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Google Choose Your Own Adventure Game
 By
Nathan Weinberg
Philipp has made a game he calls "The Google Adventure", a choose-your-way text game.
The game invites you, a new Google hire, to make a series of choices that will supposedly lead either to fame or Plaxo. Five minutes in, I haven't done much adventuring, so maybe someone can suggest a path that doesn't have me getting fired for playing Minesweeper.
I remember seeing an online choose-your-own-adventure game that invited participants to write branches that weren't written yet, a sort of wiki adventure, maybe we could try that, adding in all the different things that a Googler can do, like:
• Build a wacky/useful/massive revenue project in your free time
• Use your free 20% time to play with your kids, or volleyball
• Run over a Google founder with a Segway
•Get fired for blogging
• Become a very boring type of superhero who hunts down search spammers and has only one very strong superpower: deindexing
• Be older than most Googlers, hate the Google culture and sue them because you didn't have fun
• Snap your spine over a large, colorful ball and spend the rest of your life hooked up as an AI within a Google datacenter
• Go on the Google ski trip, everyone gets trapped by an avalanche, and we find out what PhD brains taste like when you have to survive
• Run a raid on Yahoo and steal their mascot. Realize Yahoo doesn't have a mascot, steal Zawodny's glider
• Add AJAX to your kids mittens
• Forget about your job and wait for your stock options to vest
• Move to the Kirkland office and listen to jealous Microsoft employees
• Date Marissa Mayer
• Date Larry Page
• Date Google Calendar (good luck!)
• Aquire a promising startup, distribute their team throughout the company, and forget the startup ever existed
• Discover you have a 187 IQ. Spend the rest of your career wearing the dunce cap
Come up with your own in the comments, or try to figure out which of mine actually happened.
About the Author:
Nathan Weinberg writes the popular InsideGoogle blog, offering the latest news and insights about Google and search engines.
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