was very cute but in such a constrast with vile things, that it was perfect. This somehow reminded me of DDLC. Also, I loved this game even more because I love cute things. Good luck with the work for the sequel
This is so cute! It's the perfect combination of adorable and scary. The character designs are so pleasing to look at too. I'm so excited to play more from you!
thank you so much!! the sequel will indeed be out sometime 👀
waaaaaa I love Ellie and Miss sm!!<333 I have a question though, when do you think the sequel will be out on itch.io? I have been a bit busy recently with school and exams so i want to find the perfect time to binge the game and find all the endings!! No rush though I am aware that making a game like this requires some time especially with all the expectations for the players but if you have at least a thought about when you will finish the sequel that would be great!!1! :D
thank u sm for the support!! tbh sequel work has been suuuper slow, this game only took 72 hours but the sequel has been worked on for like over a year atp now with minimal progress </3 i've been swamped w schoolwork and stuff but hopefully can get the story close to done soon, i unfortunately don't have a date for you though except that it'll be a while :(
Such a fire-! Really cute art style! And Miss quite has a unique mindset...I don't know what to say about her mindset...
LOL I mean I could yap about her mindset for quite a while, she basically is super pessimistic but brainwashes herself into thinking her actions are right and are helping the world
this is the first time I've heard about this game, I was looking for the artist of the game cover I didn't even know it was an actual game?!!! and OMG I wish visual novels were this cute! the art the music the minigames! a complete perfection!! 10/10 I really hope you guys continue doing games the same vibes as this one!
edit: it would've been nice if there was a skip button and dialog history but still 10/10! :3
heya, thank you so much!! the artist is @pocketnii :) yeah we can add a dialogue history in the sequel, what did you mean by skip button though? like skipping through dialogue (in which case you can hold the esc key) or skip the minigame?
oh okay yeah i think they mean like you can skip through dialogue for those who have gone through a scene already
ahh so like for replays? how about just loading specific chapters/scenes, or does the esc key to speed up dialogue do what you're envisioning
we also need a button for going to the previous dialogue without going to the history
oh rightt that would be useful,, i'll see if i can implement it sometime
Dude this game is fantastic,clean the broken store at first,then clean the hotel(actually when I saw it's 'blood' I was shocked) then clean a 'underground room'(my English is not good) and also there was lots of Blood,when I played at that time I tried to find the real ending.I played the whole game,so I think the game is small,but good,and the people are very cute.I like this game.
老兄你是中国人啊😨
如果说这个游戏是一篇阅读 那么我可以说宾馆那一小点点的血就是从侧面暗示出后续环境会恶化（好像翌日系列） 什么新时代ddlc（）
哈哈嗯，你很对！
我很喜欢这个免费游戏！！！人物也特别可爱！！
I love this free game! ! ! The characters are also very cute! !
谢谢噢！
Really bomb game, reminds me of sprunki where it gets creepier and creepier (10/10) game
I think Miss listened to Insane Clown Posse a bit too much ( I LOVE THIS GAME SM OMG)
i love this game soooo much!!!! i love the cute art! but is there a way to quit while playing?/??!
UMM like save your progress? there isn't but if you wanted to start at the end of the last minigame (the hotel), you can click the bottom left corner in the About screen :)
aa this game looks so cute and fun and I've been looking forward to playing it for a while!! I wanted to ask to be sure, may I stream this game?? I'll link here to download and credit everything, I think it'd be fun!! if not I'll still play on my own time, but I wanted to make sure I had permission <3
YES OFCC we welcome all streamers!! nii (character/ui artist) & i have been guest speakers on a stream once as well, if you wanna set that up again (not sure if nii is up but i'm down), you can message me in my discord @ https://discord.gg/fV572HqdTS :D
aa yay ok thank you!! I just wanted to check and make sure!! also oo that sounds like a fun offer :3c I’ll think about it and I’ll try to get back to you on that if possible, sounds fun!! thank you for the offer!! and I can’t wait to play your game regardless, thank you!! :33
yeahh ofc!! offer is always open :D thanks for playing our game!
Fire game. Loved it. The history is neat.
THANK YOU!!!!
I need help getting past the hotel room part!!!! Is there something more I need to clean or is it glitching???
there's probably something else you need to clean!! does it say that at the top?
yeahhh.. i checked everywhere and even the floors.
WAIT BRO I JUST SAW THAT BLOOD STAIN.
LOLL yeah </33 if you miss anything there's always playthroughs people have done (LaurenZSide is a popular one, or check in the comments for a link/search on google!)!
this is such a cool game! I want there to be a sequel so I can see Miss more :3
AHH the sequel will definitely have miss don't worry!!! :DD
YASSS the second it comes out I'm playing I swear!
YAYAYAY omg!! it's gonna be so good trust >:D
A SEQUEL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i'm hyped.
i love their design and the artstyle its so cute ^^
i lovee this game! ITS SO GOOD LIKE WHATT?
THANK YOU SO MUCHHH!!!! i've always felt like this game was p mid so it means a lot 🥲
this is a horror game right?
yeah! it's more thriller/psychological horror than normal horror though (although i do wish we could've made it more horror than it turned out to be, it is pretty horrifying if you think about the real world implications)
tru, good game overall tho
thank you!! if you do have any suggestions on what could make it more horror, we are kinda working on a sequel so i'd love to hear 👀
well depends on how messed up the horror lol
LOL well no spoilers unfortunately :))
Miss is so mecore its actually a bit unsettling
wait LOL this is so interesting i've seen a lot of ppl say ellie is like them but never miss :0000
thank you for your hard work to bringing this game to life! ٩(ˊᗜˋ*)و ♡ I absolutely adored the adorable art style as well as ellie&miss' interactions !! such a short yet endearing game <3
THANK YOU SO MUCHHH <333 yeah i really liked writing the miss/ellie character interactions hehee i feel like i branched out for that
(also ellie was supposed to have that kaomoji you used in her dialogue! but it didn't work with the text D:)