Designer Leaves Board Game in Desert for Future Players

[Beautiful End]

A Game for Someone, also known as Kingdom Hearts 3.

But really, I don't know if this is a good idea at all. Who's gonna care about a game in about 2000 years for now? Heck, who's gonna bother to try and find a game when it's gonna take at least 20 lifetimes to find it. What, is it made of gold and unicorns? Does it contain the secrets of the universe? I don't think so. So instead, I'll just go to GS and preorder Battlefield 4 or something, wait a couple of months and play it. THAT I can handle.

Wait, what if someone creates a device in the next couple of years to find it in less than 2000 years?

PLOT TWIST!

 

[dagens24]

If a tree falls...

I'd just say I did that without actually doing it; who would know any different?

 

[Reincarnatedwolfgod]

what the is the point of making a game if this was what the person was going to do with it? the game is probably crappy any way; so hypothetically it no big loss if it's never found.

What do you think it's worth in caps?

probably 7 caps at most.

 

[Goofguy]

He's also assuming that the people who potentially dig it up in centuries from now will still know what board games are or be able to speak and/or read English.

 

[EvilChameleon]

How big is this desert it was buried in? I say we lead an Escapist-only expedition to find it.

 

[Penguinis Weirdus]

Yes I've wanted to use this in a relevant context for ages:

<spoiler=Gentlemen we must comb the desert>
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That felt good OT: meh if the game isn't meant to be played for 2000 years then I just won't care about it

 

[Owyn_Merrilin]

Okay, tell us the truth. It's not a new game, is it? It's something ancient and evil that you tried to get rid of it because it ate your best friend and unleashed horrifying animals onto your home town, isn't it?

 

[weirdee]

Ir's probably buried next to the capsule with Megaman X.

 

[ChaplainOrion]

Robin Williams is going to find it, and he'll discover this isn't your ordinary game.
*Que drum noises*

 

[Coles_Law]

Sadly, odds are whoever finds it sells it for scrap value.

 

[gmaverick019_v1legacy]

Bet it'll be found by the end of the week.

oh i'm sure it could, just give the right person a "challenge accepted" moment and they'll get that shit. hell if they had access to satellite footage i'm sure they could find him in the desert when he planted the damn thing, if he didn't plant it by normal roads/populated areas, it shouldn't be hard to find his blip on a video, he didn't just magically teleport there and back.

plus, 2700 years? you know how organized and efficient nerds can be? this shit will be found in less than 10 years, i reckon.

 

[NezumiiroKitsune]

So the best way to find it, as I see it, is find out how he got to the location. It isn't likely he walked, though if he did, that doesn't leave us in the cold. We just have to get the GPS records for his sat-nav, or his phone, which I imagine he had with him, and find the one instance he decided a trip to the Nevada desert would be fun. It's just getting those records.

I just don't know how you'd get those records. Having the sat-nav or the phone would be a good start. Someone who works for the company that houses the records, or alternatively, the police, would be best placed to make these inquiries. Hopefully someone in the CIA loves boardgames, and doesn't have a lot of regard for "proper protocol" and "privacy laws".

 

[gmaverick019_v1legacy]

...and inside the game will there be additional instructions on where the DLC is buried?

nope, you gotta pay for that to unlock a code, and that code will give you a season pass for when the DLC comes out...in 3000 years.

 

[Shinsei-J]

I'm kinda depressed I'll probably never get to see this story play out...
Or ever get to play it...

 

[piinyouri]

Interesting experiemnet.
I mean really, it's neat. That's pretty much all I can say about it.

 

[Bleidd Whitefalcon]

How do we even know he made the game?

[sub][sub][sub]Like, what if it's just Half life 3?[/sub][/sub][/sub]

....You're probably right. Gabe gave it to this guy to hide away, never to be seen or played by anyone.

 

[Pedro The Hutt]

Well, if someone would get a list of all of those coordinates, it wouldn't be impossible to code up a program that rules out all the ones that are worthless locations. And show where it's most probable to be. He said it's not anywhere near a road, so any location within say, a half mile of any road worthy of the name can be scrapped. The Nevada desert also has a lot of mountains, so any location where the surface is clearly rocky can also be scrapped. Unless his 900 coordinates took all that into account, that could very well narrow down things considerably.

 

[Apollo45]

I'm of the mind that, instead of fading into obscurity and being forgotten, it'll be something people look for every once in a while until shit goes down and humanity nearly ends itself. Then it'll become a lost legend, something akin to the Holy Grail, that'll inspire stories, myths, and generations of "crazy" adventurers trying to find it. Cults and Orders of Men will be founded with this object at their center, trying to manipulate events to find and gain control of its powers. When civilization revives itself there will be movies made about this game, which by then will have changed into some sort of relic with Godly power, that will change the universe.

That's when someone will find the game, and the world will be horribly disappointed.

I hope that's what happens anyway. Makes for a much better story.

 

[A Satanic Panda]

Well, if someone would get a list of all of those coordinates, it wouldn't be impossible to code up a program that rules out all the ones that are worthless locations. And show where it's most probable to be. He said it's not anywhere near a road, so any location within say, a half mile of any road worthy of the name can be scrapped. The Nevada desert also has a lot of mountains, so any location where the surface is clearly rocky can also be scrapped. Unless his 900 coordinates took all that into account, that could very well narrow down things considerably.

Maybe there's some EXIF data in some random photos he took we could get information from. We could hack airline records to see which town he flew into, and hack his bank account to see a record of where he used is credit card.

Hell just tie him up in a stretcher in some military stockade. That'll learn him.

Edit: If he has an Iphone then Apple already knows where the game is. It will be in the app market place within the month.

 

[FoolKiller]

Ladies and gentleman, this is the evolution of vapourware.