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Work-Life Balance's itch.io pageResults
Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
Theme | #2 | 4.412 | 4.412 |
Gameplay | #3 | 4.235 | 4.235 |
Overall | #4 | 4.100 | 4.100 |
Innovation | #8 | 4.088 | 4.088 |
Audio | #14 | 3.794 | 3.794 |
Graphics | #34 | 3.971 | 3.971 |
Ranked from 34 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
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GitHub repository url
https://github.com/Stiggstogg/balance
Comments
Work-Life Balance is a multitasking game where you have 60 seconds to simultaneously manage two mini-games. The game gives you a glimpse of managing real-life stress of juggling multiple responsibilities. Solve math problems while mowing the lawn or spot spelling errors while following a dance instructor. While reality is more challenging, this simulation is plain fun without the headaches and real-life consequences.
(Review by Phaser Studio staff)
a classic twist on "balance" and very fun! i felt like the spongebob meme trying to look at both minigames at once, but the visual cues + how each minigame required your attention was a nice balance (heh). cool music + sfx, definitely felt the stress when the music started speeding up. very curious to see what other mini-games in this theme would look like!
This turned out awesome! I followed your dev-journey on discord and X, and I absolutely love the homemade music and especially the soundFX using the Bosch powertool. :-)
The minigames play very well, I think it feels best using a touch device (I tried mouse, stylus and twohanded touch). It gets quite stressfull, but in a good way.
Great job!
Thanks a lot for playing, the feedback and following my dev-journey. Hehe, I usually prefer to "find" the sounds at home rather than searching through the internet for something suitable. It is amazing how much you can do by just recording something and playing a bit around with the EQ to make it fit. Thanks for doing a study on the different devices :). I try to make my games always touch and mobile friendly so I can share it with family and friends, which usually do not sit on a computer to play a game.
really nice fun game love the concept just sucks that I suck at multitasking!
Wow, super fun game! Simple but it works really well, both the difficulty of each task and the time you have to do them are well balanced and keep you hooked. I could see this becoming a kind of Wario-Ware / brain training kinda thing with some more mini-games! Very well done!
And I beat your high-score, so of course i like it even more :P
Wow, what a cool game!
Concept is so simple while so smart: I would love to have this idea! Playing two simple mini-games at the same time is very clever and fit the theme so well.
I would like to have different minigames for each day, but I understand it's quite complicated to do in the context of the game jam.
I love to see brillant ideas like this one: definitively my favorite entry so far!
Got a score of 23,397! The game is really well-designed—I had a lot of fun playing it. Clearly, work-life balance is impossible... 😂
I also feel like this game would work great as a two-player co-op experience. If the two sides had some interactive or interconnected elements, it could make things even more engaging. Great job!
Thanks a lot for the nice feedback and 23k is a very good score for the first attempt!
Yes, you are the second person who brings up the idea of co-op. I definitely need to think about this and how this could work. For sure it needs some more interconnected elements to make it really fun for two players. Otherwise it is just two players playing their own game on one screen.
I love that you have a README and License file (main criteria for open source category). Love that your README has some screenshots and a lovely graphical title.
Clean visuals, easy to read text, loving the narrative at the start. The music is very funky and gets you in the vibes. Fun and interesting take on "balance". I enjoyed the fact that the spelling and maths questions were random and different so you couldn't just learn them. Would love to see more levels in future. Nice job.
Just watched the video and one of the great things of making games is seeing somebody play your game on stream :). Thanks a lot for playing it and much respect for playing through sooooo many entries and providing nice and useful feedback!
Happy to see you liked my quirky music and the game overall. Agree that it would need some more mini games, but as it is with game jams at some point you need to cut the scope. I decided to rather polish the four mini games than adding more but crappy games.
Enjoy the last 23 games :).
Yeah 100% on the mini games, hence why it's a "future" ask and not expecting you to have more levels for a game jam. I love that you prioritised polishing four levels than making more - kudos; you did the right thing!
Yep, got through all 125 entries on stream. Thanks for checking it out and also putting effort into all your work. Great job.
Nice Concept!. I really loved the gameplay, Btw there are 2 more games with the same name, (^-^;)
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