[silence] Fwd: [ubuweb] 4' 33" -- the video game

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> From: "Brian Stefans" <bstefans@earthlink.net>
> Date: February 24, 2009 4:45:55 PM CST
> To: <ubuweb@yahoogroups.com>
> Subject: [ubuweb] 4' 33" -- the video game
> Reply-To: ubuweb@yahoogroups.com
>
> About as reduced and conceptual as a video game can get... I haven't  
> won it
> yet.
>
> *
>
> Petri Purho of Crayon Physics fame went for the ‘That’s pretty  
> unique’ with
> a large dollop of ‘What the hell!!’ for his effort, called ‘4  
> Minutes and 33
> Seconds of Uniqueness’. The object of the ‘game’ is to keep the  
> program up
> for 4 minutes and 33 seconds, allowing the white to engulf all the  
> black.
> The catch is, if anyone else in the world loads up the game, your  
> game will
> end. I know… what the hell, right?
>
> Petri explains:
>
> “It’s an exploration to what actually defines a game. You can win or  
> fail in
> the game, but there is no user input or interactivity of any kind. I  
> was
> tempted to leave the graphics out completely, but I figured that the  
> white
> progress bar is abstract enough.”
>
> http://globalgamejam.org/games/4-minutes-and-33-seconds-uniqueness
>




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