burst ur bubble!!
This game is best played downloaded.
Play as Bel - a bubble girl with a long-overdue job interview. Can your memorization skills help her ace it?
A cutting-edge job hunting experience.
Controls
- Mouse + Keyboard
Credits
- Mado - Art, Writing, Coding, UI
- Feniks - outline shader and circle bar code
- ZapSplat - SFX
- Edamame88 - BGM
Made for the Global Game Jam 2025.
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Weird thing where no matter what I say, Wanda acts like I said something wrong. "Mention you went to university", so I say "I went to University." and that's wrong for some reason.
Edit: Just played three more times and I'm even more convinced that the good ending in the preview screenshots is fake and this whole game is a one-ending art piece about the hell that is 2025 job interviews.
Yeah, a lot of that was my fault. -_-; When I was coding the keyword system for this game, I accidentally made it case-sensitive. Which is why you might be experiencing what you did.
I guess I'll spoil the gimmick now - but while the other endings are obtainable, Bel will always get rejected from the job. Your performance in the interview will influence Bel's thoughts on how well she did, not the actual results of the interview.
So your comment about it being a piece about 2025 job hunting hell isn't off at all.
The text input doesnt seem to work? or is that intentional. Anyways, very lovely game!
It doesn't work for the web version, but it does work for the downloadable version (which is why I recommend playing that version for the full experience.) I have no idea why it got so finicky there...
Thank you, though!
I like the clean art style and music. The concept is good, I think we're all experiencing that... I'm not able to play though, tried on Chrome and Firefox and both don't let me type in the box the text is immediately deleted as I type.
Thank you! :') I'm glad this game made you feel less alone.
The text input doesn't work for the web version, but it does work for the downloadable version (which is why I recommend playing that version for the full experience.) I tried investigating that glitch for the web version, and I couldn't find any solutions...
as someone in a similar situation as this character (except going on for uh. 4 years at this point? retail hell is eternal) god do i feel this so hard it hurts. thank u for making this, hoping there'll be a light at the end of job hunting misery for anyone reading this
*handshakes* Part time/freelance hell is so real... For me this has been going on for 3 years (and since I graduated from uni), so I really feel you. ;_;
brutally realistic
Ain't that the truth... :') Thank you!
Very fun and a really cool use of Ren'Py! Never seen one that uses a text input system like this before. It took me a few tries to really get how to use it right... the end result each time made me smile. Truly the 2K25 interview experience...
Thank you! I'm glad you got the hang of it after a few tries...
If I had more time, I would've made the instructions a little more obvious - but I'm glad the intended job interview experience came across, haha.