4 Minutes and 33 Seconds Player Tracker
You may or may not recall an entry into the recent Global Game Jam by a certain Petri Purho of Crayon Physics fame.
'4 Minutes and 33 Seconds of Uniqueness' was an extremely strange yet unique invention by which the user loaded the 'game' up and then simply sat and watched a bar fill up. If anyone else in the world booted the program up while you were 'playing', it would quit and you had lost. If, however, you managed to last the entire time as the sole user, you won.
Now Jonathan Basseri has created a tracker so players can follow exactly who is 'winning' at any time. Utilizing Google Maps and GeoCityLite, the current leader is displayed along with how far through the time they have achieved. When a new player enters the arena, the view is switched to them. And so on.
While being completely pointless, it's quite humourous to load both the program and this site up together and check from which part of the world your victory is being stolen.
The original game can be found over on Petri's blog, while the tracker is located over here.
Comments
I don't know how common it is for someone to actually win 4:33, but this sounds like an ideal griefing tool: watch the tracker until someone hits 4:30...then boot up the game.
Posted by: juv3nal | February 18, 2009 2:03 AM
Yeah, I'm trying this out right now and it greatly changes the experience.
Posted by: Nels Nelson | February 18, 2009 2:16 AM
@juv3nal: I had not even considered that, but you make a very good point :D
Posted by: Michael Rose | February 18, 2009 6:37 AM
I played it and finished it! \o/
Posted by: X-Tender | February 18, 2009 8:54 AM
4:33 it's also the title of a John Cage's composition that consist in 4:33 of silence :P
Posted by: EraserHead | February 18, 2009 10:41 AM
That map is nearly pointing out London Ontario, where I live. Spooky!
Posted by: Mike K | February 18, 2009 12:50 PM
Scratch that... Seems it's closer to Toronto. That's Geography for you.
Posted by: Mike K | February 18, 2009 12:53 PM
AHHHH. I was doing so well! I was like 7/8ths done and then some guy in Belarus had to come along and deny me!
I'll show him!
Posted by: mrfredman | February 18, 2009 6:08 PM
i think i finished the game because there was a tick appeared while all of the bar got white
Posted by: Finisher | May 9, 2009 8:09 PM