Tuesday, January 13, 2009

The game of Afterlife

As I talked about in the earlier post the first game was no fun to play. But the second was a horse of a different color. You basically had to get good karma and had to go from death to rebirth. This took place in virtual media as did the previous one. It was in point of fact a dice game played on the computer. The stages were Death, Grave, Haunting, Ascent, Heaven, Rebirth.
You had to roll more on each score: one Death, two Graves, all the way up to Six Rebirths but on each you got more times you could roll each die. If you did not roll it on that try, you had to try again. There was the idea of gaining enlightenment that made it interesting. I think what made this game enjoyable was that we wanted to redeem ourselves in a fun game.
I think that this shows that people still want to be as good a person as they can be. Which is heartening although it has nothing to do with real karma. If I was writing this game, I might add a few gentle morality questions that help the score. Although that would be very easy to cheat on, so I would have to find a way you couldn't possibly cheat.

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