Discouraged Workers TEEN Version

Overview

『Discouraged Workers』 is an independent kinetic novel created by YGGDRASIL STUDIO. The episode is the fifth in the Project DW series, a satirical story based on the popular Korean soap operas-styled plot. It compares Ga-yeon's bleak everyday life to the dark side of youth.

As a hospital coordinator, Ga-yeon fell in love with a doctor at the hospital she was working in and they had an affair even though the doctor was a married man. When the director found out, she was fired. For over a year she tried to find another job, but her mental uneasiness eventually made her give up and she became a recluse.

A year later, in the spring of 2013, her younger sister, Hye-na, and her first love Yunwoo come to her.

A story about the dark side of today's youth and serious life events happening around Ga-yeon.

Discouraged Workers

Description

• This is a TEEN version of the Discouraged Workers, takes the form of kinetic novel.
• You will be moved on mostly through Ga-yeon's point of view and the Archives will be also helpful for you to understand the whole play.
• You don't need to be directly involved in – just watch, read, listen, and feel it.
• However sometimes, you may be required to do something to collect some records or scenes.
• Discouraged Workers is played automatically. You can toggle this function.

Features

• A Korean-based densely-plotted story with the gloomy theme.
• The short but intense 100+ minutes, with the real soap opera-like directing.
• The animation-style hand-drawn sprites & CGs, and backgrounds based on retouched real pictures.
• Archives contains 90 records(Characters and Concept, Diary, Gallery, Music, and Replay).
• Steam Achievements, Steam Trading Cards series unlike the original version, cross-platform auto-cloud sync with Steam Cloud.
• Full controller support, Steam Controller support.
• Blind-friendly support.
• Integrated with Game Jolt API.
• Soundtrack for the Steam Music Player, Android build.

Key Records

• SlideDB 2016 AOTY TOP 50
• EMOTIONAL GAMES AWARDS 2016 Nominee
• SlideDB 2015 AOTY TOP 50
• Greenlit on Steam Greenlight
• The second Adult Only title on Steam
• Very first released for Adult and TEEN version on Steam
• Very first native Steam Controller support in Korea, Republic of.
• Funded with Tumblbug
• Participated in the FUCK CAPITALISM JAM(#FuckJam2k15)
• Amazon Top 100 selling Indie Games PC Games #12, Mac Games #4
• IndieGameStand Top Sellers #1
• itch.io Top games #51, Adventure games #7, Android adventure #1
• SlideDB Popular Games #1(2 times), IndieDB #11, ModDB #45
• App Store iPad Top Paid Educational Games #2, iPhone Top Paid Adventure Games #10, Top Paid Educational Games #1 in Singapore
• Google Play Top Paid Adventure #20 in India, Top New Paid Adventure #7 in Korea, Republic of., Top New Paid Adventure #20 in 8 countries

Recent changes on March 10, 2018, PDT:

• Update: Version 1.2.0.3 > 1.7.8.371
• Update: Ren'Py Engine 6.99.142
• Added: Integrated with Game Jolt API
• Added: Sketch-arts in the Ga-yeon's diary
• Added: Russian support by Roman Koledin
• Added: Simplified-Chinese support by IVY
• Added: Spanish support by Project Gamer Japones
• Added: Blind-friendly support
• Added: Replay screen
• Added: About screen
• Improved: Many graphical assets has been added or replaced
• Improved: Steamworks integration support
• Improved: Controller support and Steam Controller support
• Improved: Now the Archives will display your collecting status
• Improved: When displaying the controller images, the buttons on the quick menu are not focused by the arrow keys
• Improved: Now the window-title will display your current language title, also immediately when you change the language
• Improved: Reduce program size
• Improved: Update licenses
• Improved: Update source codes on our GitHub
• Fixed: All screens and GUIs
• Fixed: Now the epilogue can be seen in your progress directly, not the concept archive
• Fixed: Slap sound effect output timing