Relive the Windows 95 glory days with this work simulation game
Sometimes it feels like the line between work and video games is blurred. The story and graphics might not be comparable, but the gameplay mechanics feel like they are. You do activity X for 10 minutes to train skill Y. You have to click this, this, and this before the boss Z punishes you. Congrats: you leveled up! Now do it again, but harder.
A new game from design professor Pippin Barr called It Is As If You Were Doing Work (play it for free in your browser here) perfectly encapsulates this feeling. It dumps players in a bootleg Windows 95 environment where they have to send emails and click dialog boxes to climb the work hierarchy. Nothing really makes any sense, but work long enough and you get to have some time off to play a game or…
