'What is a video game?' is a prediction of what future game developers will accept as videogames (well at least the games as art movement). It's about showing you SOME of the steps or movements in game development that developers in the future will work towards and pass.

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Ultimately it's about showing how fundemental elements of what we
think a videogame needs COULD be broken down
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I was working on this for some time and stopped around 2 months ago.
All that was really left was to finish off the last section of the context/commentary and pretty all of it up by putting it in a pdf and making it easier to read but I've lost my motivation to finish that off right now. So in the future I may do it but just in case I dont I am uploading it now.

check out the web version on your phone!

for global game jam
the theme was what home means to you
i saw a lot more serious/narrative games this year
seems like a bad idea because people will probably "not go all the way"
or go part of the way just to be evocative
or to be real twee or whatever
though, some of the games that I had liked this year were the more heart warming ones

at home, when my family celebrates christmas,
we put a black santa on top of the tree
i found out recently that my grandma painted him black so he would look like my grandpa

these sprites are mostly color edited to look black
there is a history of black bart bootleg memorabilia
parallels with my black santa
in many of these shirts there will be multiple black barts all crowding around
sometimes all hitting on a woman with a big butt
one of my favorites was my former roommate's boyfriend's shirt that she would wear
it had multiples of different looking barts in a roller coaster
and it says "Bébé's Kids" which is a 90's animated comedy about a black family
that doesn't look anything similar to the simpsons

the sprites i edited are from the konami simpsons arcade beat em up
when the simpsons touch each other, sometimes they do their team attacks
i added a homer strangling bart animation
i was surprised this classic motif from the simpsons,
of homer strangling bart was not in the arcade game at all
i added this in place of having homer and bart's team attack

the sounds are primarily from click team fusion's free sound library
with the exception of a vocal recording of "fuck off mom"

The PC link is above.
This is the Mac Link.

This is part one of a Diptych called "The Force Awakens".
The second game is called "Aerisdies".

This game has content that some may find offensive.

This game has 38 minutes worth of cutscenes.
Play this in one go, preferably around 3am, preferably covered in lotion.

Video Game.

Controls:

arrow keys/WASD: move
R: restart room
P: fullscreen toggle

A small toy-like game about drawing with a circle that rotates around you when you move

I made this in 30 minutes

this one is Mac Only

this one is for pc

A small game about balancing which I made in 30 minutes.

Controls:

left and right: effects torque

R : restart room

p fullscreen toggle

I small game about dodging lines by pressing space which I made in 30 minutes.

INSTRUCTIONS:

press space to avoid lines but you use up stamina.

Get blue cubes to regain stamina.

Survive for as long as possible.

CONTROLS:

arrow keys/WASD: move
hold SPACE: avoid lines

R: restart room
P:fullscreen toggle

Controls:

arrow keys/WASD: move
R: restart room

A small arcade game about dodging objects that bounce off the edges of the screen that I made in 30 minutes

Controls:
arrow key/WASD: Move
R:restart room

A small toylike game about creating colourful circles by moving over black tiles that I made in 30 minutes