Name

Thank you for your application

Category

Game

Position

Narrative Designer, System Designer, Gameplay Engineer

Timeline

2024.5 - 2025.3

Overview

A darkly comedic interview-sim game satirizing the absurdity of modern corporate life.

Contribution

  • Designed and iterated on core gameplay systems (interview and dormitory mechanics), focusing on numerical balancing, player experience, and branching narrative structures.

  • Implemented the dormitory system’s functionality and UI in Unity to support decision-making and control narrative pacing.

  • Developed fragmented narrative elements, including in-game forum posts and player-driven storytelling interactions.

DEtails

Introduction

Thanks for Your Application is an interview simulation game where you play as a recent college graduate who becomes a recruitment interviewer at a company. Your job is to screen resumes of different fresh graduates and send rejection letters with various reasons. As you struggle to keep your job during the probation period, you must make choices that determine the fate of other fresh graduates. The company has recruitment requirements, but your choices are the most important. As time progresses, you uncover conspiracies behind the company and this world.

"Thank you for applying for our Management Trainee position. After fifteen rounds of evaluation tests, we regret to inform you that you are not a suitable match for this position. Given your excellent background, our company would like to offer you an alternative position. We urgently need a junior interviewer to help optimize our recruitment policy for cost-effectiveness. If you agree to accept this position, please reply with 1."

Your Job

Screen resumes and documents of interviewees according to the company's daily recruitment requirements, and make decisions on hiring or rejection.

Evolving Job Requirements

Check their internship certificates; we want graduates with experience.

Check their mental health certificates; we want employees who are mentally stable.

Check their diplomas; we want students from top universities, but we can't reject them based on their educational background.

Where Should Workers Go?

When recruitment becomes fake recruitment, when fake recruitment becomes layoffs, when layoffs affect oneself, where should workers go?

Demo

Download the demo though the link.