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Monday, December 10, 2007

This just in: video games are art

Jon turned me on to a new game called "Portal," raving about how sharp and entertaining the main character (a malevolent passive-aggressive supercomputer) was. Here's a YouTube video of the ending to give you a taste of how excellently it's both written and performed.

But that's nothing compared to the song that plays over the credits, which I've embedded below.



UPDATE: In this post Jon reveals that the song was written by Jonathan Coulton, truly a beautiful mutant if there ever was one.

posted by Michael at 11:54 AM

Comments on "This just in: video games are art"

 

Anonymous Crazybus said ... (8:29 PM) : 

Wasn't expecting Jonathan Coulton... sweet. (This is completely irrelevant ) Any news on Junior?

 

Anonymous Anonymous said ... (10:40 PM) : 

I am reading a book about, among other things, video games as art, and also their relation to emergence theory (ant colonies, slime molds, and other 'related' systems.) Anyway, the title of your post reminds me of the book, and it's by Steven Johnson, 'Everything that's Bad is Good for you' which is on Powells or wherever. Thanks for the newsbreaks!

 

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