You can't win the game, it exists only to destroy your mind (opens in new tab)

Tom7 (the author) has done quite a lot of great stuff; his game "T in Y world" [1] is pretty good, and you may also remember him from his programs Learnfun & Playfun, which taught themselves to play Super Mario (and various other NES games) [2].

Do check out more of his work!

[1] http://tinyworld.spacebar.org/ [2] http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~tom7/mario/

It seems like the gaming equivalent of an anti-joke. Anti-jokes can be funny because they're not funny in the way you expect. The self-similarity and the structure of the map make it seem like you can achieve something but there's really no goal .. maybe that's really a lot more like most video games than one cares to consider.

All it needs is some soothing bloops and beeps to make it that but more of a non-goal oriented Skinner box - akin to Tetris without the scoring.

I played for a minute or two, said "Huh," and closed the tab. Sure feels like I won.

Weird stuff starts happening when you try to stack all the squares up against the left wall.

http://i.imgur.com/kc51uSQ.png

I feel like I have taken the red pill while watching Inception.

You can never win the game[1]

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Game_(mind_game)

Actually I did win the game - we all won the game. It only exists to benefit your mind.

It's hard to win the game when you can't determine what the goal is.

Said it before, but: if you hold shift, you can navigate the 'map'.

Where is the Occulus Rift version?

"The only winning move is not to play." - WOPR

i fell into an abyss. I consider that a win.

Now this is a vicious one! I love how you can group the blocks one after the other and be all WTF is going on heeeere? Is it me or loops are becoming quite a trend? Yes, Silent Hills teaser, I'm talking about you.

I almost won but there are other players that keep getting in my way!

Looks like we killed it. Site's down. Edit: back up.

Accurate description.

A strange game. The only winning move is not to play.

This made me feel quite nauseated!

It's been HackerNews'd.

This is pretty trippy, kinda like playing a psychedelic version of Sisyphus.

actually there's a YouWin[1] function.

[1] http://entire.spacebar.org/entire.js

Keep going left and jump. Freedom.

a thing of beauty, love the potential for team work.

SO trippy.

cool

Win vs Beat

A lot of people fall into this trap.

When someone beats me at a game, they most likely say "I've won you." as oppose to "I've beaten you." The former implies I'm the prize.

I've fallen into this trap myself plenty of times and do wonder if messages like "You win ...." enforces this mistake.