6/28/2023 0 Comments The god game by danny tobey![]() More intriguing is the mysterious AI administrating it, one that believes it’s God. ![]() Game, a video game that is ostensibly run by underground hackers. In Tobey’s scenario, once promising high schooler Charlie and his hacker friends (collectively known as the Vindicators) enter the G.O.D. It’s in this grey area that Tobey is interested in playing. Danny Tobey’s THE GOD GAME reminded me of this almost immediately, although video games and the social web have become far more complex in the three decades since those books. ![]() Written as they were for a younger audience, my 1985 counterpart couldn’t help but project myself into the roles of the people in the books. Many years ago, I read Australian author Gillian Rubinstein’s Space Demons trilogy, a series where the game drew you in and took hold in the real world. ![]() From War Games to Black Mirror, film and TV has been rife with this kind of cautionary tale. ![]() It seems that there can’t be a new technology without a corresponding thriller catastrophising the possibilities of the game. The ‘most dangerous video game’ trope has been around as long as the medium. ![]()
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