I seem to recall the referendum on Quebec was a bit of a fiasco with all sorts of votes apparently being declared invalid despite being perfectly fine. But I'm going entirely from memory at this point.
I had a game idea once that I'd been developing on and off that had something like this in it.
You started out insane, with an indicator (not a dynamic one, one as part of the environment), and then as you play you win parts of your sanity back and the game areas open up because your delusions have lessened (and the indicator updates accordingly) And so on and so forth.
Not sure if the patent would cover that, but I guess it doesn't matter, I'll never finish the game.
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I seem to recall the referendum on Quebec was a bit of a fiasco with all sorts of votes apparently being declared invalid despite being perfectly fine. But I'm going entirely from memory at this point.
I had a game idea once that I'd been developing on and off that had something like this in it. You started out insane, with an indicator (not a dynamic one, one as part of the environment), and then as you play you win parts of your sanity back and the game areas open up because your delusions have lessened (and the indicator updates accordingly) And so on and so forth. Not sure if the patent would cover that, but I guess it doesn't matter, I'll never finish the game.