TurboMonkeyAFTER HOURS / ARCADE 001
A VERY NORMAL DAY IN AI.
ONE FEATURE. ONE DEADLINE. UNLIMITED EXCUSES.

SHIP OR RESET.™*

Big tech. Small platforms. Very real deadlines.
Get the feature out before EOD.
The princess has her finger on the button.

THE DAILY SHIP01 / HYPE VALLEY
FEATURE BITS00 / 12
WILL TO SHIP♥ ♥ ♥
UNTIL EOD02:00
VIBE BURST Q
CLASSIFIED // YOUR FIRST DAY AS THE SHIP GUY

SHIP OR
RESET.

You made a promise on the internet.
That was your first mistake.

3 chapters · unlimited retries · one very large reset button
COMPANY LEAKS“A clear improvement” is doing a lot of work in this sentence.RESETS: 00
ALL BUGS ARE FICTIONAL. THE PRESSURE IS NOT.PERSONAL BEST: —
←→SPACE

Keep moving. Keep shipping.

Move + double jump. Mind the reset pits.
Falling is a community benefit.

XTHROW PATCHES

Fix it in production.

Hold to fire. Jump on rivals, too.
Their projectiles are less helpful.

EREQUEST REVIEW

LGTM. Didn’t read it.

Ask an engineer for +3 feature bits.
Reach the deploy gate with enough bits.

QVIBE BURST

Let the agent handle it.

Full meter? Clear the room.
Espresso gives 7 seconds of immunity.

THE ROADMAP / SUBJECT TO REALITY
01 / THE MORNING STANDUP

Hype Valley

The competition shipped while you were in a meeting.

02 / WORKS ON MY MACHINE

Eval Hell

99% on the benchmark. 0% on the actual task.

03 / ONE MORE GPU, BRO

Compute Castle

A leather jacket. A monopoly on your afternoon.

EMPLOYEE ONBOARDING / PLEASE ACTUALLY READ

Your deadline is a boss fight.

You are T.B., the Ship Guy, a fictional engineer at a very secret AI company. Build a feature before EOD. If you die or run out of time, the Princess of Usage hits RESET.

A / D or ← / → move. Space / ↑ / W jump. Release and press again in the air for a double jump.

X throws unlimited patches. You can also jump on rivals. E asks a nearby engineer for review (+3 bits). Patches can get their attention too.

Q uses a full Vibe Burst meter to damage nearby rivals and collect reviews. Feature bits refill the meter.

Collect enough bits to unlock each deploy gate. Espresso heals and gives seven seconds of immunity. Green save terminals are checkpoints. Defeat The Jacket and his flying graphics cards to open the final gate.

P / Esc pauses the game and deadline. R requests a reset. Retry refills the timer and restores checkpoint progress. Enter / Space continues or retries; on touch screens, use ↥.