This meeting could have been a brick

June 26, 2024 2:06 PM

BreakTime – I made a game. It’s called BreakTime. It’s Breakout (aka Brick Breaker) running inside Google Calendar. Your meetings are bricks. It (optionally) declines the meetings you destroy.
posted by Wolfdog (8 comments total)

It’s important to decline events one at a time
i disagree & am not playing unless version 2.0 includes a functional scatter [fandom]
posted by HearHere at 2:57 PM on June 26

Love the idea, but the game ends in a second once the single balls hits my crowded calendar.
posted by doctornemo at 4:38 PM on June 26

That was adorable. With a crowded calendar it's like regular breakout-- you have to get the ball to bounce *above* the meetings..
posted by nat at 10:07 PM on June 26

I remember there was a Windows game where your desktop icons turned into spaceships and you had to shoot them down or something.
posted by credulous at 10:26 PM on June 26 [1 favorite]

Reminds me of PS Doom, by Dennis Chao. He published a serious paper "Doom as an interface for process management" (SIGCHI 2001) and would wrap up talks by finding and killing the Doom process or the X server to dramatically shutdown the presentation.
posted by autopilot at 6:19 AM on June 27

there was a Windows game where your desktop icons turned into spaceships and you had to shoot them down or something.

I think I had the same game. Except you had weapons, including a chainsaw.
My kids loved it.
posted by doctornemo at 10:46 AM on June 27

The original Breakout arcade game was designed by Steve Wozniak.

I remember when Breakout arrived. I was in 8th grade at a little private school that was on a college campus. The college got a Breakout game in its recreation center, about a 1/4 mile away from us. When the lunch bell rang, about a dozen boys would sprint to the recreation center. I only ever played Breakout a little bit and never got good at it.
posted by neuron at 11:33 AM on June 27 [1 favorite]

This is by the same creator as One Million Checkboxes, also currently on the MeFi homepage.
posted by waxpancake at 5:13 PM on June 29