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hello: Sabotage your Retro this Sunday
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Christian McCrea writes in to point us to RetroSabotage, a site doing the rounds today.
In his description "Reworked classic games to destroy original contexts or defy expectations, a bit of a coin-operated Negativland. Playing a reverse form of Breakout causes massive synaptic failure".
..and he's right, playing the ghost in PacMan produced a new and disturbing kind of vertigo while simultaneously invoking total distrust of my hands..
Cheers Christian!
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From the science-nerd crew over at philosophersnet; a little philosophical game about the nature of identity. These guys pump out a regular series of games which challenge our abstract perceptual faculties rather than the physical and reactive. Questions such as 'Can you construct your perfect God', and 'What is Art (Shakespeare vs Britney)' provide light entertainment for the intelligence quotient.
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Anita Fontaine has teamed up with Oculart for her latest game Escape The Paparazzi! This browser game is very responsive and the sound track and fx are inspiringly energetic. The combination of Anita's dark and Oculart's cut-up visual styles adds a suitably disturbing edge to the world of celebrities.
http://games.vh1.com/gameinfo.php?gid=854
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 A few more reasons not to use Macromedia Director, Cartonman is a series of early browser games made by French artist Laurent Hart. I don't recommend actually playing any of the games, particularly if you are susceptible to epilepsy, but Cartonman ranks a mention for the sheer volume of work, hyper-accelerated graphic style (although this may be a result of increased processor speeds, which might also account for the *challenging* game bugs) and its value as an historical artefact (1999-2002).
Actually, perhaps the only reason I even mention it is the sensationalist visual likeness to trashbat.co.ck
http://www.cartonman.net
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Flow
is a beautifully simple and surprisingly addictive Flash game built by Jenova
Chen.
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 Bringing the exploration of narrative and game design to a new level of unity, Samarost 2 continues Amanitadesign's adventures into gorgeously detailed flash games. Didacticism has been sacrificed for a heightened sense of adventure, and increased reliance on explorative interaction. The textural, montage aesthetic is to die for.
http://www.samorost2.net/
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This cross-browser version of Mahjongg Solitaire
has racked up seven million players so far. And if you're a reformed Sudoku addict
don't click on this link to Kakuro...
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Built on Processing.org's open-source
software development environment for the media arts communities, Thinking
Machine 4 gives you a glimpse into chess AI by tracing real-time movement
calculations over the board.
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archive: Hamlet - The Text Adventure
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Bedroom
You are in your luxurious palatial boudoir, all of ten feet square. There is
a four-poster bed, and not much else. A portrait hangs on the wall.
An exit leads
north...
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Emotive Virtual Actors
A rudimentary but interesting
experiment in Emotive Virtual Actors. Its creator, Professor Ken Perlin, works
out of the Media Research Laboratory at NYU. Would be great to these types of
tools work themselves into machinima editors.
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Anonymous writes "Farklempt! v 1.0 is an online multiplayer video game that challenges its players to manage their emotional-health through the skillful manipulation of feelings against others trying to do the same.
Farklempt! v 1.0 is a continuation of artist Jason Van Anden's ongoing series of artworks that strive to represent human emotional behavior through art and technology. Farklempt! was commissioned by the online net art community at Rhizome.org and The New Museum of Contemporary Art with the support of the Jerome Foundation, The Greenwall Foundation and The Warhol Foundation.
Farklempt! Rules
Play Farklempt! v 1.0
The Smile Project"
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 This is my result in the "What Pre-1985 Video Game Character Am I?" questionaire. Despite being the proud owner of a LightCycle id, the results seem strangely aware of the fact I've been playing alot of GLTron recently.
I should probably put on a suit and coin this 'Avatarial Transduction' (or similar).
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