It is as if you were doing work
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HN comment orderIf you tried it out and were a little confused, here's a little blog post about the motivation and development of the "game": http://www.pippinbarr.com/words/2017/06/14/narrative-framing... And some more information in form of a "press" release from the github: https://github.com/pippinbarr/itisasifyouweredoingwork/tree/... I found the "game" to be somehow interesting.
Reminds me of the (very fun!) cooperative game SpaceTeam[0], where you have to complete an ever-increasing set of fanciful space-themed actions on a little control panel on your phone. The fun part there is that some of the actions require you to tell someone else to complete an action on their phone, so games always involve frantic shouting to your teammates. Lots of fun [0] - https://spaceteam.ca/
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- Breakout years
- 2
- Total points
- 1063
- Total comments
- 286
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Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-07-04 | It is as if you were doing work [webgame] | pippinbarr | 3 | 0 |
| 2017-07-05 | It is as if you were doing workFirst breakout · Best thread | throwaway1892 | 752 | 205 |
| 2020-06-05 | It is as if you were doing workLatest 20+ point return | duck | 308 | 81 |