Reply To: Need of beryllium and other rare materials for Focus Fusion

[Rezwan]

Breakable wrote: I play a little farm-ville. It is as dumb as it gets: You click everything you can.

The purpose of the game isn’t to do something smart, so much as give people hands on time with fusion. “Dumb” is fine, in this case. Easy and un-intimidating. The real purpose isn’t so much to “teach” people about fusion, but rather to get them to “touch” fusion. manhandle it, recklessly click away at it. Feel a sense of cavalier ownership. “Clicking” in that case is an apt metaphor. Click it, tag it, paint it fun colors, just make sure you have one (a fusion reactor) in your life.

If you want to make something smarter, you should probably think about
http://fold.it/portal/

Upscale games – great idea! A separate category, though. If you’re more inspired to develop a high end, thinking game, that’s great!

But the facebook approach isn’t about giving people difficult mental challenges. It’s about giving them excuses to poke each other with a pet rock painted to look like a fusion reactor : )