Passively Multiplayer Gaming 72
errorjustin writes "In a recent Mobile Games Conference keynote speech, Justin Hall had the audience imagine their life as a videogame: 'You gain 'experience points' by using MSWord or by sending emails. Every item you cross off a 'to do' list gives you an experience bonus, until eventually you 'level up' your life. You become U+1.' So what can be done with all this user-generated data? That's where the idea gets exciting: 'Imagine a mobile game that alerts you that a bomb is going to go off in 24 hours. To defuse it you need to assemble 16 levels of chemistry expertise, and 22 levels of physics expertise. The friends on your friends list all have levels for both skills - levels that have been determined by their real-life expertise and activities. You'll need to pull enough people together, either friends or friends of friends, to defuse the bomb.'" Would certainly make your average Monday a little easier to handle. The winner of this year's Game Design Challenge had an interesting idea that was somewhat similar.
40th level paper waster (Score:2)
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haxors?
- John
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correction (Score:5, Funny)
Actually, I think that action just abuses wisdom and intelligence.
Obvious quote (Score:3, Funny)
Wonder though if it's good for anything...
Re:Obvious quote (Score:3, Interesting)
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Mmmm... vegan (Score:4, Funny)
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Re:Mmmm... vegan (Score:3, Funny)
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Re:Mmmm... vegan (Score:2)
Best to have a summer home in the opposite hemisphere too, as otherwise that doesn't leave much to eat during the other 6 months of the year.
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http://www.snpp.com/episodes/CABF01 [snpp.com]
-bw
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Farming (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Farming (Score:1)
Does compiling count? (Score:3, Funny)
And therefore using Gentoo is like running a bot? I don't want to get kicked out of life for cheating.
(I really do use gentoo... I'm emerging something right now.)
Re:Does compiling count? (Score:5, Funny)
Obligatory: "Probably, but this is unlikely to be enforced, since the number of Gentoo users with lives to be kicked out of is vanishingly small."
Re:Does compiling count? (Score:2)
Hey thats MY game (Score:5, Informative)
http://www.kudosgame.com/ [kudosgame.com]
Re:Hey thats MY game (Score:1)
Crappy UI, no save/restore feature. Teh suck. (Score:4, Funny)
Played this game once. Problem is, it's like the Sims in boringness, but the time-acceleration key can only be used once a day, and the stupid devs made it so that the time-speedup key only works at night, when you're at home trying to game, rather than you just during the day when nobody's home! What fucktard thought that was a good UI?
But the real dealbreaker is the lack of save/restore. Spend six weeks setting up a menage-a-trois with your boss' wife and just one lousy goat, and you might as well pull out the old .45 and reroll your character.
Passively Multiplayer Life is teh sux0r. I wouldn't even warez it. (Anyone have a patch to get the smell of goat outa my clothes? The NPC vendor won't even look at me when I try to buy ammo.)
Re:Crappy UI, no save/restore feature. Teh suck. (Score:2)
Re:Crappy UI, no save/restore feature. Teh suck. (Score:2)
This is a feature, in this game you have to make up your own quests or join a guild.
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Or get a job.
Re:Crappy UI, no save/restore feature. Teh suck. (Score:2)
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Bud.com - also a passive multiplayer game (Score:1)
It would be interesting to try Bud out, but last I looked on their site they had presentations and description of the idea, but the game was not online yet.
Level up (Score:2)
I will also get a +3 Mortgage of Death, +2 Job of Despair and +5 Flowers of Forgiveness (always handy after a night out).
Gee I'm not sure (Score:2, Insightful)
When I play a Game, I want to be doing something else for a while, like, not working. I play games for the purpose of entertainment, but not to the extreme that the author proposes.
That said, I can easily see how many gamers out there could have a wet dream about a totally submersive game experience, and with the utmost respect I must decline on such a life.
My Life is a considerably full one and I enjoy a lot of it, but I honestly don't want to be in the middle of a meeting an
Re:Gee I'm not sure (Score:1)
Too close (Score:2)
Besides, what good will a 2nd level burger flipper do to stop a bomb? Does this guy even know the primary market
Re:Too close (Score:1)
Sounds like you need a +2 Rusty Coathanger. Okay, that seals it. I'm officially going to hell.
