Art
Video Games Syllabus
The Contemporary Avant
Garde
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Cactus,
a freelance
developer from Gothenberg Sweden, is probably my capstone
source, and almost all of his games are stunning.
* Psychosomnium
* Hot
Throttole * Mondo
Medicals * Design
*
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&
Keyboard
Drumset Fucking Werewolf * are to be
especially recommended.
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Marriage:
a gorgeous, infuriating, abstract
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Ute is
about sex
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Covetous
discourses around para-sitism & ucanny twinning
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Jason
Rohrer is a alt-gaming celebrity whos somber
life/relationship games like Passage
have been a poetic difference from the ADHD genocide of the mainstream.
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Dwarf Fortress
is a restro-nuovo, with zero focus-pocus on the graphic, and a near
total textualization of the visual (although you can connect viewers to
it) but minutely programmed down to the dietary tastes of tribal
members. [note: it
takes really long to understand]
Computer Game
as Novel
[many of these may require DOSbox emulation,
and they're worth spending half an hour learning its ins & outs]
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Hero's Quest
(see also King's Quest) is the Epic Beginning Irony of HTML drama
sarcasm, creative problem solving, post-cultural hodgepodge and
innuendo. Remember: in these text-type games, |||YOU
CAN DO ANYTHING|||
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Star
Control II: The Ur-Quan Masters is one of the most hilarious
ornate clever Novels we have. Stunning and godlike in its biological
innovations, it offers an infinite path.
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Freddy
Pharkas: Frontier Pharmacist is an ingenious twist on the
anti-hero Actor-Protagonist in a strictly anti-modern Western
landscape. It's also a Kareoki sing-along.
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Back to strict Theory for a second, Worms
and Earthworm
Jim offer different perspectives on the collective individual
Worm-Being. This is probably very important. [idk
abt these dwnlds]
Classic Super Nintendo
Plots
(it is likely necessary to download an emulator like ZSNES and then instal
the ROM files to play these games)
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Really
a perfect pair, Final Fantasy III gestures at a political upheaval and
the struggle toward progressive recombination co-ops, while
Chrono Trigger treats triads and Time-Space. Plural in its Monad,
Dozens of endings and tangents. Very Heiddigger.
Other
Honorable Mentions include:
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Star
Ocean,
Black and White, Samorost,
Civilization & Master of Orion II,
Masters of Magic, Lemmings, Pooyan & Yoshi's Islands, Roxanne
and the Quest for the Time-Bird, Spore...
Assignments Will be posted Soon!
* please email questions & responses *
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