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From: candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action
Subject: Re: Someone will make a game about ANYTHING!
Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2025 19:00:04 -0000 (UTC)
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Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote at 16:34 this Monday (GMT):
> On Mon, 17 Feb 2025 15:20:05 -0000 (UTC), candycanearter07
><candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> wrote:
>
>>Rin Stowleigh <rstowleigh@x-nospam-x.com> wrote at 00:15 this Sunday (GMT):
>>> On Sat, 15 Feb 2025 23:50:06 -0000 (UTC), candycanearter07
>>><candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> wrote:
>>>
>>>>Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> wrote at 17:32 this Saturday (GMT):
>>>>> https://store.steampowered.com/app/3244220/A_Game_About_Digging_A_Hole/
>>>>>
>>>>> "A minimalist game about digging a hole in the garden of a newly 
>>>>> purchased house. Collect resources, sell them, upgrade your equipment 
>>>>> and discover a mysterious secret. Costs you only one coffee!"
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>I mean, I can't be surprised anymore. Power washing sim is considered
>>>>one of those really good indie games fron what I've heard, and there's a
>>>>calculator rougelike out.
>>>
>>> I tried the power washing sim thing.  How fun or "good" that is will
>>> be highly subjective I'm sure, but to me I found it sort of like a
>>> mundane chore sim.  I hate mundane chores so I quickly refunded it.
>>>
>>> To each his own though.
>>
>>
>>Sometimes the "repetetive chore" game can be comforting or something. I
>>mean, I have 170 hours in progressbar95
>
> I don't know nothin' 'bout that.
>
>      [Discretely throws a blanket over my "Steam playtime" stat 
>       for "EuroTruck Simulator 2"... and then another one over 
>       "American Truck Simulator"]
>
> But, honestly, I've no problem with the hole-playing game
> conceptually. The description probably does it no justice, anymore
> than saying that Pong is about moving a bar up and down the screen. 

True.

> (Although... breaking down descriptions of games to the most
> minimalist and ridiculous level actually sounds sort of fun.
>
>      Pac-Man: A game about picking up dots.
>      Mario: just move right.
>      Dark Souls: a game about dying repeatedly.
>
> ;-)


Any game sounds boring with the right (wrong?) description. I mean, a
game about driving? Who'd want that?
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