Welcome to Quit Today's Dev Blog, again🙂 Quit Today is a 2D side-scrolling beat 'em-up game, with an absurd but seemingly logical storyline that people may face day by day in their careers (｡･∀･)ﾉﾞ
As players, the desire to become stronger in the game is natural. On one hand, it's expected that as the game progresses, stronger enemies will appear. On the other hand, it's just enjoyable to play the game like a pro when your abilities are enhanced!
In this Deb blog, we would like to talk about the design of power growth in "Quit Today" and how we keep the creative momentum flowing during the game development process.
🏢 The Longer You Stay in the Workplace, the More You Learn Survival Skills!
Although there are often troubles in the company that make people feel uncomfortable and fed up, it cannot be denied that long-term workplace experience accumulates a lot of wisdom, enhancing our judgment in unexpected situations.
Being immersed in the workplace for a long time, we no longer feel as clueless as when we first entered. We understand our labor rights and realize that things we can't stand may not be due to our incompetence but could be inherently unreasonable!
Working in the office also help acquire various job skills over time, allowing us to find shortcuts to complete tasks faster and better.
What initially took a long time to accomplish can be quickly linked to various resources and shortcuts related to the task, making you adept at handling these processes you're already familiar with.
✨ Gaining power in the workplace makes it easier to survive the battles! ✨
We hope "Quit Today" is a game that looks fun but also relates to everyone's experiences.
🤘 How to Gain the Power of Creation
Creators are not born with the ability to imagine and create content out of thin air. Inspiration is also inspired by experiences encountered in life. To avoid depleting imagination, it's crucial for us to carefully experience life and plan time to appreciate other creative works (games, comics, animation, movies, novels, etc.). Both are essential for finding inspiration.
So, we can often boldly declar: "✨ I'm working right now! ✨" while playing games!
Even if the inspiration fragments are similar, each creator's unique perspective and creative approach add magic to these fragments, creating works with distinctive personal styles.
Because works are based on experience and existing knowledge, even if we don't deliberately reference, there may inevitably be some designs in the work that others have done. Sometimes, when we see a game using similar methods, we can't help but cheer for them, hoping they all do well together!
🎅 Hoping for the Blessing of the Gaming Deity!
Game development is a patient process. Our team, with one person in charge of executing the development plan, art, and programming, and another person in charge of non-development tasks, requires the developer to repeat testing the same actions many times (as for why testing many times, I'll write another piece to explain).
During late-night rushes, repeatedly testing the game can lead to falling asleep. At such times, we hope for a sudden burst of wisdom from above, allowing the game to be designed perfectly in one go, without the need for modifications and repeated confirmation of functions. Or we wish we could sleep with peace of mind, and little elves would finish the game for us the next morning 🤣
We currently offer a demo. Feel free to try it out 👇
🕹 INDIE X Steam Event https://store.steampowered.com/sale/indiex2023
Better Free Demo! We made the game lighter!
To make 'Quit Today' run smoother on more computers and SteamDecks, we did some big improvements to the game's performance. The improved free demo is now up on Steam. Feel free to give it a try! :)
What make gamers get hyped every September? That's Tokyo Game Show!
What make gamers get hyped every September? That's Tokyo Game Show! Yes, we are getting so close to it now!
It is said that this year's Tokyo Game Show will be the largest ever in terms of exhibition scale. Even the venue is very spacious, making it well worth attending.
Our game "Quit Today" was selected as an official indie game showcase at last year's Tokyo Game Show. This year, our publisher "Justdan" will bring the "Japanese-style stage" from "Quit Today" and coming at the show once again! 🎮🎮🎮
We are grateful for this opportunity (ヾ(•ω•`)o)
Finally, if you come to Happinet (booth details see details below) this year and try out our new demo stage, you will have a chance to get free gifts of the game coaster or "Office Worker" sticker (5 different designs!). Supplies are limited so don't miss out!
【TOKYO GAME SHOW 2023】 📅 Sep. 21 - Sep.24 🎪 Venue : Makuhari Messe - Hall 7 📍 Booth : 07-N05 Happinet
✨ Happinet - Official Web https://happinet-tgs.com/
⭐ TOKYO GAME SHOW - Official Web https://tgs.nikkeibp.co.jp/tgs/2023/en/
🕹 TOKYO GAME SHOW - Steam Event https://store.steampowered.com/sale/tgs2023
"QUIT TODAY" is heading to BIC Festival! (Aug 25th - 27th)
BUSAN INDIE CONNECT FESTIVAL (BIC FESTIVAL) is the largest indie game event in South Korea, attracting numerous exceptional indie game developers to this exhibition.