Re:Too close (Score:2, Funny)
(Is it warm here or is it just you and me?)
RPG Radiculopathy (Score:2)
Summon Intern!
Re:RPG Radiculopathy (Score:1)
Damn, am I the only one that got that joke ?
Hey..... (Score:2)
Only Scenario Vialble for /.ers (Score:3, Funny)
W00! I can't wait! (Score:2, Funny)
Oh, intro for a group mind! (Score:2)
One of the main characters comes from Mars and the folks on Mars developed a group mind. The way it works sounds similiar to this, but on a much larger scale and seemlessly for any request. Say you wanted to cook supper and looked in your cabinet and couldn't think of anything. You'd briefly access the group mind, which would instantly send your supplies, about how long your want to cook it for, your personnal favoriate dishes, and your personnal
XP loss vs debt (Score:1)
XP loss. I earned those levels so if I die I just want to have to re-earn
the XP.
Also will there be a wispy thing when you corpse run or do we just
get to rez with all our stuff ? What if you're a Hindu ?
Belthize
stupidity (Score:2)
We play games because they're funn, filling out form 54B is NOT fun and hence we do it purely so we can eat. This is the same logic that things playing some dumbass kids game with your work mates will make the work place happier, when in truth if they gave you the day off and let you get some rest it would have 10 times the effect.
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Unfortunately the loot tables suck, the final boss' only contains:
+5 Shirt of "I killed the Pointy Haired Boss, and all I got was this stupid T-shirt"
+1 Two Handed Sword (I mean it's a sword with two hands) [requires level 42 Monk]
15 x Crystal Water
+2
Re:stupidity (Score:1)
I know, the idea is fricken dumb.
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Or.. (Score:5, Funny)
"'Imagine a mobile game that alerts you that a bomb is going to go off in 24 hours."
Cool!
Imagine the consequences, you're sitting in an airline passenger lounge, & your cell phone bleeps it has a message. You pop it open and a flashing red popup tells you there is a BOMB times to go off in 24:00:00 and it starts counting down!
The adventure forks at this point - either into an 'action adventure' or a 'low key suspenseful thriller':
1) Mrs Johnson, sitting beside you, happens to see it and starts screaming. You've just aggro'd the whole airport full of security and police.
2) Mr Parker, on the other side, happens to see it and quietly mentions you to the gate agent, who has a halfdozen massive dudes in dark suits and glasses appear out of nowhere to quietly 'suggest' you come along with them.
Either way, AT BEST you end up strapped down spread-eagle on an examining table while the FBI crams a camera up your butt looking for proof you're a terrorist. FUN!
"Sent to Gitmo" : +5 xp!
oh no... (Score:3, Funny)
The ultimate in passive gaming! (Score:3, Informative)
There are comparisons... (Score:2, Funny)
I do wish I could put a box over my head and disappear like Solid Snake...
SimDarth
Level 29 MiddleManager/Husband/Father (yes, I know that multiclassing hurts my experience totals!)
Re:There are comparisons... (Score:3, Funny)
Get rid of the 'father' class. Kids are the worst kind of follower you can have until you're in your mid fifties to early sixties, since they eat all of your earned loot until they're around level 18 (or longer, if they take the hikikom [wikipedia.org]
I can now update my resume!!!! (Score:2)
Not really usefil (Score:1)
Character Sheets (Score:1)
Nowadays this isn't so easy. D20, for instance, removed the usefull descriptions earlier games had on what having a level "x" in this or that skill would meant in real life. The only thing you know is that, say, some
MSWord? (Score:2)
Seeing as we now live in a world of virtual machines (z/VM, VMware, et al) and a world manipulated by raising tickets, maybe we should go the whole hog and just run our companies via a MMORPG - with a live link to the stock price!
Certainly my job feels like a computer game sometimes...
The best part of this idea... (Score:2)
FREEBASE! (Score:1)
For you fans of Hol :)
So, somehow this is different? (Score:2)
Wait, how is this game different from everyday work?