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[wademcgillis]

Expletive them, seriously.




Download: http://gamejolt.com/freeware/games/expletive-art-games/download/1753/

Screenshot:

[deathtotheweird]

This is garbage. What was the point of this?

[wademcgillis]

Art games are garbage. What is the point of them?

[moi]

To go into the trash and take people's secrets away.

[Mentalpatient109]

this is silly. youre silly. ive seen much better mockeries of art games.

[Zenorf]

What...
What?
Whaaaaaa?
I...
no..

Just no.


P.S. Moi's avatar makes me feel uneasy. More so after looking at that brain gouge of a game.

[FiaStarta]

I'm not gonna play that (if it even is really a game), but it doesn't look worse than other art games. In fact, that screenshot looks better than at least 2 games in the forum's main page. I restrained myself from commenting about those, as there would probably be some hippie to tell me that I don't understand art and that a crap pixellated fish is the most amazing thing ever, and that I'm a troll for attempting to ruin all the fun that the author obviously deserved after spending at least 10min making his game.

[Hangedman]

Joke has been done before, and better

[CosmicMaher]

Art games are garbage. What is the point of them?

pissing you off i hope

[bento_smile]

I like that someone has made a parody of art game parody games. Right? Right?!? 

[Sos]

I like that someone has made a parody of art game parody games. Right? Right?!? 

Thet would end up nowhere.

[Melly]

Art games have created in you a reaction. The reaction of anger towards art games. That means art games have won.

[deadeye]

The only thing worse than art games is getting mad about and/or making fun of art games.

[pgil]

I like the subtle way you pointed out art games are pretentious and have bad graphics.

[FiaStarta]

That means art games have won.

"Art" has won already. The most expensive painting is a Pollock, which pretty much looks like someone vomitted all over a canvas.
(thank god no money is going into art games.. yet oh wait I remember a popular art game that has been sponsored by my own country )

I just wished art games would go where art is, in special galleries where they wouldn't annoy anyone.
I don't even understand why it's only now that we're being attacked by snobs. I mean, surely a crap Garfield that disappears when you press ctrl could have existed 20 years ago (ok maybe 20 years ago that crap would have looked more like a game). Is it because snobs are now praising each other, or because programming tools have been dumbed down so much that retards can now use them to express what they should have kept for themselves?

And really, I shouldn't mind, but all that buzz around shit games is like spitting on the face of those who have put work in their games.

I like the subtle way you pointed out art games are pretentious and have bad graphics.

That's pretty much the definition of an art game. If a game author had any talent & it was showing, his game would be categorized as mainstream.

[CosmicMaher]

Well except it's not like that at all, but alright

[Zenorf]

And really, I shouldn't mind, but all that buzz around shit games is like spitting on the face of those who have put work in their games.

Actually that's a really good point. I thought that about art but never about games. With art games It's always been a case of we all gather round, laugh and point fingers while we probably completely ignore a perfectly good enjoyable, critically praised actual indie game.

I feel a little ashamed now.

[CosmicMaher]

Good point.

[FiaStarta]

laugh and point fingers while we probably completely ignore a perfectly good enjoyable, critically praised actual indie game.

..or good game at all. 
I mean we can surely find points to critisize in mainstream games, blockbusters are made for the masses & that doesn't come without compromises. 
But seriously, when it's about visual art, Assassins Creed 2's trailer is a real beauty (I haven't even tried the game). So it hurts when I see things like "he's all about graphics" talking about Au Sable's maker. Maybe his game's gameplay could be praised, but the graphics? Am I blind that I'm missing the beauty here? OR is it just a biased view, "he's a little independent game maker, not making money, so having a very small talent makes him a great artist" vs "they're a huge company, their game is commercial, so they're no real artists, they're just paid to do it"?  Aren't the people who worked on that video, well, real people too?  Would they have been better artists if their game had been free? Or do they stop being real artists as soon as too many people are praising them?
Here I was talking about visual arts, but it would be the same for gameplay, as "art games" are usually crap to play as well, when there's even anything to play.

[CosmicMaher]

You don't think Au Sable looks good? I think it looks good independent of any criteria like "oh he's indie so he has less money". It flat-out looks good because Amon26 has a sense of the aesthetic he is trying to go for, and the actual visual design skill to make it happen.

I can understand just thinking it looks bad from personal taste, but most artists, myself included, would tell you he has very good composition and use of his visual elements. Obviously whether you buy that or not is up to you, but by any actual standard of visual art, it's very good, and that has nothing to do with his income.