Lose/Lose = Not enough space on your HDD? Play this! - Games

Extreme hard mode. You are a ship. You fight aliens. The aliens don't fight you. Each alien is actually a file on your hard drive. If you shoot the alien, it perma-deletes the file off your PC. It picks files at random and could technically be anything. If you die, the game deletes the .exe from your hard drive. Simple, ain't it? [img]http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/images/09/september/loselose.jpg[/img] [url=http://www.stfj.net/art/2009/loselose/loselose.zip]Download link[/url] Good fucking luck for those ballsy enough to try this. [quote] 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. Although touching aliens will cause the player to lose the game, and killing aliens awards points, the aliens will never actually fire at the player. This calls into question the player's mission, which is never explicitly stated, only hinted at through classic game mechanics. Is the player supposed to be an aggressor? Or merely an observer, traversing through a dangerous land? Why do we assume that because we are given a weapon an awarded for using it, that doing so is right? By way of exploring what it means to kill in a video-game, Lose/Lose broaches bigger questions. As technology grows, our understanding of it diminishes, yet, at the same time, it becomes increasingly important in our lives. At what point does our virtual data become as important to us as physical possessions? If we have reached that point already, what real objects do we value less than our data? What implications does trusting something so important to something we understand so poorly have?[/quote] I'll gift Moonbase Alpha to the first person who posts a high score of the game.

Fuck That

[QUOTE=A big fat ass;29603225]Extreme hard mode. Each alien is actually a file on your hard drive.[b] If you shoot the alien, it perma-deletes the file off your PC[/b]. It picks files at random and could technically be anything. If you die, the game deletes the .exe from your hard drive. Simple, ain't it? [img_thumb]http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/images/09/september/loselose.jpg[/img_thumb] [url=http://www.stfj.net/art/2009/loselose/loselose.zip]Download link[/url] Good fucking luck for those ballsy enough to try this. I'll gift [u]Moonbase Alpha[/u] to the first person who posts a high score of the game.[/QUOTE] :wtc: and Moonbase Alpha is a free game... :frogdowns:

Okay. What have i got too lose?

I'm so fucking tempted to try this.

Isn't Moonbase Alpha free though?

I can imagine it selecting a file in the System32 folder and you kill it.

Wow I really [B]really[/B] want to try this but I'm afraid to lose something important from either of my computers

Okay. I'm totally tricking my brother into playing this :v:

Holy shit.

Mac only :crying:

Should I prank my friend with this?

Reminds me of the .BAT file where when you run it it deletes the System32 folder, i did it when i was in school once using a USB Stick, managed to kill like 4 computers. [editline]4th May 2011[/editline] [QUOTE=d00msdaydan;29603410]Isn't Moonbase Alpha free though?[/QUOTE] No, it's more expensive than Railworks 2 and all of it's DLC.

[QUOTE=Argent;29603529]Reminds me of the .BAT file where when you run it it deletes the System32 folder, i did it when i was in school once using a USB Stick, managed to kill like 4 computers.[/QUOTE] Real classy.

[QUOTE=Argent;29603529]Reminds me of the .BAT file where when you run it it deletes the System32 folder, i did it when i was in school once using a USB Stick, managed to kill like 4 computers. [/QUOTE] That's horrible. People have to fix those.

Well that's what the school gets for doing nothing about me getting bullied for 4 out of 5 years, i did it because i was [I]mature.[/I] Italics are me being sarcastic, meaning i was acting immature about it, but what do i care.

What if one of the files was the game itself?

Is there a windows version of this. I plan on playing this.

Hmm... this looks like a good game to play when I'm cleaning up my computer.

[QUOTE=Argent;29603529]Reminds me of the .BAT file where when you run it it deletes the System32 folder, i did it when i was in school once using a USB Stick, managed to kill like 4 computers. [editline]4th May 2011[/editline] No, it's more expensive than Railworks 2 and all of it's DLC.[/QUOTE] Can't even make a batch file to delete a directory? :rolleye:

What?

I can't find how to start the game

[QUOTE=acidcj;29604187]I can't find how to start the game[/QUOTE] are you on windows?

[QUOTE=Nohj;29604192]are you on windows?[/QUOTE] Yes

[QUOTE=acidcj;29604203]Yes[/QUOTE] Thats why. Its Mac only.

*start game* *shoot one alien* *game crashes* *finds game .exe deleted*

Funny how they develop it for Macs. It's as if they're saying that stuff on Macs are worthles- oh wait.

Note to self: play this on a virtual machine sometime.

[QUOTE=gman003-main;29604530]Note to self: play this on a virtual machine sometime.[/QUOTE] And then it finds the whole drive with Windows installed and starts deleting your windows files.

What if Sony played this? 'Ps3 servers are down.. because well... i played this AMAZING game called Lose/Lose, gonna try it again in a week...'