Flash game offers doorway into madness
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The above is not a screenshot. It's a portal into insanity. Seriously, we're not even sure that you want to click it, lest you lose your already tenuous grip on reality; for that is the price of Game, Game, Game and Again Game, the weirdest thing that's ever happened to us.
We know that sounds like hyperbole, but we don't know what else to call a "game" that forces you to collect hand-drawn syringes, represents your score with spinning arrows and punishes you for dying by replacing your "character" with the words "Not Alive" as a disembodied voice chants "C'mon and meet your maker." Also, one of the game's alternate titles is belief systems are small clumsy rolling-type creatures. So ... yeah, it's a singular experience to say the least, but if you can get past the weirdness you'll see the game mocking video game conventions and the very nature of man ... simultaneously. Designer Jason Nelson is either the next Miyamoto or the next Ted Kaczynski. The jury's still out.
[Thanks, Jackson F.]
Reader Comments (27)
Posted: May 2nd 2007 11:37AM (Unverified) said
I love how you guys point out all the most amazing flash games.
Please, keep it up.
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Please, keep it up.
Posted: May 2nd 2007 12:01PM (Unverified) said
"and the final remaining pill, hid under the frozen pudding..."
Apparently the game's creator ATE the rest of the pills...
~HotShotX
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Apparently the game's creator ATE the rest of the pills...
~HotShotX
Posted: May 2nd 2007 12:27PM (Unverified) said
Geez...I thought it was a Radiohead video at first...
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Posted: May 2nd 2007 12:27PM (Unverified) said
Thats got to be the creepiest...thing I've ever played.
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Posted: May 2nd 2007 12:36PM (Unverified) said
I don't know what that was, but I'm pretty sure it caused my headache.
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Posted: May 2nd 2007 12:41PM captainduck said
The large vid at the end makes it all worth it :)
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Posted: May 2nd 2007 12:41PM (Unverified) said
Yeah, you know I've got a headache too now.
Pretty pictures though.
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Pretty pictures though.
Posted: May 2nd 2007 1:00PM (Unverified) said
I didn't know there were any game designers suffering from schizophrenia :p
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Posted: May 2nd 2007 1:17PM (Unverified) said
help me, I'm stuck underneath the frozen pudding
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Posted: May 2nd 2007 3:23PM (Unverified) said
That was stupid. It looks like someone spent some time in a philosophy class after they just had too much of acid.
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Posted: May 3rd 2007 8:47AM (Unverified) said
That was the most fucked up thing I have ever done in my life.
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Posted: May 2nd 2007 11:09PM (Unverified) said
Best game ever. The payoff at the very end makes it all worth it. You have to see what happens to the potatoes to believe it!
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Posted: May 3rd 2007 12:44AM (Unverified) said
I got addicted to that. I'm surprised! The vid at the end was pretty funny, but I think it was all improv. I feel like he just laid out a bunch of random stuff and just went with it.
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Posted: May 3rd 2007 8:40AM Skornogr4phy said
Similar to Bear Hello.
www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/bearhello
Scary shit.
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www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/bearhello
Scary shit.
Posted: May 3rd 2007 12:14PM (Unverified) said
if you find this sort of art interesting, you might want to check out http://larrycarlson.com/
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Posted: Jul 6th 2007 3:41AM (Unverified) said
ah without further ado on the specimen of life, i wish to call the no men which may try to take life in crystals of pure alchemy. thus bringing none other than the corn cob of the past. think now... think and believe that there will never be a there...
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