Misery Blissness

A soul management game made by a wee team of four taking part in #MiniJam119 for fun, from the 11th-14th November 2022.

Misery Blissness

You play as Peter, the latest recruit at Misery Blissness, the most reliable lost soul placement branch of the afterlife! It's all very exciting of course, you're assigned aid is Devi, a mischievous demon from the lower realms who's always around to help clean up your mistakes should you make them.

Your job here is to group like-minded individuals into the care of various archangels, what angel you assign them to is dependant on their preferences. You can keep an eye on the positive or negative interactions between assigned souls thanks to cloud 9 social, and if need-be you can always re-assign any souls you notice aren't enjoying their stay in any particular realm. Well, that's the gist of it, good luck!

Limitation: Everything Can Die

What better setting than one of the gates into heaven? As a new recruit at Misery Blissness you'll have to sort lost souls into realms under the archangels with other like-minded souls. However, your new colleague the demon Devi will... *ahem* relocate... Any discontent souls into the lower realms, entire realms of them if you mess up. Even your soul if you're not careful! It's nothing malicious, they're just doing their job.

Controls

Spacebar to start the game! Use your mouse to interact.

Key Info!

• Assign souls to rooms with people who agree with them on their preferences to generate more Bliss.

• You can see a souls preferences with the scroll on the right, and the selected realm's overall average preferences using the journal on the left!

• Use generated Bliss to request a new realm to send lost souls to.

• You can look at each assigned souls happiness quickly by hovering over the tabs of each resident per realm in the journal and spying the tooltip pop-up!

• Cloud 9 Social is a handy feed to show you the positive and negative interactions between souls in the realms you manage.

• You can re-assign discontent souls into new realms anytime by selecting them, clicking a new realm and smashing your gavel!

• If any charred pages appear on your desk, this means enough souls within that realm are discontent from negative interactions.

• Avoid leaving realms discontent for too long, if you do Devi will have to step in, you'll lose access to the realm. Burned up pages will replace the realm on your roster.

• The more misery your placements cause the lower your own Bliss will drop... Eventually, Devi may have to take you to the lower realms if you're not careful. So, don't forget about your own bliss.

Credits

Ryria - Game Design, Programming
Ayperosia - UI Art, Devi & Peter Characters
Caesarinohs- 'Soul' Character Assets for Randomisation
Finn Talisker Music - Sound Design