Two Hours: My phone is a distraction ☎

“forever grateful to family, friends, writers, and all the subtle influences that guide us.”

You spend almost all everyday doom scrolling whilst daydreaming, leaving you each day with only about 2 hrs. to seriously get things done with your exams are coming up.

To all the chronically onliners / slash / procrastinators…I see youuuu :index_pointing_at_the_viewer::index_pointing_at_the_viewer::index_pointing_at_the_viewer::index_pointing_at_the_viewer::index_pointing_at_the_viewer::index_pointing_at_the_viewer::index_pointing_at_the_viewer::index_pointing_at_the_viewer:.
LOL, this is one of the projects I have been working on. The idea kinda made me laugh a little, anyway…


SYNOPSIS
Freshly graduated from highschool. You manage to get accepted into an extended program for learners who hadn’t quite met the minimum academic requirements to enroll into college and must now take an exam from the comforts of your home , to determine whether or not you are truly worthy to walk through these halls.

Will you manage to study enough to pass the examination , with only two hours to spare everyday?? Or will you fall into more distractions and ruin your opportunity to receive a higher qualification??

The word count, is currently shy of 10K (I thought I would have been further by now)

I also plan to upload at least weekly, even if it is just a few hundred words.

Last update: 13 Feb 2026

The demo is currently available at: Cogdemos as aswell as on itchio.

Would appreciate any feedback on grammar, badly placed sentences or anything that stood out to you

Arigatou, hope you enjoy

THEME SONGS:

BLURB

While writing this, I often found myself replaying an interview I saw of George Orwell … especially when my intrusive thoughts go straight for the win: why would I write about this specific topic/theme? What if people don’t really like it? You have to be deeper with your writing.

And as common as these questions are to people who attempt to write something, the interview provided me with a perspective that often calms me…due to how I interpreted it; “Writing is mostly about capturing your own individual experiences, some of those experiences might be mundane and others might be profound.”

Anyway here is the interview segment that stood out for me:



INTERVIEWER: What made you dream up writing 1984?

GEORGE ORWELL: I do not think one can assess a writer’s motives without knowing something about his early development. His subject matter, will be determined by the age at which he lives. but before he ever begins to write, he will have acquired an emotional attitude from which he will never completely escape.

I don’t know many times I rewatched this…


LOL, AND ALSO WHILE INTERNET SURFING. I CAME ACROSS A LOT OF THEME-RELATED MEMES. THAT I FEEL LIKE CAPTURE SOME OF THE FEELINGS. HERE ARE A FEW (…I want to claim that I got these while doing research but I really just be out here scrolling… :sleepy_face::sleepy_face::sleepy_face::sleepy_face::sleepy_face::sleepy_face::sleepy_face::sleepy_face::sleepy_face: ) :

[COMPLETED WIP]: IM SINGLE SINCE YOU LEFT :women_s_room:

MY OTHER WIP(S):

----> Short Stories For Boys
-—> City Girl
-—> A Surreall World
----> The King’s Viens
----> Love Gene
----> The Queen’s Pawn
----> Dark Secrets Of The Elites

AI Disclosure:

No — This project does not contain the output of Generative AI
Yes — This project contains the output of Generative AI

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It’s a bit short but interesting. I’m looking forward to read more :heart:

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ARIGATOU GOZAIMASU !! ! !! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! :dizzy::dizzy::dizzy::dizzy::dizzy::dizzy::dizzy::dizzy:

Right!? Honestly the branching makes it feel like I wrote alot and been planning to update but these past few days, I have been shamefully scrolling through instagram alot because I sorta convinced myself that its for research :weary_face::weary_face::weary_face::weary_face::weary_face::weary_face::weary_face::weary_face: :person_facepalming: :person_facepalming: :person_facepalming: :person_facepalming: :person_facepalming: :person_facepalming: :person_facepalming: BUT UPDATE SERIOUSLY COMING SOOOOOOOON #hosh :face_with_steam_from_nose::face_with_steam_from_nose::face_with_steam_from_nose::face_with_steam_from_nose::face_with_steam_from_nose::face_with_steam_from_nose::face_with_steam_from_nose:

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Hahaha, don’t be sorry, take your time enjoying life :smiley: (Hopefully the Instagram posts were interesting :laughing:)

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too funny, mate….:rofl:

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LOL, Arigatou … You are far too kind… Hope you are also taking time to enjoy life :sparkles::sparkles::sparkles::sparkles::sparkles::sparkles::sparkles::sparkles:

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Lol, I am not even going to ask what part it is, to save myself the embarrassment of explaining why I decided to write that scene. I shall however, offer my THANKS… :rightwards_hand: :leftwards_hand:

I know I personally find the idea of using a phone to play a game about phone being distracting highly amusing.

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WAS LITERALLY THINKING THIS, some days back. (felt like a comedian the entire day)

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