Indie game GlitchHiker won both the Jury and Audience Awards at the Global Game Jam 2011 but don't rush off to play it. Why? Because the game doesn't work anymore, and that's not by accident. GlitchHiker was a quirky platformer/puzzle/inexplicable title broken into two parts: the GAME, which is pretty much what you would expect, and the SYSTEM, which was built on the theme of extinction
See, every time a player played GlitchHiker and died, a life was subtracted, not from their personal pool, but from the SYSTEM's. Every time a player collected 100 coins, a life was added. Unfortunately for those of us who never got to play, the former happened far more often than the latter, and the game is now inoperable.
If you want to see the game in action though, you can check out a video from Global Game Jam 2011 below!
GlitchHiker was made by six people in two days. You can still download GlitchHiker if you want, but it'll just be an ornament to hang on your desktop. Sad, really. *sniff!*
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chronoboi
Perhaps someone will create a player-made server to host more systems which have more lives. I'm sure if someone figures out how the game communicates with the server to get the lives, one can re-route the domain name via the hosts file in /etc/hosts on POSIX systems(Mac/Linux), and \Windows\System32\Drivers\etc\ hosts on Windows systems.
Hopefully someone can revive it...
secretsoda
this game looks awesome. I wish I could of helped save the system.
Goddhand
Anyone who's played Rift PVP saw this coming a mile away.
BuNnYeaTeR
You CAN play the game... just go though the tutorial. When you die and ignore the errors.. press return. Play and repeat.
Jabman0025
well that is just flat out stupid, they got an award for this nonsenese.....really?
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