Was It Worth It?

Game Tutorial and other stuff:

Dopamine

• This mechanic dictates how efficiently you get work done. At more than 50% dopamine, you work twice as quickly. At 0%, you stare at the screen blankly and get nothing done.
• Dopamine passively decreases. This passive decrease increases the more you vape. It also temporarily increases while working.

Random events:

• Every ten seconds, a notification will pop up in the chat box to the left. Clicking on it will open a chat with either a vaping or gaming event.
• Notifications do not appear while working.

Vaping

• One of your friends might ask if you want to go out vaping.
• Accepting the offer will grant a large dopamine boost, but at a cost of decreasing your dopamine quicker.
• The dopamine gain diminishes the more you vape.

Gaming

• Some other friends who are into gaming might ask if you want to hop on with them.
• Accepting this offer will give a modest dopamine boost, at the cost of not being able to work during that time. You can’t work while vaping as well, so not take a little break to play a little bit?

Working

• This is the main victory condition. You must complete all your work (get the work bar to 100%) by pressing the WORK button in the bottom left corner before the 5 minutes are up.
• The WORK button is disabled while gaming or vaping.
• As said above, you work better the more dopamine you have.
• Working increases the dopamine decrease by +2.
• The game ends instantly when you finish your work.

Final score:

• It is based on the average dopamine throughout the game plus the work done, subtracted by how many times you vaped (times ten).
• You are insane if your score is above 170.

Other tips:

• Try playing the game multiple times with different strategies to get the full experience.

Credits:

• Background music is “Mental Genius” by Pix. Available on YouTube: Mental Genius
• Sound effects made using jsfxr
  
• Pixel font is CG pixel 4x5. Available here: CG pixel 4x5 | FontStruct