By Nathan Weinberg
Expert Author
Article Date: 2006-02-06

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.

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