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The Ultimate Anti-Action Online Game: Waiting In Line 3D

Posted by timothy on from the desert-bus-for-bipeds dept.

Freshly Exhumed writes "Looking a lot like the venerable Wolfenstein 3D or similar Id action games of the DOS days, the new online game Waiting in Line 3D was released Monday by developer Rajeev Basu, and was played 50,000 times in its first 24 hours of activity... er... inactivity. Is the complete lack of any action a brilliant satire of computer gaming? Is it software-based performance art? Is it silly? Judge for yourself, if you can meet the challenge!" Now's a good time to confess if you spent a major portion of your post-Thanksgiving dinner recovery time camped out in line for some of those Black Friday come-ons.

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  1. The concept isn't new .. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    Pippin Barr's "The artist is present" was released years ago - it's a game based on a real-life museum exhibit where you get to.. wait in line to look into Marina Abramovic's eyes.. in full 8-bit-esque glory.

    http://kotaku.com/5841304/new-video-game-delivers-the-immersive-realism-of-waiting-5-hours-in-line-at-a-museum

  2. Like Desert Bus... by marciot · · Score: 4, Informative

    Nice, reminds me of the anti-action driving game, Desert Bus

    http://desertbus-game.org/

  3. Finally by Black+LED · · Score: 3, Informative

    A game that beats "Soda Drinker Pro" and "Progress Quest" in pointlessness.