And Now For Something Completely Different: The Marriage

[strangetomato]

Since I've started using Mr. Humble the NPC as a character in my story, I became more curious about the real Rod Humble. It didn't take me long to stumble across some reference to his own game, The Marriage. It's a bit of an experiment in using the videogame as a medium for conceptual art. It's something I was really interested in a while back (videogames can be more than just entertainment, I figured, since I was in art school at the time), and I was pretty curious to see how Mr. Humble handled this "artgame" (nice term, that).

As suspected, as art increases, fun goes down. :P It's conceptual art, no doubt about it. At best, it'll start a conversation, but it's probably more likely to make you want to punch things. But don't take my word for it (or my SO's words, which declared, "This game sucks"). Please, go here and download The Marriage. Play it and tell me what you think.

Comments

[simgarooop.livejournal.com]

LOL! Just from reading the description, the game reeks of pretentiousness.

I wonder if I could come up with an equally hilarious one for Tetris, or my favorite old-school game, Bubble Bobble. I could say that the bubbles that the little dragons/dinosaur throw represent their desperate attempts to preserve (en-capsule?) their world and memories to save their species. Or some bullshit like that :P

I'm going to show this to my sister. I'm sure she'd love it! ;)