Video Game Dubbed “Lose/Lose” Doesn’t Really Offer a Way to Win/Win

Posted 09/30/09 at 05:57:40 PM by Jason barry

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If you thought Red Faction 2 was a destructive game, download Lose/Losefrom Zach Gage and play it for a few hours. You might not be able to boot your computer after a marathon session of alien bashing.

Zach Gage developed the game to have real life consequences, and real life consequences it has. “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.” Sounds dangerous, right? Well, that was the intention.

According to his “manifesto,” he hopes to invoke the question of moral obligation and blur the line between virtual and physical possessions and their priorities in a technical world.

While the best solution is never fire a single shot, it could be the least fun game ever...unless you play it on a co-workers computer.