Wordie: Game: Comments

Comment by reesetee, 5 months ago

Mon, 24 Mar 2008 01:28:50 +0000

I do go to that site from time to time--and it was completely addictive for the first few days. (Can addictions wear off that quickly?) Thanks for the reminder, frindley!

Comment by VanishedOne, 5 months ago

Sun, 23 Mar 2008 13:41:03 +0000

As seen on the Wordie blog, in fact, so maybe your plea won't be all that effective. Or then again it might be the reminder that sends us all scurrying back there...

Comment by frindley, 5 months ago

Sun, 23 Mar 2008 11:03:53 +0000

A simple online game that could keep a wordie amused for hours, and which might be a good deal more interesting if more wordies were playing it. Check out Human Brain Cloud here:
http://www.humanbraincloud.com/

Comment by samoritan, 6 months ago

Thu, 06 Mar 2008 20:42:10 +0000

There is also "Ender's Game", a much-lauded science fiction novel by Orson Scott Card.

Comment by mollusque, 6 months ago

Tue, 04 Mar 2008 00:53:54 +0000

The Game is also a wonderful book by Diana Wynne Jones.

Comment by skipvia, 6 months ago

Mon, 03 Mar 2008 23:16:20 +0000

My son recently told me about a game that he and his friends call "The Game." The only rule is that if you think about the game, you lose. You're supposed to say "Oh crap" (or something appropriately similar depending on your surroundings) when this occurs, and everyone is on the honor system.

Comment by yarb, 8 months ago

Fri, 04 Jan 2008 21:38:34 +0000

The same question has bothered me as I've cheated my way to victory on various simulation games - or, as a child, at patience.

I think it just reverts to definition #1 above, a pastime.

Comment by samoritan, 8 months ago

Fri, 04 Jan 2008 21:20:27 +0000

I have a large collection of computer games that I play regularly, (the PC variety not the shiny expensive console variety) but there has always been a certain aspect of "gaming" that has bothered me.
Dictionary.com describes a game as 1."An amusement or pastime". or 2. "A competitive activity involving skill, chance, or endurance on the part of two or more persons who play according to a set of rules, usually for their own amusement or for that of spectators".
In computer games it is an accepted practice that when you get "stuck" you can cheat your way out of your situation if you know the proper arcane commands. Game developers build cheat codes into the game to give it's players the ability to "play God", for example, and take no damage, such as from a hail of bullets that would otherwise call up the "you have died" screen.
If I define a PC game as in the second definition above (because they do have rules and involve skill) and take away the elements of skill and chance by cheating, am I still playing a "game"? What do you call a game that is not a game?