Instead of flashing up a boring screensaver, your computer goes on the Internet, logs into a computers-only gameserver and battles with other computers who are on their coffeebreak too.

Since the environment is being built by the gameserver, and all the other player-characters are run by other computers, your computer only has to do the AI for *one* character which makes for a much more interesting video.
-- FlyingToaster, Nov 01 2008

The Endless Forest http://tale-of-tale...m/TheEndlessForest/
" The Endless Forest is a multiplayer online game and social screensaver." [waxpancake, Nov 02 2008]

Cool, It could even log into games being played by humans in "Audience only" mode too!. [+]
-- kamathln, Nov 01 2008


"stalker mode", funny but that's a totally different idea. I was thinking of an addon where the human could take over the controls (and get creamed in a couple seconds). § x1
-- FlyingToaster, Nov 01 2008


[+] Great idea! You could sit in front of it and make believe it's you working the controls and impress your kids. You could also have it doing Day Trading, you might make a buck or two.
-- theGem, Nov 01 2008



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