http://grandtextauto.org/2007/10/29/if-atanlz-was-a-blog-post/ A group blog about computer narrative, games, poetry, and art. Thu, 30 Sep 2010 22:43:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 http://grandtextauto.org/2007/10/29/if-atanlz-was-a-blog-post/comment-page-1/#comment-135527 nick Tue, 06 Nov 2007 21:06:54 +0000 http://grandtextauto.org/?p=1637#comment-135527 Sold! Sold!

]]> http://grandtextauto.org/2007/10/29/if-atanlz-was-a-blog-post/comment-page-1/#comment-135518 Patrick Tue, 06 Nov 2007 18:36:25 +0000 http://grandtextauto.org/?p=1637#comment-135518 I'd like to re-publish this on Play This Thing as a review for the game. Is that ok? I’d like to re-publish this on Play This Thing as a review for the game. Is that ok?

]]> http://grandtextauto.org/2007/10/29/if-atanlz-was-a-blog-post/comment-page-1/#comment-135100 Mark Tue, 30 Oct 2007 03:43:47 +0000 http://grandtextauto.org/?p=1637#comment-135100 Sort of an aside since it wasn't interactive, but the visual style here reminds me of the "MS Paint" comic/animation genre that I was a fan of in the late 1990s and early 2000s, particularly stuff like <a HREF="http://www.bitterfilms.com/rejected.html" rel="nofollow">Rejected</a> (2000), <a HREF="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oat_krMuA8" rel="nofollow">Taco the Wonder Dog</a> (2001; also: <a HREF="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88cznLBh1es" rel="nofollow">2002</a>), and <a HREF="http://uninteresting.myby.co.uk/noeffort/romjul.htm" rel="nofollow">L33t Romeo & Juliet</a> (2004). Which reminds me as even more of an aside that not that much of that "first wave" of Flash art is easily accessible anymore---I could only link to the Taco the Wonder Dog videos because a fan uploaded them to YouTube, and there's plenty of stuff I can't find at all if the original author disappeared and never archived their stuff at a central location (the Internet Archive doesn't archive animations). Sort of an aside since it wasn’t interactive, but the visual style here reminds me of the “MS Paint” comic/animation genre that I was a fan of in the late 1990s and early 2000s, particularly stuff like Rejected (2000), Taco the Wonder Dog (2001; also: 2002), and L33t Romeo & Juliet (2004). Which reminds me as even more of an aside that not that much of that “first wave” of Flash art is easily accessible anymore—I could only link to the Taco the Wonder Dog videos because a fan uploaded them to YouTube, and there’s plenty of stuff I can’t find at all if the original author disappeared and never archived their stuff at a central location (the Internet Archive doesn’t archive animations).

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