Grind by ChickenCastle
Test your multitasking skills against your peers and see who can become the 'Employee of the Month!'
An office task simulator with an online leader board where you can compete to finish more menial tasks than anyone else in endless loop of arbitrary employee performance ranking!
Chicken Castle's 2nd ever submission to Ludam Dare, and the first submission to the Compo category.
Theme: 'Stuck in a Loop'
Ever feel like you're just doing the same thing over and over again? Every day feel like a repeat of the last? Yet somehow each new day brings a new sense of chaos and disorder. This is an office simulation game where you will find yourself performing day to day tasks as a middle tier employee. Try to manage the stresses of a chaotic workplace whilst maintaining personal health and business KPIs.
How to play
Arrow or WASD keys to move. Stand next to points of interest to interact with them.
Follow the directions on screen to perform various tasks around the office.
The longer you spend performing tasks, the more 'Focus' you will generate. 'Focus' multiplies your KPI score.
There are some factors that cause you to lose focus, such as context switching, and being hungry or thirsty. Manage your distractions to meet your KPIs!
Your energy will decrease throughout the day. Try to get as much work done as possible before you get too tired to work. Don't worry if you run out of energy though, the daily grind never ends!
| Youtube | https://chickencastle.itch.io/grind |
| Youtube | https://bitbucket.org/chickencastle/ludamdare47/src/master/ |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/47/grind |
Ratings
| Overall | 214th | 3.58⭐ | 52🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 226th | 3.47⭐ | 52🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 288th | 3.35⭐ | 52🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 280th | 3.66⭐ | 52🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 191th | 3.67⭐ | 52🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 370th | 2.878⭐ | 51🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 74th | 3.608⭐ | 53🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 208th | 3.4⭐ | 52🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 41🗳️ | 76🗨️ |
Having the CEO event helped me find the water coolers, because at the beginning I did not understand why the fridge and food station only helped hunger, so I like the level layout.
I still don't know how to end the day without passing out though.
For the post L.D i suggest that you change the colliders to be more friendly with the environment, and I don't know the others, but I can't fix the "overheating servers" at all :cry:
Anyways, a really good game you have there!
Corporate life caricatures always get me!
I also love how everything the player does is in sync with the music.
I loved the sound track.
I loved that the other folk just kept pushing you aside
I loved the chat I had with Dave
I would love to buy a new printer since that seems to break quite a lot. ;-)
Very well done! Thank you for the game
✔️ The employees walking around is a nice touch and good for immersion.
➖ Could have used some more sound effects.
Overall this is a very creative and fun game! Good stuff! 😁
Great idea, great art and great execution, congrats !
The grind is strong in this one. :D
The grind feels very real! The tasks are quite diverse though and I always felt like I got something to do. The environment also looks very pretty and the concepts of drinking and eating were immediately clear! I also love the other characters moving about the room (and them being veggies looks nice :D) - it feels very much alive!
I really dig this game! Feels very complete and polished as well and it's even got the leaderboard going for it, NICE!
There are a few tasks that I didn't understand how to do, like, who's Dave.
But overall, I like the concept.
Well done for this entry
Cheers.
"Late for a meeting!" and the blah blah blah. Just perfect!
Great job!