[UA] Re: [OT] Reference?

[Jason Schneiderman]

>Great jumpin' beans.  How the HELL could you make that into a computer
>game?  Well, and have it be FUN, I mean.  What's the goal?

When I was working at a software retail store, I read the hint-book for it.
(It had techniques of survival, an interview with the author, and the
original short story.) The goal isn't so much to win as to lose well - a
lot of the choices are moral ones.

 >Kill the evil
>computer that (in the story) is almost omnipotent?  Kill all your friends
>before they kill you and before the computer can stop you?  Or is it a "not
>it!" kind of thing where you try NOT to be the one poor sap left alive for
>the computer to torment?

Something like that. If I recall correctly, the key was finding ways to
resolve the issues within yourself that allowed the computer to torture you
so and find some kind of release that way. It's been about 5 years, though,
so I'm not certain how quotable I am. May have to look it up.

yours, still have the mouse pad,

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Jason Schneiderman, Editor, EDITORIAL HUMOR. E-mail: edhumor at tiac.net



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