Lose/Lose

[Kain]

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?


Download here: lose/lose


Are you up for it LG?

[Rundeer]

This is pretty old news, but still awesome. I love looking at the high scores table. The top few are in the thousands, the rest are no more than 50.

You could just open it up on a friends computer and go to town until you kill System32.

[Kain]

This is pretty old news, but still awesome. I love looking at the high scores table. The top few are in the thousands, the rest are no more than 50.

You could just open it up on a friends computer and go to town until you kill System32.

I did that once.

My friend is still convinced he had a virus.

[Rundeer]

I did that once.

My friend is still convinced he had a virus.

That's fucking awesome. :p

[Kain]

That's fucking awesome. :p

I did it for the greater good, it was an Acer, that they were letting die before they got a new one.

T'was for the best

[Rundeer]

I did it for the greater good, it was an Acer, that they were letting die before they got a new one.

T'was for the best

I guess that would be a pretty fun way to send off a shit computer. Afterwards you could heave it out a window or something and put it on Youtube.

Or you could sell it and make a few bucks. :p

[Slowpoke]

If it deletes random files, lets say I play it on a thumb drive would the computers files be deleted or the thumbdrives?

[Rundeer]

Sounds like someone made a lame game and is trying to play it off as philosophy.

I don't think so. The game is just space invaders with big sprites. The developers were obviously not trying to make a game that was fun to play or anything.