I know I’m coming in way after the fact, but think it was successful. I also wondered about the jumps. At first it felt like the jumps were forward moment as well, but after a time, I began to feel as if I was playing one of those infuriating games where you can only jump straight up (while the running still gave a sense of movement). Finally, that all broke down and there was just the movement (doubled, as my eyes started to lose focus). Then I quit. I thought it was satisfying.

“But I think in order for something to be sincere, it has to have a meaning”
From what you’re saying, I don’t see how the second statement precludes the possibility of the first.

>‘Fun’ is a blunt weapon used to injure and exclude. Please take your ‘fun’ elsewhere.

Are we allowed to hope to enjoy something? Or if “enjoy” is too specific of a standard, how about this: Should we expect to gain something, whether meaningful or trite, anything at all, out of a game?

I agree that games as a medium can be used for something more meaningful and interesting than the base thrill of “fun.” But just because something defies expectations doesn’t make it meaningful. Does this game have a meaning, or a purpose, or does it convey anything at all?

I don’t think I’ll ever understand “art.” Sometimes it seems all a peice of art is trying to accomplish is defy the boundaries of what someone calls “art,” which is recursive and, outside art itself, meaningless. Art begins to lose any sense of leverage on the world outside art, and becomes a null entity.

‘Fun’ is a blunt weapon used to injure and exclude. Please take your ‘fun’ elsewhere.