{"rewrite":{"id":"r_13189a9507004f7daafcd071","clusterId":"c_37f3d3c9693a1cc431e7a0c8","slug":"bestman-s-nowloading-never-ends-playable-at-oigs-2026","model":"deepseek-v4-1-flash","headline":"Bestman's NowLoading Never Ends Playable At OIGS 2026","summary":"Bestman, the creator of I Want to Agree to the Terms of Service, brought a new game to OSAKA INDIE GAMES SUMMIT 2026 on October 3 and 4. In NowLoading Never Ends, the player's job is to push a loading bar to 100% so the fictional game Final Tales Quest can start. Eighty loading minigames rotate at random, and the files include SoundFile at 437GB and AbyssCore at 512TB.","whyItMatters":"Bestman's follow-up applies the same trick as the terms-of-service game to another screen players only wait through, and the random rotation of 80 minigames is what keeps a game about waiting from being one gag.","webCardHtml":"\u003cp\u003eThe files list starts reasonable and then stops being reasonable. SystemData is 16KB and GameData is 27MB, but further down sit SoundFile at 437GB, BlackArchive at 32TB, and AbyssCore at 512TB. The last entry is named PandoraProtocol.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEach of the 10 files on the list loads through a different method, drawn at random from 80 stage types, and the stages are said to get harder toward the bottom. The playtest reached only the top few files.\u003c/p\u003e","blueskyPost":"NowLoading Never Ends asks players to push a bar to 100% so Final Tales Quest can start. One of the files is SoundFile at 437GB, another is AbyssCore at 512TB, so the joke runs on file sizes nobody has to download.","twitterPost":"NowLoading Never Ends is a game about waiting: 80 loading minigames to push a bar to 100% so Final Tales Quest can start.","threadsPost":"NowLoading Never Ends by Bestman is a game whose only goal is to make a fictional game start. The final files are SoundFile at 437GB and AbyssCore at 512TB, so the loading screen is the joke and the file sizes are the punchline. The 80 rotating minigames are what happens while you wait.","newsletterBlurb":"Bestman, the creator of I Want to Agree to the Terms of Service, showed a new game at OSAKA INDIE GAMES SUMMIT 2026 on October 3 and 4. NowLoading Never Ends asks the player to finish loading the fictional game Final Tales Quest by pushing a bar to 100%. Ten files load through 80 minigame types chosen at random, ranging from blocking bees to a coin pusher.","attributionJson":"[{\"source\":\"4Gamer.net\",\"url\":\"https://www.4gamer.net/games/047/G104759/20261004008/\",\"title\":\"Tilt the window, fit the blocks, carry the data. A game where you push the loading bar to 100% yourself: \\\"NowLoading Never Ends\\\" [OIGS2026]\"}]","lintFlagsJson":null,"lintHits":0,"costUsd":0,"inputTokens":4727,"outputTokens":650,"status":"published","repairAttempts":0,"nextRepairAt":null,"factsAttemptedAt":1791160162,"createdAt":"2026-10-05T00:24:52.000Z","publishedAt":"2026-10-05T00:28:20.000Z","updatedAt":"2026-10-05T00:28:20.000Z"},"cluster":{"id":"c_37f3d3c9693a1cc431e7a0c8","canonicalTitle":"ウィンドウを傾け，ブロックをはめ込み，データを運ぶ。自力でローディングを100％まで進める「NowLoadingが終わらない」［OIGS2026］","representativeArticleId":"a_4d50e269a39747bce2fcb1ee","sourceCount":1,"writtenSourceCount":1,"writeAttempts":0,"isSolo":true,"entitiesJson":"{\"anime_titles\":[],\"manga_titles\":[],\"work_titles\":[\"NowLoadingが終わらない\"],\"studios\":[],\"people\":[],\"type\":\"news\",\"domain\":\"games\",\"is_roundup\":false}","contentType":"news","status":"published","firstSeenAt":"2026-10-04T22:45:00.000Z","lastSeenAt":"2026-10-04T22:45:00.000Z","updatedAt":"2026-10-05T00:28:20.000Z"},"attribution":[{"source":"4Gamer.net","url":"https://www.4gamer.net/games/047/G104759/20261004008/","title":"ウィンドウを傾け，ブロックをはめ込み，データを運ぶ。自力でローディングを100％まで進める「NowLoadingが終わらない」［OIGS2026］"}],"entities":{"anime_titles":[],"manga_titles":[],"work_titles":["NowLoadingが終わらない"],"studios":[],"people":[],"type":"news","domain":"games","is_roundup":false},"keyFacts":null}