Re: [-empyre-] playthings response

[Troy Innocent <troy@iconica.org>]

Eugenie et al,

> though it's easy and pretty interesting to conceive of a mod that would
> totally destroy the internal logic of a game and make a familiar, 
> legible
> environment completely disconcerting. can anybody think of examples of 
> this
> sort of mod?

Well, I have not played it but perhaps QQQ from nullpointer? It 
certainly seems to deconstruct the symbolic space of Quake III into an 
environment that is even more artificial / unreal. That is, if the game 
space of Quake III is a familiar environment?

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from http://q-q-q.net/

'QQQ' exploits these aesthetic trends, and infuses them with an 
autonomous, generative aspect. The modified engine creates a continuous 
stream of glitched images and abstracted video sequences. The constant 
modulation of the digital landscape, coupled with the 24/7 interaction 
of online players creates an environment in flux, with no end or 
beginning.
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This may be interesting from an anamorphic point of view as well due to 
the layering of multiple perspectives of the game space, breakdown of 
the representation etc? I would be interested also in how the 
autonomous, generative aspect works...

Troy.