The Gameplay Challenge
2Current Challenge: Imagine your life was a video game and describe the gameplay.
WHAT’S GOING ON HERE??
The basics: We’re doing a little April Fools’ Day game, asking our users to complete a series of ridiculous, stupid, and fun (we hope) photography/writing/drawing tasks throughout the day.
But why: Because April Fools’ Day has grown tiresome. Sure, maybe we laughed the first few years that corporations took on the challenge of lying to their customers. But then, we got to the point where Continental was tweeting about their new airliner constructed entirely from bacon or whatever and it got a little old. We want to celebrate April Fools’ Day in a fun way.
Okay, but why on March 31st: Because you’re more likely to be tethered to your computer on a Friday than a Saturday.
Will there be winners: Yes! The winner will be whoever gets the most votes on their entry!
Will there be prizes: Yes! The pride of knowing you had some fun on the internet!
So, there won’t be prizes: Correct. Anyway, we hope you enjoy yourself.
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My life is a cross between animal farm and the Sims.
Movement is minimal, most game play is in the house and the character just goes room to room picking up messes that the kids make. 8 hours of ply is spent in one room while the character sits at a desk drinking coffee and yelling expletives at a monitor.
And the secondary character runs the farm outside but game play for him is limited to 3 hours a day
A side scroller with a broken jump button.
it is all server down time lately
Pong. Back and forth, back and forth, back and forth …
You play as BG, an old woman in Oregon. Help her play bass guitar with her friend’s band, go on occasional hikes in gorgeous landscapes, and keep her job as an analyst, while simultaneously glancing at daily deal websites all day long!
/showme lazy slob working from home, in 8-bit graphics style
Wash, rinse, repeat.
Minecraft but zero organization or aim. Just “oh cool I should keep that in case I need it…” I usually never need it.
Frogger…
@BrendaJ You on a road construction crew, then?
Like Groundhog Day but as an accountant
Click buttons over and over to earn money to afford micro transactions.
Totally an NPC with a set schedule if you need to find me for quests or plot.
Sitting on my ass drinking coffee and reading a book while watching the robots do the work
It would just be a playable cutscene, “Press X to sit on the couch.”
Game has installed so many background processes that nothing can proceed. It’s side quests all the way down.
An idle/clicker game where you manage your work and personal finances.
There’s mini-games to break up the gameplay loop in the evenings and weekends that are secretly more fun then the primary quest line.
Zork. And I’ve been eaten by a grue.
workk, eat, sleep, repeat…goal is retirement. goal always seems to be unattainable yet you can’t quit, you keep playing every day for decades…
A student project about hitting trampoline tricks but the goal is to ragdoll off your spine repeatedly. The more bones you break the higher your score; 3x multiplier if you smush the bear poo!
Day after day trying to fit the pieces of the puzzle together and waiting for the one right piece to perfectly fit and hit it big. [Think Tetris]
Get up, get out of bed, drag a comb across my head. Find my way downstairs and drink a cup. Look up and notice I am late.
Office mode, trying to complete your tasks but you keep getting interrupted by the micromanager, mini-boss to do other side quests and have meetings while dodging underhanded criticisms. Non office mode, just a cut scene of me watching YouTube learning how sheds are built.
Solitaire.
you know that moment when the game is just sitting there and says press start, and nothing happens till you do?
yeah… that…
Trying to eat healthy, but I just and up slicing fruit and not eating it.
Pewpewpewpewpew
Oregon Trail. Pretty sure I died of disentery
Yeah I’m in Call of Duty and getting sniped all the time. No matter what I do death is always stalking me like an elusive shadow monster waiting to pounce. Yeah that’s my life . C- can’t live A- always killed L- lethal dose of lead poisoning L- longing to live O- only alive for so long F- friendly fire kills me too D- death always my fate U- under, as I’m 6 feet under in this game T- time isn’t on my side and last but not least Y- yeah why I’m playing Call of Duty to only be killed all the time the reason even escapes me!
Leisure Suit Larry part III
@TexDragonSlayer that’s pretty good; at least it’s not like part IV