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More Foley Games October 16, 2006 - by Ian Bogost Some of my students at Georgia Tech run a little game jam every Sunday called 4 second games (4sg). They spend four hours making games on a particular theme, with the requirement that each game be played in four seconds (or have a round that lasts four seconds, etc.). Last week they chose Mark Foley as the theme (a topic we've covered before), and a couple amusing specimens emerged. Click through for the details. The first is Pedophilia! The Mark Foley Game by Kurt Margenau. The player must close IM windows with inappropriate messages as fast as possible. I think Kurt generated the actual messages from reports of the ones Foley sent. The second is Messenger, by Max Anderson. The player fires messages to pages, but must avoid their interception by "interlopers." These are both simple games, but given the time constraints I think they came out pretty well. The IM window game is technically a variant of the all too familiar whack-a-mole newsgame, but I actually think it's an appropriate mechanic in this case.
Comment from Ian Bogost on October 17, 2006
I should mention that it's unclear if the game is played with a dance pad or other physical interface, but one can only assume that some such of affordance will be offered, even if optionally... Comment from Ian Bogost on October 17, 2006
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