I enjoyed revisiting #UniversalPaperclips again this week… after a false start where I couldn’t fund a space program, I restarted and completed the game in 6:29:36 hours.

Curious how this holds up…anyone else remember your record times?

Inventive text games
Rich history of the classics
Endless fun awaits

#textgames #zork #mud #universalpaperclips #aidungeon #lifeline #haiku #poetry

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2023/06/50-years-of-text-games-parses-the-rich-history-of-a-foundational-genre/

An algorithmically-generated image of a product which will have no real-world existence until someone orders it, bearing an algorithmically-generated legend, which itself invokes an algorithmically-generated genre (i.e. no human band has ever organically identified itself as playing “autonomous black metal,” the genre having been created retrospectively by Spotify). Brace yourself, we’re in for a whole lot more of this infinite-regression, hall-of-mirrors stuff. #universalpaperclips

#ChatGPT #UniversalPaperclips

Today I beat Universal Paperclips. I was working on some boring tasks and spent too much time watching #Twitch and playing #UniversalPaperClips but I think it was probably time well spent.

The game is fantastic despite its austere interface and if I were to write a book on gameplay mechanics, this game would be a case study.

Hats off to Frank Lantz for a great job!

Play the game here: https://www.decisionproblem.com/paperclips/index2.html

I think I won?

#UniversalPaperclips

I should stream #UniversalPaperclips sometime.

21 hours 12 minutes 24 seconds #UniversalPaperclips