It feels like this journey will connect us with many passionate indie game developers. Waku Waku!
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BIC Festival 釜山獨立遊戲節 📅 August 25th - 27th 📍 BEXCO, BUSAN
⭐ BIC Festival official Web官方 https://bicfest.org/
🕹 BIC Festival 2023 Steam Event https://yohcanstudio.pse.is/BICFES2023
"QUIT TODAY" is heading to BIC Festival! (Aug 25rd - 27th)
According to Wikipedia, gamescom is the world's third-largest gaming expo in terms of total attendance and it's the largest gaming event in Europe, too.
It's so exciting to look forward to bringing our game to meet more players in Europe!
"QUIT TODAY" is heading to Gamescom 2023! (Aug 25rd - 27th)
According to Wikipedia, gamescom is the world's third-largest gaming expo in terms of total attendance and it's the largest gaming event in Europe, too.
It's so exciting to look forward to bringing our game to meet more players in Europe!
Welcome to Quit Today's Dev Blog. 🙂 Here we would like to share updates of our latest developing game, Quit Today. Quit Today is a 2D side-scrolling beat 'em-up game, with an absurd but seemingly logical storyline that people may face day by day in their careers. 💻🤦
In case you haven't seen our trailer, here it is: 👇
🤷 Why Quit Today?
We were full-time employees where we stumbled on some... occasions that weren't so pleasant. 🤕 And happen to know a lot of our friends or colleagues stumble too. Seeing that so many unpleasant occasions happen, we decided to make a game to show how we feel. Adding in some humor since it is still a game. 🤭
If you ever feel down in your career, we hope this is the game that cheers you up. 💪💪
🙋 What we would like to offer in Quit Today?
Packed beat 'em-up action with Rogue-like element to make every run fun💥
In every workplace, every skill has an important meaning. We want to demonstrate this concept by producing various skills in-game.
Immersive storyline based on day-to-day career life☕
Other than encountering occasions, sometimes we need to make choices in life. We want to express there is no right or wrong choice, it is just what you want. And most of the time, things are not as worst as you think.
Partner system, fight with your close friends at work and feel supported🤜🤛
Challenges can be hard in your career. In real life, when you have a group of friends at work, difficult challenges can be filled with laughter. We want to bring this concept to the game as well. You are not alone.
Smooth combat experience with all hand-drawn visuals🖌️
The character design and art assets are all hand-drawn by our artist. We hope you will like them. ❤️
We have a demo available, please feel free to try it here: 👇
If you like what you see or play, please consider adding our game to your wishlist. 👏 Let us know how much interest there is, and help our game gain visibility. ❤️
Thank you for reading, enjoy the rest of your day! 🌻 Until next time! 👋
QUIT TODAY Nominated for Best Visual Art at DevGAMM 2023!
Thank you DevGAMM committee for nominating "Quit Today" with Best Visual Art!
We feel incredibly fortunate and greatly encouraged to be able to participate in the competition alongside other outstanding games. It is an honor for our team.
We look forward to participating in the awards ceremony.
Please consider adding our game to your wishlist if you like our art and gameplay, let us know if you like our game, this will greatly encourage us and help the game gain visibility.
Thank you for reading. We will have more updates for Quit Today in the near future!
"Quit Today" is going to the WASD Expo in London.
We are going to attend the W.A.S.D event to take place at London’s Truman Brewery this week! If you're there, be sure to stop by and say hello!
Play as an employee and enter the world of "Quit Today," a 2D side-scrolling action game that plunges you into an epic office battle. Your colleagues are after you because they believe you're resigning - and it's up to you to fight your way through the chaos to understand what is going on.
Protect yourself with your trusty briefcase and fight your way through the company to uncover the truth. Along the way, you'll discover the harsh realities of the company's management and realize that you can't turn a blind eye to their wrongdoings any longer. Will you stand up for yourself and resign, or fight to make things right?
Representatives from the publisher Justdan team will be at the show Thursday 30th of March and Saturday 1st of April.
W.A.S.D is the central playable and interactive feature of the London Games Festival, taking place at The Truman Brewery from 30th March – 1st April. Doors open at 10 am and close at 6 pm. The last entry is at 5 pm.
