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Comment by thombat

4 years ago

Now you've made me wonder: those hours I spent mesmerised by watching the colourful display of Windows 95 defragging the disc, would I have paid a monthly subscription for it? What if they'd added achievements, or leveling up? "Congratulations! Your wizard can now restructure directory chains!"

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Lammy  4 years ago

http://progressquest.com/

  • musicale  4 years ago

    Apparently the original idle game (according to wikipedia at least) although modern idle games are probably influenced by Cookie Clicker and others as well.

    I've occasionally been tempted to play Idle Champions which seems similar.

    • tomc1985  4 years ago

      Idle Champions is fun but the numerical scaling on that game is whacky. It only takes like a month before you're doing 1 googol (1^100) damage and little dwarves or gnolls or rats or whatever drop a similar amount of gold. They say it's to differentiate effectively between linear and exponential scaling, but the end result is just whacky.

      It's the only game I've ever played where your damage output is most effectively measured by the size of its exponent

animal531  4 years ago

I once defragged a drive multiple times, which promptly killed it, so I'm not sure how turning it into a game would have turned out.

  • exikyut  4 years ago

    Hmm, that's a pretty powerful proof-of-work mechanic you've got there. "DefragCoin", anyone? Now we just need a way to achieve unilateral consensus about whether a given HDD is dead...

    (/s)