[game_preservation] Arty Games

[Andrew Armstrong]

Heh, the game sure does question the worth of your digital files, it's 
interesting, but not as effective as doing it for something that simply 
can't ever be got back (although that applies more to the real world 
where you'd be proving a point in the worst way possible).

I think games title is a bit rubbish though. I personally think if it 
calls itself lose/lose, it implies that the game deleting itself is a 
loss (in addition to the stupid thought that dying in a game is 
"losing", gah, what a silly think to say, but is probably what he 
means), which if it is, heh, we might as well start trying to save every 
other destructive program, such as viruses ;)

Andrew

Devin Monnens wrote:

> 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 

> <mailto: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 <mailto: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

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>

>     -- 

>     Devin Monnens

>     www.deserthat.com <http://www.deserthat.com>

>

>     The sleep of Reason produces monsters.

>

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>

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> Devin Monnens

> www.deserthat.com <http://www.deserthat.com>

>

> The sleep of Reason produces monsters.

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