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Here’s a video game you hope to never have to play. Imagine creating a video game nobody would ever want to play, intentionally. Stay in School was developed as a punishment tool. Under the direction of youth correctional organizations and child psychologists, Stay in School is meant to be a deterrent to a life of leisure, crime, and indifference. It’s designed to “bore you straight.” Stay in School is an eight-hour a day, week-long virtual reality game that must be played in its entirety or the player’s gaming machine will be internally destroyed. Stay in School puts you in the role of an assembly line technician, installing bolt after bolt on combines. Players get the requisite coffee and lunch break but they’ll be heavily penalized for being tardy or insubordinate. The message of the game is for kids to “stay in school” so as to avoid dead end jobs and meaningless lives. When kids and teens are in trouble with the authorities, there are a number of programs in place to deal with them, whether it’s for punishment or rehabilitation. The creators hope Stay in School will keep kids from getting into trouble in the first place, or at least give them a second chance. Authority figures such as school teachers, police, priests, and bar musicians will have access to copies of the game with the intention of loading it in a troubled youth’s gaming machine. Stay in School is available in all popular gaming formats including PC, and all Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo products. “We see this game as kind of an electronic booting device,” chuckles Ron Twerp. “Once installed it has to be played from start to finish although the start time can be set for a few months down the line. Kids will have to sacrifice their Christmas or Summer holidays to complete it. I have personally tried the game and after ten minutes I was screaming for it to stop,” Twerp admits. “But this is a necessity, we have to attack these kids where they live, so to speak, and we’re targeting gaming.” Failure to perform up to standards will add time to the player’s game. Players will definitely not want to add another second to the forty hours of gameplay that has been described as relentlessly mind-numbing. Players have the option to quit the first job, or they could get fired. Another occupation is available, but it’s a secret, although we can tell you it involves burgers and a clown. |