‘Pocket Boss’ Turns Firm Knowledge Into Playful Puzzles

Pocket Boss wants you to fiddle with pie charts, line charts, and different office knowledge to make the corporate look good.

You’re a distant employee whose job entails taking details about the corporate’s productiveness, worker happiness, earnings, and different issues and turning them into useful charts that make it straightforward to see how properly the enterprise is doing. The difficulty is that the enterprise isn’t doing that nice, so when these numbers are laid out correctly, so that you’ll have to tweak issues a bit with the intention to undertaking the picture of success that your boss is searching for.

Fortunately, fudging the numbers is playful and enjoyable. If the column chart exhibiting your earnings is a bit low, you may all the time seize a column and yank it up a little bit bit. In case your pie chart isn’t making your employees look particularly happy with their office surroundings, you may squish that little part of unhappiness down in order that traders might be happier together with your “outcomes”. That stated, there are a few little twists to adjusting these charts that may carry some much-needed humor to enterprise knowledge. Generally that part of the pie chart simply gained’t tolerate you messing with it and also you’ll have to put some effort into chasing it down. The columns would possibly get a little bit lengthy and floppy should you make your earnings look far too good. And your boss will be sure to hear about it when you flip in your outcomes. However given how a lot you’re instructed to lie concerning the enterprise, neither of you’ll most likely be working for lengthy.

Pocket Boss took one thing I figured woul be interminably uninteresting – firm knowledge sheets – and created some charming, humorous puzzles out of it. It’s pretty quick, too, making it a large enchancment general on creating enterprise knowledge sheets and tables.

Pocket Boss is out there now on the App Retailer, Google Play, itch.io, and Steam.

About The Creator

Joel Couture

Joel has been protecting indie video games for numerous websites together with IndieGames.com, Siliconera, Gamasutra, Warp Door, CG Journal, and extra over the previous seven years, and has written book-length research on Undertale and P.T.. Joel is continually looking out for digital experiences that push the boundaries of what video games could be, and seeks to delve into the artistic course of, meanings, and emotion labor that goes into the work of artists worldwide.