If you’re looking for some inspiration, might I suggest the Orz?
Weird talking fish aliens whose language can’t always be properly translated. Replacing more alien concepts with words like happy*, frumple*, etc.
Part of the fun would be to determine if being called a happy* camper* is a good or a really bad thing.
Prompt:arcade fighting game, character selection screen, beauty versus beast, holding up fist, angry looks, 16-bit graphics, underneath beauty the text "BEAUTY" is written, underneath beast the text "BEAST" --ar 3:2
They had to cut down the company from 15 to 8 employees due to a big client leaving.
I was one of those seven that needed to go. But one of those that got to stay had a year long sabbatical planned and decided to take it earlier. This allowed me to stay, but I only got to hear this about a week or two before I had to go.
I already had some second job interviews planned and attended these anyway for fun. I wasn’t rude, but definitely a lot more casual than your usual applicant :)
That used to be my slacking off game at my first real job. I'd ssh into my computer at home and sneakily play Nethack whenever I got bored. Either that or browse websites with Links.
This was around 2007 and way outside my comfort zone as far as computers were concerned. I felt like such a hacker at the time :)
Looks like I won! But I'm a bit out of ideas right now.
So if @merde@sh.itjust.works is ok with it, I would like to pass the honor of thinking up the next challenge on to him.
Sorry, you are right, I should be more clear on when I post the voting post.
It depends a little on when I have access to my computer, but I always try to create the voting post on Saturday evening (CET). Mostly so people can vote over the weekend and we can have a new challenge at the beginning of the week.
But then again, I can imagine people would like to have the Saturday to create an entry since a lot of people are busy during the weekdays.
What do you (and everyone else) think? Is a deadline of Saturday evening or Sunday evening better?
But if you still want, you're most welcome to post your entry here if you like. I'd love to see it :)
There’s a free open source version you can download at http://theurquanmasters.com/