History VideoGame / StickyBusiness

* DidNotGetTheGirl: [[spoiler:David tries asking his crush out by gifting her the stickers his dad bought from your store. However, she only likes him as a friend, but David is fine with hanging out with her platonically, anyway, and even gifts her more stickers for her birthday.]]

''Sticky Business'' is a {{casual|VideoGame}} business SimulationGame developed by Spellgarden Games and published by Assemble Entertainment. Originally conceived in a 3-week Game Jam, it was released in full on July 17, 2023 on Steam.

** In ''Plan With Me'', Anja F. used to be an artist 40 years ago, but she gave up her passion to work as a caregiver. She orders watercolor stickers from you for some inspiration to cure her artist's block. [[spoiler:Even after quitting her job, she still feels lost, but she realizes that she hasn't been taking care of herself, so she orders more stickers from you to cheer herself up. At the end, she sends you a drawing of herself along with a cat representing you as thanks for motivating her.]]

* ViolationOfCommonSense: One way to increase the EXP gained from selling stickers is to add more stickers not part of the order. In real life, this is a dark marketing pattern called "sneaking into basket", which [[https://www.interaction-design.org/literature/topics/sneaking-into-basket illegal according to the European Commission.]]

* VideoGamePerversityPotential: {{Defied|Trope}} when the devs announced in the Spellgarden Games Discord Server that they won't be adding individual letters as sticker elements to prevent people from spelling inappropriate words in their stickers. However, there's no stopping them from using other sticker parts to make such content...

** In ''Plan With Me'', Anja F. used to be an artist 40 years ago, but she gave up her passion to work as a caregiver. She orders watercolor stickers from you for some inspiration to cure her artist's block. [[spoiler:Even after quitting her job, she still feels lost, but she realizes that she hasn't been taking care of herself, so she orders more stickers from you to cheer herself up. At the end, she sends you a drawing of herself along with cat representing you as thanks for motivating her.]]

* BlandNameProduct: One of the gaming sticker parts you can collect is the [[UsefulNotes/NintendoGameCube Guerrilla Collective.]]

** If a special customer requests a sticker with words on it, you need to use the pre-made words from the text section of the upgrade shop in order to progress their storyline. Spelling them out yourself with other sticker parts doesn't count.

** If a special customer requests a sticker with words on it, you need to use the pre-made words from the text section of the upgrade shop in order to progress their storylines. Spelling them out yourself with other sticker parts doesn't count.

* GameplayAndStorySegregation: The amount of in-game time taken to make a sticker is the same no matter how long in real time you actually take to create it; whether you slap on a few sticker parts or take a real-world hour designing an intricate sticker, it'll always consume the same-sized segment in the timer.