Hired or Homeless
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Hired or Homeless is a top-down interview survival game made in 72 hours for Ludum Dare 59 on the theme Signal. Words are your signal. Choose them carefully.
Pick up the right phrases, bring them to the interviewer, and land the offer. Choose the wrong words - and you're back on the street.
You're a developer lost in the job market jungle. Recruiters roam the map and fire questions at you - but you can't just type anything. Answers are scattered across the world as word tokens, and you can only carry 9 at a time.
Built with Go and Ebitengine. Art and sounds sourced from various free assets; music generated with AI.
- Move: WASD / Arrow keys.
- Collect tokens: approach and press E / drop 1–9.
- Interview: approach a character and answer questions with 1–9.
- Disable complex technical interviews on Go, JS, C#
- Start with a house already purchased (no rent payments)
Pick up the right phrases, bring them to the interviewer, and land the offer. Choose the wrong words - and you're back on the street.
You're a developer lost in the job market jungle. Recruiters roam the map and fire questions at you - but you can't just type anything. Answers are scattered across the world as word tokens, and you can only carry 9 at a time.
Built with Go and Ebitengine. Art and sounds sourced from various free assets; music generated with AI.
Controls:
- Move: WASD / Arrow keys.
- Collect tokens: approach and press E / drop 1–9.
- Interview: approach a character and answer questions with 1–9.
Accessibility options available in settings:
- Disable complex technical interviews on Go, JS, C#
- Start with a house already purchased (no rent payments)