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Yup, this seems to be a very real game. Bum Simulator [Steam] is a game that's going to turn a few heads, with it [showing] off life as a homeless person. It could end up being a little controversial too, I'm sure a few people will have some interesting opinions on this one.
I'm not sure what to make of it, as it looks mildly amusing, but it makes me feel a little weird. Can't be much worse than the thousands of other violent games we have I suppose and highlights the issues some people have to go through. A modern-life survival sim? Could be interesting.
In a sane forum it should be entirely possible to have an interesting and rational discussion on the sociological statement and implications of this game. That just wouldn't be our style though, would it?
Source: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/bum-simulator-will-simulate-life-as-a-homeless-person.11751
(Score: 4, Interesting) by JoeMerchant on Monday May 14 2018, @12:00PM (6 children)
I knew an ex special forces recon who did two tours in Vietnam - many years later he wrote a "recon simulator" text adventure similar to Zork to help people understand what his role was like.
Spoiler alert: the player dies, a lot. Fire your weapon and you've got two turns before Charlie has you, call for evac and you've got to survive 5 to 15 turns before they arrive.
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(Score: 2) by mhajicek on Monday May 14 2018, @12:48PM (3 children)
Is it available anywhere?
The spacelike surfaces of time foliations can have a cusp at the surface of discontinuity. - P. Hajicek
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Monday May 14 2018, @01:55PM (2 children)
I don't think he ever got it published, it was written in BASIC and he did it more as a therapy than for profit.
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(Score: 2) by c0lo on Monday May 14 2018, @04:59PM (1 child)
Can't decide what is more traumatic: being a commando in mission deep behind the enemy's line or coding in BASIC.
Not having experience of the first, I must go with the second.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Monday May 14 2018, @05:21PM
Having experienced the first, he found the second therapeutic - up until he reached about 1000 LOC, I think he found other interests at that point.
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(Score: 2) by looorg on Monday May 14 2018, @04:35PM (1 child)
I remember that game ... it made a Tac-2 joystick or two get tossed into the wall ... If I could have flipped the arcade machine on its side and stomp it to death I would have ... Damn that game was frustrating even 30 years later ...
https://www.arcade-museum.com/game_detail.php?game_id=9382 [arcade-museum.com]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush%27n_Attack [wikipedia.org]
ok All jokes aside, that what you do describe does sound quite interesting.
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Monday May 14 2018, @04:40PM
I only saw it in "80% complete" form, I don't know if he ever finished - he was a friend of my father's, dad left town, I think he left town too and I never got together with him again.
In a way, that was even more realistic, since mission objectives were rarely clearly or completely thought through before executing.
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