Greetings, valued employees,
Whilst we’re working hard on CorpoNation: The Sorting Process we wanted to share some of the things you can expect in your lifelong assignment at Ringo.
We’ve been putting together a series of developer diaries to give you a brief rundown of what your future career at Ringo’s CorpoNation will look like. In this first developer diary, it seems only fitting to talk about the pinnacle of your life at Ringo: WORK.
Welcome to the Ringo CorpoNation
You play as Max, a new worker starting their first day of a lifelong assignment in the Ringo CorpoNation, a product manufacturing company that started the world’s first Corporately owned state, aka a CorpoNation.
Ringo employees are also Ringo citizens, or citizen-employees, living and working their whole lives under the watchful eye of their employer. We’ve taken inspiration from Company towns, tech giants and the intrusive behaviour of modern-day employers who encroach on the private lives of their workers.
As you continue through your life at Ringo, you may ask yourself, why am I doing this? Why does anyone work anywhere? What do you get from your job? Ultimately, you work in the CorpoNation because you were born in the CorpoNation, but you may come across other citizen-employees that make you challenge this assumption.
The Daily Grind
It’s your job to sort samples in the Genome Sector. To sort a sample, pick it up and drag it to the correct tube. It may appear to be a simple task at first, but to know where to put each sample, you will need strong memory skills (or good note-taking!).
Why are you sorting the samples? That’s below your pay grade, for now.
Like with any job, Genome Sector workers have access to an employee handbook. However, this one may actually be useful! Consult it to learn about different sample types, sorting methods and to check up on your daily tasks. If you get really stuck, make use of the Ringo Helper, your friendly corporate guide. He can spot when you’ve made an error, but you can also ask him anything if you’re unsure.
Your Manager
Your Manager is your main point of contact for work tasks and updates. Be sure to check your emails as they will be the first to know whenever something changes in the sector. It’s their job to make sure you’re putting in 110%.
The Ringo CorpoNation has a special love for management hierarchy and you will have the opportunity to celebrate and show deference to your manager.
Over time, your manager will change the rules for sample sorting to match your skills and meet company quotas. It’s not just a sample’s appearance you have to worry about. As you progress, you will be asked to categorise them using extra information and process them using mechanisms on your workstation. You will develop work-based knowledge that no one outside of your sector can understand, but it will make you a better employee!
If you sort a sample incorrectly, you will not only lose out on valuable credits, but your paycheck will be docked. Make sure to follow the rules carefully! If you struggle to keep up with your duties as a citizen-employee, your Manager will reprimand you. Be sure not to let them down.
Performance reviews & promotions!
The CorpoNation eliminated the ineffectual weekend a long time ago. What’s more productive than working all day, every day, with no break and no holiday?
Despite this, the joys of the end of a work-week still remain in the Ringo CorpoNation. On each Day 5 after your shift ends, you will be subject to a performance review. Here your Manager will assess your accuracy and speed, and either reward or penalise you based on your overall sample sorting. You will receive a star rating for the week but this isn’t the only thing your Manager pays attention to.
If you worked hard enough and met the criteria, you will be promoted. Getting promoted in the CorpoNation will get you a bonus and a pay rise, so work hard to work your way up.
As you work your way up the corporate ladder, the CorpoNation will grant you access to new features. A powerful example is COFFEE, which (just like in real life) increases your productivity and burns away sleep, allowing you to pause the clock during your shift.
Another feature you can unlock is an oldie but a goody, Solitaire! Expand your evening’s gaming options on your home desktop computer and where you can practise dexterity for sample-sorting.
That's all for now, but we hope you enjoyed learning more about your work life at the RIngo CorpoNation. We’ll talk more about the joys of your home life in the next developer diary! In the meantime, work hard.
If you can’t wait to play CorpoNation we have a spoiler-free prologue available to play free on Steam.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2410980/CorpoNation_The_Prologue/
People often tell us that they’re already working for the CorpoNation in real life. We’d love to hear about some of your corporate horror stories! You can share them with us and get other updates and exclusives in our [url= https://discord.gg/xWAeeah8dS]Discord[/url].
