Nolen Royalty just released another experimental videogame known as “One Million Checkboxes” with a rather simple goal to complete: to click all of the one million checkboxes on a minimalistic webpage. Players worldwide can change the number of checkboxes visibly clicked for all users playing One Million Checkboxes, deciding to uncheck or check checkboxes. With a large number of “checkers and uncheckers” playing One Million Checkboxes, some say it has begun an “online war” soon after its debut.
As I tried unchecking a few boxes to spell “MASALA MARSALA” on the website, I found my artwork erased by a checker in less than the 30 seconds I was playing:
To put it simply, players are unsure what will happen when the number of checkboxes reaches 0 or 1,000,000. For this reason, the number of checkboxes clicked is always somewhere between 0 to 1,000,000 with a global audience checking and unchecking away. As One Million Checkboxes has become a viral sensation across the internet since its release on June 26th, it has been building a large and dedicated player base as a simple web-based game dedicated to either checking or unchecking checkboxes.
As of today, the recently-debuted “One Million Checkboxes” has apparently crashed for some players, possibly due to the large number of requests that have been sent to the website’s server over the past few days:
The number of players actively playing One Million Checkboxes most likely accounts for this problem, as web servers can only support so many users at a time.
Whether or not all of the checkboxes will be selected at once depends on whether more uncheckers or checkers join this internet sensation. To try out this game, check out onemillioncheckboxes.com. This game is free and playable to anyone with a standard internet browser and mouse.
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