Comments on: Mandala (arrogant.gamer) http://www.freeindiegam.es/2013/05/mandala-arrogant-gamer/ Thu, 10 Apr 2014 18:02:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.2 By: Arrogant Gamer http://www.freeindiegam.es/2013/05/mandala-arrogant-gamer/#comment-88724 Mon, 26 Aug 2013 06:37:09 +0000 http://www.freeindiegam.es/?p=7348#comment-88724 I think I’m ready to respond to this:

Bryce’s comment is an example of how succesfully “authenticity” has been discredited as a philosophical object. Appreciable moments in time and culture do vanish, and are replaced by gradual appropriation. To claim that “the real version wouldn’t erase anything” is to claim that disneyfication is not a real and dangerous phenomenon. The desertification of culture is happening everyday, and Mandala was a game about the effect of tourism on the beautiful place of the world.

phew!

]]> By: arrogant.gamer http://www.freeindiegam.es/2013/05/mandala-arrogant-gamer/#comment-58948 Tue, 14 May 2013 03:33:27 +0000 http://www.freeindiegam.es/?p=7348#comment-58948 EDIT: the text is not there :shock:

]]> By: arrogant.gamer http://www.freeindiegam.es/2013/05/mandala-arrogant-gamer/#comment-58945 Tue, 14 May 2013 03:02:01 +0000 http://www.freeindiegam.es/?p=7348#comment-58945 I’m not nearly clever enough for this many layers of reflection. I just think the thought once or twice, but don’t usually think about thinking it, or think about that. Definitely beautiful soul syndrome.

Goals that I didn’t attain during the jam include: ways of ‘healing’ the rooms; ways for players to leave a mark. I later thought it would be cool to have some things fade in while other fade out.

Ultimately, though, I’m just happy to have done it. :razz:

]]> By: arrogant.gamer http://www.freeindiegam.es/2013/05/mandala-arrogant-gamer/#comment-58944 Tue, 14 May 2013 02:58:14 +0000 http://www.freeindiegam.es/?p=7348#comment-58944 It is open source, if you are curious. The text is all there, but I recommend you not reading it. Right now Mandala is a bit of a mess, but I intend to clean it up and change the text parser to take Twine’s markup. https://github.com/variousauthors/mandala

]]> By: arrogant.gamer http://www.freeindiegam.es/2013/05/mandala-arrogant-gamer/#comment-58942 Tue, 14 May 2013 02:51:59 +0000 http://www.freeindiegam.es/?p=7348#comment-58942 Wow. Just wow. On the bus on my way home from deciding to participate in LD48 I thought, “maybe I should make a game like that book my dad once told me about on a spring day. The one that disapears.”

You totally nailed it! Also, that word!

]]> By: Louis F. http://www.freeindiegam.es/2013/05/mandala-arrogant-gamer/#comment-57939 Thu, 09 May 2013 07:59:59 +0000 http://www.freeindiegam.es/?p=7348#comment-57939 Nothing left here, so I guess I’ll just say that I like the idea of this at least : )

]]> By: Phack http://www.freeindiegam.es/2013/05/mandala-arrogant-gamer/#comment-57517 Wed, 08 May 2013 03:07:07 +0000 http://www.freeindiegam.es/?p=7348#comment-57517 Anyone happen to save the source early on?

]]> By: Norgg http://www.freeindiegam.es/2013/05/mandala-arrogant-gamer/#comment-57369 Tue, 07 May 2013 08:25:07 +0000 http://www.freeindiegam.es/?p=7348#comment-57369 Nothing there at all now. Just a wasteland of non-breaking space characters.

]]> By: musurca http://www.freeindiegam.es/2013/05/mandala-arrogant-gamer/#comment-57302 Tue, 07 May 2013 01:44:33 +0000 http://www.freeindiegam.es/?p=7348#comment-57302 It’s true — in order to preserve the world’s beautiful places it’s usually necessary to attract visitors and charge an entry fee. There’s a delicate balance between conservation and tourism (ever visited Pompeii?).

That could lead to some interesting variations on this idea.

]]> By: Bryce McQuern http://www.freeindiegam.es/2013/05/mandala-arrogant-gamer/#comment-57299 Tue, 07 May 2013 01:10:44 +0000 http://www.freeindiegam.es/?p=7348#comment-57299 No, you weren’t harsh at all.

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