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.
― polyphonic, Monday, 20 January 2014 19:05 (ten years ago) link
I'll quote Lars Von Trier and say that sometimes you've got to take the good with the evil.
― Nhex, Monday, 20 January 2014 20:30 (ten years ago) link
Braid's artsy-fartsyness/pretentiousness/preciousness is the package you cannot divorce from the gameplay
― Nhex, Monday, 20 January 2014 20:36 (ten years ago) link
It's very easy to divorce it. Just walk past the books without clicking on them.
― polyphonic, Monday, 20 January 2014 20:41 (ten years ago) link
You're still controlling that little painted man across a storybook landscape.
― Nhex, Monday, 20 January 2014 20:43 (ten years ago) link
Mario you pretentious fuck
― polyphonic, Monday, 20 January 2014 20:44 (ten years ago) link
i like how its mario thats p funny
― lag∞n, Monday, 20 January 2014 20:53 (ten years ago) link
thank you
― polyphonic, Monday, 20 January 2014 21:05 (ten years ago) link
all video games shd be mario just spitballin
― lag∞n, Monday, 20 January 2014 21:08 (ten years ago) link
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]
― my whole family is catholic so look at the pickle i'm in (zachlyon), Tuesday, 21 January 2014 01:06 (ten years ago) link
[90] I murdered this guy
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 21 January 2014 01:08 (ten years ago) link
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]
― my whole family is catholic so look at the pickle i'm in (zachlyon), Tuesday, 21 January 2014 01:10 (ten years ago) link
Barf
― Jeff, Tuesday, 21 January 2014 01:11 (ten years ago) link
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,
― my whole family is catholic so look at the pickle i'm in (zachlyon), Wednesday, 22 January 2014 01:12 (ten years ago) link
so these films interweave the narrative right into the whole work v interesting v unusual have to think abt that
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 22 January 2014 01:13 (ten years ago) link
you forgot punk rock don't forget punk rock
― my whole family is catholic so look at the pickle i'm in (zachlyon), Wednesday, 22 January 2014 01:18 (ten years ago) link
xkcd: the game
― Matt Armstrong, Wednesday, 22 January 2014 01:33 (ten years ago) link
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.
― "Jiggle It" - 2 in a Zoo (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 31 March 2014 01:34 (nine years ago) link
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
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― linda cardellini (zachlyon), Monday, 31 March 2014 02:17 (nine years ago) link
http://arxiv-web3.library.cornell.edu/abs/1412.0784
― celfie tucker 48 (s.clover), Friday, 5 December 2014 20:16 (nine years ago) link
https://vimeo.com/36579366#t=13m24s
some clever thinking on playing with code to design games using already created templates
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 15 January 2020 16:59 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c53fGdK84rcand xpost to portal and russian doll too i suppose
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 11 March 2020 04:03 (four years ago) link