You love looking at your phone. You do it in bed; on the bus; at
the table; with your friends; before you sleep at night. You love
looking at your phone. To confess you do not is to describe your
days as a living hell.
iPhone games offer the simple joy of completing a task. Swipe the
colored dots, jump the little wall, click the cow - these are
challenges that we can do successfully, unfailingly: a hamster’s
water bottle of dopamine drips - of diminishing return, perhaps,
perhaps, but unending all the same. When you get down to it, every
iPhone game says only: move your finger like this.
Keep Inuverse on the app and you’re winning (You are winning,
aren’t ya, son?). Inuverse APP boils down phone use to it’s
minimalist core, and yet, for the hours or even days this contest
runs, your phone can provide utterly no utility so long as you
play. Inuverse App ties you to your device by the soft pressure of
your dominant digit as inexorably as a steel ball and chain, while
sealing it beyond your grasp.
In this connected world a million beeps and chimes compete for our
attention, a deluge of contacts and content. As our attention
spans flee, Inuverse App demands utmost devotion to a total
absence of distraction: a game where you can’t do anything.
And one of you will win: but you will be a victor at the mercy of
the conquered. If only the mass always had such sway over the
throne. Ask yourself, having suffered - of boredom only, we hope -
alongside your finger-possessing comrades in arms, will you, upon
failure, wish the survivors the best of luck or curse them with
your last breath? The winner of Inuverse App will be the player
with the least control over its outcome.
