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How would you destroy the world?

Okay, so you're a Mad Scientist/Warlord/Grand Wizard/International Playboy/NBA Superstar/Ex-Janitor who just got an Amazing Trust Fund.

You have UNLIMITED funds at your disposal. Don't worry about where it came from. But you can spare no expense on your project.

Your master goal: Reboot the world.

But how?



Now, let's assume a few things.:

  • This isn't a kamikaze mission! The means to an end with your goal must provide that you and, let's say, 100-1000 people of your choice, survive (in relative comfort -- you're sparing no expense, and these are some cool people you have in your new society posse). There has to be an aftermath gameplan.

  • When restarting society at nearly zero, no one's going to be around to manage the Wal-Mart or keep the Master Internet Flipswitch on! You're gonna have to prepare for the lack of goods & services!

  • Worldwide nuclear winter may last for many lifetimes. You're an impatient Mad Whatever and you rather enjoy breathing air and the smell of dandelions. The destruction of your choice should kill 99.99999% of the world's humans, but you should not have to wait in your Fortress of Safeitude to start sniffing flowers for more than 0-5 years.

  • Magical realism is partially allowed. Scientists are capable of doing most halfway-plausible-sounding things. They can't do something silly like make a nuclear device that targets only humans, but they can probably do some cool things with diseases or magnets or radiation or genetics or T-viruses or clarinets.

  • The End of Days you reap can't be religious in nature. Converting the rest of the world to Christianity so Jesus takes them with him during the Rapture is a clever idea, but sadly, won't fly here :(. Besides, Pat Robertson's been trying all his life and has only succeeded in wasting middle-American donation money to berate Venezuelan presidents or ladies who like voting.



So post your Master Plan.:

Fill out this form as completely and legibly as possible, so the International Magistrate of Antagonism and Dissolution of Overpopulation for Utopian Change and Human Evolution (IMADOUCHE) can process your request and award the right party their backing.

---> How I'd Do It: Your method of "cleansing" the world of its "Unnecessary Waste". Be as specific as possible. Name strains or pathogens, where applicable.

---> How I'd Get Ready to Do It: Your preparations, what you'd need, how you'd store it, contingency plans, etc.

---> Who I'd Bring Into It: Your ideal people to follow you into the new utopia you're creating. How many would there be? Consider your resources you undoubtedly prepared in the last question. Also remember that, while people may love their great uncles or cousins, inbreeding causes inadequate evolutionary progress. Also it's gross.

---> How We'd Survive It: Your cleansing-safety program. How will you while away the time during the reboot-process and ensure a lack of mortality among your chosen brethren?

---> What I'd Do After It: How would said Utopia be established? Where? What form of governing body/police force/workforce/bodyforcing would you create? How would you get people to do anything you wanted, now that your unlimited dollars/euros/pounds/pesos/bolivars have become worthless? How would you unclog the streets of the bodies of the ... "Unnecessary waste"?

---> The Future After It (and, Me!): How would you ensure future generations will keep your magnificent ideals, and not just plunge headfirst into a thousand-year dark age while worshipping the image of the Noid some guy found on a long-discarded pizza box?
 
Brewmeister":25x1vboe said:
How I'd Do It:

  • "B" arks. I'll elaborate more later. But, essentially convince 6 billion people that leaving is 'the right thing to do'

A la The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, and the reason humans exist on Earth? Just remember what happened to the civilization that did it. The entire race on the homeworld died of a nasty plague caught from an unsanitized telephone handle.
 
---> How I'd Do It: Easy, set off a chemical reaction into the earths core similar to that of dropping mentos into a coke bottle, re-activating dormant volcano's which I think could quite easily destroy 80% of the worlds population. :biggrin:

Being the fun guy I am. I'd be to interested in watching the explosion then to have thought of a safety plan.. I'ma die with the rest of you :pissed:

EDIT: Before you ask me how I would set off a reaction like that. I have no idea, but I have all the money in the world, and i'll pay some guy to do it.. I'll tell him it's a government scheme to make the worlds largest fireworks show. When I hand him a million dollars, I doubt he'll care.
 
Judging by recent events starting a big holy war would probably do wonders. There are hugely insane fundamentalists on both sides.
 
1. Develop a deadly virus and a working vaccine (aiming for as close to 100% efficiency as possible in each case, delayed effect and incompatibility with other species - slow and ugly death welcome here). Kill the scientists afterwards so no one can betray you and leak the vaccine to those who don't deserve it.
2. Judge people one by one - and serve the vaccine to the (unknowing) deserving ones. If any salvation-deserving individual shows genocidal tendencies, get them to join the order - boosting the operation's speed geometrically.
3. When the selection is nearing its end, start a religion "predicting" the future events. Use it to hardcode the survivors to not repeat the mistakes of those who will die soon - seeing it happen will make them believe it's true, as faith can do wonders in this context.
4. Launch the virus in as many places as possible. (blame it on civilization if you can) Leave no uninfected people.
5. In case some habitats weren't exposed, find them and finish the job. By the time no one's left, the survivors' descendants won't have the chance of finding out the truth behind the original genocide. They'll be obedient to the new morality with no objections - for their own good. On top of that, they'll recognize you as their savior if you do the religion part right, and will be eager to let you guide them for as long as you can. For at least a few hundreds of years, the world will go as you wanted it to.
 
I would summon Gozer the Destructor.

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I would start a peaceful demonstration about how angry I am that police shoot people who shoot at people (wtf) then I'll use a Blackberry phone to BBM a bunch of people I know saying that we're going to break into JDsports and set fire to a few cars, when this begins people will notice that the police won't turn up due to government cuts and there will be instant anarchy.

Do this in every capital and then bam, we destroy the world. Sadly it's realistic also.

EDIT: The uniform for the people involved in ending the world is light-grey hoodies and t-shirts wrapped around your mouth to hide your identity. We will only reveal our identities to take photographs of ourselves with the stolen shoes so we can post them on Facebook, removing the need to hide the identity to begin with.
 
I would make a bugging device ( impossible to hack, destroy or manipulate unless you are me ) that makes every t.v station, radio, internet site, ( basically all visual/audio media ) in the world play an endless loop of the Super-Mario Brothers theme song with nothing on the screen but :robot: !Videogames Won Forvever! :robot: and watch everyone either slowly go insane or commit suicide on HD T.V , all other forms of entertainment will be burned apart from videogame-systems ( games ) and plasma t.vs which only I would have. I'd also force all game companies in the world to only produce games which I aprove of, shipping them only to me in my penthouse suite ( with a bunch of but-naked playboy girls and models! :thumb: ). Lastly I will hire some scientists to design and create an immortality device and a time machine giving them all of the needed resources, finance and labour force they require, after they complete the inventions I will zap them and watch dinosaurs eat them alive forever ( they cant die ) Wahahaha :lol:

I will also create a miniature world on the moon that is un-affected by this where I will store my close family, friends and their share of people to breed with. I would brainwash them and create a duplicate robot of myself to carry out my daily life and have them oblivious to whats going on outside and any of their past memories of the world.
 

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