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by mistersquid 2768 days ago
This is absolutely brilliant.

In its current form, it seems more conceptual than practical, but I think an engaging and potentially fun-to-play ("fun"?) gaming product can come out of this.

Classify shortcuts into tiers/difficulty levels

1. baby (little to no real consequence)

2. teenager (slight potential embarrassment)

3. reckless (mortifying but not career- or relationship damaging)

4. daredevil (would require apologies and other face-saving actions to recover)

5. drunken (even with face-saving would inflict career- or -relationship damage)

6. destroyer (guaranteed social consequence; possibly career- or -relationship ending)

7. just no (immoral and illegal in many jurisdictions)

Let opponents create and join the game with real stakes (money, labor, product, reputation, etc.).

Make sure your EULA is ironclad in case any users litigate after having woken up with a massive hangover and finding the entire world angry at them.

UPDATE: The tiers should be additive, so level 4, for example, would include shortcuts from levels 1 through 3.

EDIT: formatting; swap categories 4 and 5; punctuation; number agreement; grammar; add UPDATE

2 comments

And hook it up to a breathalyzer peripheral so that the level goes up the more you drink.
Wasn't there a movie recently released along these lines?