The Life of a Corporate Drone
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So you've got a job. And a family. And you gotta eat, right? And you need some you time. And after all that, you do need your sleep.
You don't actually have time for all of this. Something has to be sacrificed somewhere. But what? And how long can you last?
In game, just use your arrow keys to move from room to room. Try to keep the bars for all your resources as high as possible - a bar goes up when you're in its room. Your mood affects how quickly your bars go up, and if any of your bars are in the red that'll really affect your mood.
On the final screen, just read what it says and press enter to quit (but not before you share your time!) If you want to play again, just run the game again (a friendly retry option is something else I ran out of time for.
- I haven't fully tested every single way of doing things, so it might be possible to cheese it, though I tried to brute force my around the brute forciest of cheeses, so feel free to take that as a challenge.
- As I said in the instructions, no friendly wrapping. Something else I ran out of time for.
Made in Python (3.whatever I had installed) and pygame. I've been able to make a Windows exe which I think works, I was having trouble - you'll know if I haven't fixed it because time will fly. For my friends running other OSes download the source code zip, extract it and run *CorporateDrone.py* (you'll need pygame installed, if you don't have that open a terminal and run *pip install pygame*).
(As well as adding the Windows exe, I slightly changed the source code zip - I forgot to set some variables I was using for testing back to what they should be)
You don't actually have time for all of this. Something has to be sacrificed somewhere. But what? And how long can you last?
Instructions
On the first screen, press a number to pick your character. I meant to have a much nicer selection mechanism, but I ran out of time.In game, just use your arrow keys to move from room to room. Try to keep the bars for all your resources as high as possible - a bar goes up when you're in its room. Your mood affects how quickly your bars go up, and if any of your bars are in the red that'll really affect your mood.
On the final screen, just read what it says and press enter to quit (but not before you share your time!) If you want to play again, just run the game again (a friendly retry option is something else I ran out of time for.
Things missing
- Your speakers aren't broken, I just ran out of time to do sound.- I haven't fully tested every single way of doing things, so it might be possible to cheese it, though I tried to brute force my around the brute forciest of cheeses, so feel free to take that as a challenge.
- As I said in the instructions, no friendly wrapping. Something else I ran out of time for.
Made in Python (3.whatever I had installed) and pygame. I've been able to make a Windows exe which I think works, I was having trouble - you'll know if I haven't fixed it because time will fly. For my friends running other OSes download the source code zip, extract it and run *CorporateDrone.py* (you'll need pygame installed, if you don't have that open a terminal and run *pip install pygame*).
(As well as adding the Windows exe, I slightly changed the source code zip - I forgot to set some variables I was using for testing back to what they should be)