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| Internal name | JobGame |
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| Part of | The Jackbox Party Pack 8 |
| Game type | Writing |
| Hosted by | M. Bubbles |
| Number of players | 3-10 |
| Game duration | 20 Minutes |
| Languages | English |
| Genre | Party |
| Director | Brooke Breit |
| Producer | Laura La Vito |
| Website | jackboxgames.com |
| File:Red quip with construction helmet.svg | HEADS UP! This page is under construction. |
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| Pardon our dust—not all information is available. |
Job Job is a party video game and one of five games featured in The Jackbox Party Pack 8.
Gameplay
Every player is prompted to first write verbose answers to icebreaker questions on their device, with a 5-word minimum. There will be three icebreakers to be answered in the first round, later rounds will have different prompts and one less icebreaker apiece.
During the writing phases, the audience can also make custom motivational pictures by picking an image and filling in a blank with a pre-written sentence. These pictures will then appear in the game.
Once all icebreakers have been submitted, two separate prompts will show up on the device's screen along with three other players' icebreaker answers, with all words and symbols (like dots, commas, etc.) dissected from the original text. The player can then use these words (along with words from the actual question itself) to 'construct' a response to the prompts given to them.
After all players submit their responses to their respective prompts, the game will show one of the prompts along with two submitted answers to them (in a "Quiplash"-styled fashion) of which the other players and audience members will vote for their favorite.
When everyone's votes are in, the winner of the round will earn the bigger percentage of the points depending on how many people voted for their answer; the players who got their words featured on the winning answer will get 50 points per word used. If the player who arranged the winning answer managed to use words from all three of the players' answers, they'll also be able to receive a 50-point "Rainbow Bonus". If they manage to sweep all the votes, Bubz's arms will turn golden and water will spray out of them, with the text Synergy at the bottom, and they get all the points.
The second round works pretty much the same as the first, but with more office-related prompts.
The third and final round consists of two separate personal statements (like "I LOVE [blank]" and "I HATE [blank]," for example) of which the player has to complete the sentences with the words on their device.
Once all three rounds have concluded, the final scoreboard is shown, with the player with the most votes officially joining the team, as well as M. Bubz firing someone right after.
During the game's credits, the full answers who've been used the most throughout all the answers in the game will be shown at the bottom left side of the screen, along with the amount of times their words have been used.
In the game's overview, one can buy shirts containing players' answers in the game.
Development
Trivia
- Whilst players are typing and answering their prompts, some animations will happen in the background:
- Most of these will include Bubz doing some weird activities: like kitting yarn, vomiting into a flower pot, among others. But some other animations will contain other animate inanimate objects: like the table eating a computer mouse, part of the wallpaper ripping to show a disembodied beating heart on the inside, among others.
- Other animations also include retuning characters from other Jackbox titles, like a robot from Mad Verse City and Chuck Hull from Joke Boat, to name a few.
- During the icebreaker-answering part of the second round, Bubz will always answer a miscellaneous phone call from an employee.
- If you manage to win with an answer using all of the words from only one player, Bubz will personally call you out for being unoriginal.
- If a player doesn't submit anything for their answer, it'll be replaced with one that explicitly shows the player didn't submit an answer.
Gallery
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The main menu screen for Job Job. -
The lobby screen for Job Job. -
Bubz waiting for players to finish their responses -
Regular gameplay answer reveal -
Unanimous vote, AKA a "synergy" -
Bubz's love of coins -
Bubz relaxing in a hammock -
Win screen at the end of the game
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