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The Game Of Life
All the world is a stage and all the men and women merely players | |
Role playing game where you play yourself. The role you play is that of you playing yourself, of you playing yourself... or not.
The task expands to fit the available time (much like the halfbakery, really).
Deeper levels of complexity available upon demand. i.e.
Your character is to
have an affair? It will need some relatively invisible source of disposable income and circumstances where time need not be accounted for quite so rigidly as usual.
Share trading module requires the download of a risk add-on.
Second marriage module comes with maintenance avoidance package.
Midlife crisis module requires sports car module requires financial resources module requires second income module...
Of benefit to those youngsters who blithely believe their parents are just self-absorbed control freaks. This way they may just learn that the advice of their schoolteachers, "To get a good education and a safe job and you'll be right" may possibly be bad information.
Of course, if you don't have time in your life for this game then you'll just have to give up something else.
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too close to reality, no thanks. And too deep a thing to think about before bed time. |
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That's the idea. Make it as realistic as possible. I once read that Crockett and Tubbs were 12,000 times more likely to shoot someone during their "careers" on Miami Vice than a real drug enforcement cop in Miami. |
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The addition of a little reality to our lives might be a good thing. |
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FPS = First Person Stocktrader? |
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If you simply play yourself, then can't this idea be called "baked"? |
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Cute. There is a little ingredient of this in every board game, but only a little. I think that if you want the depth in this game to make it realistic it would turn into a whole family of games (or one with lots of add-ons). Me-games - I like it. |
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I get the impression that this was written with your tongue firmly in your cheek but I still like it. It would be a great what-if or therapy tool if nothing else. |
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So that is why UB has several jobs. |
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I don't have a job. I have a number of businesses. They're far more flexible than a job. |
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s/job/ /money earning activity/ |
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It's funny that you should post this just now, UB. I was thinking, just the other night, about something vaguely similar, except that you get to play the role of your best friend. So croissant for serendipity. |
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Of course, all games are networked to allow interaction with other games/people. |
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Sounds like the internet. |
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I don't think "look at everything through metaphor X" ideas are inventions in the sense of the halfbakery and belong here. (Same thing for that C++ philosophy drivel.) |
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I mean, next thing, someone posts something where we're all cars on the street of life, jam on the toast of life, squirrels on the telephone pole of life... I can write this all day long, but who would want to read it? |
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I was just hoping for some respite from the recent torrent of pseudolife, babooling by the village. |
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//If you simply play yourself, then can't this idea be called "baked"? Vernon, Apr 11 2002//
Vernon did a pretty good DrCurry imitation, though I think it was just a one-shot deal. ; ) |
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Jutta, I'd read it, because I don't have a life.... but, I had hoped this was about Conway's game LIFE. |
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Didn't the Sims game sort of bake this idea in fact? And if not, surely it could be considered baked with Sims2 which includes the ability to play virtual virtual Sims on Sims2 virtual computer workstations ... |
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So we might actually be approaching a recursion situation where we have someone sitting at a workstation, playing Sims2, whose avatar is playing Sims ... |
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