Jason Rohrer , designer of the games Passage , The Castle Doctrine and Diamond Trust of London , designed a secret plan that in all probability wo n’t be played in his lifetime . Instead , he buried the game , with the intentionthat it would n’t be played for the next two thousand years .
Back in March , Rohrer presented A Game for Someone at the 10th Game Design Challenge . Or rather , he give a presentation about A Game for Someone . Inspired in part by ancient games that are played by modern masses , like Mancala , and in part by the architect of grand structures whose completion they do n’t live to see , Rohrer decided to plan a biz meant to be play by someone in the distant future .
Since A Game for Someone was meant to never be play by a man during our lifetime , Rohrer used an AI to playtest the rules . He crafted the panel and pieces out of titanium , so that it would endure the years . Then he inhume the game somewhere in the Nevada desert . During the demonstration , each penis of the hearing have a piece of report with 900 GPS coordinates list on it . Rohrer enounce there were a million coordinates in total , and that if someone were to visit one set of coordinates with a metal demodulator once a day , the game would be get within 2,700 years .
Head over toPolygonfor more images of the game and more details about the presentation .
biz designer Jason Rohrer design a game meant to be played 2,000 years from now , hide it in desert[Polygon viaOddity Central ]
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