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Wow, that was amazing. This is honestly a better piece of contemporary art (in terms of making you think about modern life and what is happening to our environm

Wow, that was amazing. This is honestly a better piece of contemporary art (in terms of making you think about modern life and what is happening to our environment, the impact on ourselves, our kids, etc.) than most of what you might see at a fancy art gallery or a contemporary art museum in NYC.

echelon 2y ago
Neal has continually outdone himself with every single release. Everything he makes is a labor of love and is so special and deserving of attention. From the factual stuff like "The Size of Space" and "Deep Sea", to the more amusing "Absurd Trolly Problems", "The Password Game", and so on. It's all so good and feels like a gift to the internet. Stimulation Clicker's social commentary has to the best thus far. I know click games are a thing, but to combine that mechanic with a parody of the state of the modern attention economy is just pure art. Neal, if you're reading HN, you rock. Please know how appreciative we are.
- engineer_22 2y ago
  https://buymeacoffee.com/neal https://buymeacoffee.com/neal
diggan 2y ago
> This is honestly a better piece of contemporary art (in terms of making you think about modern life and what is happening to our environment, the impact on ourselves, our kids, etc.) Zooming out, I think games in general is in a much better position to do this, as a medium, compared to the alternatives TV, movies and music. I guess mainly because it's interactive, but it also feels like it can be broader than the other mediums, like on one hand you have Idle/Clicker games like these, and on the other the huge blockbuster AAA games.
marifjeren 2y ago
You'll never see games at fancy art galleries or contemporary art museums in NYC because games are too accessible
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- tomjakubowski 2y ago
  I've seen and played games at the Cooper Hewitt Museum in NYC. Maybe I got lucky but it's one of like three museum visits I've ever done as a tourist in the city.
- raimondious 2y ago
  Except perhaps the most well known contemporary art museum in the world: https://www.moma.org/magazine/articles/798 https://www.moma.org/magazine/articles/798
- NoboruWataya 2y ago
  Rather, I think they are not accessible enough. A picture on a wall, a movie or music can be experienced by hundreds or thousands of people all at once. Games in an art gallery have a much lower natural limit to the number of people who can interact with them simultaneously (at least in the same physical space). Sure, you can watch others do it, but that's not really the same thing (it's more like watching performance art than playing a game). I have in fact been to art galleries which had interactive game-like exhibits. I basically never got to interact with them because, lo and behold, there was a long queue.
- miltonlost 2y ago
  The Smithsonian has a traveling exhibition specifically about Art in Video Games: https://americanart.si.edu/exhibitions/games https://americanart.si.edu/exhibitions/games Maybe actually go to an art gallery/museum sometime instead of assuming you know what one is
  - lupire 2y ago
    It's "The Art of Video Games"
  - marifjeren 2y ago
    I stand corrected by you and others > Maybe actually go to an art gallery/museum sometime This however is unfair and hypocritical re: assuming. I have been to many of the world's most celebrated museums of art, at least dozens of them, and have never personally seen video games in them firsthand.
alanbernstein 2y ago
For the live-action, logical conclusion of this concept, watch HYPER-REALITY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJg02ivYzSs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJg02ivYzSs
- btown 2y ago
  > 8 years ago Sci-Fi Author: In my book I invented the Torment Nexus as a cautionary tale Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from classic sci-fi novel Don't Create The Torment Nexus (via https://x.com/AlexBlechman/status/1457842724128833538?lang=en https://x.com/AlexBlechman/status/1457842724128833538?lang=e... )
eleveriven 2y ago
I haven’t even had a chance to look at the game from that perspective yet. I don’t know why, but this game has me so excited!
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echelon 2y ago

Neal has continually outdone himself with every single release. Everything he makes is a labor of love and is so special and deserving of attention. From the factual stuff like "The Size of Space" and "Deep Sea", to the more amusing "Absurd Trolly Problems", "The Password Game", and so on. It's all so good and feels like a gift to the internet. Stimulation Clicker's social commentary has to the best thus far. I know click games are a thing, but to combine that mechanic with a parody of the state of the modern attention economy is just pure art. Neal, if you're reading HN, you rock. Please know how appreciative we are.

engineer_22 2y ago
https://buymeacoffee.com/neal https://buymeacoffee.com/neal

diggan 2y ago

> This is honestly a better piece of contemporary art (in terms of making you think about modern life and what is happening to our environment, the impact on ourselves, our kids, etc.) Zooming out, I think games in general is in a much better position to do this, as a medium, compared to the alternatives TV, movies and music. I guess mainly because it's interactive, but it also feels like it can be broader than the other mediums, like on one hand you have Idle/Clicker games like these, and on the other the huge blockbuster AAA games.

marifjeren 2y ago

You'll never see games at fancy art galleries or contemporary art museums in NYC because games are too accessible

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tomjakubowski 2y ago
I've seen and played games at the Cooper Hewitt Museum in NYC. Maybe I got lucky but it's one of like three museum visits I've ever done as a tourist in the city.
raimondious 2y ago
Except perhaps the most well known contemporary art museum in the world: https://www.moma.org/magazine/articles/798 https://www.moma.org/magazine/articles/798
NoboruWataya 2y ago
Rather, I think they are not accessible enough. A picture on a wall, a movie or music can be experienced by hundreds or thousands of people all at once. Games in an art gallery have a much lower natural limit to the number of people who can interact with them simultaneously (at least in the same physical space). Sure, you can watch others do it, but that's not really the same thing (it's more like watching performance art than playing a game). I have in fact been to art galleries which had interactive game-like exhibits. I basically never got to interact with them because, lo and behold, there was a long queue.
miltonlost 2y ago
The Smithsonian has a traveling exhibition specifically about Art in Video Games: https://americanart.si.edu/exhibitions/games https://americanart.si.edu/exhibitions/games Maybe actually go to an art gallery/museum sometime instead of assuming you know what one is
- lupire 2y ago
  It's "The Art of Video Games"
- marifjeren 2y ago
  I stand corrected by you and others > Maybe actually go to an art gallery/museum sometime This however is unfair and hypocritical re: assuming. I have been to many of the world's most celebrated museums of art, at least dozens of them, and have never personally seen video games in them firsthand.

alanbernstein 2y ago

For the live-action, logical conclusion of this concept, watch HYPER-REALITY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJg02ivYzSs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJg02ivYzSs

btown 2y ago
> 8 years ago Sci-Fi Author: In my book I invented the Torment Nexus as a cautionary tale Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from classic sci-fi novel Don't Create The Torment Nexus (via https://x.com/AlexBlechman/status/1457842724128833538?lang=en https://x.com/AlexBlechman/status/1457842724128833538?lang=e... )

eleveriven 2y ago

I haven’t even had a chance to look at the game from that perspective yet. I don’t know why, but this game has me so excited!

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