Playing the Layoff Game

by Jordan Yerman | March 19, 2009 at 08:12 am

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The ailing economy has inspired a simple videogame called Layoff. Video games can be simple ways to parse emotion spawned by events that are beyond the control of one person, or even one nation. I'm reminded of the Iraq invasion-inspired Space Invaders knockoff.

You, too, can play, if you haven't already. FUnny enough, it's not the first recession-inspired game, but it has the most depressing title.

You know what I mean.

Similar in style to Bejeweled, Layoff requires players to click on adjacent workers and align them in groups of three or more to lay them off and save the company money. Laid-off workers fall to an unemployment office sitting at the bottom of the screen. Bankers are the only ones exempt from layoffs.