Status Update – Bathroom Break Manager / Game Of Throne

EDIT: In which I start three consecutive paragraphs with the word “so.”

So, thanks to being on the West Coast I got a very civilized 6pm start on Friday. Much better than my previous jams starting at some unholy hour on GMT in London. Came up with a few ideas, finally settled on the silliest and hopefully easiest to implement. Spent most of the evening and night getting some basic game play down.

So, the idea is that you are running an office which only has ONE (BATH) ROOM, and a collection of feckless employees with tiny bladders and a propensity to take on liquids constantly. It’s up to you to manage the ensuing line for the bathroom and prevent too many “puddles.”

So far, I have an office block with employees in their offices. Over time they will fill their bladders and you can send them to the bathroom to relieve themselves. The main bit of game play I would like to add is a proper queue – at the moment they will all rush in together which rather takes away from the supposed issue of only having one bathroom. If I can get that down, I’ll move on to some “better” artwork and maybe some sound effects. The opportunity to record toilet-based audio is too much to pass up on. Am I 5 again? Let’s find out.

First three progressions of the prototype:

proto-1-small proto-2-small proto-3-small