Comments on: A Beautiful Game to Start Your 2010 https://nickm.com/post/2009/12/a-beautiful-game-to-start-your-2010/ Nick Montfort Mon, 04 Jan 2010 23:51:49 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 By: Post Position » Every Day the Same Dude https://nickm.com/post/2009/12/a-beautiful-game-to-start-your-2010/comment-page-1/#comment-1180 Mon, 04 Jan 2010 23:51:49 +0000 http://nickm.com/post/?p=630#comment-1180 […] nick: you wrote While there are some glaring stereotypes that take away from its freshness and originality (especially in regard to gender; the character’s wife is in the kitchen with a frying pan in the morning and tells the character he is late for work; the office execs are all male, etc.) about Every Day the Same Dream [previously on Post Position] […]

]]> By: Sherol Chen https://nickm.com/post/2009/12/a-beautiful-game-to-start-your-2010/comment-page-1/#comment-1172 Sun, 03 Jan 2010 01:14:51 +0000 http://nickm.com/post/?p=630#comment-1172 I don’t know if I have the patience to find out whether there is more than one ending, but wow… I’m left speechless.

It’s inspiring that something so simple can have such a profound moment, where we literally need to stop what we are doing, and think about nothing other than what just happened.

I shared it with my friends and said to them..”um, yea… i dont know what to say, but that if you are averse to thinking, then you probably shouldnt play this game. note: it is somewhat disturbing.. but beautifully so”

]]> By: andrew stern https://nickm.com/post/2009/12/a-beautiful-game-to-start-your-2010/comment-page-1/#comment-1171 Sat, 02 Jan 2010 05:58:31 +0000 http://nickm.com/post/?p=630#comment-1171 I found this game about a week ago and enjoyed it. Would make a good new addition to this year’s Groundhog Day post on GTxA… :-)

]]> By: Brian Stefans https://nickm.com/post/2009/12/a-beautiful-game-to-start-your-2010/comment-page-1/#comment-1170 Sat, 02 Jan 2010 04:20:21 +0000 http://nickm.com/post/?p=630#comment-1170 Fun game to play after sleeping to five pm trying to shake off the New Year’s Eve woozies. Reminds me in some ways of that well-known art game whose name I forget but where you basically just move forward through a beautifully rendered pixelated landscape. I wonder if anyone’s theorized the basic aesthetics of such games. I forgot that I loved playing these little indie things so much (though they can border on frightfully pretentious and/or maudlin).

]]> By: Hypercompendia » Blog Archive » GAMES: Every Day The Same Dream https://nickm.com/post/2009/12/a-beautiful-game-to-start-your-2010/comment-page-1/#comment-1167 Fri, 01 Jan 2010 07:19:10 +0000 http://nickm.com/post/?p=630#comment-1167 […] of a fun way to start out the New Year: Every Day The Same Dream by Molleindustria (thanks to Nick Montfort for the […]

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