Paper Apps

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 )

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.

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.

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

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

Nothing gets past you!

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?"

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.

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

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

Pass it! *dun dun dun dun dun dun*

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

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

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

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

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

Sounds like the nethack equivalent of seeing bad code, running

  git blame

and finding out it was me.

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

You can give away Kindles too.

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

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