I think I’m the only contributor at the League that isn’t a gamer. Given a few hours on a Saturday evening, there are approximately 1,000 things I would choose to do before sitting down with an X-Box for the night. And yet this new documentary, Indie Game, looks unbelievably awesome:
One of the reasons gaming disinterests me is that unlike other medium, such as books, film or music, it always seems to lack what I might call a “human presence:” All is light plot to set up action – though it is quite often well done in dazzlingly beautiful ways. But there is nothing in a video game that reveals to me anything about either myself or the creator that made it. Indie Game seems like a great way for me to bridge that gap.
Being a non-gamer, it’s interesting that my favorite documentary of all time is The King of Kong: Fistful of Quarters. If Indie Game movie is anywhere as awesome as the trailer makes it look, a double feature with both should be required in every art movie house in the Western world.
Indie Game looks awesome, but there are two gentlemen featured in the trailer that I want to kidnap and give makeovers to, starting with their eyebrows.Report
I had the opportunity to watch this when it toured through philly several weeks ago. Definitely recommended. I’m not sure of all of the methods for watching it, but I know it the movie file can be pre-ordered on Steam for $6 or so.
While it didn’t have some of the dramatic tension that other docs have (it’s informing about a subject rather than bringing to light a conflict), it does a great job of depicting the more human side of game development.Report
$8.99 and coming in 10 days!
http://store.steampowered.com/app/207080/?snr=1_4_4__101
I’m very much looking forward to seeing this, I’d like to see if Mr. Blow is anything like that article made him seem. I really like Edmund McMullen’s stuff so seeing that will be cool and FEZ seems like the game Blow keeps claiming isn’t being made – I would almost buy a 360 just to get the chance to try it.Report
Fez was awesome. I still can’t articulate the things it made me feel playing it late at night alone.
http://nightmaremode.net/2012/04/review-fez-is-where-i-want-to-be-18451/Report
There’s no guns. What’s the point?Report
“I don’t consume cultural product x, but I do feel confident to speak to what characteristics it ‘always’ displays”Report
“I don’t write a blog, but I do feel confident to neglect the author’s subjective-writing phrases like ‘seems’ and ‘for me,’ so that I can snark on the point I was hoping to whine about instead of the one he actually wrote about.”Report
What point did you write about?
As I see it, in this 10 sentence post there’s one sentence saying ‘hey guys, this looks cool, check it out’, and 9 saying ‘if you’re into that type of thing, which I’m totally not, I mean it really seems kind of pointless, but I watched this one movie one time and it was okay, so if I was trying to understand some of what goes into video games, which I’m totally not into, I might check this out. But only as an anthropological experiment’Report
Then you decided what I was going to say before you read it.
In what context is “this looks totally awesome, and this other thing is my favorite ever” get translated into “meh.. if you care for that kind of thing, which I don’t?”Report
I took Tod as saying hey, if you’re not really into videogames, like me, this seems like it still might appeal to you, just like it still appeals to me.Report
“I think I’m the only contributor at the League that isn’t a gamer.”
I would never call myself a gamer. I play old versions if matter every few months. If I’m super bored, I might try to find a download of an old computer game I played in high school (e.g., “Heroes of Might and Magic II”). But, yea, you are not the only non-gamer here!Report
I play Legend of Zelda, Link to the Past occasionally. I’m not sure if that qualifies as gaming.Report
I haven’t played a video game since I was about eight years old. Even watching other people play them makes me wish I was elsewhere.Report
I could have wriiten this comment if the word eight was changed to sixteen.Report
Ooooh.
*adds to list of fun things to do this summer*Report