There's a mini-game in Glitch that you can buy tickets to play in a few different spots. The mini-game is a pretty simple 'king of the hill' style game where someone starts with a crown and if another player runs into them they steal the crown. First to keep the crown for a cumulative 60 seconds wins the game. It's cute and short but not terribly interesting.
The name was a little interesting though. It sounds very similar to Game of Thrones, the fantasy book series by George R R Martin. I thought that was a nice coincidence... Until earlier today when I went through the list of achievements in Glitch (if I want to get to the top of that leaderboard I need to know what I should be doing) and found the achievements related to holding the crown in the game of crowns...
The Imp - 101 seconds
Ranger of the Night's Watch - 1001 seconds
Knight of the Kingsguard - 5003 seconds
Kingslayer - 12007 seconds
Hand of the King - 25013 seconds
Monarch of the Seven Kingdoms - 100003 seconds
Yeah, guess it wasn't much of a coincidence after all, huh? Of course, to get that last achievement would require holding onto the crown for almost 28 hours! You'd have to really like playing keep-away or collecting achievements to get that one!
Monarch of the Seven Kingdoms requires you to start a GoC game and the quit before you win, then not "enter the world" before 100003 seconds is up. I thinks it's a test to see how many players can break the addiction for 27.7 hours. So I only have 24 hours of waiting left.
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ReplyDeleteHmm, very interesting. On the one hand I'd imagine that's an exploit and they'd want to fix that from happening. On the other the numbers they picked are pretty insane. If I was still playing Glitch I'd strongly considering giving this a shot.
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