Well, minorly, anyway. This magazine offers their coverage of #Gamergate, offering the phrase I surely hope appears in my obituary. Being in the same sentence as Tim is quite an honor and a privilege.
Those within the industry openly made statements against Gamergate, including: gaming companies such as Blizzard and the Entertainment Software Association (commonly know as the ESA and gaming’s top trade group); publications like Game Informer, Polygon, and Giant Bomb; and creative luminaries such as Tim Schafer and Damion Schubert. Some statements where measured, like the ESA’s assertion that “There is no place in the video game community—or our society—for personal attacks and threats.” But others weren’t. Schubert called it “an unprecedented catastrofuck,” which remains one of my favourite combinations of words ever. Even the vaguest of questions about the legitimacy of the movement seemed to evaporate.
Motherboard.Vice picked up on and expanded upon an investigative story I began… for science… about a month ago: Cock Hero is Guitar Hero for Wanking. In related news, the artists behind this emerging art trend feel perhaps I don’t fully understand their craft.
Also, I finally put the slides up for my talk to GDC on the F2P model – sorry for the delay.
Ahahahaha there is a CH called “Champion of Cocknia”. I really hope Cocknia is a fully realized universe.
The official language is Cockney. It’s very glottal.
Back to the gamification of pornography 🙂
I recently had a flashback to a couple of games on the Commodore Amiga 500 from years ago (at least 1989). The names have long been forgotten.
Game 1: Sliding Jigsaw Puzzle
A static image set on a grid of tiles, the tiles are jumbled up and need to be moved around to reorder the tiles in a complete image.
I think there is an effect in VLC player (http://www.videolan.org/index.html) that allows something very similar but with a moving image.
Game 2:
Again a static image (a limitation of the time) completely blacked out. Several moving icons were on the screen it was the players job to corral them into a smaller and smaller area. For every chunk they successfully completed it revealed a part of the image.
The Cock Hero videos seem to fall into a ‘Simon Says’ category of play, until some degree of feedback can be introduced that judges how accurate the interaction of the player is (the simplest would be a wrist mounted device with Bluetooth connection to an app that plays the CH vids – peripherals on the Xbox such as Kinect open up the potential of hands free detection :O )) and gates progression to further content. Pornhub is already developing wrist mounted hardware (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/02/27/wankband-masturbation-_n_6769506.html – not sure if spoof or not April 1st is still a month away), and maybe it would give added functionality to the iWatch.
The significant move here would be away from premade videos that are just streamed on a video site like Pornhub, to an App that actively constructs and pays the sequence. This opens up a possibility of collections of clips that can be dropped into a rhythm sequence on the fly. Such collections could be a variety of free and premium (official porn star sets) catering to any number of fetishes. In much the same way as the Panini Sticker albums (http://collectibles.panini.co.uk/home.html) sell gambling packs to complete sticker albums the collections could be distributed in random packs.
Well I did call you a lighthouse in a sea of garbage. That makes you luminous by definition. 😉
This is an interesting magazine. It’s an activist leftist magazine, but it also has serious art coverage (and support of the arts community). So great to get noticed there.
And check out this article out on gamer ransomeware:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/03/13/ransomware_video_games/
Interesting topic in itself, but look at the tag line: “Actually, it’s about ethics in data kidnapping.”
I wonder if its becoming a meme…