vault-memex/accounting simulator

#ai #nintendo #art

in April 2025 I prompted [[chatgpt]]:

Alright, I want you to make me an image of a Nintendo Entertainment System cartridge with a cover art on it that is very dramatic, similar to what you would see in 1989. And it's going to be called Accounting Simulator. One visual element of the cover art needs to be a person slumped over on their desk who is very upset. You can't see their face because their head is down on the desk. But they're doing that because they're so frustrated. But it's an artistic rendering like a painting on a cover of a 1989 Nintendo game.

and then

Okay, let's make another image, and it's going to be the box that this came in. Usually, Nintendo games came in a box that had more lively art on the box, and it should include this, you know, the image of the person slumped over on the desk near the bottom of the box, but in kind of vignettes in the top and middle of the box should be more action scenes of maybe someone in a fedora holding a pistol pointing at somebody else, you know, someone talking to somebody over a coffee maker, like in an office setting, and various funny, innocuous things as well, and it's still called Accounting Simulator. That should be on the box.

and then finally

Very good, thank you. Now, let's make the back, an image of the back of the box. There should be two screens, one of which, uh, screens meaning a screenshot of the game itself, uh, photographed and set, you know, cropped properly, everything looks very nice, uh, but of the game itself, where, um, on the left one, we see just columns of numbers, and on the right one, um, we see someone able to, they have two choices, they could make more coffee, or clean the coffee maker.

and then I ran all three in a row again in July 2026, with a noticable change in output quality, detail, etc.