COWorker

COWorker is a 2D clicker game in which players act as the cow's co-worker, helping it produce the products needed and maintain its vital signs, but beneath its minimalist mechanics lies a critique of contemporary workplace exploitation and gendered labor In game, the interface displays three constantly decreasing bars: Nutrition, Milk Yield, and Labor. Each bar represents a quantified demand placed upon the cow, calculated strictly through percentages. Nutrition must be replenished to prevent collapse, Milk Yield must be optimized to meet invisible expectations, and Labor reflects the cow’s capacity to continue working without failure. If players hesitate in any of these bars, the bars steadily decline. The game offers no pause, only intervention or deterioration.

This is a student project from Northeastern University 

Made by: Binghe Yi, Caiyi Shen, Yizhang Li, Yuxuan Chen, Zesheng Chen