Personal Growth

by maniac
Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.10
Fun★★★★★★★★★★2.86
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.18
Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.15
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★2.93
Audio★★★★★★★★★★2.15
Humor★★★★★★★★★★3.44
Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.21
Coolness★★★★★★★★★★53%
Welcome to GoodCorp, where we proudly allow our employees to use some time of their working hours for personal growth! But make sure that you don't dissappoint your boss, who will send you your tasks via e-mail.

This is a small story based game. Having programmed for 5 game jams this time I restricted myself to programmer art and an authoring tool aimed at non-programmers.

The game has a clear ending which can be reached in approx. 5 minutes if you know what to do. It is controlled almost entirely by mouse, with the exception of a single task. If you are stuck at one of the tasks a Skip-button will appear after some time.

Created by Christian Reuter at TU Darmstadt (Multimedia Communications Lab) using the authoring tool StoryTec and it's associated player application.

Comments14

flyingbear15 Dec 2015, 00:52
Enjoyable collection of minigames that got a bit tedious when they started repeating. I got tripped up during basic math section because I couldn't tell what was a 1 or 7
AM_Games15 Dec 2015, 00:55
Cool little story. I was going through the daily grind for a while until I realized that I needed some time for personal growth :P. I couldn't quite figure out the poker sorting game though. Am I supposed to put them in order from left to right? (i.e. K, Q, J, 10, 8, 7, 4, 2)?
Maniacauthor15 Dec 2015, 01:12
@AM_Games: It is supposed to be the other way around, starting from the lowest one. Maybe I should have taken more care in researching what sorting cards means in different card games.
NoradZero15 Dec 2015, 02:20
Nice remind my of advanture games i played when i was little.
blohod15 Dec 2015, 02:22
Nice graphics, the beeps of the audio got annoying though, overall good job!
KBF123
KBF12315 Dec 2015, 02:26
Huh... Don't do work... I'll keep that one in mind!
x92rwzb15 Dec 2015, 20:17
I got angry every time I tried to read the emails and the character's boss told me to do something!
fullmontis
fullmontis15 Dec 2015, 20:27
Overall i enjoyed it. The minigames were interesting at first but got repetitive after the 4th or 5th time.
nihilaleph16 Dec 2015, 01:06
Pro:
+ Nice story, clever ending
+ Cool approach of the theme
+ Simple but effective

Con:
- So much loading x.x

Great job!
Quadnozzle16 Dec 2015, 23:11
Minigames were fun and well-implemented. Do you have to fully complete the first day? (Asking since I could only 'finish' on the second, despite wanting to tell my boss to go get stuffed.) Audio was a little grating. Overall, interesting and fun twist on the theme!
Strike
Strike17 Dec 2015, 19:00
I love the dark humor there
Mr MadCat18 Dec 2015, 15:01
Cool game.
First one so far with some meaning for real life so far :)
Blake_Lead19 Dec 2015, 16:54
Really nice game. Depressing though !

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