Salaryman by niterich
Nomikai, karaoke, furoshiki, karoshi - what's not to love about being a Japanese salaryman?
Type out legal documents, but be sure to maintain your health, your family life, and your sanity.
Hey guys, I almost managed to complete it this time! All I had left to do was draw some of the end screens and make the reset button work! ...And then I listened to the audio found a HUUUUUGE glitch. Of course!
| HTML5 (web) | https://nickhenley.itch.io/salaryman |
| Source code | https://nickhenley.itch.io/salaryman |
| Windows | https://nickhenley.itch.io/salaryman |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/44/salaryman |
Ratings
| Given | 7🗳️ | 6🗨️ |

@rustycrow But what if the lack of a challenge was part of the game's message, and totally not just me forgetting to make the end screen until the last minute?
Fun idea. Getting a word wrong was extremely stressful, and the sonic-is-drowning chime when you're near overload that plays on top of the existing happy music, like something you're just trying to block out, fits well with the theme.
I can agree it gets tedious after a while, but I mean, isn't that the point?
I could not quite get what the brain and family bars are. The family bar did not seem to rise at all, except when I spent time with my family, which was a bit counterintuitive, since the other bars rising indicated bad things happening. The brain bar seemed to be tiredness? Depression?
I managed to work myself to death on my first try to see what would happen, an on the second one I was eventually let go by trying to live a healthy lifestyle :-P
Thanks for the game!
I'd advise for you to spruce up your page with a screenshot or images related to the game :-)
I felt a bit frustrated your hunger doesn't reset from one day to the next - for logical reasons, not gameplay ones - of course ^^#
I feel maybe the text could have been made more appealing - 'cause the little snipets you wrote in there are interested and varied but during my playthrough I didn't wanna read it all - I was afraid the timer would go off again or something
Very nice submission for a compo, great job :-D