The game
ESCALATED (working title) is a 3D life sim about a job at a fictional tech company, and everything that job touches. Build a career, pay the rent, keep your partner happy, survive the stand-ups. Or don't. Climb by being brilliant, by being liked, or by quietly taking credit for other people's work. The game doesn't pick a right answer, but everyone in it remembers what you did.
What you'll do
- Pick your role: start in support, engineering, project management or product, each with its own problems.
- Work the week: office days and home days, tickets, meetings, incidents and the occasional "just this once" overtime request.
- Live a life: salary, rent, bills and savings, a partner with plans of their own, and a home that costs more the nicer it gets.
- People who remember: colleagues, managers and family keep track of favours, broken promises and who said what about whom.
- Office politics: gossip, rivalries, HR complaints and the meeting about having too many meetings.
Satire with systems
The comedy isn't scripted. It comes from believable people and systems colliding: the company announces record profits and then a salary freeze; you exceed expectations, and exceeding them was the expectation. Success, failure and everything in between are up to you.
Status
ESCALATED is in early development. The simulation underneath (the company, the people and what they remember) is running, and the first playable week is being built now. It's coming to PC. We'll share screenshots once the art is ready to be seen.