999 Bowls of Oatmeal and 1 Jumpscare Walk Into a Random Number Generator
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This game is inspired by Kate Compton's phrase "10,000 Bowls of Oatmeal problem" coined in her excellent article https://galaxykate0.tumblr.com/post/139774965871/so-you-want-to-build-a-generato...
Photo credit for the jumpscare: https://www.flickr.com/photos/32426344@N00, found through Wikimedia Commons
Cover image made using DALL-E https://labs.openai.com/s/Ysc0H4OKnSD2OOUJCcNFPTO2
Music is "The Coil Winds" by Blue Dot Sessions: https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Blue_Dot_Sessions/Vacant_Distillery/The_Coil_...
Font is Atkinson Hyperlegible: https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Atkinson+Hyperlegible
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I started crying when the jump scare appeared
zoned out whilst clicking and somehow missed the jumpscare, twice, according to the guy sat next to me
been clicking for about an hour now..... still no jump scare.......
i hate my life
El jumpscare me decepciono un poco, ya que era la imagen de la portada y nada mas, podia seguir jugando
Talk about lucky. My crush saw me clicking like crazy while playing this game, remarked "you're damn slow" and took matters in his own hands. And we got the jumpscare after a few clicks. 😋
Fun!
There I was, playing the game, clicking to get the jumpscare, then it hit me. I had been clicking bowls of oatmeal for 2 minutes. I truly pondered my life decisions. This game has destroyed all my preconceived notions of self and free will. Man.
JK good game.
Lmao this feeling is the most interesting thing that came out of this experiment (i think), shows up in lots of games but its easier to tell here since its so stripped down. Thanks for playing!
ever have an existential crisis from oatmeal?
apparently, I can say that I have.
yeah that makes sense. I got it in like a minute
What will I have an existential crisis over next? A tall glass of juice, maybe some chips?
Possibly the phrase "honk mimimimi hooonk mimimimi"
This was a pretty cool experience. I played through it as intended, and I have to say, that jumpscare really caught me off guard!
downloaded an autoclicker to speed things up. took like 15+ seconds at 1 click per 10 milliseconds, lol.
dang, unlucky lol
spam clicking and covering my eyes lol
Good strategy :D
Hm.