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Video Games to Help You Relax

An Anonymous Coward writes: "Irish game developers have unveiled their latest project, a game that helps you to relax, through the use of electrodes that are attached to a player's fingers and as the person relaxes, their dragon moves faster. The game uses galvanic skin response technology which works by measuring the ability of the skin to conduct electricity."

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  1. Isn't there already a game... by diparfitt · · Score: 3, Funny

    like that called sex?

    1. Re:Isn't there already a game... by nEoN+nOoDlE · · Score: 3, Funny

      Yeah, but the system requirements are way too high.

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  2. I'm the world champ at this game... by theCURE · · Score: 5, Funny

    my strategy? drink until i pass out. my dragon moves the fastest when i'm so relaxed i wet myself.

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    "i can never say no to anyone but you"
  3. do the scientologists know about it yet? by millia · · Score: 4, Funny

    betcha when they find out it uses the advanced technology of their e-meters, they'll sue.

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    1. Re:do the scientologists know about it yet? by Tackhead · · Score: 3, Funny
      > betcha when they find out it uses the advanced technology of their e-meters, they'll sue.

      So? You just get real good at the game, walk into a Clam office, hook yourself up, and beat the cult's "auditor" at his own game.

      Then you walk out, clacking your teeth together loudly, while ranting (between clacks) about how "YOUR PUNY E-METER IS NO MATCH FOR US! SOON OUR EMPEROR WILL ESCAPE FROM HIS PRISON AND SOON, ALL J00R BASE WILL BELONG TO XENU!"

      The jaw-clacking really does fuck 'em up - I actually did the "clack your jaws and say 'poor little clams, snap snap snap'" routine on one cultist who was "body-routing fresh meat into the org" (read: "recruiting gullible people on the street by offering free personality tests"), and the cultist actually *flinched* and rubbed its jaw. I just laughed, said "Hail Xenu", and walked on. What a cult of weaklings. Why can't they make it go right? *giggle*

  4. And how many gamers are going to... by anzha · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...yelling and screaming at the computer because their dragons are going waaay too slow and getting even less relaxed because of it? ;)

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    1. Re:And how many gamers are going to... by jayhawk88 · · Score: 5, Funny

      That's what cheats are for. Up-Down-Up-Down-Left-Right-Left-Right-B-A-B-A-Star t gives you 25% less stress.

  5. AWESOME! by Penguinoflight · · Score: 3, Funny

    The first game you can actually fall asleep and win! I have a feeling it won't be much fun *yawn*, er oops =)

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  6. Pretty soon we will all be addicted by GombuMstr · · Score: 3, Funny

    It starts out like this. a game, a pleasant game that surrounds with pleasang glowing balls. If we play the game the game rewards you with a wonderful mellow feeling....... Crap. Next thing you know no one will be controlling the ship.

    1. Re:Pretty soon we will all be addicted by CleverNickName · · Score: 5, Funny

      Don't worry. Wesley will save us!

      I don't think so. Wesley don't play that shit no more, holmes.

  7. Something like this on Start Trek TNG? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    I vaguely remember an episode where Commander Riker brings back an alien device where relaxing and allowing the little discs to go into a vortex was the way to win.

    Eventually the entire crew got hooked on it and had their minds controlled by the aliens.

  8. The game is too easy by i+like+your+eyes · · Score: 5, Funny

    Seriously, I could beat this game in my sleep!

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  9. Re:Odd method of relaxation... by TRACK-YOUR-POSITION · · Score: 4, Funny
    Whoa that would be a way better game!

    WHOEVER PUMPS THEMSELVES UP THE MOST goes fastest.

    unfortunately, if you pump yourself up with capital letters, you encounter the lameness filter. i am staying very relaxed about the lameness filter. i too can pass through the lameness filter, like a peaceful ship passing under a quiet bridge. look at that dragon go.

  10. Electrodes by MongooseCN · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...that helps you to relax, through the use of electrodes that are attached to a player's fingers...

    Are you relaxed?
    No not really...
    zap
    What the??
    Are you relaxed?
    No not now!
    Zap
    What the hell?!?
    Are you relaxed?
    How the heck am I suppose to be relaxed when..
    ZAP!!
    OK! OK!! I'M RELAXING!!
    ZAAAP!!
    I SWEAR! I'M RELAXED!! I'M SO DAMN RELAXED I'M..
    ZAAAP ZAAP ZAAP...

  11. Scientology will sue them by October_30th · · Score: 2, Funny

    The Church of Scientology will most likely sue these people for stealing their proprietary and highly secret E-meter technology.

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  12. not relaxed by Traa · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's 7:30am I just had 3 mug's of espresso a chocolate bar and am allready eyeing the mountain dew. I have a programming deadling this friday.

    Let me play that game and see dragons fly BACKWARDS!

    1. Re:not relaxed by daeley · · Score: 3, Funny

      Too much stress. Just get the Caffeine IV System (TM). I tried the gum, I tried the patch. (Don't even ask about the suppositories.) Nothing is as good as hitting the mainline at dawn. Instant ability to deal with the world. Never use your snooze alarm again.

      Flying dragons backwards will be child's play. *You* will fly backwards in real life, and every housefly will look and sound like a dragon.

      (Void where prohibited. May cause death.)

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  13. New Meaning... by Thatman311 · · Score: 2, Funny

    That puts a whole new meaning to "chasing the dragon".

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  14. Irish game developers? by gosand · · Score: 5, Funny
    Top Irish games:

    Black and Tan
    Castle Guinnesstein
    The Sims: Pub Expansion Pack
    Virtua Pub
    Tom O'Shaunessey's Pub Recon
    World Cup Virtual Hooligan

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    My beliefs do not require that you agree with them.

  15. gaming raises my stress by isorox · · Score: 3, Funny

    OK, diseration due in in 18 hours. not started it yet. A quick game of civ 3 before to get me going.

    OK disertation due in in 18 minutes, not started it yet. A quick round of quake 3 to get me going.

    OK disertation due in in 17 minutes 12 second, not started it yet. Get Stressed.

  16. You forgot one..... by r_j_prahad · · Score: 3, Funny

    Microsoft Pub Simulator.

    As Real as it Gets.

  17. Re:Odd method of relaxation... by daeley · · Score: 3, Funny

    I must not be stressed.

    Stress is the mind-killer.

    Stress is the little-death that brings total obliteration.

    I will face my stress.

    I will permit it to pass over me and through me.

    And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path.

    Where the stress has gone there will be nothing.

    Only I will remain.

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    I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate.
  18. Re:Combine this with that German pain device. by aardwolf64 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Better yet, imagine a device where you got shocked every time you did relax. Talk about a torture device...