Strange Imaginary Games
RND/ To historically double down on one’s philosophical dislike of the (problematic) mere notion of “Someone like David Foster Wallace” – consider a satirical ‘Infinite Jest‘ painting of modern literary sainthood: 3440 x 2628 .jpg The text in the upper left reads “When Institutional Racism means never having to apologize for Publishing.” Image via a … Read more
RND/ To consider game designer Jonathan Blowhard’s “Witness”: Part of the Hypertography One Exhibit The result is the feeling of a game that’s depressingly lacking in energy, heart, and soul. There isn’t even any music. The island may be pretty to look at in screenshots, but in motion it is utterly lifeless. The developer’s sheer … Read more
RND/ a quantum break goty parody – for historical archiving purposes Part of the Hypertography One Exhibit to consider quantum break – unamazingly cheesy corporate sy fi shoehorned into arbitrary jumped up slowmo mechanic – representing so large -yet so typical example of industrys/tm near total creative black hole bankruptcy n creates terrifying bio gravitational … Read more
RND/ to consider the odd Effects of Mass: part of the Hypertography One Exhibit Scene: Ass Effect Blandromeda Where one gets to casually roleplay as a dead eyed space case with bad hair, full of kinda-cool accidental oddities & discontinuities: – Allied characters merging into one nightmarish gestalt entity during cutscenes – NPCs creating duplicates … Read more
RND/ To consider Her Story. Part of the Hypertography One Exhibit breaking ir story by sam barlow important thing as respect honesty appropriate listening / power / responsibility of negative / positive thinking – jeremy douglass talking about aisle by sam barlow consider ir story by sam barlow mostly non problematic ideological sandbox of mr … Read more