Sweat Shop by dimlight

Hey, welcome to our workshop!
I know it's your first time working in such a wonderful company, but believe me, you'll soon get into it, and all you have to do is to repair as many boilers as you can, and enjoy the meaningful life in the company!

Oh wait...You mentioned "overtime"?
That's not overtime, it's a way of working.
It's a way to make your life better;
It's a way to make you work more efficient;
It's a way to build your ambition;
It's a way to make your dream come true!
So, just keep working for us, until the day your body is underground —— or you have done all you have to.

| Windows | https://dimlight07.itch.io/sweat-shop |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/44/sweat-shop |
Ratings
| Given | 24🗳️ | 24🗨️ |
The platforming was a bit too twitchy for me, which got frustrating: the age mechanic made missing jumps or putting cubes in the wrong position a bit too unforgiving. Not sure if that's a flaw with the game, or me just being terrible at platformers.
The idea is interesting, and the graphics and music are great, but I found the puzzles a bit too punishing: even the first level which is supposed to be some kind of tutorial seems to require you to be almost on the edge of the (slippery) platform and place the life cube at the border of the circle. I retried this level a great lot of times!
Minor, non-gamebreaking glitch:
Stretching the block to cover your legs prevents you from moving, but you can just shrink it back down.
Also can't seem to get past the ATM tutorial puzzle. I'm too old, and it won't make me young again.
I could finish the two first levels with 3 furnace but I didn't have the courage for the 3rd one and just finished it with 1. I just have a qustion: is it possible to finish level 2 with only one furnace of first level ? It looked for me that you makes think the player he won the level but finally he will be blocked in next one..
Anyway, that was a wonderful game and it really made me use my brain ^^
it has benn fixed,
Thank you feedback;)
I really like ATM related puzzles, and getting to the end brought such a big sense of achievement.
The animations are so smooth and well made. SFX are also great.
My main complaint is that placing and adjusting the position of life cube is sometimes time-consuming. As age bar fills up quickly, sometimes you just cannot beat the level because you spent too much time placing the life cube.
Actually I did not really see much benefit of having life bar filling up in real time. Maybe this can be changed so that life bar moves only when the player do certain things (such as buying things, create life cube, using ATM)? In this way life is still a limited resource, but the players would not feel like they are rushed to finish a level.
Finally, the UI gets confusing sometimes, for example-

It took me a while to find out how to use the ATM.
The game is called "Sweat Shop" so I was expecting some narrative elements to explain the title. But there does not seem to be much clue.
Overall, very good game!