Gig-o-nomics
OVERVIEW
Gig-o-nomics is one of the 3 winning games of the Young South East Asian Leadership Initiative (YSEALI) Game Changers 2023 Workshop & Game Jam, a social impact game jam aligned with 4 YSEALI broad theme:
- Civic Engagement
- Economic Empowerment & Social Entrepreneurship
- Education
- Environment and Natural Resources
OBJECTIVE
Through our game, we aim to cultivate empathy for gig economy workers, providing an experience that enables players to better appreciate the challenges they face.
GAME CONCEPT
The game puts the player in the shoes of a gig economy worker, where they have to make difficult decisions to be happy and healthy while be able to pay bills.
HOW TO PLAY
- Swipe Right or Left Option to make your choices. Your decision may affect money, happiness, health, or their combinations
- Game is Over once your money, happiness, or health reaches 0
Can you Survive the TOUGH LIFE of being gig-worker?
BUG REPORTING & FEEDBACK
PRODUCTION CREDITS
This game receives funding from Biji-biji Initiative and Xbox (under YSEALI GameChangers program).
GAMEJAM CREDITS
- Project Director : Lydia Ignacia (Li)
- Narrative Director : Anissa Dee Arcega (Nissie)
- Game Design Director : Andrei Dominic Fernandez (Andrei)
- Tech Director : Riady Salim (Riady)
- Art Director : Sherman Jianwei Ho (Sherman)
- Sound Director : Jose Antonio Gamboa (Anjo)
- Research Director : Marciano Lopes Zemecas (Marciano)
Assets and font for Gamejam ver. are obtained from Canva under Canva Pro License.
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Comments
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Overall opinions, This is definitely both a fun and engaging educational game and the style reminds alot of the game Presentable Liberty cause of the sound effects but what it made me feel about it.
Its not the same obviously but the thought provoking side makes itself presentable with a clever use of the game mechanics as games like these my first thought was to randomly pick any decision and see where it gets me
The fact it builds up with each decision becoming a serious balancing act between health, money and social status. I manage to play it thru and died 3 times but i got the jitz of it its surprisingly good considering there isnt much animation other than the beautiful simplistic art style reminiscing games like One Chance. This game could have been a psychological horror game if given enough context and work on it but who knows what your team will come up with in future.
Final thoughts
1. Art - Love the style for pixel art its not too much and not too dull although the chicken in the main menu reminds me of stardew valley but almost every paper and interaction is bright, vibrant makes it deceiving funny how much we minimise serious situation by laughing things off since its better than bothering people about our own problems.
2. Mechanics - The fact that this game barely has any animation but it got me thinking and reflecting with each choices i made. This itself makes it apparent your team has manage to bypass the challenge of complicating gameplay mechanics and work towards telling a good story making it natural with the gameplay. The term gamifying life itself isnt a foreign concept but your team pull it off kuddos.
3. Overall critiques - For now i dont have alot of gripes since its a game jam game and its expected that these are concept games but one thing is gameplay wise the repetitive dialogue may become a put off since it lead me to click the same specific choices over and over and desensitizing the point of education of the game where i ended skipping few times and forgetting to actually read any of the new documents that appear. However this is more a personal issue as i could suck at the game as well.
All the best to your team's next endeavors
Hi Xaineshixinchng, thanks for playing the prototype and shared your detailed thoughts. Truly appreciate it!
We want to bring the best experience possible as we continue to develop the game, so let me take your feedback as consideration for our team's backlog :)