We are a two man team: I am focused on creating graphics and my friend UDMeat is focused on programming.

Here is an update on our game for the Spring Competition. We are trying to make an experimental business simulation where you manage people and projects. We have a working title of “Chroma Corpâ€?.

We are still clarifying a lot of the ideas and gameplay but here are a few elements that we want to capture.

1. Employees have personality, emotions, and friendships.
2. Over time you find out more about the people who work on your team.
3. Gameplay will be related to learning about your employees, managing your team, making sure you hit deadlines, and unblocking/fixing problems that crop up.
4. There is no money in the game.

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Here are some photos of the game in its current state as of Wednesday. Here is a shot of the sprites laid out like an office.

That feeling of working in a cube farm.

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At first I was disappointed in the selection of Limited Color Palette as the theme of the competition but as I have been creating sprites for our game I have actually really enjoyed the challenge of limiting my color palette. Every sprite group in the game uses around <7 colors and I have tried to maximize each color's use.

For example the photocopier sprite uses around 7 colors and all of them were picked originally for other sprites. The beige from the walls, the greys from the cubicles and blue from windows.

Another example is the water cooler sprite where I was able to utilize window blues again for the tank.

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If you are interested in watching our development we have been recording each day as a timelapse video and have a playlist on YouTube. Link to playlist

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We heard about the competition from the /r/gamedev post. The competition timing worked out perfectly for us as we wanted to finally start working full time on gamedev and having a deadline really helps focus ideas.