OP here: was afraid this would happen (good old HN hug of death). Unfortunately this isn't mine, just something I found, so I don't know if/when it'll be usable.

Basically it's a multiplayer text game with strong creation, collaboration and exploration elements. You and the other players inhabit a universe full of "vessels", which you can create by giving them a name and description -- so a vessel can be literally anything. Vessels can be infinitely nested within each other, and multiple people can child vessels within parent vessels. There also seems to be a small programming language with which you can give vessels behaviour, but I haven't investigated that much.

Two blogposts about the game:

https://emshort.wordpress.com/2015/10/06/if-comp-2015-paradi...

http://importantastrolab.blogspot.co.uk/2015/10/ifcomp-2015-...

Really sucks that it's not loading; I think a lot of people here would have gotten a kick out of it.

Thanks for sharing Paradise

There must be a reason why this is on the front page. Looking forward to see it load again.

It should be back up.

I loaded the website but can’t do anything - is this game online multiplayer?

Edit: Apparently I was right, but we can’t play the game now because it is only going to get DDOSed more.

Out of curiosity, someone figured out how create vessels will negative IDs, I would looove to know how someone managed to do that.

Cheers

Website doesn't seem to be responding.

Same here, wondering what it is...

HN as a DDOS network

TL;DR: There are infinitely many ways of building a nonfunctional web site and this one has the shape of a teapot.

These are interactive novels/games, similar to time travel books you might have read as a kid, but in an browser format.

Here is a link that has a zip file with all the games: http://ifcomp.org/ballot

Thank you for sharing Paradise, and incidentally DDoS my website. I have restarted the services and so it should be running again, for a little while.

Getting error.