[lifefeed]

I had the Dungeon Notebook. It was fun. I played it until I got bored, which was quick, then gave it away.

The ability to "give away" these little games are part of the fun. I'd like to see a game like this where "giving it away" is part of the game. Something you can pass around a school or a con. Like an analog version of Chain World, which was a mini-Minecraft-on-a-USB-stick that you were supposed to pass on. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chain_World )

[CuriousCosmic]

Subnautica has a somewhat related concept which is that at the end of the game you have the ability to send a single time capsule to the maps of new players. They contain text, a picture (taken with the in game camera), and a handful of items.

It's a cute little feature that allows you to send something helpful (or just amusing) to the next generation of players.

[lifefeed]

I got a little fish in my first capsule (along something useful that I can't remember, maybe a suit). I kept it the whole game, then passed it on in my own capsule. It's silly, but I still think about that fish.

[cbm-vic-20]

Sounds like a NetHack "bones level" that gets created when you die, and may appear in someone else's game. Full of cursed items, of course.

https://nethackwiki.com/wiki/Bones#Description

[IgorPartola]

Nothing like finding your own bones and being attacked by your ghost.

[rkowalick]

Sounds like the nethack equivalent of seeing bad code, running

  git blame

and finding out it was me.

[mhb]

Wait until you hear about PaperBooks. They're like a Kindle download except, once you finish reading one, you can give it to anyone else to read. And BookNotes are completely portable - anything you write in it stays with the PaperBook and can be read by any other person.

[rchaud]

This reminds me of a scene in Parks and Recreation where a local fashionista in a small town is pitching the latest evolution of almond milk and oat milk....beef milk.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMIW2tBpnDI

[benbristow]

You're going to be blown away when you hear about DRM free eBooks and LibGen...

[tutuca]

I believe he was being sarcastic and talking about old fashioned, actual paper books.

[cafeinux]

Reminds me when in school I had to do a presentation about ways to defend against malware. I showed a few software examples (among other things) and ended with "the most powerful anti-malware ever, compatible with every other anti-malware, adds a strong security layer to them, protects your passwords, prevents you from opening spam, from clicking unknown links, from replying to phishing, almost impossible to uninstall by a hacker, and lots of other powerful features: Common Sense™".

One of the other students came to me after class and said "hey, that last software seems really promising, but I never heard about it. What was it again?"

[SpaceNoodled]

You should have asked them how they managed to uninstall it.

[patcon]

As the sort of absent-minded human who (no matter how much I learn) will always have a deep-seated irrational fear of being "that student", I must say: sick burn

[benbristow]

Nothing gets past you!

[beretguy]

You can give away Kindles too.

[mhb]

Yes. But that would be more like giving someone a bookshelf.

[muddi900]

A bookshelf where all the books disappear unless you also give the person all your household purchase history.

[itishappy]

Scrawl it! *thump. clap. thump thump clap thump*

Erase it! *thump. clap. thump thump clap thump*

Pass it! *dun dun dun dun dun dun*

[julianeon]

I've seen this in the wild: for sale at Gamescape in San Francisco.