<story><title>A video game where you are an operating system</title><url>https://plbrault.com/blog-posts/i-created-the-nerdierst-game-ever-en/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dextersgenius</author><text>You know what would be cool? A defragmentation game. It&amp;#x27;s basically Tetris but in a circular layout, and you get more points the better optimized it is - with frequently used data blocks towards the outer tracks and old&amp;#x2F;archive file types towards the inner tracks.&lt;p&gt;I always enjoyed watching graphical defragmenters do their magic back in the day and would unironically love to play a defragging game.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mos_basik</author><text>Wilmot&amp;#x27;s Warehouse is basically this.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s top-down 2D. You are alone in a large, empty warehouse. At regular intervals, a truck  drops off a load of assorted objects at the back, and a few people ask you for some specific objects at the counter in front.  Your role is to arrange the objects in the warehouse such that you can fill the requests in the least amount of time, and you can do this in any way that works for you (by color, function, name, etc).&lt;p&gt;As the game goes on, the truck drops off more and more different kinds of objects (usually ones that fit into more than one category), and the requests get more and more complicated.&lt;p&gt;At the end you get a time-lapse of the whole warehouse over the whole game and you can see your strategy evolving over time.&lt;p&gt;Pretty well executed and simple.  Heard about it from one of its devs in a HN comment actually.</text></comment>
<story><title>A video game where you are an operating system</title><url>https://plbrault.com/blog-posts/i-created-the-nerdierst-game-ever-en/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dextersgenius</author><text>You know what would be cool? A defragmentation game. It&amp;#x27;s basically Tetris but in a circular layout, and you get more points the better optimized it is - with frequently used data blocks towards the outer tracks and old&amp;#x2F;archive file types towards the inner tracks.&lt;p&gt;I always enjoyed watching graphical defragmenters do their magic back in the day and would unironically love to play a defragging game.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>runnerup</author><text>&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;classic.csunplugged.org&amp;#x2F;activities&amp;#x2F;community-activities&amp;#x2F;defrag-game&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;classic.csunplugged.org&amp;#x2F;activities&amp;#x2F;community-activit...&lt;/a&gt; (see also: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.itgsnews.com&amp;#x2F;the-defragmentation-game-lesson-plan&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.itgsnews.com&amp;#x2F;the-defragmentation-game-lesson-pla...&lt;/a&gt; )&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;boardgamegeek.com&amp;#x2F;boardgame&amp;#x2F;376284&amp;#x2F;defrag&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;boardgamegeek.com&amp;#x2F;boardgame&amp;#x2F;376284&amp;#x2F;defrag&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.defraggame.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.defraggame.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;There used to be a few old ones in the day that I recall trying which were a bit more direct simulacrums than these. Not sure if anyone else might find them!</text></comment>