Lose/Lose deletes your files when you kill aliens

Tlon · Joined: 25 Sep 2008

http://www.stfj.net/art/2009/loselose/

Lose/Lose is a video-game with real life consequences. Each alien in the game is created based on a random file on the players computer. If the player kills the alien, the file it is based on is deleted. If the players ship is destroyed, the application itself is deleted.

so what do you guys think about this? it seems like its trying to say something profound but isn't quite there yet
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BotageL · Joined: 04 Dec 2006 Location: *fidget*

i haven't tried it for obvious reasons but it sounds like they made their argument just as effectively with the description on the site of what it means and what they're trying to convey?

not that i think it sounds all that clever anyway.
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Mr. Toups · tweedle dumb Joined: 03 Dec 2006 Location: moran

why would anyone want to play this
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Mr. Toups · tweedle dumb Joined: 03 Dec 2006 Location: moran

I mean, admittedly, it's a fascinating idea
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L · canon dorf Joined: 05 Dec 2006

Videogames already have real life consequences! Yeesh.

Mr. Toups · tweedle dumb Joined: 03 Dec 2006 Location: moran

this kind of reminds me of this (possibly not real) russian reality show I once heard about where uh, basically they give the contestant a car, then they call the cops on them, and if the contestant can evade the cops, he gets to keep the car.
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Mr. Toups · tweedle dumb Joined: 03 Dec 2006 Location: moran

it's like that except more retarded
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Loki Laufeyson · fps fragmaster Joined: 05 Dec 2006 Location: Asgard

i remember hearing about that show and wanting to see it.

does this game only take files from certain places, or could you end up deleting important windows stuff?
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negativedge · Posted: Wed Sep 23, 2009 8:55 am

could be a fun way to delete your porn folder, I guess

G. · Posted: Wed Sep 23, 2009 9:19 am

Gouki · Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Location: Australia.

This game is intriguingly frightening and I'm not sure it's a very good idea.

Rya.Reisender · banned Joined: 01 Mar 2007 Location: Weekend Web

How to win this game? Clearing it without killing any alien or losing a ship?

The game is somewhat lacking some kind of reward. Like adding new files when you're good.
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negativedge · Posted: Wed Sep 23, 2009 10:06 am

Gouki · Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Location: Australia.

Maybe it will just upload things to their server randomly without any input from you?

DJ · Shaman Journalist Joined: 05 Dec 2006

Man this sounds almost as much fun as the game where you open your computer's case up and start hitting the hard drive with a hammer until it stops working. IGN gave it an 8.9.
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Ratoslov · Joined: 05 Dec 2006

Wow, how stupid.

Takashi · Joined: 04 Dec 2006

How about a P2P FPS application where you have to kill the other players to fetch their data packets? So you'd fight to the death to grasp the missing bits of your illegal music transfers from a top-ranker player and such.
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Bennett · Joined: 03 Apr 2009

I think the point is something along the lines of the recent ABDN review of Uncharted. A videogame where there are consequences to killing your enemy. I think as a work of art, it doesn't really matter than nobody will play it, anymore than it matters when Christian Lacroix makes a piece of clothing that nobody will ever wear.

Cycle · just call him badass Joined: 05 Dec 2006

reminds me of this

http://www.cs.unm.edu/~dlchao/flake/doom/chi/chi.html
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Rya.Reisender · banned Joined: 01 Mar 2007 Location: Weekend Web

I think the game is some kind of market strategy that forces the players to buy a new computer that doesn't have any important files on it and can easily be re-formatted.
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Isfet · Joined: 05 Dec 2006 Location: A New York

this is kind of a funny idea that one might arrive at with friends while innebriated

but generally, at some point, it's established that it's just a funny idea and no one actually goes out and makes it.

Schwere Viper · Joined: 14 Feb 2007 Location: Western Australia

Sounds more fun than 'C:\format c \y'.

I like the way the high score table starts with a few really high scores, then just plummets down to a bunch of people who shot one alien and then quit. I picture them not taking it seriously at first, but as soon as they kill that first one, the worry beneath the surface pops up and they quickly close the game. Then they spend an hour or so meticulously combing their files and collections, trying to find out if one little file is truly GONE FOREVER.
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Gironika · Joined: 05 Dec 2006 Location: The Arkbird

Brutal File Manager did the same thing (well, basically) and had a mode where you didn't really kill your files. Nuff said.
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spinach · Joined: 04 Mar 2008 Location: San Jose, CA, USA!

you know how you beat this game?

go diskless with usb windows (i am assuming this is not cross-platform)
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Lymojo · Joined: 30 Jan 2009 Location: LA Area, California

Man, PSDoom is a really fascinating idea.

Although, it seems like it might be a bad idea to give computers a paradigm that establishes the user as a threat, in the off chance they ever become self-aware.

astralon · Joined: 21 Mar 2009

A game that deletes your files? Didn't Pool of Radiance: ROMD do that like 8 years ago? This is so 2001.

Mr. Toups · tweedle dumb Joined: 03 Dec 2006 Location: moran

so is this like the videogame piss christ or something
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Jujyfruits · Joined: 20 Apr 2009 Location: b.a.

wouldn't it be better if it was a multiplayer game and it deleted a random file from the loser's pc? digital russian roulette.
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alice · not nana komatsu Joined: 05 Dec 2006

conceptual games.

ionustron · Posted: Wed Sep 23, 2009 7:33 pm

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drobe · Joined: 25 Jul 2008

So, wait, is using deep freeze like the forcefield powerup for this game or what?
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drobe · Joined: 25 Jul 2008

Also: this is a game to play at the library
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meowreka · blanned Joined: 11 Aug 2009

I'm with the "game deletes your porn folder if you lose" idea

also using DOOM as a file manager sounds really cool.
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negativedge · Posted: Wed Sep 23, 2009 10:03 pm

guys this game is a good example of both avatar/player dissonance and negative feedback, both of which are HUGE BUZZWORDS for me these days

drobe · Joined: 25 Jul 2008

Reboot ;_;
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drobe · Joined: 25 Jul 2008

WARNING:
INCOMING GAME
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glossolalia · Joined: 04 Mar 2008

negative feedback as in bad feedback or negative feedback as in a negative feedback loop
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negativedge · Posted: Thu Sep 24, 2009 12:42 am

as in literally bad feedback. you do something the game wants you to do and are punished for it. this could of course create a negative feedback loop, but I don't think this game is sophisticated enough to do anything like that.

Mr. Toups · tweedle dumb Joined: 03 Dec 2006 Location: moran

piss christ was not a great analogy, in retrospect
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