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

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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

monkpit•about 1 hour ago

Reminds me of psDooM

https://psdoom.sourceforge.net/

SomeHacker44•about 1 hour ago

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

edoceo•11 minutes ago

Get Tron to Sark so he can communicate!

mephage•about 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".

fragmede•about 1 hour ago

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

mrkstu•about 1 hour ago

Master Control Program

fragmede•about 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.

advisedwang•about 1 hour ago

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

loloquwowndueo•39 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•7 minutes ago

Many programmers program for fun outside of work.

Affric•about 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!

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

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