[game_preservation] Arty Games

[Devin Monnens]

An interesting thought: William Gibson once wrote a digital novel that would
decay each time you opened it. Unfortunately for him, people found a way
around it. I don't know if there's a way around this (say, loading it from a
flash drive).
Digital files do have value. For some, there may be only one copy in
existence (say a document you created). If you are afraid of losing your
files, there might be two reasons. 1. You haven't backed them up yet. 2. It
is a pain to reload your software. I have a combination of these two...

On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 2:58 AM, Andrew Armstrong <andrew at aarmstrong.org>wrote:


>  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> 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

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>>

>>

>>

>>  --

>> Devin Monnens

>> www.deserthat.com

>>

>> The sleep of Reason produces monsters.

>>

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