http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6Llqa-kpDM

Curiosity by Peter Molyneux

The game on iOS and Android is essentially an enormous bubble wrap popping sim ;p

Except you have a cube, and there are potentially billions of tiny pieces to pop.

This is a social experiment, people join to tap on the cube and systematically remove layer by layer of a giant cube to finally reveal what is inside. And only one person will get the special "life-changing" message that is revealed after he/she taps the last piece.

And interesting thing is the DLC. You can get picks which will allow you to chip away more pieces per tap. The best and most expensive one is a diamond pick which costs roughly 77000 real-life dollars. [sic!]

Now...I am curious about one thing...when will programmers put more effort into making apps for Android? Believe it or not, it has the most of the smartphone market and still iOS is preferred. It's nearly impossible at present to log into Curiosity, the game has some performance issues and logging in via Facebook is virtually impossible.

It's things like these... calling this money-milking shit a "game", that makes me go mad these days....

I'm all for avant-garde use of technology, games as means for experimenting or artistic expression.

But this just sounds like an unbelievable waste of time.

I think the diamond pick is a deliberate piss-take, and I bet the message in the middle will be something along the lines of "if you paid for DLC to win this, you're a fucking mug".

This is a video, how to play it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tftyaQKu3E&feature=youtu.be

And here we have some nice pictures of what people are doing in the game (some of these NSFW):
http://onthecube.tumblr.com/

This looks like the most egregious waste of time and money ever conceived, and Molyneux is so full of himself for no reason it's incredible.

Though, I would give the guy serious props if the big payoff was a Troll Face or some such.

Well, I'm obviously not his target audience; no curiosity here.

Ah, Peter Molyneux, what are we to do with you?

No comment.

So was the Mars landing just a publicity stunt for the game?

Interesting idea.
Would try it if it wasn't for those server issues...

The message inside is probably one of these:

"Sorry, you no win this time, try again."
"Baseball wrong. Man with 4 balls cannot walk."
"No man is island, except Lo Wang."
"You should kill all business associates."
"You should not scratch yourself there."
"Man who stand on toilet, high on pot."
"Man who buy drowned cat pay for wet pussy."
"Don't you know you the scum of society?!"
"Man trapped in pantry has ass in jam."
"You never going to score."
"You try harder get along. Be a nice man."
"26-31-43-82-16-29"
"Your chi attracts many chicks."
"Man who fart in church sit in own pew."
"There is much death in future."
"(c)1997,3DRealms fortune cookie company."

i'm pretty sure the message on the inside is a 404 error.

Hahaha.

Curiosity killed the phone.