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| AN ILLUSORY ADVENTURE OF IMPOSSIBLE ARCHITECTURE AND FORGIVENESS by Ustwo |
I don't generally play computer games. I like jigsaw puzzles (which I have played online), crosswords and Sudoku and I enjoy analyzing things to try to figure them out. I've just seen how wrapped up people get in computer games and I'm not interested in that. My mother and sister spent YEARS, and a I am not joking, wrapped up in Farmville on Facebook. There was panic every day that their virtual farms needed to be tended and virtual crops that needed to be harvested. My sister played while she was unemployed and quit the farm when she went back to work. My mother finally quit when she discovered South Korean soap operas on Netflix. Still, not much tending to the day to day realities of life going on in that house. I have plenty of things that I can waste my time on AND get some work done. And I figure that they haven't made a game, yet, that has the immersive pleasures and entertainment possibilities of a write-your-own-adventure book or a really good movie/tv series.
Kayla from the BMA program posted about this game on facebook and her bemusement that more people don't play games. I talked to her about it on Wednesday and she let me play a level. And it's a beautiful game- look at those lines, those sets, those colours! What a charming little figure Princess Ida is as she makes her way through the optical illusions. The repetitive tapping motion that you make to move her around reminded me of playing Keno in Nevada years ago; I really enjoyed putting the nickels in the slot and punching the numbers and didn't actually care that I lost $20 over the course of two hours. I just accepted it as the price of "entertainment". It would be fun to create environments and puzzles, though, so I'm feeling more attracted to the gaming paper. Rachel says that it's nothing BUT concept design and not coding or programming. Ok, then! So I'll do some games "research" and try not to get addicted to the mindlessness of it.
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