Game, Game, Game and Again Game is "a digital poem, game, and anti/pro-design statement. The western world’s surroundings, belief systems, designed culture-games, create the built illusion of clean lines and definitive choice, cold narrow pathways of five colors, three body sizes and capsule philosophy. Within new media art the techno-filter extends these straight lines into exacting geometries and smooth bit rates. This game attempts to re-introduce the handdrawn, the messy and illogical into the digital, via a retro-game. Hovering above and attached to the poorly drawn aesthetic is a personal examination of how we/I continually switch and un-switch our dominate belief systems. Moving from faith to real estate, from chemistry to capitalism, triggering corrected poetry, jittering creatures." -- Jason Nelson
Experiencing the Work
Visitors navigate this Flash game primarily with keyboard movement (arrow keys), the space bar, and occasionally cursor movement and clicks are needed to access content. Audio and visual information are often abruptly introduced. Visuals are often high in contrast and audio is frequently inconsistent in volume.
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Published in 2010 by bleuOrange in Issue 3.
This is the French translation of the work. This copy was transferred to the Electronic Literature Lab in Summer of 2021.
PUBLICATION TYPE
Online Journal
COPY MEDIA FORMAT
Web
ORIGINAL URL
http://revuebleuorange.org/bleuorange/03/nelsonThe Electronic Literature Collection Volume 2
Published in 2011 by Electronic Literature Organization.
The ELO gave this copy of the work to the Electronic Literature Lab in 2018.
PUBLICATION TYPE
Anthology
ORIGINAL URL
https://collection.eliterature.org/2/works/nelson_game.htmlAn unpublished copy.
This copy was given to ELO by Jason Nelson in May of 2018.
COPY MEDIA FORMAT
Web