Nomikai, karaoke, furoshiki, karoshi - what's not to love about being a Japanese salaryman?
Type out legal documents, but be sure to maintain your health, your family life, and your sanity.
Hey guys, I almost managed to complete it this time! All I had left to do was draw some of the end screens and make the reset button work! ...And then I listened to the audio found a HUUUUUGE glitch. Of course!
What a lame drinking night with coworkers, didn't even grab any food at the izakaya and I starved to death! Very fitting use of typing game mechanics and very fitting for the theme :)
Nice idea :-). Graphics, music and topic work well together. I liked the idea with typing words and you really get the feeling of a workday. The Restart button didn't work for me.
I felt the lack of a challenge, a simple high score or days gone by. Something needed to telle me that i am doing something :rofl:. But the game has a interesting concept og management and just controlling your life. The audio did get bugged but its a game made in 48 houers so i didn't really mind. Well done mate you made it through LD 44
This was really a great game! The music was nice and the sound effects fit in. I loved how the words got longer as the days when by. But my favorite part by far is the narrative and the choices you have to make. Great execution.
@rustycrow But what if the lack of a challenge was part of the game's message, and totally not just me forgetting to make the end screen until the last minute?
This is work, why would there be a win screen :wink:
Fun idea. Getting a word wrong was extremely stressful, and the sonic-is-drowning chime when you're near overload that plays on top of the existing happy music, like something you're just trying to block out, fits well with the theme.
I can agree it gets tedious after a while, but I mean, isn't that the point?
Hey, that is a really original concept! I really like the idea of treating the theme as "what do you use the time in your life for"?
I could not quite get what the brain and family bars are. The family bar did not seem to rise at all, except when I spent time with my family, which was a bit counterintuitive, since the other bars rising indicated bad things happening. The brain bar seemed to be tiredness? Depression?
I managed to work myself to death on my first try to see what would happen, an on the second one I was eventually let go by trying to live a healthy lifestyle :-P
Not bad! I'd advise for you to spruce up your page with a screenshot or images related to the game :-) I felt a bit frustrated your hunger doesn't reset from one day to the next - for logical reasons, not gameplay ones - of course ^^# I feel maybe the text could have been made more appealing - 'cause the little snipets you wrote in there are interested and varied but during my playthrough I didn't wanna read it all - I was afraid the timer would go off again or something
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@rustycrow But what if the lack of a challenge was part of the game's message, and totally not just me forgetting to make the end screen until the last minute?
Fun idea. Getting a word wrong was extremely stressful, and the sonic-is-drowning chime when you're near overload that plays on top of the existing happy music, like something you're just trying to block out, fits well with the theme.
I can agree it gets tedious after a while, but I mean, isn't that the point?
I could not quite get what the brain and family bars are. The family bar did not seem to rise at all, except when I spent time with my family, which was a bit counterintuitive, since the other bars rising indicated bad things happening. The brain bar seemed to be tiredness? Depression?
I managed to work myself to death on my first try to see what would happen, an on the second one I was eventually let go by trying to live a healthy lifestyle :-P
Thanks for the game!
I'd advise for you to spruce up your page with a screenshot or images related to the game :-)
I felt a bit frustrated your hunger doesn't reset from one day to the next - for logical reasons, not gameplay ones - of course ^^#
I feel maybe the text could have been made more appealing - 'cause the little snipets you wrote in there are interested and varied but during my playthrough I didn't wanna read it all - I was afraid the timer would go off again or something
Very nice submission for a compo, great job :-D