Time-wasting simulators are an odd genre of gaming that I’ve never really understood; I mean surely most games are there to waste time anyway? Angry Birds has caused the loss of more man-hours in the work place than the recession and hangovers combined at this point. A 
game that is itself about wasting time at work, which can itself be played while wasting time at work, seems to cause a never-ending paradox of uselessness in my mind that hurts even to think about it. Only, it would if iSlack was actually interesting enough for me to waste my precious time on it, and believe me, when you have to plan your bowel movements around the gaming industry, your time is bloody precious!
The thought occurred to me to summarise iSlack in a couple of paragraphs and then knock off for lunch, or go and enjoy some fresh air, or go and play something better, but in the end I stuck with the game because of my duty to the industry. And before anyone starts saluting or playing a fanfare whilst waving the Union Jack behind me, I’m not trying to sound like some sort of martyr to any cause. I am, however, in firm belief that it is wrong of videogame journalists to simply slag off some games, in particular iOS titles, in just a couple of hundred words before buggering off to begin gently sucking the delicate under-regions of AAA-rated game developers. So call me what you will, but I will not only explain why iSlack is a truly bad example of a video game, and a time-wasting simulator, but also explain how it could be easily changed into a very good game.
So for those of you interested in just the score, you know where the button is to fast-forward to the end of this review. Those of you with grey matter inside you skull instead of pudding may read on.
iSlack is a game set in an office, where it appears you are the only brightly coloured, fleshed-out stick figure who actually does anything. I don’t know if your particular desk is positioned in the hallway between the main office and the vending machine or something, but you’re on your own kiddo. So while you slave away over a hot spreadsheet, your mind may wander and take you to far off realms, where you can live out your wildest fantas – oh no, my mistake, all you can do a bit of tweeting, silly me! Actually when you decide that Microsoft Office just isn’t as thrilling as it used to be, you can select one of four different options for your figure to take interest in. Kadai Games, developer of iSlack, use their homepage as one of the options your figure can view on his PC monitor, as well as Twitter, appbackr.com and a page that shows off one of their other titles. God bless self-advertisement.
