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I fell asleep reading this article and had a sort of half dream about a post-apocalyptic game in which you the amnesiac protagonist (whose initials are “AZ”) ga
by inopinatus 7y ago
I fell asleep reading this article and had a sort of half dream about a post-apocalyptic game in which you the amnesiac protagonist (whose initials are “AZ”) gain consciousness aboard the MV Dirona, and to discover yourself must awake an ancient demon, a task that actually involves finding and activating long-lost AWS data centers, solving progressively harder puzzles using only in-game clues, a voice conferencing service over which a mysterious and cantankerous but also very tired-sounding voice feeds you tidbits of cryptic information in a mocking and self-righteous tone, and the gradually collected pieces of a 20,000 page wiki printout titled “Cold Start of AWS Region (confidential)” that is only about 80% accurate for each site.
Along the way you discover you are very good at playing yourself at board games, which is a key mechanic, and your rating improves with each region successfully started.
Final boss is us-east-1 of course, after which the identity of the “voice”, and the protagonist, are revealed.
Sort of like Myst, with an inverted Adam and Eve thing going on, and a lot more JSON.