It was Umberto Eco who once said that a book one has read is far less valuable than one she hasn’t. What should we make of a video game that one has not played?
I think it would be fun to play a game in our community to answer that question.
We are going to see together which game best fits two criteria:
People have not played it.
People want to play it.
We will do this first by nominating games. Everyone can nominate three games they want to play, yet have never gotten more than 30 minutes. On the week of the 24th, I’ll construct a bracket and we’ll vote on what we’ve been most curious about. In the end, we will have created our very own antilibrary. Also, I would love to create a book club for us to play one of the finalists (accessibility permitting).
It was a clone of Tempest in java, sold as a big java coding exercise until Jeff Minter went after the publisher claiming it was plagiarizing his version of Tempest 2000