Impetus

Released as part of LUDUM DARE #27, whose theme was "ten seconds", IMPETUS was a short-lived collaborative game in which players across the world worked together around the clock to keep a doomed astronaut alive for as long as possible. A player visiting the game's page would be presented with a picture of the unnamed unconscious woman, and a countdown indicating how long she had yet to live. Any player clicking the prominent "click to keep alive" button would result in the countdown being reset: by working together, by ensuring that the button was pressed at least once every ten seconds, players could attempt to keep her alive. The game was victim of its success: after almost 12 hours of…