"Work Life" is a Visual Novel focusing on relationships in a modern workplace. It features:

  • 4 main characters (Ino, Kanade, Rika, Rin)
  • 32 unique  weekend stories (4 weekend stories and 4 emergency stories per character)
  • 36,000 words of dialog!
  • multiple ending types (perfect, good, bad) and multiple "ending" points (allowing you to continue exploring other stories)
  • daily mini-games with the ability for HINT mode or AUTOWIN mode toggle
  • 3 side characters w/ art, 5+ non-art characters
  • 40+ backgrounds
  • 2 story episodes (sorry this couldn't be more, I spent most time on the weekend dialog)
  • choices matter! certain preferences are remembered by the characters and used later in their story line

input:

Keyboard InputIn-game Action
Arrow Keysscroll menu, mini-game input
X (A button)accept, enter, advance story
Z (B button)quick-skip story (hold)

docs:

doclink
introductionhttps://jgensler8.github.io/work-life-game/introduction.html
flow of the gamehttps://jgensler8.github.io/work-life-game/flow-of-the-game.html
charactershttps://jgensler8.github.io/work-life-game/characters.html
rough day-by-day progresshttps://jeffzzq.itch.io/work-life/devlog/779008/jam-progress-table
web playerhttps://github.com/jgensler8/44vba-wasm
forked from https://github.com/44670/44vba

word counts

charactercount
Total36k
Main Character14k
Ino4.9k
Kanade4.4k
Rika4.4k
Rin3.3k
Narrator (Empty)2.4k
All Other2.6k


Download

Download
Work_Life_jam.gba 9.5 MB

Development log

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