I mentioned Limbo a few weeks earlier. The game was released recently to (surprise, surprise) widespread critical acclaim.
I checked out Playdead's website - apparently, they are just a km away from where I'm staying with my cousin. I dropped them a line, and hopefully they will be okay with a visitor.
Further internet investigation (thank you, Indiegames Blog) turned me onto the Copenhagen Games Collective. The group is a consortium of designers and academics who are all pushing the envelope in terms of accessible, avant garde, and intelligent video game experiences.
Work includes such gems as B.U.T.T.O.N. (Brutally Unfair Tactics Totally Okay Now), which requires an XBox, four people and a large, open room with a table, and the extremely awkward Dark Room Sex Game - a combination social experiment/party game which forces players to look at each other (NOT at the TV screen) and play off of.... um.... "audio cues" in order to find a "mutual rhythm."
I want in on that - where's my Wii?
In addition, the group comes up with non-video games, including the aptly titled debate game Fuck You, It's Art, and publishes scholarly work and research.
Keep it coming, Copenhagen.
Are these games available in the U.S.? is my question. I feel like they're going to start coming out with some ridiculously awesome games
ReplyDeleteLimbo is out in the U.S.
ReplyDeleteThey're not quite sure how to distribute B.U.T.T.O.N. yet.
as for Dark Room Sex Game, download here: http://darkroomsexgame.com/download.php
I miss your beautiful face.
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