Hey, so I’m a game dev/writer with Twin Earth. The founder of our team is an EA and former moral philosophy lecturer, and coincidentally he actually asked me earlier to explore the possibility of a web-based card game that would be pretty much exactly the type of game you describe.
I.e. the player is the CEO of the AI company Endgame Inc / Race Condition Inc (we never decided which name to use), various event cards involving similar to real world and speculative events, project cards that you had to prioritize between (i.e. alignment or product), and many, many bad ends and a few good ones where you get aligned AGI. We also were planning things like having Shareholder Support and Public Opinion be stats that can go too low and cause you to also lose the game. Stuff like that.
The game, which is still in its very early stages, has been on hiatus for over a year due to my having a baby and the rest of the team being focused on another unrelated game (which recently went into Early Access but the team is still pretty busy with it). When I was still working on Endgame Inc (again, tentative title), it was voluntarily on the side, as we didn’t expect to sell the game, but rather release it for free to get as wide an audience as possible.
I’m not sure if making this game is still planned, but it might be something I can go back to working on when I have the time to spare.
Congrats on the baby—I hope all are well! This is very cool, and glad to hear that others have thought about this as well. A virtual (or physical!) card game is definitely a modality that could work for this as well. I’ve separately thought that a card game would be great for an adversarial board game would be something around nuclear armament with different players playing as different countries, etc etc.
Hey, so I’m a game dev/writer with Twin Earth. The founder of our team is an EA and former moral philosophy lecturer, and coincidentally he actually asked me earlier to explore the possibility of a web-based card game that would be pretty much exactly the type of game you describe.
I.e. the player is the CEO of the AI company Endgame Inc / Race Condition Inc (we never decided which name to use), various event cards involving similar to real world and speculative events, project cards that you had to prioritize between (i.e. alignment or product), and many, many bad ends and a few good ones where you get aligned AGI. We also were planning things like having Shareholder Support and Public Opinion be stats that can go too low and cause you to also lose the game. Stuff like that.
The game, which is still in its very early stages, has been on hiatus for over a year due to my having a baby and the rest of the team being focused on another unrelated game (which recently went into Early Access but the team is still pretty busy with it). When I was still working on Endgame Inc (again, tentative title), it was voluntarily on the side, as we didn’t expect to sell the game, but rather release it for free to get as wide an audience as possible.
I’m not sure if making this game is still planned, but it might be something I can go back to working on when I have the time to spare.
Congrats on the baby—I hope all are well! This is very cool, and glad to hear that others have thought about this as well. A virtual (or physical!) card game is definitely a modality that could work for this as well. I’ve separately thought that a card game would be great for an adversarial board game would be something around nuclear armament with different players playing as different countries, etc etc.