Occupation Alternative

2018-12-26 07:18

I definitely enjoyed the game, especially after the first playthrough (when I figured out that I had no job options).

As a game mechanics thing, it was pretty untransparent how everything worked. I'd suggest a tutorial, some text framing, or anything to say that you should get through life. These don't take much dev time and can go a long way to making the experience better.

Otherwise, small nits are it'd help to spend less time doing the boring stuff (e.g., walking; walking could be soooo much faster). Great work though! I thought the sound and graphics went well together; it feels like an old Pokemon game where you're really just living life.

samuel-henderson 2018-12-26 07:45

Cool game but a tutorial would have been very helpful

hi-im-greg 2018-12-26 15:10

It's a nice idea, but the lack of different options meant I always felt that I was doing 2 or 3 things and waiting for time to run out, rather than making an important decision. I'm not sure how the branching paths work, but having a more singular path with alternative endings would have probably allowed you more time to be more in depth with the choices, rather than spending time on alternative secondary stages to the game.

It's a little slow, but shows promise. I did enjoy playing it, even if I felt it was sluggish in places.

fledgeling93 2018-12-26 18:04

Nice entry, but it gets repetitive pretty fast. Figuring out what activity leads to what job is the most interesting part, but then most of the gameplay is just doing the same thing over and over. Probably needs more activities and meaningful choices - I never needed to actually make a choice besides main activity.

doey 2018-12-26 18:26

After spending years of my life gaming and watching videos, I thought I got my life on track. It all seemed to be going well, then I had no choice but to kill myself. It was quite a roller coaster, I wont lie. Nice job with it, it was a fun little game. Cool music too.

ty-victorson 2018-12-27 00:49

Great job! i just have a couple nit picks: Your can press x and select the same task multiple times in one day (Super fast finish), and the transitions from outside to inside and vise versa are a bit slow. other than those it's a fun experience!

cdunham 2018-12-27 01:15

Some text at the beginning saying what your goal is would've been super helpful, I didn't know I was training myself for my career so I did a bunch of random stuff and lost. You can also glitch the game by pressing x and selecting an option quickly and redoing that a bunch, by the end I got to day -18. Overall decent game though for how long it took to make though!

simon-parzer 2018-12-27 16:49

Cool entry, I had a few laughs. Ended up with suicide being the only option, then got to be a lawyer, then a professional twatch streamer, by far the happiest ending ;) The lemonade stand is kind of hard to reach, and the implementation is a bit rough around the edges - screen transitions are a bit slow and my character was sometimes rendered behind the desk.

merpader 2018-12-27 20:12

This game has some real nice pixel art and a lot of replay value!The only real gripe I have is that you used the standard unity font! I get my fonts for my games at dafont.com. Just make sure that the fonts are free for personal use. It makes the game seem much more professional and takes less than 10 mins. Other than that this game is some real fun to play!

oriondark7 2018-12-28 02:20

Nice game! I really like the concept. The music was awesome, even if it could be repetitive at times. One thing I would add is more instructions, like the goal of the game, how you win, stuff like that. Overall it was a very interesting and cool game. Great job!