Office Slacker

OFFICE SLACKER is a game about playing a game when you really, really should not be — a game-within-a-game for the ZX Spectrum 48K.

You're at work. You should be finishing Q1_BUDGET.XLS. Instead, on your office CRT, you're secretly playing the pub "classic" Piss in a Pint: a tiny barman relieves himself into a pint glass — strictly while the patrons' eyes are shut. Open eyes mid-stream? BUSTED.

That alone would be a perfectly stupid game. But your bald boss patrols the floor and every so often leans in to inspect your monitor. You have a split second to hit SPACE and summon a convincing Excel spreadsheet. He watches. He hmms. He leaves. You switch back — the pint won't fill itself. Two simultaneous don't-get-caught loops, one chair, zero productivity.

Every completed pint raises the level: more eyes at the bar, a faster, twitchier boss. Fill pints, dodge the boss, post a high score — in the proud CSSCGC tradition of magnificently pointless software.

Features

• Meta-game / game-within-a-game — a pub mini-game hidden inside a fake spreadsheet
• Two layers of stealth: the pub eyes AND the patrolling boss
• Hit SPACE to "alt-tab" to Excel camouflage; the pub game pauses while hidden
• Escalating difficulty: more eyes, faster boss with every pint
• Pure Z80 machine code, ROM beeper sfx, full loading screen; 48K (128K compatible)

Controls (keyboard)
ENTER — start / restart · hold P — piss (only while the pub game is on screen) · SPACE — toggle pub game ↔ Excel camouflage
HUD: T time · D drips · P pints · L level · HI best score. Tip: the boss telegraphs his peek — learn the rhythm, greed kills.

How to run: download the .tap and load it in any ZX Spectrum 48K/128K emulator (Fuse, ZEsarUX), or drag it into jsspeccy at jsspeccy.zxdemo.org. Free — a CSSCGC 2026 entry, released as a playable beta.