MiniLD #40compo

Job's Sake

by marsplastic

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.00

Fun★★★★★★★★★★2.00

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★2.25

Theme★★★★★★★★★★2.50

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.25

Audio★★★★★★★★★★2.75

Humor★★★★★★★★★★2.00

Mood★★★★★★★★★★2.25

Job's sake is a game about unemployment, perspectives and self-esteem.

It's about facing the real world, it's about finding a good job. It's about a desperate boy competing against hordes of hopeless candidates. It's about choices, experiences and career. But we didn't have the time to add this part. Maybe in the sequel.

Take your CV and see if it's good enough to find a job in this dimension.

Controls :

arrows : move
space : shoot
z : swap "carreers"/weapons. Theoretically you would have been able to do this only after upgrading your CV through the long process of learning. But it's just a game.

Comments8

marsplasticauthor25 Feb 2013, 05:18

to skip the intro and go to the game immediately : http://www.grrrndzero.org/jobs_sake/game/

kddekadenz25 Feb 2013, 16:49

It has nice visuals and the sounds are good, but that's it. It has no difficulty. You should have added ammo.

Martin_Monosys25 Feb 2013, 23:37

I sense a lot of frustration in this game, makes even me depressed... :(

Jorjon27 Feb 2013, 02:24

Wow nice drawing!

dasrkrain28 Feb 2013, 05:18

Ya this game was really depressing. I had no fun. :(

crumpeted3 Mar 2013, 18:55

I love it. The style--music, sounds, graphics--is perfect. Even the minimal gameplay fits the style. Reminds me of The Marriage (http://www.rodvik.com/rodgames/marriage.html). Very artistic :D

Spelchan7 Mar 2013, 06:03

A rather surrealistic view of the current job market.

goerp25 Mar 2013, 20:29

Ha, I didn't expect the game to be like this.
The hand drawn ink style and eerie music fit perfectly together. Did you make that all? I liked that.