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                         O F F I C E   S L A C K E R
                  a stealth slacking simulator -- 48K, 2026
                          a CSSCGC 2026 entry
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  You should be finishing Q1_BUDGET.XLS.
  You are playing PISS IN A PINT instead.
  The boss is on his way.

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LOADING
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  Type LOAD "" and press PLAY. The loading screen appears, then the
  game starts by itself. Runs on any ZX Spectrum 48K/128K or emulator
  (Fuse, ZEsarUX, or jsspeccy.zxdemo.org -- drag the .tap into the
  browser window).

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CONTROLS
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  ENTER ........ start / restart
  P (hold) ..... piss   (only while the pub game is on screen)
  SPACE ........ toggle pub game <-> Excel camouflage

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RULES
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  * Pee only while ALL pub eyes are closed. An open pair of eyes
    catching you mid-stream means BUSTED.
  * The bald boss patrols from the left. When he leans in to peek at
    your monitor, the pub game must NOT be visible. Excel = safe.
    Game = fired.
  * While Excel is up, the pub game is paused: no progress, no risk.
  * Fill the pint -> +1 PINT, level up: more eyes, faster boss.
  * HUD: T time, D drips, P pints, L level, HI best score.

  TIP: the boss telegraphs his peek -- he stops, then leans.
  Learn the rhythm. Greed kills.

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CREDITS
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  Design & direction ........ Lawlord
  Code, pipeline, testing ... Claude (Anthropic)
  Loading screen ............ AI illustration, hand-finished
  Game-within-the-game ...... homage to "Piss in a Pint"
                              by Mat Gubbins (CSSCGC 2015)

  Pure Z80 machine code, ~4.9K, pasmo. Sprites AI-generated and
  converted to 1-bit tiles + attributes by a custom pipeline. Built
  and play-tested entirely inside a scripted emulator harness,
  including a simulated LOAD "" tape run.

  (c) Lawlord, 2026. Freeware -- please share the tape.
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