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Airport Security roleplaying? You must be joking photo

Let me say that thanks to my beloved Destructoid, I spend a lot of time in airports. Waiting in lines, waiting to check in, waiting for security to mess up my neatly organized suitcase, waiting for a grumpy ticket mistress to give me attitude about changing a seat, etc. Due to this experience and a matter of personal preference, I hate airports with a passion. If I didn't need them to get to events, I would have issue whatsoever destroying them in a fury of pyromania and ecstasy.

That being said, when I stumbled upon Airport Security today I actually had a moment where my brain shut down completely from confusion over the game's existance. Sure, it's a Shockwave game, so it's not quite as troubling as if it was put out by a major developer, but still. You want me to play a game about BEING IN THE AIRPORT???? I think I'd sooner claw my eyeballs from the sockets, but you know, that's just me. Bonus points for surviving three flight delays? Score goes down if you kill a flight attendant? How about this: you change Airport Security into an FPS where I get to shoot everybody I see in the face? The mere idea soothes me.


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BluFire's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/29/2007 14:08
BluFire
Can you make some chick take her clothes off so you can scan her?
Neonie's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/29/2007 14:09
Neonie
An FPS at the air port? FUCK YA! I mean, we had one FPS that was under the sea that was fuckin epic. Why not an FPS in the sky? HELL YES! (Lol i'm sure Jack Tompson would be like "It's a terrorist simulator)
blehman's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/29/2007 14:09
blehman
[B]NO NO NO NO NO!!

DO NOT WANT!![/b]
Bethla Garrison's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/29/2007 14:13
Bethla Garrison
This game's been around for awhile.. it's actually fun, in that time-killing Flash game way.
blehman's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/29/2007 14:13
blehman
i fail :(
TheMadLeper's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/29/2007 14:14
TheMadLeper
someone is gonna miss construe that last line as a terrorist threat...
JonDarkwood's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/29/2007 14:14
JonDarkwood
That looks like a Habbo addon or something.
BlueWolf72's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/29/2007 14:18
BlueWolf72
Can I unplug the scanner and cause a dilemma?

AngelsDontBurn's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/29/2007 14:21
AngelsDontBurn
Being in a real airport is bad enough!
GuitarAtomik's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/29/2007 14:23
GuitarAtomik
lol. The FBI is wiretapping your phones as we speak because of that last sentence.
Tiff's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/29/2007 14:24
Tiff
Dude, don't hate on this game!

Mad props to Ian Bogost and Persuasive Games. Sure his games aren't entertaining in the sense of your typical pew pew pew experience, but at least he's using game design to explore real-time issues. Bogost FTW.
emotaku's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/29/2007 14:27
emotaku
Have you seen the rest of the stuff at Persuasive Games? That's their forte.

"Bacteria Salad"
"Oil God"
"Xtreme Errands"

The founder was on the Colbert Report a while back. Hot interview action.
Snaileb 's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/29/2007 14:27
Snaileb
"you change Airport Security into an FPS where I get to shoot everybody I see in the face? The mere idea soothes me."

Colette you F*CKING scare me.

God damn.
AngelsDontBurn's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/29/2007 14:31
AngelsDontBurn
I'm not gonna lie though, the game was kind of fun. Along with the others made by the same team. :D
Grapefruit Juice's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/29/2007 14:31
Grapefruit Juice
'Not all bad games are Flash Games, but all Flash games are bad'

see what I did there, 'cause its about airports, and security and all..

oh, never mind.
nsolo1717's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/29/2007 14:34
nsolo1717
Colette, i like your attitude
bruceleethree's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/29/2007 14:34
bruceleethree
is the final boss osama bin caughten?
paranoiaXVI's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/29/2007 14:39
paranoiaXVI
Can I have a drunken employee running the scanners?
Or do I want that employee who confiscated a jar of peatnut butter (or something like that) and let a 6 inch swiss knife through?

I might like this game...
Tiff's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/29/2007 14:40
Tiff
@Leigh

IAN BOGOST IS YOUR SUPER COOL FRIEND!?
*jealous*
scottoid's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/29/2007 14:45
scottoid
is your sidekick a drug hound who sniffs out colubian coke smugglers? and when you do sniff em out you have to battle him in a boss fight to catch him and restraint him?
SuitcoatAvenger's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/29/2007 14:53
SuitcoatAvenger
I went on vacation a couple of week back, and let me tell you; the security checkpoints at Orlando Int. Airport are far more harrowing than any other videogame experience I've played in the past few years. I would rather take on a Big Daddy in the nude than put up with the twenty minutes of humanity stew that is the checkpoint line.
ceark's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/29/2007 14:56
ceark
if only america had a rail system that was on the level of europe. I'd rather take a train to fly a f-in plane.
Tristero's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/29/2007 15:04
Tristero
The Transportation Security Administration has issued a press release on this game.

Scroll to the bottom until you see their section on monkey helper rules.

Poor, poor humiliated monkeys.
deadknight's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/29/2007 15:09
deadknight
Actually I've played with the multiple iterations of that game. Originally he wanted to release it for cellphones, so you could play it while waiting in life at the airport. Fun sort of meta-level thing going on there. But it ended up as a flash game just cause he only ever got it on a few models of phone. I think it's pretty nifty, and also shows you how difficult it is being one of those security people, as well as how absurd the system is. It's always surprising to me how well Bogost does his games, esp since they seem to be social commentary first and how poorly other similar types of games are done. Guess that's why he does them for the NY Times now. Well, I should go read his new book!
Justice's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/29/2007 15:20
Justice
Not bad.. for an educational game!
Twosixteen's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/29/2007 15:33
Twosixteen
Is there a foot tapping mini game in the bathroom?
ibogost's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/29/2007 15:46
ibogost
@Leigh
Thanks for getting my back :)

@deadknight
Actually, they are two separate games. Perversely, we've made more than one game about airport security. The first one, Airport Insecurity was a mobile game about the experience of passengers. You can still buy that but only for a few handsets. This one was a web game (what we call a "newsgame") about the experience of TSA agents.
mackisawesome's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/29/2007 16:34
mackisawesome
i was actully thinking of that when i was going through customs
SourGr8pes's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/29/2007 17:34
SourGr8pes
I was about to say that this could be training for working for airport security, but then I remembered that you don't need a brain to work airport security
Mxyzptlk's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/29/2007 18:48
Mxyzptlk
How about this: you change Airport Security into an FPS where I get to shoot everybody I see in the face? The mere idea soothes me.

Welcome to the federal no-fly list Colette!
fearian's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/29/2007 18:54
fearian
old news is waaayyy old... And you missed the point of the game too? wow.

Dtoid really missed the mark on this one. In fact, I'd say you aimed at the barn door and hit your own elbow.
Colette Bennett's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/29/2007 20:36
Colette Bennett
I wrote about my reaction to the idea itself. I did not comment on the game's quality. Merely what I thought of it at first impression. And my first impression is that airports make me want to kill myself. The end.
DynamicSheep's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/30/2007 00:33
DynamicSheep
This game was designed by the Korean government as a means of punishment for people that cheat in Starcraft tournaments.
Alaphic's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/30/2007 09:43
Alaphic
I read about this recently in GFW. Sounds really cool, and I give Ian Bogost mad props for making a game that actually has a meaning beyond looking pretty or being fun.

/Not saying that it doesn't do either, but... That's not the point.
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