{"id":511,"date":"2008-12-03T13:27:37","date_gmt":"2008-12-03T17:27:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/?p=511"},"modified":"2008-12-03T13:27:37","modified_gmt":"2008-12-03T17:27:37","slug":"driving-the-desert-bus-for-a-good-cause","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/2008\/12\/03\/driving-the-desert-bus-for-a-good-cause\/","title":{"rendered":"Driving the Desert Bus for a Good Cause"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You may be aware of Penn &amp; Teller&#8217;s unreleased <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Penn_%26_Teller%27s_Smoke_and_Mirrors#Desert_Bus\">Desert Bus<\/a> game, wherein you have to drive a bus the complete 8-hour realtime trip between Tucson and Las Vegas.<\/p>\n<p>Since the bus veers to the right, and since there is no pause or save function, this may be the most boring game in the world.<\/p>\n<p>And yet &#8230; isn&#8217;t there something fascinating about it? Some kind of pure gameness?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/desertbus.org\/\">Desert Bus for Hope<\/a> is a charity event in which participants play <em>Desert Bus<\/em> non-stop, while onlookers can give donations to keep the bus going. At the time of writing, the game has been played for 4 days and 15 hours, with $56.000 collected &#8211; the money goes to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.childsplaycharity.org\/\">Child&#8217;s Play<\/a> charity.<\/p>\n<p>Had I been American, I would have described this as &#8220;awesome&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/desert-bus.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-512\" title=\"desert-bus\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/desert-bus.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"422\" height=\"296\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/desert-bus.gif 422w, https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/desert-bus-300x210.gif 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 422px) 85vw, 422px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You may be aware of Penn &amp; Teller&#8217;s unreleased Desert Bus game, wherein you have to drive a bus the complete 8-hour realtime trip between Tucson and Las Vegas. Since the bus veers to the right, and since there is no pause or save function, this may be the most boring game in the world. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/2008\/12\/03\/driving-the-desert-bus-for-a-good-cause\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Driving the Desert Bus for a Good Cause&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}