Translation courtesy of an avid TKEP player AceMyth.

GENOCIDE HAS NEVER BEEN EASIER

"The Kill Everyone Project", Created by a group of bored Finnish students, threatens to (virtually) erase the population of the world; As a part of the project, the surfers are invited to click their mouses until the extinction of humankind. Never has the mouse seemed scarier.

At June 1999 opened the "Hunger Site", which promised to donate a cup of food for the hungry all over the world in exchange for each click of the surfers. At may 2001, the internet send the morbid response: "The Kill Everyone Project" (Therefore referred to as TKEP), in which each mouseclick represents the death of one human on planet earth.

As opposed to the Hunger project, which allows clicking only once per day for donation- the participation in this project of gigantic massacre is limited only by your clicking speed and the time you are willing to sacrifice for the virtual elimination of the population of the world.

"The world is overpopulated. The people who overpopulate it are stupid. They should be killed.", claims the site of the project. The surfers are enlisted to virtually assist this noble cause. It is possible to kill anonymously, or register and recieve an ongoing score as the number of your victims increases. The site urges the participants, saying that the world is populated by more than six billion people, and at the present rate of extinction, the world shall be human-free in est. fourteen years. Only days ago, the figure was around eighteen, so it seems that the project is slowly gaining speed.

The "info" section of the site is signed by the motto, "Genocide has never been this easy! Or featured a chat."

Around two years ago Homokaasu.com was founded, as the playing ground of the Homokaasu ("Gay Gas") Finnish group which currently has ten members. The site is an "Ongoing project for wasting people's time, doing creative things and providing obssessive extra value", at least as the developer of TKEP- who identifies himself as the GasMaster - describes it, in an interview taking place via E-mail. The name of the group is derived from an urban legend which was spread through Finland, according to which the government and the katholic church have spread gas that turns people into homosexuals in order to prevent their opposers from reproducing.

The site is about undergroundish, paranoid and gloomy subjects, and therefore the members of the group decided not to reveal their names. "Since then the site was added with contents that do not necessarily follow these motives, but I figure that the fact that our identities remain unrevealed is connected to the agreement back then.", explains GasMaster, 20+, citizen of the Finnish capitol. "I seem to have way too much time on my hands."

WHERE DID YOU GET THE IDEA?
"After a lecture on our course about designing minitaure games, we had a little argument about what would make the silliest minitaure game. That, of course, would be a game when you click on the mouse and get a point for each click. We started designing a theme for it. It wouldn't be that popular if you just clicked without any purpose or cause. Before that someone jokingly told about his taste in videogames, according to which there are stupid games in which you drive cars or participate in some sort of sport ETC., and there are good games in which you get to kill people. The combination of these two concepts was the birth of the idea."

DID YOU ALSO DEVELOP THE SITE?
"Yes, with help from friends. It was especially designed to be as addictive as possible. That's why there are all of those statistics lying around- there's always another goal."

Gasmaster explains that he didn't have the Hunger Site in mind when he designed TKEP, "But I DO know the site, and now that you mention it, the connection is clear."

THE DUTCH ARE DEEP INTO IT
The game went online at May 2001, but wasn't very popular. Then the chat went online, and so did the mouseclicking. A few weeks ago there was a drastic change in user number when TKEP was starting as the "Link of the week" in the geek comics site RealLife, which made the number of users skyrocket to fifteen times the original number and put the site into a loop of advertising in different forums around the web. In february, one hundred and eighty different surfers had surfed to 7 millions pages within the site. The countries which provided the most visitors were the USA, Finland, the Netherlands, Canada and Austria. Gasmaster reports between 30 and 80 users simultaneously connected to the site at any given moment.

"Are You Serious?", the most obvious question is asked at the site's FAQ. The answer is, "Would we build up a complex database client/server system were we not serious!... ...However, most of the real people are nice (although somewhat boring) and should not be killed."

Gasmaster calls the project "A politically incorrect, yet highly amusing joke", and says he's surprised that he hasn't recieved any furious responses or legal threats. The most hilarious response was recorded on the site forum: "This is much better than diablo 2! Not only is it more pointless, but it includes much more clicking." (GasMaster proceeds to explain about Diablo 2's disappointied response after turning out to contain monster killing based mainly on mouse clicks). The project was even graced with an unofficial fan site.

Participating is allowed for humans only- not scripts or other methods creating artificial clicking. "There were attempts to fake results, but nobody would've tried to cheat had the game been boring", says the GasMaster.

ZIONIZM LOST
The site does not provide the surfer with the option of choosing which country would s/he mercilessly slaughter the population of, but presents the countries sorted by size, from smallest to largest. GasMaster explains that it's much more enjoyable when all players cooperate for the achievement of a single target. The countries, he says, are only milestones along the project. "If you could choose the country, that would be taking a position in national issues and turn the object of the game into the extinction of a certain country or people, and I don't want to incite to that."

Last week saw the demise of Somalia, Guinea, Azerbaijan, Chad and the Dominican Republic, among others. The current target is Zambia, ranked 125th out of 205 countries (The first and smallest is the Vatican, the three largest being the USA, India and the largest- China). All Cyber-Zionists would be disappointed to find out that Israel already lies in ruins, devoid of human souls. The Phalestinian Authority (Called on the site The Phalestinian Territory is also extinct, ranking 74, and Syria is still alive and breathing at 151st rank.

DO YOU HAVE ANY COMMERICAL PURPOSES?
"No. There were some offers from companies who wanted to advertise at homokaasu.com, but we refused them. It would've ruined the site. Well, if Logitech wanted to advertise in the site we'd probably allow it, but only because that'd be so hilarious."

ANY POST-PROJECT PLANS?
"We have some ideas for the grand finale' of the project, but of course they won't be revealed just yet. Meanwhile, Fear Every Click!"