Work Life
"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 Input | In-game Action |
| Arrow Keys | scroll menu, mini-game input |
| X (A button) | accept, enter, advance story |
| Z (B button) | quick-skip story (hold) |
docs:
| doc | link |
| introduction | https://jgensler8.github.io/work-life-game/introduction.html |
| flow of the game | https://jgensler8.github.io/work-life-game/flow-of-the-game.html |
| characters | https://jgensler8.github.io/work-life-game/characters.html |
| rough day-by-day progress | https://jeffzzq.itch.io/work-life/devlog/779008/jam-progress-table |
| web player | https://github.com/jgensler8/44vba-wasm forked from https://github.com/44670/44vba |
word counts
| character | count |
| Total | 36k |
| Main Character | 14k |
| Ino | 4.9k |
| Kanade | 4.4k |
| Rika | 4.4k |
| Rin | 3.3k |
| Narrator (Empty) | 2.4k |
| All Other | 2.6k |
| Status | Released |
| Platforms | HTML5 |
| Release date | Aug 17, 2024 |
| Author | jeffzzq |
| Genre | Visual Novel |
| Tags | Anime, Cute, Dating Sim, Game Boy Advance, Pixel Art, Relaxing, Retro, Story Rich, Working Simulator |
| Asset license | Creative Commons Attribution_NonCommercial v4.0 International |
| Average session | A few seconds |
| Languages | English |
| Inputs | Keyboard |
| Links | Source code, Documentation |
Download
Download
Work_Life_jam.gba 9.5 MB
Development log
- Work Life: Stats After One YearSep 08, 2025
- Work Life: Week ThreeSep 06, 2024
- Work Life (2/2): Tags on ItchAug 26, 2024
- Work Life (1/2): One Week After ReleaseAug 26, 2024
- Jam Progress TableAug 17, 2024




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