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Games You Can play at work: Help me be unproductive!

TurnipTurnip Registered User regular
edited May 2009 in Games and Technology
Hope I am doing this right. What I am looking for are games that you can play at work that don't look like games. Obviously text based games work well, games that can be played without installing anything (or minimal), etc. Things that are not flashy and distracting are great too... Anyone know of a game or two worth playing like this?

Multiplayer is great too, I know a bunch of people stuck at work looking to kill time... Oh, and before anyone tells me to "get back to work", my job has a lot of downtime... There really is nothing for me to do ;-)

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  • Rhesus PositiveRhesus Positive GNU Terry Pratchett Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Dwarf Fortress in windowed mode.

    Kiss your RAM goodbye, though.

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  • PeregrineFalconPeregrineFalcon Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Desktop Tower Defense

    Guaranteed to get you fired or your money back.

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  • UncleSporkyUncleSporky Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Text adventures!

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  • happy cabbagehappy cabbage Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Erepublik Its an amusing game if only for the fact you can troll entire countrys.

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  • Tim JamesTim James Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Emacs has some games built into it, if there's a reason for you to use that program.

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  • RobmanRobman Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Why play games when you can troll news forums?

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  • OrogogusOrogogus San DiegoRegistered User regular
    edited May 2009
    And more text adventures.

    I once made a flash card Visual Basic script in Excel to practice Chinese. If you have any studying to do you could do that.

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  • TurnipTurnip Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Oh god Zork!

    This is so happening.

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  • an_altan_alt Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    There's always Kingdom of Loathing for an epic stick figure based in browser RPG.

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  • prfntbtrprfntbtr Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    I second Kingdom of Loathing, truly hilarious game.

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  • TurnipTurnip Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Where can I find Kingdom of Loathing?

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  • Post BluePost Blue Redmond, WARegistered User regular
    edited May 2009
    How long before there's a flash "console" that launches games the way Youtube launches videos?

    Tell me how it's already happening.

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  • TurnipTurnip Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    That's a brilliant idea, a youtube for games... why hasnt this been done... we could make so much money...

    Tried zork, got eaten by a Grue... :(

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  • DracilDracil Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Progress Quest. Nothing beats playing a game that plays itself. Multiplayer ladder too.

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  • Tim JamesTim James Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Dracil wrote: »
    Progress Quest. Nothing beats playing a game that plays itself. Multiplayer ladder too.
    You don't really want to join now, wait for a ladder reset and a balance patch.

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  • NeurotikaNeurotika Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Estiah is a pretty awesome browser adventure/RPG game thing. Like Kingdom of Loathing, it's great for 30-60 mins a day.

    Also, it's free.

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  • InitialDKInitialDK Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Awe, all these are blocked at my work.

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  • cj iwakuracj iwakura The Rhythm Regent Bears The Name FreedomRegistered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Nanaca Crash can be played at work. And this was a browser that blocked PA.

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  • KalTorakKalTorak One way or another, they all end up in the Undercity.Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    I found a nice DOS version of Moria - roguelike RPG with an ASCII-based GUI.

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  • DracilDracil Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Tim James wrote: »
    Dracil wrote: »
    Progress Quest. Nothing beats playing a game that plays itself. Multiplayer ladder too.
    You don't really want to join now, wait for a ladder reset and a balance patch.

    Battle-finches don't need a nerf. L2P.

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  • LaPuzzaLaPuzza Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    I found this fun. Hamlet the Text Adventure? Count me in.

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  • citizen059citizen059 hello my name is citizen I'm from the InternetRegistered User regular
    edited May 2009
    ForceVoid wrote: »
    Estiah is a pretty awesome browser adventure/RPG game thing. Like Kingdom of Loathing, it's great for 30-60 mins a day.

    Also, it's free.

    Second that. Though I don't play often I have something like five characters there. :P

    I'm tinkering with my Scout some lately.

    Edit: Also, there's a PA guild that's had quite a lot of success. See the forum thread here.

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  • Richard_DastardlyRichard_Dastardly Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    UncleSporky wrote: »
    Text adventures!

    If that's blocked like it is for me, this might work. Has the Lurking Horror!

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  • fairweatherfairweather OregonRegistered User regular
    edited May 2009
    I was playing Nethack for a bit. I found a decent guide and tried to learn to play it a bit better, which helped some. Haven't played it for a bit though so now I forget everything I've learned so far :)

    Also, I have Progress Quest running in the background on my system --> Frotwhig, level 63 Land Squid Tickle-Mimic

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  • BarneyLBarneyL Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    I used to use ScummVM on a pda all the time at my old job. It's pretty easy to make sure no one sees a screen that size.

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  • BroncbusterBroncbuster Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Spelunky is not multiplayer but awesome. Can run from a flash drive, and no install required.

    http://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=4017.0

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