Work, Play, or Sleep? by Meijerson

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made by Meijerson for LD 43 (JAM)

Work, Play, or Sleep is a game about trying to find the balance of life. Keep your family member's stats (food, happiness, strength, and sleep) at decent levels.

Use your mouse to navigate. Click on items from Sal's shop, and then onto a family member to purchase it.

Once you believe your family is happy and healthy, select what you'd like each family member to do that day, and then press "Begin Day".

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Thanks for playing. :)

(Aware of a bug that sometimes causes the camera to not switch to showing the daily tasks after you press Begin Day, as well as the fact that the game isn't very balanced at the moment.)

Ratings

Overall 346th 3.619⭐ 23🧑‍⚖️
Fun 602th 3.159⭐ 24🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 563th 3.091⭐ 24🧑‍⚖️
Theme 70th 4.214⭐ 23🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 409th 3.705⭐ 24🧑‍⚖️
Audio 210th 3.595⭐ 23🧑‍⚖️
Humor 353th 3.184⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Mood 123th 3.9⭐ 22🧑‍⚖️
Given 5🗳️ 7🗨️

Feedback

Kciwsolb
04. Dec 2018 · 04:05 UTC
Lit.
AidanMarkham
04. Dec 2018 · 04:41 UTC
Wow that was hard! I really liked the graphics.
BoopsGames
04. Dec 2018 · 04:45 UTC
Interesting game. It was pretty hard to get past 4 days. I like the visuals and mood.
MrRyzen
04. Dec 2018 · 04:47 UTC
A bit hard but that was fun
MyAlias
04. Dec 2018 · 04:49 UTC
Cleaver idea haha. It reminds me of the college team. It was GPA, Sleep, Social instead haha.
Family starved to death rip in 3 days.
Purrseus
04. Dec 2018 · 04:57 UTC
No wonder they starved on that diet...

The style is simple, yet so great! I love the atmosphere created by the innocent simplicity of the graphics, the warm soundtrack and the cute sound effects! The animations for the day are great, too!

Such a lovely little game :)
jcroisant
04. Dec 2018 · 05:06 UTC
Nice work! The graphics and audio are simple but very effective in supporting the mood of the game. It just needs gameplay balance, which you already know.
anfaas1618
04. Dec 2018 · 05:07 UTC
The sprites looks lit also the gameplay seems satisfied overall nice project loved your game 5/5
Keshav Sharma
04. Dec 2018 · 05:13 UTC
Wow, the game looks pretty cool. I wish there was some sort of indication when someone's gonna die. But otherwise, amazing game.
Secretmapper
04. Dec 2018 · 05:22 UTC
I love how the sis/bro make the same amount of money as the parents :D
Pawel W.
04. Dec 2018 · 05:35 UTC
Nice take on target. A bit hard but I enjoyed playing it.
blu3bird
04. Dec 2018 · 15:06 UTC
Bro and sis died on the 3rd day :'( So hard to keep the family alive.

Nice visuals and bgm.
falak
04. Dec 2018 · 19:44 UTC
Simple but entertaining. Good Luck!