Art Game: Pippin Barr's "War Game" (2012)
From art game maker extraordinaire Pippin Barr comes another killer production, "War Game", an homage to the aesthetics of LCD handhelds games with a political message and haunting sound fx.
As Barr wrote a few days ago,
"The point of the game, or the picture I saw when I thought of it, is that as you kill people during your war and get injured and go through psych evaluations and are sent back to the war, the game gets more and more glitchy. It’s not a new idea for creating some kind of aesthetic portrayal of psychological difficulties, but I’ve been wanting to try out making a “glitchy” game for some time now, and this was the thing I ended up wanting to make. It’s not meant to be some big commentary on PTSD or war in general, but of course it can be read that was rather easily, so to that extent it is about those things (which I know bordering on nothing at all about). Oh well." (Pippin Barr)LINK
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