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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:
- Both “200” and “160” are 2 minutes in microwave math
- When you’re a kid, you don’t realize you’re also watching your mom and dad grow up.
- More dreams have been destroyed by alarm clocks than anything else
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If first person shooter is when you shoot the second guy, and 3rd person shooter is when you look at the shooter shooting the second guy, then 2nd person shooter would be you getting shot by the first guy. So uhh maybe you control the first guy but see through the second guy.
Actually i remember some short indie game based on this.
ScreenCheat. Someone else posted a link above, bit I used to play it with friends. You play by viewing other players screens.
Oh that's actually funnily enough the most applicable 2nd person mechanic.
Sounds like a fun idea for a game jam or something
I think it might be a result of a gamejam? I can't remember but i remember how unique that sound, but i can't find that one i saw though. I googled a bit and it seems a lot of indie dev attempt on this idea.
Yeah me too. Please let me know if you find it because it's bugging me now lol
Screencheat on steam 4 players everyone’s invisible and the only way to see what’s happening is look at other players screen
Can't seems to find it now, but there's a lot of attempt on this idea though, so we might actually saw a different game. I remember seeing it in early or mid 2010s.
I also remember something like it around that time. There were definitely a few YouTubers playing it against eachother. Iirc you could see all the other player viewpoints, but not your own.
Yeah I remember hearing about it a while ago and wondered how it would work.
2nd person is watching your character from the viewpoint of someone else.
3rd person is when you see your character from the viewpoint of someone who doesn’t exist.
Mario 64 is played through the viewpoint of a guy in a cloud with a camera. Which makes it 2nd person.
If the character wasn’t there it would be third person (like the side scrolling Mario games)
There is one better example of second person perspective than Mario 64, which I don't really agree with since the disembodied camera isn't a character's perspective per se. Unless it is. I don't really know the lore of Mario 64. So I shouldn't comment.
In one of the need for speeds you are pursued by the cops and then the camera goes from your normal racing game perspective into the cops perspective, but you're still driving your car, so you're seeing your car that moves around and responds to your controls from the cop who's chasing you's point of view. Pretty trippy.
I never played it myself, but I once watched a YouTube video about second-person games. And this was the example they used.
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Isn't Project Zomboid a second person shooter?