[моё] Game Idea: idle "Release Postmortem 18+"
Inspired by the recent fiasco when an insufficiently tested cash register update paralyzed half the stores in the chain for a day and a half.
Lore/fluff: some employee who made, tested, or uploaded the final fixes for the project fatally messed up.
So fatally that the company that made the project got into Very Big Problems.
Moreover, de jure you cannot legally slap a fine of one hundred thousand million on him.
No, and illegally as well.
And there is no possibility to use a regular reprimand or dismissal either: the authorized idiot acted according to the instructions, just... chose the most obviously harmful option among those provided by the instructions.
Instead of using his brain, he tossed a coin, nothing else.
Which does not relieve the need to make a “stab”.
So that it reaches.
So that it reaches soooood!
And since ancient times the most effective method of “so that it reaches well” was flogging.
Provided there is something to flog (in this case, oh yes there is!).
And that everything is legally hush‑hush.
After N iterations of unofficial debates between the management, the perpetrator of the incident ends up in a sound‑recording room (soundproof!), forced to sit at a table in a pose ready to receive the “so that it reaches well” – and here it’s time for the employee chosen to carry out the stab to enter the frame.
The player.
The stab – of course, in a figurative sense.
But the flogging is literal.
Problem #1: in the 21st century whips are not common, and makeshift tools are mostly either dangerous or completely harmless.
No, seriously, have you tried flogging a person with a stapler?
With a broom?
With the CEO’s hat?
Nooooo, even the choice of the stabbing instrument is a whole layer of gameplay, as elaborate as any ARPG “gear” game!
And besides the instrument there is also the method of application.
The cinematics of the process and the force of impact greatly change the result.
The same hat, for example – use it flat or by the edge?
Broom – a “chopping”, “cutting” or even “stabbing” swing?
And you also have to take into account the nature of the offense.
(which will require attaching a procedural generation mechanism for “misses” and their relation to the “understandability” of specific impacts)
And the personalities of both the “sender” and the “receiver” must be considered.
If the “receiver” loves money too much – maybe it’s better not to flog him with a stack of dollar bills, he’ll like it even more...
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And that’s only what came up during half an hour of smoking tobacco and sobering up after coffee liqueur.
Here is an untouched field for a video game “with a spark” for IT folks (and not only) who had a VERY tough day and urgently need to relieve stress.
Hmmmmmm, another draft for nothing... or not?
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