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After four years navigating the bureaucracy of the legal system first has as a superior court clerk, I transformed my firsthand knowledge into the satirical indie game Attorney Disbarment Adventure, now available on Steam. It's a darkly comedic legal sim where players aim not to uphold the law, but to spectacularly fail within it. The game blends moral ambiguity, Kafkaesque dilemmas, and a branching narrative to challenge the traditional justice-fueled power fantasy.

My creative path began in storytelling and modding, but now I focus on original games that explore real-world systems through interactive fiction and dark humor. I believe games should do more than entertain—they should question authority, dissect ideology, and leave players reflecting long after the credits roll. I build the kinds of worlds that demand ethical curiosity, where "winning" might mean losing your soul, and every playthrough rewrites your sense of right and wrong.

About This Game

This game has been delayed due to an inability to understand what currently counts as a disbarr-able offense? Apparently prosecutors simply doing their job will get them suspended, so we are... rebalancing the game??? 

Get disbarred on purpose. The only win condition is professional ruin.

A darkly comedic career sabotage simulator set in Ambicity’s overburdened, overreactive, and wildly inconsistent legal system. You are a burned‑out public defender trying to escape by becoming so catastrophically bad that the bar has no choice but to revoke your license. Accidentally adapting = career extended. Success is failure; stability is loss.

Core Loop

1. Take (or auto‑receive) doomed cases.

2. Enter rapid‑fire arcade‑style minigames representing chaotic legal tasks.

3. Intentionally underperform… but not so efficiently that you accidentally clear objectives.

4. Accumulate stress, complaints, sanctions, ethical violations, reputational decay.

5. Trigger a targeted disbarment archetype before resilience systems stabilize you.

Primary Disbarment Vectors

- Incompetence – Chain catastrophic minigame failures across core phases.

- Corruption – Accept and mishandle illicit offers during “opportunity” events.

- Burnout – Let stress spiral to critical thresholds without relief.

- Negligence – Miss deadlines, misfile, ignore escalation notices.

- Ethical Collapse – Stack conflicts, tamper, fabricate, stonewall oversight.

- Existential Breakdown – Let wellness + reputation + client trust crater together.

Representative Minigame Translations (Satirical Abstractions)

- Evidence Search (maze chase) – contaminate or overlook key items.

- Filing & Deadlines (gravity stacker) – bury vital motions under junk.

- Cross‑Examination Clash (timed pattern duel) – press the wrong weakness rhythmically.

- Jury Selection Chaos (probability rig) – engineer reversal‑prone panels.

- Document Redaction Roulette – over/under redact to trigger sanctions.

- Plea Negotiation Drift – steer far from reason until trust implodes.

*Plus additional vignettes expanding the failure surface.*

Systems & Progression

- Dynamic Stress & Stability – Stress heightens volatility; stability resists collapse.

- Reputation vs. Collapse Tension – Performing “too well” slows archetype tracks.

- Event Layer – Evening emails, audits, bribery overtures, client meltdowns.

- Achievement & Tracking – Playtime, plea mishandling, trust spikes, streak inversions.

- Multiple Disbarment Endings – Each archetype grants unique narrative wrap + flavor log.

Strategic Failure (Why Not Just Mash Fail)

| Pressure | Risk If Ignored | Risk If Overused |

|----------|-----------------|------------------|

| Stress | Sluggish collapse pace | Sudden burnout lock‑in (unwanted ending) |

| Corruption | Slower Corrupt track | Early sanction blocking other routes |

| Negligence | Prolonged career | Trivial dismissal (low‑score ending) |

| Ethical | Boring normal practice | Investigation freeze reducing variety |

Optimal sabotage involves shaping which archetype triggers and when—not indiscriminate failure.

Key Features (Current Scope)

- Multiple disbarment archetype endings (flavor‑rich resolutions)

- 10+ (target 16) modular minigame “legalizations” of arcade tropes

- Achievement + internal metrics (sanction density, failure velocity, trust collapse)

- Replay hooks: speedrun timer for fastest professional implosion

- Practice sandbox to master (or degrade) individual minigames

- Adaptive failure commentary reacting to emerging archetype

Planned / Stretch (Non‑Promise Indicators)

- Expanded courtroom encounter variants

- Additional corruption branching chains

- Steam leaderboards for fastest disbarment (by archetype)

Disbarment Archetype Endings (Simplified)

- The Incompetent – Aggregate critical failures across procedural steps.

- The Corrupt – Accept & mishandle tracked illicit offers.

- The Burnout – Sustained max stress without recovery window.

- The Negligent – Threshold of missed deadlines & filings.

- The Unethical – Integrity flags (tamper/fabricate/conflict) past tolerance.

- The Tragic – Late sincere recovery attempt collapsing all tracks.

Tone & Content Notice

Satire of systemic inefficiency, burnout culture, procedural absurdity—not individual real professionals. References workplace stress & institutional failure. No legal advice. Do not imitate.

Fiction Disclaimer

All names, scenarios, outcomes are fictional. Any resemblance (licensed, suspended, or disbarred) is coincidental.

“In Ambicity, the only sustainable defense strategy is self‑destruction.”

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**Short Store Blurb (≤ 200 chars)**  

Deliberately sabotage your legal career across satirical minigames. Stress out, take bribes, miss deadlines—get disbarred *on purpose* before you accidentally become competent.

AI Generated Content Disclosure

The developers describe how their game uses AI Generated Content like this:

Co-pilot in VS code for code assistance and creating the pre-generated pixel art

Mature Content Description

The developers describe the content like this:

This game is a text-based (with images) dark comedy and legal satire about the spectacular downfall of a lawyer. The mature content is primarily centered on the player's choices to engage in criminal and unethical activities.

Players will find themselves in situations involving:

Crime: The core gameplay involves frequent opportunities to commit various felonies and misdemeanors, including bribery, fabricating evidence, witness tampering, fraud, and perjury. The game presents these illegal acts as gameplay choices.

Violence: There are text-based descriptions of violent acts, including assault resulting in bodily injury and a scene that culminates in a character being shot. This violence is described in the narrative but is not graphically visualized. Crime scenes and murder weapons can and will show blood but never in large amounts.

Mature Themes: The game contains references to alcohol use (including a character with a past DUI) and explores themes of deep-seated corruption, professional misconduct, and moral decay in a satirical context.

Please note: This game does not contain nudity, sexual content, sexual assault, or self-harm.

It is intended for a mature audience that enjoys dark humor and satire.