Pond

[teamonkey]

If you haven't played this already, even if you hate art games, do it. It only takes 10 minutes to play it through to the end and I promise it will blow your mind.

http://rjlayton.com/pond/

[Rhythm]

Played it earlier this week, thought it was utter guff. Tries way too hard to prove a point and ends up missing the target by fucking *miles*

[pogo]

Play it: it will show you what's possible when art, imagination and gaming come together, in under ten minutes if I recall.

[Misfit]

Sorry but I'm with Rhythm on this one.

[xan]

I didn't get this at all! Bored beyond belief after 30s.

It does get bonus points for being possible to fail by ignoring the instructions.

Edit: What an utterly fucking stupid "game".

[Darkflame]

Is it trying to prove we have a short attention span? I got bored after the first few screens....

[Rhythm]

No idea. I played it, died, played it again and got the "proper" ending but each way it was a pointless experience

[fog]

But it's "art" so it doesn't have to be any good you bunch of Philistines

No I didn't get it either.

[Ollie]

You guys who are calling it "art" are just going along with the joke, right? Right?

[juice]

That was... mildly entertaining

Spoiler: show

I'd just thought "this would be more entertaining if something exploded or attacked... when it did

Is it art? Probably not. Is it a humorous bit of fun-poking against both art games and a certain film critic? Pretty much!

[Gorecki]

That failed miserably on every possible level. And the reference to Roger Ebert is either so clever and witty that it's flown straight over my head or it's so retarded and dumb it simply doesn't make any sense. I strongly suspect it's the latter.