Citizen Erased

Extra instructions/info:

• Use full screen!
• Things citizens can wish for: job, for you to quit, motivation, no taxes

WARNING: SPOILERS BELOW

Concept:

you play a governor who's pressured to create mass addiction to tabacco. Manipulates his citizens yet grants them freedom. disregards the notion of their free will to attain goals, yet these goals aren't his own.

Meta-Irony: the game can be won only under one specific series of actions although each game is generated randomly. (making it seem like there's a choice, yet it's more like a puzzle game).

Philosophy Discussion (see "Philosophy" section in the game)

With regards to the question posed: in the opinion of your humble servant, it might be useful to act as if others have free will not because they are the source of their actions; but because we ourselves wouldn't want to be slaves.

In the game the player practically ensalves his citizens to a cigarette company or maximizes his own salary, not realizing he himself is slave to the game's goals (later it's discovered the cigs company's pressering him).

If the player felt bad about discovering his enslavement, then disposing the notion of free will might be difficult for him; seeing as a lot could've been prevented -- that is, the notion can be useful to him and others, even if turned out to be false.

(i.e: i take a pragmatic approach rather than idealistic; trying to consider the notion in our decisions as a general guideline might be useful, even if you're not consistent).

Easter eggs:

• name of citizens: word game on philosophers names
• game title: a Muse song
• game ending: "error" that goal is undefined (are you free now?)

Good quotes

• (tundish logs with another account)
  
• TallShrimp: "tundish, what's going on with the other tundishes"
  
• tundish: "it's always drip, drip, drip"
  
• rclaffetry: "i'm not sure i understood the 'drip, drip, drip' comment"
  
• tundish: "i'm not sure i understood the question. i gave what i could at the time"