client: self-promotional

click here to play operation: enduring pipeline

description: created a military parody game to emphasize the futility of trying to win America's War on Terror. terrorists and normal civilians are indistinguishable (as in real life) and as they enter the screen on the right and progress to the left you must stop all terrorists from exiting on the left (or they use their suitcase nukes on one of your cities). if you accidentally kill a civilian, it will enrage nearby witnesses who then themselves become terrorists.

duties: responsible for all copy, code, music and sound effects editing. jason whitley created the designs.

employer: self-promotional

special features:

• 5 level's corresponding to the 'color-coded terror chart'
• objectives are 'typed' on the screen for the user, including typos and 'backspacing' that fixes the typos and retypes them
• timed special events such as 'CIA payoff' (money rains from sky, all terrorists become civilians), 'carpet bombing' (bombs rain from sky), 'canadian red cross truck' (in reference to the american's destruction of canadians as well as a red cross facility, severe point reduction for hitting it)
• 3 dimensional (simulated) playing surface
• number of houses and caves determined by level, placement is random. houses can be destroyed, equal to the death of 5 civilians
• civilians and terrorists can enter caves (anthills), exist underground, and exit caves in other locations
• weapon 1 the 'laser guided missile' heads in the direction fired until it nears the ground, then it veers off in a random direction much to the frustration of the user
• weapon 2 the 'food packets and cluster bombs' drops sandwiches, some of which are food (coverts terrorist to civilian) and some of which are cluster bombs (explodes.) this is a sarcastic reference to our using small yellow food packets which very much resembled our small yellow cluster bombs
• weapon 3 the 'paratrooper' infuriates terrorists on screen and causes them to launch shoulder-mounted rockets at the paratrooper, who subsequently dies. this is one of the only ways that the user can figure out which are which. terrorists underground will pop half-out of caves to use rocket launchers (indicating there are terrorists below ground)
• weapon 4 the 'bunker buster' will destroy everything below ground, as well as creating a hole in the earth which people could fall into
• weapon 5 the 'mini nuke' is exactly as it sounds. total devestation
• the game ends and your inevitably negative score is tallied, you are given statistics, and you are assigned 3 Bush administration heads by the 'slot machine' and words associated with each to create a visual and verbal representation of how well you did
• the credits features the song 'United States of Whatevah' by Sifl and Olly and scrolls every piece of code used in the game at such a rapid pace that no one could possibly read it.