Tuesday, January 31, 2012

LIFE DEATH RESPAWN

Spawn, die, repeat. Gamers are used to the never-ending in-game cycle. Ever played a video game where you were limited to one life? If you died you had to give up the game. You could never play again. Of course not. Who would play? Even perma-death gamers keep coming back to the game. They've bought into an allegorithm of reincarnation. If they can't get it right in this life, they will in the next or the one after. Let's propose for one moment that there existed a pure game.  This game tailored itself to the individual gamer. Agon, alea, mimicry, ilinx: they are all waiting to be experienced. The rules are kind of fast and loose. The only one that is set in stone is: once you're out, there is no going back in. How would you play?

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