lose/lose – a computer game that destroys your files

Lose/lose is computer game that destroys your files, reminds me of a few operating systems…

lose/lose is a game about choice and consequence, and by extension what it means to succeed (fail). You play the role of a space captain on a seemingly endless quest to destroy attacking aliens. You receive one point for each alien you kill. You have one life, and if an alien touches you, you will explode. If you manage to kill all of the aliens without dying, you will win the game. There is an online scoreboard which is viewable below. Although lose/lose is a video-game, everything that happens while you play is real. Each alien is procedurally generated out of a file on your computer. When you kill an alien, the file it was created from is destroyed. On the other hand, if you are killed, the application itself will be destroyed.