nine to five

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.75
Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.64
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.59
Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.25
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★4.41
Hello, employee 504. Your job at our company is to sort papers. We have hundreds of reports to file and a very limited amount of time, so you may be plunged deeper and deeper into paperwork. We hope you can keep up. ​Best regards.

Comments20

sabasa27 Apr 2021, 08:26
Simple but nice, very original. A bit unforgiving, maybe add lives or checkpoints. Loved the art
katriadoodles27 Apr 2021, 13:49
Such a neat little game, but so hard :O I love the graphics and overall game mechanics - I audibly gasped when that color-name mismatch happened! Very nice, great job.
Seebass22
Seebass2227 Apr 2021, 15:14
Big fan of the pixel art! I knew the color-name switch thing was going to happen at some point. great idea!
Made it to 99 before I lost my concentration and clicked on the wrong one
colapolka
colapolka27 Apr 2021, 22:02
90s electronics beige and Windows 95 desktop cyan - my two favorite colors. :heart:
MRaMOR27 Apr 2021, 22:03
Very good art. simple but interesting idea.
itssoisi
itssoisi27 Apr 2021, 22:03
Great art, great gameplay, great sound design. Frustrating but in an addictive way. The small size of the pop-up close button really gets worse in higher definition screens, which I kind of get, but very unforgiving nontheless. Great job!
David Wallett27 Apr 2021, 22:06
Challenging but not unfair! Also very polished. great job
carolinewang
carolinewang27 Apr 2021, 22:07
this game was nice and simple, with very cute pixel art (i especially appreciated the white cat just chilling there). it's a nice simple take on the theme without being too overdone so i really enjoyed this concept! nice work :)
carolinewang
carolinewang27 Apr 2021, 22:07
this game was nice and simple, with very cute pixel art (i especially appreciated the white cat just chilling there). it's a nice simple take on the theme without being too overdone so i really enjoyed this concept! nice work :)
ZachsButt
ZachsButt27 Apr 2021, 22:09
Made me laugh, when the mismatching colors bit came up! haha
GharliqueBread27 Apr 2021, 22:14
Coming home from a long day at the at home office, this reminded me why I need to do more game jams. I enjoyed this game until it made me question my sanity! Definitely fun and I loved the look. Would be super fun as a competitive game with friends, racing to see who can make it the farthest without messing up
hyperspacejelly27 Apr 2021, 22:18
Love the aesthetic on this one. Maybe some muzak would be fun as a way to fill out the soundscape
Kszaku
Kszaku27 Apr 2021, 22:27
Ahhh, man, this really made me nostalgic for my internship at some big-ass company... Where they were asking me to sort their paperwork over and over again.

10/10 really captures the feeling

Jokes aside, this is really well made game.
Patomkin
Patomkin27 Apr 2021, 22:29
"Papers, Please", but you're an office drone. Also, literal papers.

Nicely done!
Quite Good
Quite Good27 Apr 2021, 22:32
I love the look of this game! Unfortunately it doesn't work when I try to use the mac build :/ hope to play it soon!
LDJam user 238552
LDJam user 23855228 Apr 2021, 01:18
The mac build worked for me (mojave). Really enjoyed the office ambience. The game was simple but challenging. Makes me want to get back to that desk job..
thatnoobles
thatnooblesauthor28 Apr 2021, 01:21
@jacobrutter thank you! also i'm happy it worked for you. not sure why it works for some people but not others...weird.
SilkyPantsDan
SilkyPantsDan28 Apr 2021, 06:21
I love the art style, and trying to sort the papers as fast as possible is a bit stressful (though addictive!)

Would love to see this on mobile as well :D

I did have an issue with the MacOS build though - I had to go into the package and set the executable to user executable:

```
cd ~/Downloads/mac.app/Contents/MacOS
chmod u+x nine\ to\ five
```
thatnoobles
thatnooblesauthor28 Apr 2021, 11:44
@silkypantsdan thank you! i'll have to look into the mac thing. i made a mac build from a windows machine so i had no way to make sure it actually worked
mauriciomunky28 Apr 2021, 21:34
I was totally expecting the twist but it still got me on the first time! The solution by @silkypantsdan for the Mac.app worked perfectly. Very nice graphics and it was really fun.
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