WANTED: The Perfect Office Game

[Deofuta]

Alright well maybe not perfect.

Let me fill in some details, I am an IT Technician. This makes my job rather 'reactionary' and thus I have long periods of down time when I am in my office (like right now, in fact). As I sit here, wasting away at waiting for my Star Trek Online Beta Access Key to get emailed to me (different story) I want to see what The Escapist can offer. What do you guys (and gals) think is your favorite game to play in the ofice?

 

[Cherry Cola]

.......

"The Office, the game

Play as Dwight taking over America while protecting his beets from bears"

*Awesomegasm*

It's not just perfect to play in your office, but everywhere!

Sadly, it only exist in the dimension of awesome-sauce.

 

[7moreDead_v1legacy]

Make darts - I'm also in IT so I feel your pain...I used some tape (masking), Biro inserts and a some pins/needles. Using a notice board with a paper dart board as a target ^^

 

[Hurr Durr Derp]

http://www.kongregate.com/

Dozens of games that IMO are perfect to play when you've got nothing better to do and you're not in a situation where you can start up a bigger game. Some of them are really good, and others are just good timewasters. There's a lot of not-so-great ones (and just plain crappy ones) as well, but there's bound to be at least a few that you'll like.

 

[Baby Tea]

Duh! Call of Duty!

But seriously: probably Kongregate is a good idea.
You can just play enough to waste time, but it's easy to stop when someone gets you for real work.

 

[SnowCub]

I find Canabalt and Boomshine are a couple of quite cool online flash games to play when I have a little spare time at college.

Good if there are others in your office too as you can always try beat each others scores (as well as your own of course).

 

[Deofuta]

I do have a Kongregate account, and am pretty well versed in there, however I am looking more for gems, specific games. One I used to play often was Boxhead, The Zombie Wars. If you have not played it, try it. You will love it.

 

[sephiroth1991]

Some flash games, like tetris. You could play the old mario/sonics

 

[RanD00M]

Defcon.

It's got an office mode that lets you go back to desktop just by hitting one button.

And it's a damn good game.

So many billions dead.So satisfying.

OT:I say get a good MMORPG.And just a non MMO rpg.You can always just quit and come back with them.

 

[RanD00M]

I do have a Kongregate account, and am pretty well versed in there, however I am looking more for gems, specific games. One I used to play often was Boxhead, The Zombie Wars. If you have not played it, try it. You will love it.

Then you should play <url=http://www.kongregate.com/games/HeroInteractive/bubble-tanks-tower-defense>Bubble Tanks Tower Defense.Clam and quiet.But oh so time consuming.

 

[TimeLord]

www.miniclip.com

HeliAttack 3

Problem solved

 

[Aunel]

.......

"The Office, the game

Play as Dwight taking over America while protecting his beets from bears"

*Awesomegasm*

It's not just perfect to play in your office, but everywhere!

Sadly, it only exist in the dimension of awesome-sauce.

And in that dimension, we also have bass players that can function with more than 4 strings!
[small]It's called Holland[/small]

oh and by the way, I heard you where going to visit Furburt in the UK, I have one thing to say about it, if you don't play "the immigrant song" at least twice every 5 minutes, I will chop your balls of.

OT: Don't sit there playing games, do something useful, create a robot,
or a self tuning bass.
and send that to me.

 

[Twad]

Newgrounds is a nice place to waste time too, tons of flash games and movies

 

[Cherry Cola]

.......

"The Office, the game

Play as Dwight taking over America while protecting his beets from bears"

*Awesomegasm*

It's not just perfect to play in your office, but everywhere!

Sadly, it only exist in the dimension of awesome-sauce.

And in that dimension, we also have bass players that can function with more than 4 strings!
[small]It's called Holland[/small]

oh and by the way, I heard you where going to visit Furburt in the UK, I have one thing to say about it, if you don't play "the immigrant song" at least twice every 5 minutes, I will chop your balls of.

