Workplace Accidents

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.50
Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.56
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.32
Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.65
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.40
Audio★★★★★★★★★★3.50
Humor★★★★★★★★★★3.40
Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.02
You thought the afterlife was an eternity of rest? Get back to work!

Worker death won't prevent itself. Unless we somehow got fridges that don't cause workers to drop dead after a few uses and require a ghost to constantly fix, but now you're being unreasonable!

How to play

- Move with WASD or Arrow Keys
- Space to fix broken equipment before your workers die!
- Side note: If WASD doesn't work, try unplugging your controller :)

Who are we?

We're a small group of software developers and artists from Cardiff, UK. This isn't the first time we've attempted a game jam, but it is the first time we've submitted an entry!
Thanks for taking the time to play, and we hope you have fun!

How it's made


We made this entirely from scratch, using Unity as our engine, Aesprite for our artwork, SFXR, Ableton and our voices for sound.

Comments22

MaratG2
MaratG25 Apr 2022, 11:06
Absolutely clean graphics and audio design. The game itself is pretty simple, but it's polished. I have a suggestion of having multiple arrows (one per broken thing) instead of one, though this idea needs testing. Thank you for your submission and I hope it won't be your last!
taran955 Apr 2022, 11:06
Nice game concept. i love the workers and ghosts textures
Nebiros
Nebiros5 Apr 2022, 11:07
Super fun game ! Everything about it is very polished, great job !
Lighty_the_Light
Lighty_the_Light5 Apr 2022, 11:12
Nice little game. Wish to see more contents coming up :p
Antsa
Antsa5 Apr 2022, 11:18
A bit grim, but fun little *zooming around* tech support experience. Helping the workers from afterlife I guess.

A few things though:
- I had to guess the controls, not sure if there was a button for them in the menu though since part of the window was cut off in ultrawide aspect ratio and there was no way to change the resolution of the game. Nonetheless the tutorial was nice and simple
- The level is quite large and the difficulty starts to ramp up quite quickly
WilloXs
WilloXs5 Apr 2022, 11:18
Congratulations to your first finished jam game!

The game is simple but i got overwhelmed by accidents very quickly (high score only 4700). Also i think there are some objects that brake but cant be repaired (bug report).

I think gameplay could be improved upon as it gets repetitive fast. Some sort of second objective may be cool to mix things up.

Good job on the audio balance and the voices btw. I hope we see you around for the next LDs as well!
Rodrigo Montenegro
Rodrigo Montenegro5 Apr 2022, 11:23
Nice graphics and audio design. The concept is very interesting! I like how the gameplay feels. It's really fun to fly really fast to keep the workers alive. The difficulty scales very fast, though.
Great work!
PhoenixofForce
PhoenixofForce5 Apr 2022, 12:39
What a nice ghost. I had fun playing it, maybe some negative would be good if you press spacebar when not in range of a accident to prevent spamming spacebar.

Also the controls werent working until i unplugged my gamepad
LDJam user 238142
LDJam user 2381425 Apr 2022, 12:46
I enjoyed this, fairly simple mechanic, but the zooming around felt good and it seemed hard but fair in terms of balance. Congrats to the team!
tendencydrivenauthor5 Apr 2022, 14:46
@phoenixofforce thanks for the feedback about the controls! Will look into that, still new to the unity input system :) Glad you had fun playing :)
Nyxaffinity
Nyxaffinity5 Apr 2022, 21:01
Amazing for a first published game, really enjoyable!
Art looks expert and the game runs smoothly!
Absolutely loved the ghost character (adorably looks damn tired of saving the workers!)
The mechanic of the game and has real replay value; desperately trying to get a higher score.
Music is very fitting for the pixel art style.
tendencydrivenauthor6 Apr 2022, 15:02
@0x-void-x0 i don’t think any of us have ever played that, but you’re right it is quite similar!
JHax
JHax8 Apr 2022, 18:53
Good game, really hits a good level of feeling like you've got to keep a bunch of plates spinning which really suits the theme. Enjoy the slightly macabre sense of humour to it all as well!

Did find that the keyboard controls didn't work at first because I had a gamepad plugged in (the gamepad stick did work for movement but I couldn't figure out if any of the buttons were mapping to the repair action and seemed to block the spacebar from the keyboard) - but worked fine once I'd unplugged it, and that's just a minor technical thing, nothing against the game itself!

Nicely done, enjoyed my time playing this!
Busy Games8 Apr 2022, 22:06
That was fun! Enjoyed trying to keep the office lemmings alive. Did the game Lemmings inspire you for this?
At first no controls at all were working for me, then I noticed my controller was plugged in.
For feedback, I can't say anything really as the game was pretty well done. Only suggestion would be on your next LD jam try and do a webGL build. It loads quicker and people rating prefer them and you get more ratings.
Well done team!
ikelucas
ikelucas8 Apr 2022, 22:07
What an amazing game! I loved the graphics and the audio, sometimes I left the workers to die on purpose just to watch the cool animation and sound effects (please don't hate me). The gameplay loop is satisfying (even more with the visual and audio cues) and I felt like I could play it for hours. And to be done in three days is no less of an amazing feature! Great job!
RubixNoob13
RubixNoob138 Apr 2022, 22:55
This game was really well done! I really appreciate that since the play area is pretty large, there's an arrow to the closest thing I need to fix. Once you start getting a lot of workers, I have no idea how I'd keep up with them otherwise. Really, the only thing I have to add has already been said, that a WebGL build does tend to get more plays and reviews than having to download (some people have slow internet, others are like me and just kinda lazy lol) Seriously, great job on this entry, though!
Specturnal11 Apr 2022, 00:15
This is a hilarious take, watching the workers die by mere opening the refrigerator :laughing:
The play area is really huge though, but I'm glad there's an arrow to help. The controls on the ghost is really smooth and feels nice to move around. I wonder why some workers have red/blue around their eyes?
unfinished
unfinished13 Apr 2022, 18:19
Hmm.. for some reason the ghost won't move. I tried W,A,S,D and arrow keys. Escape works. I downloaded the Windows version. Someone else having this problem?
yusovv
yusovv13 Apr 2022, 18:28
Interesting idea! I liked your game
alanblue
alanblue14 Apr 2022, 14:50
Very interesting game! I'd like to keep playing all the time, the ghost character is very cute! But I felt a bit dizzy when I was moving fast while playing, maybe you should improve the feeling when the camera is moving? Anyway, it's a great game!
Terabyte
Terabyte16 Apr 2022, 19:43
interesting idea! Good job!

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