Résumé

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Résumé
by Requiem

2023

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About the Story

Upward mobility. Mediocrity. Never good enough.
"It takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place." - Alice in Wonderland

Written in Texture for Neo-Twiny Jam: June 2023. Inspired by Emily Short's First Draft of the Revolution and Endure, Résumé is an attempt to capture the feeling inside the bell jar under 500 words.
Credits:Header image by Jess Bailey via Unsplash.Cover image by Leone Venter via Unsplash.

Game Details

Language: English (en)
First Publication Date: June 30, 2023
Current Version: Unknown
License: Freeware
Development System: Texture
IFID: Unknown
TUID: m1nb5m99j2m4bwy

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Work on your resume over and over, August 5, 2023

by MathBrush
Related reviews: less than 15 minutes

This game was written for the Neo Twiny Jam in 500 words or less.

It's a Texture game, which I haven't seen a lot of recently. This system has you drag verbs onto nouns (or, here, resume sections), both causing changes when you actually drop it and tooltips when you hover.

The humor (or pathos, depending on how you view it) comes from the self-criticism or uncertainty or Sisyphean task of dealing with all of this.

I found only one ending, but I found it multiple times.

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Never Good Enough…, July 15, 2023

by manonamora
Related reviews: neotwinyjam

Naming the game as a Chore on itch is very fitting, as filling out applications for a resume often, if not always feels like an absolute chore. The choice of using Texture for this was the correct one, as the click/drag on desktop reeeaaaaally adds to the chore-like feeling of this task.
The player gets to edit an application for a job, expanding, rephrasing, deleting or submitting at will the different parts. Through the writing, it is obvious the player character is frustrated with the task (and who isn’t, filling those applications are The Worst). Every action has quite a bit of humour in it, especially when expending on some sections.
Good vibes, not good times…