Comments on: Everyone Panic! Floods!

By: Smurfy

Smurfy — Tue, 05 May 2009 17:22:05 +0000

postin a year after this article was posted lolll

By: sinister agent

sinister agent — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 00:57:41 +0000

I can’t believe I missed this article. Brilliant!

From your description, it actually sounds to me like a pretty accurate simulation of the job of most government figures. “Well done, what a great idea. What the hell were you thinking? What a stupid idea. Well done”, day in day out, until eventually they just crack, snort a couple of lines of cocaine, bugger a rent boy and have done with it.

By: Scandalon

Scandalon — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 23:59:51 +0000

I want to play that game! The one w/ the crabs and lobster armies I mean.

By: malkav11

malkav11 — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 21:58:22 +0000

Well, drat. I was hoping for a lovingly simulated game about intentionally flooding places.

By: EyeMessiah

EyeMessiah — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 17:29:25 +0000

Why does the chart in the screen-4 show such a high risk of flood in the highlands? Or am I reading it wrong? Is that after everywhere else is under water?

By: yns88

yns88 — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 22:28:50 +0000

Re: Pandemic 2

While it is a pretty cool game, I was struck by the notion that killing everyone on earth is a really stupid thing for a virus/parasite to do. “Success” for an infection seems much more likely to just be high infectivity with minimal deadliness, as that ensures that it will continue to spread as long as humans exist.

By: Ginger Yellow

Ginger Yellow — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 17:00:10 +0000

“Bullfrogs old plattform game, Flood, seems much more fun than this”

Ah, that brings back memories. Can you imagine that ST Format taught its readers how to write Flood in machine code? Different times.

By: Leeks!

Leeks! — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 15:39:36 +0000

Occasionally–not often, but occasionally–I feel ostracized by the… englishness of RPS. A semi-propaganda game about stats-based disaster relief is one of those things that just seems like it couldn’t happen anywhere else. This is the silliest kind of culture shock.

By: D

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 12:48:42 +0000

Do I get a choice?

By: wcaypahwat

wcaypahwat — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 12:24:54 +0000

Wow. We get flodds down here…. the results a year later? People still waiting to have their houses repaired (though some are waiting on earthquake repairs from a decade back), and in true australian fashion….. a new brand of alcohol.

By: Adam Hepton

Adam Hepton — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 11:24:27 +0000

I am struggling to decide whether this is a worse idea for a game than Bus Simulator or not.

By: Gap Gen

Gap Gen — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 11:22:39 +0000

What would be cool is a sim where you’re Prime Minister about the time sea levels rise and engulf much of Britain. Now *there’s* a flood sim.