Games in the Workplace?

Anonymous Coward asks: "Back in the day it was not uncommon for games to contain 'Escape Buttons' and other commands to quickly exit a game. These games appealed to the Geek at Work as he could fill in his Friday afternoon and as soon as he heard his boss' shoes approaching, he could escape from the third dungeon and return to his spreadsheet. Yet games today are not allowing such activities to occur. Most games are requiring so much dedicated action that it is impossible to play a game and still switch back and forth without long delays. Where are the games for the worker?"

Comments

Suggestion

[athakur999]

Suggestion to all game writers. Allow your game to have a customizable title bar name. That way, when someone glances at your computer, they don't see "Minesweeper" in the task bar. Instead, they see "Q3 Earnings Report.xls".

Re:Suggestion

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I can see it now ...

Boss: Hey, Jeff, Let me use your computer for an email - I left my laptop back in HQ.

Jeff the sys-admin: Ehhh ... (Quickly hits minimized) OK - here you go.

Boss (sitting down): Sorry to stop your working.

Jeff (smiling ironically): No problem.

Boss: What is this - Quarterly Expense Reports. Why would a Sys-Admin like you have anything to do with Quarterly Expense Reports?

Jeff: Errrr ...

Boss: Come to think of it - I thought Accounting was still preparing them in confidentiality.

Jeff: Errr ..

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Boss: What's the meaning of this? You must that corporate spy from our rivals, MeAc Corp!

Jeff: Nononono ...

Boss: You're fired!

PQ

[dragonfly_blue]

Well, as a matter of fact, I'm playing Progress Quest right now, and I'm at work. What's cool is I can keep playing if the boss walks by, but by switching to another task on my screen I can make it appear that I am actually working! Alas, it is Windows only, right now.

The other cool part is if I forget to switch back to the game, my character just keeps pluggin' away, on some sort of strange magickal "autopilot", which liberates me from having to pay attention that often.

Also, it's all online, and you can compete against up to 65,536 other players simultaneously. Can't beat that! Can you? Can you?!?

PS-XDoom

[ulbador]

My favorite game to play at work is always PS-Xdoom. If my boss happens to walk around the corner, all I need to do it shoot a RPG into the group of process monsters, and wh00p, my X session gets killed, and I'm at a terminal looking like I was actually doing something

Games for who?

[prakashj79]

Where are the games for the worker?

For the non-worker you mean...

There is a thin line between laid back and laid off

This is a great game!

[Hard_Code]

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