Vidgame about the lousy economy

Posted by David Pescovitz, March 18, 2009 3:50 PM | permalink

LAYOFF is a Web-based casual game about today's economic insanity and its impact on average people. Brandon has the details over at Boing Boing Offworld. "Layoff: financial crisis through a match-three casual game lens"

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#1 posted by Stefan Jones, March 18, 2009 5:05 PM

Greg Costikyan reviewed this as well.

Layoff Review at Play This Thing

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#2 posted by jonrock, March 18, 2009 6:07 PM

Couldn't get to see whether it was a clever idea due to the horrible programming. If you can't swap two icons faster than I can move the mouse to the close-window button, you lose.

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#3 posted by Anonymous, March 19, 2009 1:33 AM

possibly the most boring game in the world.

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#4 posted by Kieran O'Neill, March 19, 2009 1:58 AM

After playing this game for 20 minutes, I can attest that the life of a businessman is hard.

Or, to quote Snog:

"Businessman, businessman
You're alone with the numbers
They'll never understand
Businessman, businessman
You make something out of nothing
There's magic in your hands"

(PS: The music in the game is pretty groovy. Early 90s computer game chic.)

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#5 posted by Big Daddy, March 19, 2009 11:20 AM

If you can make match-3 gameplay suck, you need to look into a new line of work.

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#6 posted by Anonymous, March 19, 2009 12:30 PM

"Vidgame". Now that's hipster talk!

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#7 posted by Thalia, March 19, 2009 12:56 PM

The UI sucks, and the premise (everyone is expendable except the suits) is bullshit. Just look at the layoffs in law firms.