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I made a short web game where you are an office worker with imposter syndrome working your way up the career ladder. The goal is not to get found out as an imposter. It's made using LLMs so please expect hallucinations/weird formatting/duplicate responses and other quirks.


I made a short, tongue-in-cheek choose your own adventure game about being the CEO of an animal products company.


As a thing to raise awareness of unethical farming I really like it, but as a game it’s a little lame.

Every red option is a big game over, no reason (as a player) to click them. (Which is very on brand)

Pretty funny, but won’t have me coming back.

11/10


Thank you! Appreciate the feedback.

Your point regarding the game being lame is fair. Though as you probably realized as well, the intent wasn't to make the most fun game, but to get people to think about the animal industry.

I could try making it more of a game however I expect the message won't be as clear.


No, you’re absolutely right! It makes sense that every alternate path leads to failure.

The message is very clear, I was just poking some fun.


Maybe it doesn't recognize my language settings but it'd be nice if your website would be in my local language to show off that it works.


Which language? Our site/dashboard supports 15 or so languages, as do our accessory apps/tools. Still working on our docs though, which are only in 2 languages...

It's a huge pet peeve of mine when translation services aren't themselves fully translated, and I see it a surprising amount ahaha


It should switch to the appropriate language based on your browser settings. If you're in Chrome, make sure that in Settings > Languages, your language is at the top of the list.


Maybe there's just no Dutch translation? I just put it at the top. Restarted Chrome but the page is still in English.


I've been trying to work on things that aren't necessarily economically valuable but that are on my mind and I want to share.

For example, a carbon footprint calculator that pokes fun at the idea of the individual being to blame for climate change. https://a.mancato.nl/climate-calculator

And after seeing my dad struggle to find stuff online because he was seeing so many ads, I made an adblocker ad. https://a.mancato.nl/adblock


Fun calculator. A little noisy to make its points, but "You could die right now and Shell could continue operating for 6 seconds longer with the carbon you saved" is a powerful statement.

I wasted so much energy in my most vigorous years trying to make decisions that literally don't matter at all and felt so important. I could have been building skills to influence policy instead, but the sustainability movement was bamboozled pretty hard.


Thank you for the feedback. I'm still looking for the right tone and length since I want it to be factual and understandable yet also as concise as possible. I'll have another look to see if I can improve it.

Makes me think of adding a big quote + Tweet this element to the page. E.g:

    "I could die right now and Shell could continue operating for 6 seconds longer with the carbon I saved" 
- Tweet this

Though maybe a bit too on the nose haha.


The climate calculator is absolute genius! I instantly had to share it with my friends.


The ad blocker slider is clever and well laid out; neat.


Love it! :-D In the World of opinions, including Data sources adds a really nice touch to it, too.


The calculator results page gave me a good dark laugh, thanks for making it! Good writing!


I was fed up with long, search-optimized introductions for online recipes and decided to make a page with recipes that have infinite introductions:

https://a.mancato.nl/recipe

It uses WebLLM so I don't have to pay/send data to an AI provider.


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