The End of Gameplay

an impactful poetry collection. maybe you'll want to kill gameplay after. maybe not

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I'm gonna make a video essay about why I recommend this game.

A series of meditations on gameplay and games. Very personal, intriguing, absorbing. Gives you a lot to chew on, which I always value more than an obvious concrete takeaway. The movement feels great, begs for kaizo. But that might hurt the poor little bunny!

droqen, We've had more than a handful of discussions about kill gameplay over on Bluesky, and having finally experienced... whatever you want to call this, I feel I understand your perspective much better. Had I not dug into your original musings on the topic, I feel this would have fell a little flat but I imagine you're okay with that. To recommend it feels like the wrong perspective to have, and yet I do recommend it. What this illuminated for me is while kill gameplay can certainly be ascribed to those who play games, our role as developers, as architects, is to reject, well, gameplay. There's simultaneously nothing and yet so much to say, but I'll end with what I found to be the most impactful message from my experience. regular trees fertilized with ego become parks, gardens, zoos nature redesigned nature built as if from scratch nature destroyed

a playful game. plays with pixels, plays with tunes, plays with frames, plays with jumps, plays with me and you. plays for poetry. thank you droqen

Very interesting experiment from an artistic point of view. A deconstruction of level design principles through poetic storytelling.It reminded me somewhat the experimental games of Pippin Barr.