Lose/Lose - The Game That Deletes Your Files

[G1eet]

When I saw this headline, I definitely thought this was about Far Cry 2.

 

[Florion]

I LOVE this game. I would never play it, but it's a fantastic concept.

I would play it on my crappy Windows except that my dad recently took to doing the bills on that computer. Darn.

 

[_Cake_]

They should use this in a spy movie where they have to erase files from a computer.

OOOOo or if you get fired play this game on your last day, it even deletes itself!

 

[Charli]

I feel awful that my first thought was 'Who the hell can I sucker in to playing this?' after finishing the article.

Then I remembered how much I'd rage if I let my computer get fried like that over a stupid game. And the thought was disgarded.

Still... Theres a few vindictive bitches who m-
Okay leaving now before I develop evil schemes.

 

[kalaklanar]

Making this for only Mac changes a few things.
1. It can't be virtualized unless you have OSX server
2. It limits the likelihood of general abuse (fewer users), and increases discussion and thought instead (what it's really supposed to do).
3. OSX has a *lot* of resource files. The machine I'm writing this from has 930875 files.
4. Carbon Copy Cloner is your friend. Rsync is your friend. Backup early and often
5. OSX can run this easily as a limited user, and not be able to destroy your system (assuming you don't enter an admin password, etc.)

 

[iblis666]

It's an important thing we all must learn. When you see an alien...don't shoot first. Did we learn nothing from the Membari war?

hey if i meet an alien race and they have their gun ports open id probably shoot them too

 

[Icehearted]

Who'd want to play that?

Maybe the same people that played that arcade game invented years ago that whips and burns the players hand for failure.

 

[Et3rnalLegend64]

Just wait till some kid starts playing this at school. That's gonna be fun.

 

[squid5580]

Why do I get a funny feeling that Jack Thompson is behind this. Probably has alot of spare time on his hands and picked up some programming skills.

It would be funny to install this game onto a friend's computer for April 1st.

 

[Kriptonite]

That sounds completely horrible. I really wanna sen the link to my friends and see what happens. But honestly, I can't think of anyone at ALL that would want to play that knowing what it does for real.

 

[AvsJoe]

Why do I get a funny feeling that Jack Thompson is behind this. Probably has alot of spare time on his hands and picked up some programming skills.

It would be funny to install this game onto a friend's computer for April 1st.

This game seems right up Mr. Thompson's alley. In fact, with the important questions being asked by the creators of this game, I have no doubt that this will be Mr. Thompson's favourite title. In fact I want to send it to his computer so he can find out first hand what a great game this one is.

 

[Erana]

This is art.

 

[RavingLibDem]

That is actually an interesting idea, but they've gone down a stupid way of doing it, in video games many of your actions have very few consequences, your routinely expected to mow down hordes of enemies, while having no idea of the consequences such an action would actually bring in life. Although this isn't a societal problem, it could become one, as people begin to treat the world less and less as a real place, and more a place for their own manipulation.

However, a more realistic way of doing it, would be to have far reaching in game consequences, should you ever kill an alien, for instance, it could severely penalise you in other ways, making it much harder, making it clear that you are the bad guy for this, and attempting to demonstrate the far reaching consequence of death. Not very fun, but it would get the effect their aiming for. However to compare the far reaching effects of someone's deatht to the loss you feel if you lose a random computer file is absurd, and fails to even suport their own case. For these reasons the game is stupid, despite bringing up an interesting concept, and a game with a very real permadeath is also an interesting idea - if in something like goldeneye or halo, the whole game or save file deleted itself it would make for an incredibly hardcore gaming experience. It would be more likely to transport games back to the arcade ages however, where the game would try and kill you, and there were very few which would allow you to resume from anywhere near the stage at which you died.


But yeah, just dont play it, or indeed give them the publicity that they are blatantly seeking!

 

[Rusty Bucket]

Do you reckon Skynet could adapt to this thing? He may have unwittingly saved the human race.

 

[NikolaiTampernun]

Hm. This reminds me of an old shareware game called Innerspace where you'd actually shoot apart files that were on your computer. Except they weren't damaged outside of the game.

They should combine Innerspace and Lose/Lose and make manual disk cleaning an awesome game.

 

[little.09]

why would they spend time coding that

 

[Asciotes]

that's ridiculous, it makes you think of the moral implications though, but still I think the game is made by a bunch of failed develepors who, as a result hate gamers and as they're making this game yell Karma Btiches! at the screen.

 

[Slayer_2]

That's a decent idea, although the idea of blasting away files is a little bit too much. Normally when a scan picks up a virus I like to quarantine it first to see what it is and where it came from, etc.

Perhaps, although I'm guilty of deleting anything my scanners list as potentially dangerous.

 

[ironfist86]

Wow. I thought there might be someone to comment on the interesting philosophical point made, instead immediately assuming that the creator was a "douchebag" as someone so quaintly put it. I think it raises a wonderful question about just how much we value our virtual property. Not only that, but it forces us to look at our own instincts honed by years of playing violent video games - just because there is a weapon at our disposal and we are given a "reward" for destroying/killing/whatever, does it mean we should do it? I may not agree with it, but at least this is a game that thinks a little differently. I'm still waiting for the day when we have a game that you play as a "hero" throughout, and in the end, it is revealed that really you are the "villain". that would be a rewarding ending in my opinion, especially in a FPS.

 

[SomeUnregPunk]

That is actually an interesting idea, but they've gone down a stupid way of doing it, in video games many of your actions have very few consequences, your routinely expected to mow down hordes of enemies, while having no idea of the consequences such an action would actually bring in life. Although this isn't a societal problem, it could become one, as people begin to treat the world less and less as a real place, and more a place for their own manipulation.

However, a more realistic way of doing it, would be to have far reaching in game consequences, should you ever kill an alien, for instance, it could severely penalise you in other ways, making it much harder, making it clear that you are the bad guy for this, and attempting to demonstrate the far reaching consequence of death. Not very fun, but it would get the effect their aiming for. However to compare the far reaching effects of someone's deatht to the loss you feel if you lose a random computer file is absurd, and fails to even suport their own case. For these reasons the game is stupid, despite bringing up an interesting concept, and a game with a very real permadeath is also an interesting idea - if in something like goldeneye or halo, the whole game or save file deleted itself it would make for an incredibly hardcore gaming experience. It would be more likely to transport games back to the arcade ages however, where the game would try and kill you, and there were very few which would allow you to resume from anywhere near the stage at which you died.


But yeah, just dont play it, or indeed give them the publicity that they are blatantly seeking!

Postal 2... the game that tried to make you to commit violence and rewarded you by ramping up your enemies to near godmode. If you tried to not kill the game rewarded you by severely tempting you to kill. But If you tried, you could play the game by not killing.... granted it was really hard and you needed to use a few bugs.

But this game... is plain retarded. Someone is going to install this on school computer and then the media will grab hold of it ....