Comments on: lose/lose

By: Ace Albion

Ace Albion — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 09:01:03 +0000

“only move is to not play”

I had this realization years ago while struggling with XCom. I discovered that the alien threat vanished if I just never played the game again.

By: Rohan

Rohan — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 06:42:23 +0000

While the "only move is to not play" trappings is somewhat interesting, the idea of using a game to interact with the underlying computer system has been done before, and done better. Doom as a tool for system administration (1999)

By: Michael Dickens

Michael Dickens — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 02:52:11 +0000

This is a clever experiment. I am not going to play this, but if I were to, I would create millions of empty files and completely fill my hard drive with them.

How can this game get permission to delete files?

By: Andy Havens

Andy Havens — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 13:25:04 +0000

Reminds me of the game we invented years ago called “Megaball.” Two teams of at least 100 people meet at the center of a large field, surrounding a giant, inflated, leather ball 50′ across. They push the ball back-and-forth across the field until one team quits. First team to quit wins.

The all-time world champion Megaball team is the Brazilian “Chupax,” who never even actually formed a team.

By: William

William — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 23:26:25 +0000

This is, of course, why we invented virtual machines.

By: Ola Fosheim Grøstad

Ola Fosheim Grøstad — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 21:11:13 +0000

Not all that different from those games where you get to suffer from physical pain (electro-shock) then?

By: Bryan Suchenski

Bryan Suchenski — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 20:26:58 +0000

That’s…wow.

The problem here is, I don’t think the game actually brings up the kind of questions it thinks it does, because the only people who will actually play it are ones who for one reason or another don’t mind files on their computer being destroyed. Since there are thousands of Space Invaders style games out there, it’s not like it’s providing a unique experience that tempts you to destroy your files, and it’s not like there’s some point to playing the game and not shooting at the aliens – destroying your files is entirely what the game is about.

Now, if the game were, say, an in-depth RPG where certain elements of a complex story would only be revealed if I were willing to destroy random files on my computer, then at least I would have a real choice to make.

By: LSK

LSK — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 20:01:52 +0000

I’m genuinely worried that the program could be distributed without warnings and used as malware. It’s a fun concept, but a game I’d never want to play.

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By: Enno

Enno — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 17:52:20 +0000

This is the last game everyone should be playing at work after getting made redundant.