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Looking for an Old Game. - I Remember Playing It but Don't Know the Name of It.
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There's two games I've been trying to find and although I doubt I will ever find them again, it can't hurt to give it a shot.
First was a tiny game called "futility" that looked like it was made in ms-dos. It's point was to prove that games were art and it had 8 minigames. One was an invisible maze (instead of walls there were pits you could fall in and die and you couldn't see which so you had to learn the whole maze by trial and error). One was a rpg like battle with a powerful wizard. And the last one was walking through a crowded place and trying to get directions to the toilet before you shit your pants.
The only solveable one was the last one, in each of the others trying to solve it was futile. The maze had no solution, every path was a dead end. The wizard always won. And the way to not shit your pants was stop asking for directions and just walking to the toilet.
I'm pretty sure this game was inspired by it: https://www.kongregate.com/games/rete/dont-shit-your-pants
The problem is that there are so many games called "futility" that trying to find it has become a futile endeavor, so instead of looking for it myself, I thought to ask.
The second game I've been trying to find is a game where you are a historian and you have to explain why populations were a certain size at certain points in history. You used migration, plagues, famines to explain decreases in population. Meanwhile, the politician who was funding all your work always came up with the conclusions and you made money by explaining how those conclusions could have come about. The game might have been black and white, or at least not many colors at all. I don't really remember what it looks like. When I try to picture it, I keep seeing screens from hidden agenda.
When you got a little deeper into the game, it seems like the politician was trying to use your research to justify displacing a people, arguing that they were not originally from that place. I lost interest, never finishing it, but it was one of those games that never left my memory. I'm pretty sure it was deeply politically motivated game (like hidden agenda) and I wish I could find it to analyse it with fresh eyes.
First was a tiny game called "futility" that looked like it was made in ms-dos. It's point was to prove that games were art and it had 8 minigames. One was an invisible maze (instead of walls there were pits you could fall in and die and you couldn't see which so you had to learn the whole maze by trial and error). One was a rpg like battle with a powerful wizard. And the last one was walking through a crowded place and trying to get directions to the toilet before you shit your pants.
The only solveable one was the last one, in each of the others trying to solve it was futile. The maze had no solution, every path was a dead end. The wizard always won. And the way to not shit your pants was stop asking for directions and just walking to the toilet.
I'm pretty sure this game was inspired by it: https://www.kongregate.com/games/rete/dont-shit-your-pants
The problem is that there are so many games called "futility" that trying to find it has become a futile endeavor, so instead of looking for it myself, I thought to ask.
The second game I've been trying to find is a game where you are a historian and you have to explain why populations were a certain size at certain points in history. You used migration, plagues, famines to explain decreases in population. Meanwhile, the politician who was funding all your work always came up with the conclusions and you made money by explaining how those conclusions could have come about. The game might have been black and white, or at least not many colors at all. I don't really remember what it looks like. When I try to picture it, I keep seeing screens from hidden agenda.
When you got a little deeper into the game, it seems like the politician was trying to use your research to justify displacing a people, arguing that they were not originally from that place. I lost interest, never finishing it, but it was one of those games that never left my memory. I'm pretty sure it was deeply politically motivated game (like hidden agenda) and I wish I could find it to analyse it with fresh eyes.