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01-17-2024, 08:40 AM
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Unhinged Studios has officially announced (https://youtu.be/f4ajMUjYk9o?feature=shared) their roguelite deckbuilder (https://www.destructoid.com/reviews/review-draft-of-darkness/), dev_hell based on the soul-crushing experience of working as a programmer in an office environment. It?s set to release on PC this year.
Before getting paid to write bad words, I spent nine years working in I.T. as a technician. That?s not the same as being an office programmer, but it is adjacent. The biggest difference is that people at least understood that I was going to fix their computer. For normal people, programmers just perform whatever magic they?re told to. And if they can?t perform that magic, they have failed.
https://youtu.be/f4ajMUjYk9o?feature=shared
Dev_hell puts you in the shoes of a new hire at a tech company looking to ?change the future.? Not only do you have to program a lot of questionable features and meet the company?s expectations of you, you also need to exert constant positivity and build relationships with your co-workers. Because when shit hits the wall, you may need a few human shields to protect your career. You constantly add to a growing deck of cards that help you do your job better, or at least make it look like you?re doing your job well.
I feel like most people who have experience working in the office will find the trailer to be unsettlingly familiar. Everything from superficial interactions with co-workers to bafflingly ineffective ?incentive? programs. It?s absolutely too damned real. Looks like fun!
Dev_hell is coming to PC sometime in 2024.
The post Dev_hell is a deckbuilder that lets you live the nightmarish existence of a corporate programmer (https://www.destructoid.com/dev_hell-is-a-deckbuilder-that-lets-you-live-the-nightmarish-existence-of-a-corporate-programmer/) appeared first on Destructoid (https://www.destructoid.com).
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Unhinged Studios has officially announced (https://youtu.be/f4ajMUjYk9o?feature=shared) their roguelite deckbuilder (https://www.destructoid.com/reviews/review-draft-of-darkness/), dev_hell based on the soul-crushing experience of working as a programmer in an office environment. It?s set to release on PC this year.
Before getting paid to write bad words, I spent nine years working in I.T. as a technician. That?s not the same as being an office programmer, but it is adjacent. The biggest difference is that people at least understood that I was going to fix their computer. For normal people, programmers just perform whatever magic they?re told to. And if they can?t perform that magic, they have failed.
https://youtu.be/f4ajMUjYk9o?feature=shared
Dev_hell puts you in the shoes of a new hire at a tech company looking to ?change the future.? Not only do you have to program a lot of questionable features and meet the company?s expectations of you, you also need to exert constant positivity and build relationships with your co-workers. Because when shit hits the wall, you may need a few human shields to protect your career. You constantly add to a growing deck of cards that help you do your job better, or at least make it look like you?re doing your job well.
I feel like most people who have experience working in the office will find the trailer to be unsettlingly familiar. Everything from superficial interactions with co-workers to bafflingly ineffective ?incentive? programs. It?s absolutely too damned real. Looks like fun!
Dev_hell is coming to PC sometime in 2024.
The post Dev_hell is a deckbuilder that lets you live the nightmarish existence of a corporate programmer (https://www.destructoid.com/dev_hell-is-a-deckbuilder-that-lets-you-live-the-nightmarish-existence-of-a-corporate-programmer/) appeared first on Destructoid (https://www.destructoid.com).
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