Under Performer by Allax
Under Performer tells the story of S. Lacker, an useless worker who will soon be fired.
You’ll have to work really hard that this does not happen. Run around the office looking for paper, or lock pick on cabinets. Do everything not to get fired! Delay the inevitable!


| Link | https://mellowplay.itch.io/under-performer |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/50/under-performer |
Ratings
| Overall | 838th | 3.43⭐ | 59🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 700th | 3.377⭐ | 59🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 641th | 3.366⭐ | 58🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 592th | 3.741⭐ | 58🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 596th | 3.777⭐ | 58🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 438th | 3.545⭐ | 57🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 253th | 3.772⭐ | 59🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 630th | 3.535⭐ | 59🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 78🗳️ | 106🗨️ |
Idea fits to Jam theme:D
I really liked the skill checks and the brilliant boss fight.
Great art, music, and game flow. Good job!
My gripes with the game are mostly with the controls; while getting stuck to the plethora of office furniture adds to the (likely intended) chaos, it's quite frustrating in the long run, as is the mashing minigame at the printer. Another possible improvement would be clearing up the instructions a bit.
The tutorial text is also VERY difficult to read.
But it IS cool to see that you included cutscenes as well. I sure wish I could've flexed my artistic skills during this jam.. The musics pretty good as well! There's this air of humor around the game as well, like how you can just *slide blank papers on top of your slip* to keep yourself not-fired. That kind of absurdist humor is one that I approve of.
Really good first jam entry! Be proud of yourself!
printer minigame was REALLY hard, mashing as fast as humanly possible it still feels like it just BARELY fills the bar to win....my poor space bar...
One more technical thing: I had some REALLY ugly screen-tearing. I don't know if it's a universal issue, but it was really distracting. I don't know if fixing it is a simple matter of enabling Vsync, but please consider it.
I really enjoyed this! (though my keyboard maybe didn't haha...)
I like all the different types of minigames, they all work really well. But I think maybe the paper jam could be a bit quicker since the other activities felt much faster to me.
The game was polished across the board, though I had a bit of trouble reading the instructions with the very pixelated font. I enjoyed the humor, especially that awesome comic style intro. Overall, this was a great submission. Awesome job!