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GDC: Abusing Your Players For Fun (And Profit?)

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GDC: Abusing Your Players For Fun (And Profit?) GDC: Abusing Your Players For Fun (And Profit?) It's probably a good sign when a presentation opens by informing attendeesPVC Tarpaulin that it may kill them if they're prone to seizures. Much like his games, Jonatan "Cactus" S?derstr?m's GDC #xtalk was filled with flashing lights, garish colors, clips from David Lynch movies, and the feeling that somebody is having a joke at our expense. It's a good joke, though, even if he didn't follow up his awkward, adorably nervous foreigner act with a superb Elvis Impersonation. Mostly on account of the fact that he actually is an adorable, awkwardly nervous foreigner, but I was still waiting for it. Anyway, aside from the bizarrity and weird movie summaries ("Dr. Strangelove is actually my favorite comedy of all time... or something. You don't have to laugh at it, though.") he actually namedropped a lot of games that are thematically linked through their incomprehensibility and enjoyable bastardry.

First, and most obviously, I should point out Cactus's own oeuvrePVC Tarpaulin. From today's introduction: "Cactus is kind of like a firehouse, except insead of water he sprays games." He's got a crapload of stuff on his site. It's occasionally brilliant and always just plain weird as hell, but particular attention should be drawn to first-person crazyfest Mondo Medicals, as well as Cactus Arcade, which gathers together all his most notable contributions to the science of making people ask what the fuck is going on.

Messhoff got his props, particularly for Randy Balma: Municipal Abortionist, which clearly follows in the Lynchian tradition. Or, as Cactus said "I think that might not make much sense, but it's good to have a look at it." I think it made me throw up a few times. Not because it's gross or anything, but because it was spinning around and flashing a lot. Also,google优化, it was full of babies#x. They have PVC Tarpaulinthat effect on me. Check out Punishment and Flywrench while you're there. 相关的主题文章：