This is a submission for the DEV April Fools Challenge
Choose Your Burnout
The inevitable simulation of modern work culture.
What I Built
I built a game that solves absolutely nothing.
Choose Your Burnout is a dark, choice-based simulation where every path leads to the same destination: a slow, optimized collapse.
You start by selecting your career:
The Corporate Labyrinth
The Disruptive Alchemist (Startup)
The Freelance Mirage
The Academic Basement
The Gig Economy Engine
From there, you make decisions that trade:
Sanity
Sleep
Energy
…for:
Money
Ego
and the illusion of progress
There is no winning state.
Only different versions of “this seemed like a good idea at the time.”
Demo
🔗 Live Demo:
[👉https://chooseyourburnout.netlify.app/]
Code
🔗 GitHub Repository:
[👉 https://github.com/aisyahz/Choose-Your-BurnOut.git]
How I Built It
This project is powered by:
React + Vite – for fast iteration and a clean component structure
Tailwind CSS – for brutalist, high-contrast UI control
Framer Motion (motion/react) – for cinematic transitions, glitches, and subtle tension
SVG + layered rendering – to build the “Digital Mask” face system
The Burnout Engine
At the center of the experience is a reactive face:
A pseudo-3D Digital Mask that evolves based on your stats.
Sleep ↓ → eyes droop and blink irregularly
Sanity ↓ → asymmetry, glitches, red flickers
Energy ↓ → head tilts, movement slows
Ego ↑ → forced, unsettling smile
Money ↓ → structural fragmentation
It doesn’t just display stats.
It becomes them.
Key Features
🧠 The Burnout Engine
A living, degrading face that reacts to every decision.
🧭 Thematic Career Paths
Each path has its own visual and psychological identity:
Corporate → structured, grid-like, suffocating
Startup → chaotic, pulsing, unstable
Freelance → fragmented, isolated
Academic → slow decay, heavy inertia
Gig → fast, repetitive, algorithm-driven
🧪 Premium Glitch Aesthetic
A sculpted dark UI with:
chromatic aberration
flickering overlays
system logs
subtle instability
Everything feels… almost under control.
📸 The Screenshot Weapon
At the end, you receive a final report:
A dramatic “digital eulogy” of your decisions.
Designed to be shared.
Designed to hurt.
The Vibe
Polished.
Cold.
Slightly accusatory.
It looks like a productivity tool.
It behaves like a breakdown.
Why I Built This
I wanted to explore a simple idea:
What if we treated burnout like a system…
and optimized it?
Not to fix it.
Just to measure it. Beautifully.
Prize Category
🎯 Community Favorite
This project is designed to be:
instantly understandable
visually memorable
screenshot-worthy
painfully relatable
Final Line
“You did everything right.”
Productivity: 0%
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