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A game where you're an OS and have to manage processes, memory and I/O events

69 points by exploraz 3 days ago | 15 comments

petee 3 days ago

Rebooting could be a mini-game where you dodge the user's BIOS keystrokes a few times before they give up

SomeHacker44 2 hours ago

Does this game make me MCP? Can I battle Jeff Bridges with discs?

edoceo 29 minutes ago

Get Tron to Sark so he can communicate!

monkpit 2 hours ago

Reminds me of psDooM

https://psdoom.sourceforge.net/

advisedwang 2 hours ago

Fabulous concept, but personally I did not find very fun actually playing.

loloquwowndueo 56 minutes ago

A lot of these puzzle/micromanagement games are very similar to stuff folks do for work. I stopped playing an entire category of puzzle games once I realized it was basically programming, which I do all day for a living anyway. Gamified programming is still programming.

jonahx 24 minutes ago

Many programmers program for fun outside of work.

mephage 2 hours ago

Maybe that's what the Linux scheduler is actually - humans' consciousness stuck inside the computer managing the processes.

Sounds like that black mirror multi-part episode "White Christmas".

fragmede 2 hours ago

So that's why the Matrix needed humans to power their systems!

mrkstu 2 hours ago

Master Control Program

aranelsurion 29 minutes ago

got rebooted at 332k @ normal. maybe being an OS wasn't my calling :)

fragmede 2 hours ago

This didn't get a lot of traction the other time I saw it, but one easily imagines this as part of a a game to teach operating systems, starting from no MMU all the way to how we manage distributed supercomputers like a DGX GB300, or Google's borg.

Affric 2 hours ago

Played this originally, glad to see scripting included

drfunk 3 days ago

sounds a lot like a tweet from the parody account @PeterMolydeux !

dmaginas 3 days ago

Great idea!