It is as if you were doing work
Sort of ironic that the Windows 95 aesthetic is simultaneously both comforting and familiar (vaporwave), and full of dread and ennui (Dilbert, Office Space).
What do you do for a living? Oh, I'm an about dialog-operator for a few years now and the work really suits me.
Repeatedly opening dialogs from the desktop allows to gain work unit points even during breaks. What. A. Madness.
"Please Login with you work credentials"... never saw someone putting so much work into a phising website ;D
This evokes such a broad array of emotions. Nostalgia, despair, mirth, appreciation, existential puzzlement.
I found something about this comforting: it shows me dialogs that focus only on the thing that needs my attention, without having to load an entire app with its associated branding. I actually prefer these types of popups to what I deal with now: slack notifications (requires me to open slack first), mail notifications (requires me to open mail), our custom admin app notifications (same). Apps have become first class citizens and the content they operate on have taken a backseat. I'd like to think of these dialogs as the GUI equivalent of Unix pipes.
I kept holding down a key in the email boxes thinking the story was going somewhere...but then I looked at the source and it turns out each sentence is randomly picked from an array of inspirational sentences.
Not sure what this does. All I see is a grey screen on my iPad.
Ah! This is classic, wonder if this is based on the old flash game...
Busy work and responding to stuff as it comes in so you don't have to figure out what you should be doing. A simulation is worth a thousand words.
I have no idea what I'm doing. Screens appear and I have to click on things... Another day in the office then.
Also, loving the hip hop music loop.
Finally, a sense of purpose! Can we add this to UBI somehow?
Loved it, 9/10. Only loss of points caused by the available game not being minesweeper or solitaire.
Here's more about how this came about:
https://github.com/pippinbarr/itisasifyouweredoingwork/tree/...
Reminds me a lot of the "job simulator" game on oculus.
Very well done!
To all the people out there (not this thread necessarily) for whom this resembles their daily work - CHANGE IT NOW! Go create value. And of course, not only in the monetary sense. Solve problems. Be proud of what you have accomplished.
If I never acknowledged the 3D display popup then it would let me type forever and get promoted without doing anything else.
Does it ever end? I was starting to get flashbacks to the real world times I'd be typing mid-sentence and some mystery dialog would appear for a nanosecond, grab my spacebar entry, and then take that as permission to go do... something, so I had to quit. (I'm amazed Microsoft hasn't managed to do something about that issue for going on three decades now...)
This is very cool and very well done. The dialogs are perfect.
However, did anyone else get a bug where the breakout game would no longer destroy the bricks?
My own self-directed minigame within the game was to try to get on top of the brick wall before my "break" ended and the whole thing was less fun after that bug.
Way too accurate for comfort.
This captures the constant sense of being interrupted with senseless/out of context requests I have in my day job, and reminds me why I sorely miss doing engineering.
The only way it could be more realistic is if some of those texts were PowerPoints.
Crowdsourced random number generator?
Finally, I've found my purpose.
Supposed to be doing actual work, ended up getting to Computation Administrator in this.
still made more sense than jira
showed this to my 8 year old, he's taking it very seriously haha
I really enjoy hearing all the old Windows 95 sound effects again.
In only 30 seconds I wanted to punch my screen. Well done!
Hmm, just a gray screen here. I allowed Javascript and even permitted it to read canvas data. Does this only work on some specific browser?
Does it deliberately not work on Safari?
My companies name showed up in one of the dialog boxes and it kinda messed me up... Well done!
immediately addictive. can i turn off the tasks and just play pong? can i reduce the number of emails to send? i don't like smashing on my laptop keyboard in order to keep up.
My real-life break reminder ended, and the in-game one started.
So realistic!
I have a report to work on, and this just took over my life.
Thanks!
Bullshit Job Simulator 2020.
Absolutely great!
Lol this IS art.
absolutely terrifying 10/10
Fired up this and conferencecall.biz
Now this is corporate horror!
i clicked thinking this would help me slack off and look like i was working. Guess this is what a "free candy van" is like.
absolutely terrifying 10/10
Reminds me of the (very fun!) cooperative game SpaceTeam[0], where you have to complete an ever-increasing set of fanciful space-themed actions on a little control panel on your phone. The fun part there is that some of the actions require you to tell someone else to complete an action on their phone, so games always involve frantic shouting to your teammates. Lots of fun
[0] - https://spaceteam.ca/