I made this, you play this, we are enemies -- the weirdest goddamned game I've ever played
I don't know that I've ever seen any computer art quite as -- I'm sorry, there's no other way of putting this -- as fucked up as "I made this, you play this, we are enemies," a Flash game that really strongly resembles the unmistakable bonkerosity of the complicated sketches left behind the crazy people who used to sit at their own tables in the library I worked at, furiously drawing for 10 hours at a stretch. It's brilliant and terrible all at once and that is why I love it.
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Oddly, after playing that, I feel the need to clean up with some Dr. Bronner's Soap. Dilute! Dilute!
That's exactly it, Zippy! A kind of exuberant, extravagant crazy that's totally lovable.
I was really terrified that the snake thing on the first level was going to eat me...
Crazy people? OR PEOPLE WHO KNEW THE TRUTH ABOUT LOW GRADE INSURANCE VITAMINS ?????????? BEYOO BEYOO, TAXONICMOAL CLERKERY.
One of the best things I’ve seen on boingboing, ever.
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I've played the philosophy version of this game before.
Which means I've now played to completion TWO versions of this game.
And someday I may know why.
I was halfway through level two before I quit. Buh.
Delightfully bizarre.
I feel like I did right after I saw "Requiem for a Dream" the first time.
I need to go for a walk outside.
*looks at level 8*
*rushes off to make something boingboing themed on my webpage so I can get a nice easy feature too*
...just sayin'.
Why, oh great Boing Boing gods, would you not post the screenshot of the Boing Boing level? You get to ride on Xeni.
My brain hurts.
just finished playing. loved it!
I prefer Proust. I lie.
I think I enjoyed riding on Cory more.
oh thank gods, another waste of time!
Dadaism, meet video-games-as-art.
Donkey Kong Jr. on acid.
or...
Ted Kaczynski on Flash.
I just wish you could use the WASD keys so I could look like I'm actually working.
Aren't all platform games arbitrary? You run, you jump, you grab some icons and avoid others.
@20 - I saw a DVD player with 20 embedded games, and one of the games was called "Seek the Resources." I laughed.
I really didn't like that at all. The sound effects were kind of unsettling, but overall the whole thing was just nonsense. And it was easy, too.
I feel like these kinds of things are just created because they are like Maxwell's Demon for praise. It can sort the praise on one side, and discard any criticism with a wave and a "you didn't get it."
Riding on Xeni (Fnarr)
Absolutely effing awesome. This has brightened my day so much (and I got a job today, so to make it much better is a tough... job).
I've played this guy's other two games (or, well, two of his other games - I honestly don't know if he has any more). Try searching for them with these titles:
Game, Game, Game And Again Game
Alarmingly These Are Not Lovesick Zombies
Both are a nice surreal trip, but as someone with epilepsy, they're also a terrible terrible thing. I haven't played this new offering all the way through yet. I keep having to lie down.
...and before that there was. some cool things. and before that there was ...
I had to put my dog of 13.5 yrs to sleep today and this made me forget my pain, however briefly.
Bklynchris - sorry for your loss, be happy for your dog that he/she never went through the pain of losing ~you~.
I was thinking, while admiring the very trippy aspect of this presentation, that it reminds me of the early 90s masterpiece of pop media, Buzz Box. Triptastic.
It's a shame the gameplay is so conventional. I thought his other game-like-creation, game, game, game and again game was more interesting because it actually subverted the medium. And I think it had more annoying sound effects. I got about half-way into this one and stopped because it wasn't annoying enough.
i have to wonder about this guy's collection of severed doll parts.. heh heh heh. :p
I love the sound effects/ soundtrack.
Plus, horror now includes or embeds its own unicorn chaser.
I hate video games
I love this
Thomas Hirschorn, look out...
The guys other game gamegame is fun too.
http://www.secrettechnology.com/gamegame/gamegame.html
"Then came along Hole in the Hand Hand's mortal enemy, which was Wedding Ring Hand. Wedding Ring Hand sparkled like a Wedding Ring Hand could."
Neat!
Wow, it's Timecube... the Game!
Try playing this on acid!
There is a level with the names Mark, Cory, David, Xeni and John on platforms you have to use.