braid

i should probably go back and finish this, shouldn't I... i vaguely remember getting stuck on one level and never going back to it

I vaguely remember getting stuck on most levels.

its really hard

how do we get this dude to quit the gaming industry forever

video games fixation w and awful execution of storytelling is really funny and point missing

these people wld try to give poker a plot

http://www.governorofpoker4.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/1-home.jpg

lol

no idea what this is about but it felt relevant

http://i.imgur.com/4qCaGxT.png

why is david schmimmer sitting in that barn

I have up on this game on like the last level. Could never beat it.

I'm still glad that I skipped reading 99% of everything in this game. I'm sure it's horrible but I wouldn't know.

I'll quote Lars Von Trier and say that sometimes you've got to take the good with the evil.

Braid's artsy-fartsyness/pretentiousness/preciousness is the package you cannot divorce from the gameplay

It's very easy to divorce it. Just walk past the books without clicking on them.

You're still controlling that little painted man across a storybook landscape.

Mario you pretentious fuck

i like how its mario thats p funny

thank you

all video games shd be mario just spitballin

However, others—including new media academics—have disagreed, praising the philosophical complexity of the game, saying "Jonathan Blow's Braid is the sort of ontological labyrinth that Jorge Luis Borges might have made. Embedded in the simple gameplay design are genuinely huge concepts."[90]

[90] I murdered this guy

Braid has also garnered academic interest and acclaim for its complexity, with narratologists saying "Anyone who thinks... the unique constraints of game play cannot possibly be used to best structure a story has probably not encountered Braid, which marries pure mechanics and story into a philosophical platform." [109] Braid's use of narrative elements and puzzle-making has been compared to similar techniques of "imperative storytelling" in novels such as Life A User's Manual and Through the Looking-Glass.[110]

Barf

Braid barf.

Journalists have considered Braid's plot to be interwoven with the game itself, much as the book Dictionary of the Khazars and the films Memento and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind interweave the narrative into the work's construction.[23][24]

Others have likened Braid to punk rock,

so these films interweave the narrative right into the whole work v interesting v unusual have to think abt that

you forgot punk rock don't forget punk rock

xkcd: the game

I just started this game I think yesterday? I am at the end of world 5 or 6. I am going to be so sad when this game is over.

I don't think I've gotten as excited on an intellectual level abt a game since EarthBound. Is Portal really this good??

why is david schmimmer sitting in that barn

― Wendy Carlos Williams (jjjusten), Monday, January 20, 2014 12:55 PM (2 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

http://arxiv-web3.library.cornell.edu/abs/1412.0784

https://vimeo.com/36579366#t=13m24s

some clever thinking on playing with code to design games using already created templates

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c53fGdK84rc
and xpost to portal and russian doll too i suppose