Jason Rohrer creates a game that will take over 2000 years to complete

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Sleep is Death and The Castle Doctrine creator Jason Rohrer won this year's Game Design Challenge at GDC in which he and several other industry luminaries were tasked with coming up with "Humanity's Last Game."
The topic is rather open-ended and might suggest a game to end the world, as A Mind Forever Voyaging creator Steve Meretzky proposed with his idea for a reality TV show about hackers accessing missile silos to bring about a nuclear apocalypse. Rohrer took a different tack, though, and designed a game that cannot be played for approximately 2000 years.
How, you ask? By burying it in the Arizona desert and hiding the coordinates among a sea of red herrings.
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