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

 (github.com)

70 points | by exploraz 2 days ago

10 comments

  • petee 2 days ago
    Rebooting could be a mini-game where you dodge the user's BIOS keystrokes a few times before they give up
  • SomeHacker44 1 hour ago
    Does this game make me MCP? Can I battle Jeff Bridges with discs?
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    • edoceo 31 minutes ago
      Get Tron to Sark so he can communicate!
  • monkpit 1 hour ago
    Reminds me of psDooM

    https://psdoom.sourceforge.net/

  • advisedwang 1 hour ago
    Fabulous concept, but personally I did not find very fun actually playing.
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    • loloquwowndueo 59 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.
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      • jonahx 26 minutes ago
        Many programmers program for fun outside of work.
  • mephage 1 hour 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".

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    • fragmede 1 hour ago
      So that's why the Matrix needed humans to power their systems!
    • mrkstu 1 hour ago
      Master Control Program
  • aranelsurion 31 minutes ago
    got rebooted at 332k @ normal. maybe being an OS wasn't my calling :)
  • fragmede 1 hour 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 2 days ago
    sounds a lot like a tweet from the parody account @PeterMolydeux !
  • dmaginas 2 days ago
    Great idea!