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.
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.
Rebooting could be a mini-game where you dodge the user's BIOS keystrokes a few times before they give up
Reminds me of psDooM
https://psdoom.sourceforge.net/
got rebooted at 332k @ normal. maybe being an OS wasn't my calling :)
Does this game make me MCP? Can I battle Jeff Bridges with discs?
Get Tron to Sark so he can communicate!
Fabulous concept, but personally I did not find very fun actually playing.
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.
Many programmers program for fun outside of work.
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".
So that's why the Matrix needed humans to power their systems!
Master Control Program
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.
Played this originally, glad to see scripting included
sounds a lot like a tweet from the parody account @PeterMolydeux !
Great idea!