In Factorio, from the Czech developer Wube Software, you have crash-landed on an alien planet and your task is to build a rocket so you can escape. This entails single-handedly restaging the Industrial Revolution, from breaking up rocks for crude stone furnaces to refining oil into rocket fuel. One recent Sunday, I had just installed a pump on a lake shore to feed water to my concrete plant, when it occurred to me that I hadn’t drunk any real-world water in several hours. My head was aching, but I didn’t want to get up from my computer. I wanted to solve the problem with a click of a mouse, the way I would in the game, running a few metres of pipe from the kitchen tap to my hunched form (and perhaps another few metres of pipe from my hunched form to the toilet).
在捷克开发商Wube Software的《异星工厂》(Factorio)中，你坠落在一个外星球上，任务是建造一枚火箭以便逃脱。这意味着你要亲手重现工业革命，从破碎岩石建造简陋的石炉到将石油提炼成火箭燃料。最近的一个星期天，我刚刚在湖岸边安装了一台水泵，为我的混凝土厂供水，这时突然意识到，我已经好几个小时没有喝过现实中的水了。我的头开始隐隐作痛，但我不愿离开电脑。我希望能像在游戏中那样，用鼠标轻点一下就能解决问题，把几米长的管道从厨房的水龙头接到我驼着的身体（也许还要铺几米长的管道从我驼着的身体通向厕所）。