OT: Don't sit there playing games, do something useful, create a robot,
or a self tuning bass.
and send that to me.

What the hell is the immigrant song?

 

[Aunel]

.......

"The Office, the game

Play as Dwight taking over America while protecting his beets from bears"

*Awesomegasm*

It's not just perfect to play in your office, but everywhere!

Sadly, it only exist in the dimension of awesome-sauce.

And in that dimension, we also have bass players that can function with more than 4 strings!
[small]It's called Holland[/small]

oh and by the way, I heard you where going to visit Furburt in the UK, I have one thing to say about it, if you don't play "the immigrant song" at least twice every 5 minutes, I will chop your balls of.

OT: Don't sit there playing games, do something useful, create a robot,
or a self tuning bass.
and send that to me.

What the hell is the immigrant song?

you hurt me, you know that.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCvMKcNJCAY
Come from the lands of the ice and snow,
from the midnight sun where the hot springs blow!

(I have no idea how to turn those youtube things into other video things, it's just magic to me, and I am no magician, I'm a bassist)

 

[Cherry Cola]

.......

"The Office, the game

Play as Dwight taking over America while protecting his beets from bears"

*Awesomegasm*

It's not just perfect to play in your office, but everywhere!

Sadly, it only exist in the dimension of awesome-sauce.

And in that dimension, we also have bass players that can function with more than 4 strings!
[small]It's called Holland[/small]

oh and by the way, I heard you where going to visit Furburt in the UK, I have one thing to say about it, if you don't play "the immigrant song" at least twice every 5 minutes, I will chop your balls of.

OT: Don't sit there playing games, do something useful, create a robot,
or a self tuning bass.
and send that to me.

What the hell is the immigrant song?

you hurt me, you know that.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCvMKcNJCAY
Come from the lands of the ice and snow,
from the midnight sun where the hot springs blow!

(I have no idea how to turn those youtube things into other video things, it's just magic to me, and I am no magician, I'm a bassist)

I will not sing that

 

[Hurr Durr Derp]

I do have a Kongregate account, and am pretty well versed in there, however I am looking more for gems, specific games. One I used to play often was Boxhead, The Zombie Wars. If you have not played it, try it. You will love it.

My favourites of the moment are Epic War 3 and Monsters' Den: Book of Dread.

 

[Octorok]

.......

"The Office, the game

Play as Dwight taking over America while protecting his beets from bears"

*Awesomegasm*

It's not just perfect to play in your office, but everywhere!

Sadly, it only exist in the dimension of awesome-sauce.

And in that dimension, we also have bass players that can function with more than 4 strings!
[small]It's called Holland[/small]

oh and by the way, I heard you where going to visit Furburt in the UK, I have one thing to say about it, if you don't play "the immigrant song" at least twice every 5 minutes, I will chop your balls of.

OT: Don't sit there playing games, do something useful, create a robot,
or a self tuning bass.
and send that to me.

What the hell is the immigrant song?

you hurt me, you know that.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCvMKcNJCAY
Come from the lands of the ice and snow,
from the midnight sun where the hot springs blow!

(I have no idea how to turn those youtube things into other video things, it's just magic to me, and I am no magician, I'm a bassist)

You take the video ID and put it in a tag like this - [ youtube=Whatevervideoyouwant ]

Only take out the spaces. In this case it'd be,
Quote me if you want the idea more obviously explained.

 

[dstryfe]

I say that office down-time is really when you pay attention to a bunch of games that can run (untouched) in the background, such as Facebook's Starfleet Commander, or Eve Online. There are many Facebook games that are fine with being neglected until you're on break - since every action features a (usually) lengthy timebar for completion - but...as for real games? Final Fantasy qualifies, I suppose, if that's your thing, and most single-player video games feature a pause button, so just find a game you like, and run with it.

 

[jimduckie]

hey just make sure your boss isn't playing the same game during work, or get fired for playing on company time