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Beautiful, interactive, fun, engaging... Is it a game though? :)

TuismTuism
edited in General
http://www.feedthehead.net/

It's really cool, check it out. I'm not going to go into spoilers :)

So, is it a game?

Is it art?

Does it matter? :)

I do notice that it's available for other iPhone etc, so it's been monetised. Interestingly.

Discuss :)

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  • GingetsuryuuGingetsuryuu
    Interesting. I think I finished it. It's a game with no clear goal or a goal to "explore". Every stage has rules and conditions for reaching the next one. And there are penalties that knock you back. So I guess it's a game. :D
  • TuismTuism
    Penalties? I didn't see any of that, I could miss a mark and have to go all the way around (with the nose) but I didn't find penalties.

    What an interesting toy isn't it? :)
  • FengolFengol
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    There's a neat little diagram I learnt on the gamification course helping to see the difference between toys, games, playful design and gamification which might help here (see attached).

    The vertical line represents the structure of play; for heavily structured with rules and limits at the top and free-form/release at the bottom. The horizontal line is the different between whole and partial artifacts (i.e. items).

    This is from the article From Game Design Elements to Gamefulness: Defining "Gamification"
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  • bevisbevis
    wow this is ancient. still cool though. its a game :)
  • EvanGreenwoodEvanGreenwood
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    Love Vector Park's work. It's got a nice implicit win condition, and offers a lovely puzzle.
  • GingetsuryuuGingetsuryuu
    Penalties? I didn't see any of that, I could miss a mark and have to go all the way around (with the nose) but I didn't find penalties.
    I'd consider that a penalty. If you hit a hurdle you have to start over with the race.
  • FengolFengol
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    This reminds me of those puzzle Flash games where you had to work out how to 100% the puzzle. They were very animation heavy and you would play forever to see all the different combinations.

    Edit: It was called Grow RPG. There was a whole series of them available here
  • GingetsuryuuGingetsuryuu
    I'm reminded of Hoshi Saga
    http://hoshisaga.jp/

  • TuismTuism
    Yeah! Grow was awesome :D They had a whole bunch of different games, it was the very definition of prototyping then refining :)
  • hellojacohellojaco
    I FINISHED IT!!!!!!

    (Gosh, I was starting to develop a complex there.)

    p.s. This is definitely a game. :)
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