Lose/Lose - Kill an alien, delete a file!

[Luke122]

Brief Overview:
This game uses files on your computer as aliens in the game. If you kill an alien, the file is deleted. If you die, the game is deleted.

Thoughts:
Awesome.

Link:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-27080_3-10391185-245.html

Awesome. Did I say that already? hehe

[Kayin]

That's a rather dangerous game...

[Collinstheclown]

Is there a windows version? I'd love to setup a dummy PC to play this. lol




-CollinstheClown

[Luke122]

There was something similar for PC years ago IIRC.. I think it was called "Virus". I'm pretty sure it didnt DELETE your files, but you did actually have to fight your way through directories in your PC.

[artoodeeto]

I should put this on the server at work :twisted: MUWAHAHAHAAAAA!!!!!

[d_stilgar]

We should all play this and post how high a score we can get before our computer crashes.

[Luke122]

Current high score is 5000.

[Zephik]

I remember a screen saver that was kind of like this. If you didn't kill or shoot whatever it was on the screen, it rebooted your computer. lol

[Collinstheclown]

Imight have to install Ubuntu on my secondary TB drive... Should fill it up with millions of tiny .txt files or whatever it is on linux.




-CollinstheClown

[x88x]

I remember seeing a process manager app a while back that did a similar thing, but with the Doom engine. Ah, here we go:
http://www.cs.unm.edu/~dlchao/flake/doom/

Basically, all the processes are represented as monsters, with more critical processes represented by more powerful monsters. Sysadmins would have to go in, find the process they wanted to kill, and actually kill the monster. More experienced sysadmins would have bigger guns, so it would be quite difficult for a low-level admin to kill a high-level process. One interesting thing that they discussed was a feature to make the processes turn on each other...which resulted in rather interesting system behavior :P

[Trace]

I'll make a program that makes meaningless files for you if you want.

[x88x]

Here ya go:


#!/bin/bash
for ((i=0;i<$1;i+=1)); do
cat /dev/null > test$i
done


Yay for BASH :D

Put that in a shell script, and run it with a single parameter of how many files you want. It'll create that many files of size 0.