This Week

This Week was a game I made during a difficult time in my life for my first class at UCSC. After years of resounding 'no's, I was finally given a 'maybe' on being able to start hormone replacement therapy. For just over a week, I couldn't think about anything else. As far as I know, this game is unbeatable.

Afterword

My original Canvas discussion post reads: 

"My game is called This Week, and it (big surprise) is based on this past week I've been through. 

The player is able to move around inside my room and put away trash and play the guitar at any time and shave, put on makeup, or leave in the morning and do homework or sleep at night. Everything is themed around my actual morning and nightly routines (though obviously simplified for gameplay and scope reasons). Time is constantly ticking down, and any time you spend over the given amount will either make you miss school (in the morning) or miss sleep (in the evening).

There's another mechanic, which isn't explained to the player outright, where leaving out clothes or failing to shave, put on makeup, or do homework causes a handful of weird events to start happening, like rebinding the control keys or changing the world's appearance. The player needs to carefully manage their time to not 1. be too late for school/sleep and 2. not go crazy from missing out on doing chores enough.

I'm hoping the experience of playing this is at least a little relatable, given its pretty much ripped from my own experience in real life. I hope you like it!"