alt Hacker NewsI just spent 10 minutes being told that the name I chose was not usable. Am I being pranked, is this the whole game?
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macintux • last Thursday at 2:40 AM
I’m reminded of the time, probably 20 years ago, when some viral game was making the rounds. It was designed such that the controls, even the goals, weren’t obvious, but as it turned out, it didn’t respond to my Mac’s trackpad because I used tap to click and the game didn’t recognize my taps.
So, as far as I could tell, the game was utterly pointless. The developer replied to me apologetically on Twitter but I never went back to give it another shot.
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Sebguer • last Thursday at 3:31 AM
what was the name? and how did you possibly spend ten minutes on it
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Depends on the name. Imagine people would use insult-names in a roleplay MUD.
10 minutes sounds excessive though. Was the prompt not informing you that the name xyz can not be used and you'd have to pick another one? It also depends on the MUD of course - how many names did you try?
I never had a problem picking a proper name for one of my characters, but indeed I hated it when MUDs would want to make me wait for name-approval manually. Most MUDs allowed instant-creation and resume gameplay on the spot though. Weird that the name-choice barrier took you 10 minutes. What was the MUD?