Shadowplay

Posted on | October 15, 2008 at 7:51 am | Comments Off

Slowing down… slowing down… reaching a year’s worth of daily posts… don’t know how long I can keep it up… running out of things to talk about and time to talk about them…

Videogame(s) Played Yesterday: Linger in Shadows (PS3). I downloaded this from the Playstation Network because it looked interesting and mysterious, and was only $3. It’s not really a game per se, but “interactive art”. Really hard to describe unless you’re experiencing it. There’s some 3D animation that you can make go backwards and forwards, and you can also manipulate objects within the animation. Doing certain manipulations in certain ways causes a breakthrough to the next scene. I played around with it for a half hour or so and managed to wrack up a number of PS3 trophies. I’m not sure exactly how I did it. The goals are not really defined. That also unlocked more scenes supposedly. I’m not sure how to get to them. The artwork is very nice and it’s fun to play around with, though I think recreational drug users would get more out of it. This is actually the kind of thing that I’d like to see more of on the Playstation Network. At least it’s showing some level of creativity not normally associated with videogames. It’s awfully weird but engaging and there’s a sense of humor about it. Oh, those wacky Europeans!