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I don't even need to watch the video to know it's yet another shot at interactive narrative exploration games (derogatorily named "walking simulators", a term I loathe).

Yes, they are games, deal with it. Some of us actually like them -- gasp! --, and those of you who don't can simply avoid them altogether and play the games you do enjoy.

It seems to me that people should be playing the games they like instead of wasting time on "debating" over a genre they do not even enjoy, just to be mean and rude to those of us who like those kinds of games.
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groze: I don't even need to watch the video to know it's yet another shot at interactive narrative exploration games (derogatorily named "walking simulators", a term I loathe).

Yes, they are games, deal with it. Some of us actually like them -- gasp! --, and those of you who don't can simply avoid them altogether and play the games you do enjoy.

It seems to me that people should be playing the games they like instead of wasting time on "debating" over a genre they do not even enjoy, just to be mean and rude to those of us who like those kinds of games.
I can't complain, I love Visual Novels. xD
How about what I refer to as the "null game"? Is that a game?

It is quite easy to get that game on your system.

Windows:
At the command prompt, do
copy nul null.bat

Then, just run null.bat
(Alternatively, just create an empty text file with that name. Note that the number of l's is crucial; if you get it wrong, things might not work.)

For Mac/Minux/other POSIX (use the command line here again):
cp /dev/null null.sh
chmod +x null.sh

then to play the game, just do
./null.sh

Do you count the resulting "game" as a game?
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dtgreene:
I don't get it.
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dtgreene:
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omega64: I don't get it.
The resulting file is an empty file. When you execute it as a script, it does nothing.

Do you count the "game" played when executing the file to be a game?

Edit: Added "as a script"
Post edited May 27, 2016 by dtgreene
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omega64: I don't get it.
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dtgreene: The resulting file is an empty file. When you execute it as a script, it does nothing.

Do you count the "game" played when executing the file to be a game?

Edit: Added "as a script"
Ah, I'll refrain from commenting on that. :P
Interestingly enough, the same issue came up with music in the last century.

Many of the works by John Cage, for example, strain the definition of "music" and may even violate it.

For example:

4'33": A piece consisting of nothing but 273 seconds of silence.

49 Waltzes for The Five Boroughs: This "piece" consists of 49 addresses in New York City. It's 147 lines (of text, not music notation) long, grouped into 49 "waltzes" of 3 lines each.

As Slow as Possible: An incredibly slow work. It's like a regular piece of music, except that it is incredibly slow. There is one performance that started in 2001 and will take 639 years to finish. (Also, that performance started with a 17-month rest, according to Wikipedia.)
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free999enigma: The word “game” can have more than one meaning. It can describe sports, it can describe video games, but there's one thing it can't describe, and I bet you know what that thing is.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZNGSGiQ5sg
Distractions from the internet.
Part 2 is Here ! (Why most Mobile Games suck?)

You may not have noticed this, but a lot of what we call “mobile games” aren't really games. They're experiments into seeing how much a person can be manipulated into doing something boring, meaningless and repetitive by using the lowest incentive possible.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1q3zKrnEoE
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free999enigma: Part 2 is Here ! (Why most Mobile Games suck?)

You may not have noticed this, but a lot of what we call “mobile games” aren't really games. They're experiments into seeing how much a person can be manipulated into doing something boring, meaningless and repetitive by using the lowest incentive possible.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1q3zKrnEoE
Oh, look PC elitism. Gather around!

And no, I am not going to click any of your links, and unless you provide a definition here about what a game is, which we then can discuss, then I call whatever else you do null and void.
SJW propaganda. Like Siege of Dragonspear. Or gaffots' fab material.