[game_preservation] Arty Games

[Stuart Feldhamer]

Well, I'm not dumb enough to play Lose/Lose, but I did just play "This is
the Only Level". It was cute.

 

Stuart

 

From: game_preservation-bounces at igda.org
[mailto:game_preservation-bounces at igda.org] On Behalf Of Devin Monnens
Sent: Thursday, September 24, 2009 11:44 PM
To: IGDA Game Preservation SIG
Subject: Re: [game_preservation] Arty Games

 

Actually, Lose/Lose is particularly interesting to us digital media
preservationists! I even blogged about it :)

 

http://deserthat.wordpress.com/

On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 8:55 PM, Devin Monnens <dmonnens at gmail.com> wrote:

Andrew,

 

Thank you for the info! The last arty game I played was a 'Today I
Die'-esque ludic poem about a guy walking and thinking about his girlfriend
who dumped him. Sadly, I can't remember the name!! I also still have the
Steam indie games collection to play through.

 

I am designing a course on game art (or videogames as art, rather), so these
will come in handy.

 

-Devin

 

On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 11:54 AM, Andrew Armstrong <andrew at aarmstrong.org>
wrote:

Thought this was a little bit interesting:
http://www.stfj.net/art/2009/loselose/ - although as a technophile I'd play
it only in a VM of course, heh ;)

There was also This Is The Only Level -
http://armorgames.com/play/4309/this-is-the-only-level - which I'm sure
you've seen, same kind of parody (or in fact, here, a little more of a
design lesson) as Achievement Unlocked.

Anyone got any recent arty-like games (not just assuming anything by calling
them this, but I hope you know what I mean). I've got a few in my backlog to
play (Dear Esther and Korsakovia, Gravity Bone), once I feel like playing
them, but I'm always looking for more.

As for how this relates to game history - well, frankly the quality varies
but they're interesting, and usually free, which is great, especially since
they can teach a mechanic or develop or parody it so well. :) Good for
teaching, for sure.

Andrew
_______________________________________________
game_preservation mailing list
game_preservation at igda.org
http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/game_preservation





-- 
Devin Monnens
www.deserthat.com

The sleep of Reason produces monsters.




-- 
Devin Monnens
www.deserthat.com

The sleep of Reason produces monsters.

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://six.pairlist.net/pipermail/game_preservation/attachments/20090925/9522aac9/attachment.html>