A PERSONAL TALE OF UNWINNABLE REALITIES
Exactly what it says on the box: a lightly filtered experience pulled from my (now former) day job in a customer service call centre, made interactive in a point-&-click format. Lose politely, or lose spectacularly; the choice is yours.
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Features
- A branching narrative pulled from personal experience.
- Over 250 lines of fully-voiced dialogue.
- Windows PC and Macintosh compatible - one purchase gets both DRM-free versions.
- Terrible art conveys a terrible work environment.
- A brief, digestible piece of audible interactive fiction.
- Featuring the song Self-Discovery and Other Broad Generalities by Pete Mascio, from the album I Am Alphabet Jim.
Coverage
- "I'd rather play a game like this - admittedly not fun, and even kind of ugly-looking - than play most triple-A games out there."
- Kotaku - "Is it fun? I suppose not. Is it worthy? Yes."
- Kevin VanOrd (twitter) - "Gallant does such a good job capturing the experience of being a low-level cubicled office drone, and he does so in a way that is (believe it or not) unfiltered and unexaggerated."
- IndieStatik (review) - "With all the AAA studios aiming for 'realism' every year, I get the sense that David's game is one of the most realistic I've ever played."
- Matt Rix (twitter) - "...the player is falling into a Kobyashi Maru scenario - for those who aren't Star Trek fans that's a no-win situation"
- IndieStatik (preview) - "... a fantastic example of letting others experience one's life through personal expression"
- Indie Games As An Artform - "...it will probably confirm their suspicion that call centers are life-sucking, awful places that don't bring much reward."
- FULLNOVAZERO - "Think of it as a way to help Gallant quit his "soul-killing" day job."
- IndieGames.com - "It's like MS Paint blew its load all over my eyes... and it burned a lot."
- Sara G (twitter)