| Critique: Stars Over Half Moon Bay |
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| | by jcr13 | Thursday, March 20, 2008 [11:10 am] |
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I project a world? If not project then at least flash some arrow on the
dome to skitter among constellations and trace out your Dragon, Whale,
Southern Cross. Anything might help.
--Mrs Oedipa Mass from Thomas Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49
On its face, Rod Humble's latest artgame, Stars Over Half Moon Bay, is a simple game about stargazing. This departs substantially from The Marriage,
which on its face was about nothing at all, save the motions and
transformations of geometric primitives. Of course, with that game, we
had the title to guide us.
In the case of Stars,
neither the title nor the sub-title ("the gentle bite of ouroboros")
helps us drill down past the surface interpretation. We must look to
the artist's background statement to learn that this is a work
concerning "the relationship between observation, symbolism, exactitude
and the creative process."
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Joshua Smyth's
Attack of the Meeplingsis a vertical shooter consisting of three levels, playable using
Java-enabled browser. Hold the Z key to shoot, and press the space key
to use a missile. Autofire can be activated with the A key.
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