‘A Firm Handshake’ Captures the Anxieties of Shaking Hands

A Agency Handshake simply desires you to stroll as much as somebody and shake fingers. Which must be quite a bit simpler than it’s, right here.

Not that it comes up as a lot today, however a handshake could possibly be an actual supply of concern and fear for a lot of of us, myself included. Handshakes could be key in touchdown interviews or making a primary impression on somebody you met. With a lot stress, it feels form of unfair that they will go so fallacious as nicely. Have you ever ever gotten your grip fallacious and solely managed to seize a little bit of palm or their fingers. Then you definately’re simply form of stuff shaking a bit of their hand, each of you KNOWING that that is rubbish? However you’re simply caught going via with it, as a result of for some motive you all simply settle for that when the handshake begins, you may’t regulate or restart it

This recreation is all about that concern of one thing messing up your handshake. Generally, you simply can’t discover somebody to shake your hand, of us speeding away from you to shake another person’s hand as you wrestle to make these very important handshake enterprise connections. Perhaps you need to shake fingers proper after getting up, making that impression once you’re half asleep. Worse, what if sumo wrestlers tried to cease you from shaking that boss’ hand? One thing is at all times making hassle for that handshake, however you’ve received to see it via.

Foolish as it’s, A Agency Handshake makes use of that absurdity to seize a number of the odd issues that go right into a handshake, and all the energy and communication that’s anticipated to enter it. It’s such a unusually necessary gesture, and it’s good to see it explored with a little bit levity.

A Agency Handshake is obtainable now (for no matter you want to pay for it) on itch.io.