FileKiller – The most horrific game I can make
Posted by Sophie Houlden (twitter: @S0phieH)
September 16th, 2011 10:16 am
So I’m busy this weekend, but I figured I’d have time for a simple (but EVIL) game.
- The game selects 20 files from your computer at random
- to win, you must delete them all
- you don’t know what each file is until AFTER you’ve deleted it.
- files 10 and 20 are folders, deleting them deletes everything in them
- there is no undo
this game is real, and yes, it could seriously fuck up your computer/work/job/life.
this text is a link to the game, you’d be wise to never, ever, click on it. (it’s windows only)
You mean it doesn’t send them to the recycling bin?
nope, deleted files simply cease to be.
there is no way to recover them short of serious hackery.
‘Serious hackery’? As in a simple un-delete program? Or are you saying you write over the files with ones and zeros after? If not, the files are still there. This means you have room to be more evil.
gah, I knew someone would call me on that
but yeah, the game doesn’t touch the disk after deleting the files. when it comes to warning people about the program though I want to hang out in the land of the cautious, most folk have no idea there is a chance of getting back deleted files, and I don’t wanna get sued for not warning people appropriately
I… I… I must admit…
I’m afraid… I’m strong enougth not to play it, but still… now that I know it exists… I’m afraid…
And you… you, who brought this menace upon the world… I fear you just as much, but… even so I’m good at heart, somehow… I really can’t deny it… a part of me… admires you and wants to say…
“Congratulation, you did well.”
And that’s… that’s just makes things the more scarier for me. :S
Why… did you make this?
why is it you have a strong urge to play?
for some questions, there are no good answers.
Does it shred the files too, or can they be undeleted? This sounds like a very horrific game. Scares me just thinking about it.
Already done.
http://www.geekologie.com/2009/09/video_game_deletes_files_off_y.php
yeah, only found out about that right before I was finished.
main difference though is you can win in this game, whether it’s worth it though is something else
It’s not really a game is it, more a peace of malware.
malware with a win condition!
This game is fantastic and fits the theme well! The atmosphere is scary and tempting at the same time. Polishing the graphics a bit and adding sound effects/music would make this even better. I was getting more and more nervous towards the end but I still made it! http://i.imgur.com/VT6Ud.png
Haha, I like that it tried deleting itself…
Excellent! you may have your mad props!
If you’re evil and you know it clap your hands…
oh good, my slow clap processor made it into this thing.
(GUESS MY ROLE MODEL!
)
XD (Spoiler: A sour Potato)
How the hell did you debug this while making it?
had the actual deleting code commented out till the end, and to test that last bit I made it tell me what it was going to delete first so I could make a copy or abort
I won too!
https://imgur.com/yeWib
https://imgur.com/gtJI7
and yeah this is on my main (work and play) pc. I did get pretty lucky though.
What do you get if you win?
here’s the win-screen as screenshotted by Randati http://i.imgur.com/VT6Ud.png
that’s all.
Is it possible that it deletes itself?
I don’t think so, there might be some versions of windows it will do it, but probably not. :/
(it’ll try, but probably fail)
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Is running it in a virtual machine cheating?
lol, of course it’s cheating
Heh, anyone who has a screenshot over the DEFAULT WINDOWS WALLPAPER should be disqualified.
I can see this game making an appearance on the next Saw film
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