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Upward mobility. Mediocrity. Never good enough.
"It takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place." - Alice in Wonderland
Written in Texture for Neo-Twiny Jam: June 2023. Inspired by Emily Short's First Draft of the Revolution and Endure, Résumé is an attempt to capture the feeling inside the bell jar under 500 words.
Credits:Header image by Jess Bailey via Unsplash.Cover image by Leone Venter via Unsplash.
Entrant - Neo-Twiny Jam
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This game was written for the Neo Twiny Jam in 500 words or less.
It's a Texture game, which I haven't seen a lot of recently. This system has you drag verbs onto nouns (or, here, resume sections), both causing changes when you actually drop it and tooltips when you hover.
The humor (or pathos, depending on how you view it) comes from the self-criticism or uncertainty or Sisyphean task of dealing with all of this.
I found only one ending, but I found it multiple times.
Naming the game as a Chore on itch is very fitting, as filling out applications for a resume often, if not always feels like an absolute chore. The choice of using Texture for this was the correct one, as the click/drag on desktop reeeaaaaally adds to the chore-like feeling of this task.
The player gets to edit an application for a job, expanding, rephrasing, deleting or submitting at will the different parts. Through the writing, it is obvious the player character is frustrated with the task (and who isn’t, filling those applications are The Worst). Every action has quite a bit of humour in it, especially when expending on some sections.
Good vibes, not good times…