Comments on: LAYOFF released today http://grandtextauto.org/2009/03/16/layoff-released-today/ 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 By: mary http://grandtextauto.org/2009/03/16/layoff-released-today/comment-page-1/#comment-448927 mary Sun, 22 Mar 2009 20:55:14 +0000 http://grandtextauto.org/?p=2565#comment-448927 Update; Layoff game has 1.1 million players its first week! Play and read many more reviews at http://www.tiltfactor.org/?page_id=%20598. Update; Layoff game has 1.1 million players its first week!

Play and read many more reviews at http://www.tiltfactor.org/?page_id=%20598.

]]> By: Water Cooler Games http://grandtextauto.org/2009/03/16/layoff-released-today/comment-page-1/#comment-444815 Water Cooler Games Tue, 17 Mar 2009 09:21:35 +0000 http://grandtextauto.org/?p=2565#comment-444815 <strong>Layoff, the Game...</strong> Mary Flanagan announces a new game from her Tiltfactor lab, created in conjunction with the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) Game Design and Development program. ...Another is the unemployment office at screen bottom; workers don't disappea... Layoff, the Game…

Mary Flanagan announces a new game from her Tiltfactor lab, created in conjunction with the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) Game Design and Development program.

…Another is the unemployment office at screen bottom; workers don’t disappea…

]]> By: Mary Flanagan http://grandtextauto.org/2009/03/16/layoff-released-today/comment-page-1/#comment-444473 Mary Flanagan Tue, 17 Mar 2009 02:05:25 +0000 http://grandtextauto.org/?p=2565#comment-444473 Thanks Nick for noticing these factors. Layoff is simple in gameplay but hopefully resonates in that space between real world decisions and human lives in this depressing time. Layoff has already been reviewed on Kotaku and FWR: http://kotaku.com/5170770/layoffs-the-video-game-is-depressing-fun http://firstwallrebate.com/ Thanks Nick for noticing these factors. Layoff is simple in gameplay but hopefully resonates in that space between real world decisions and human lives in this depressing time.

Layoff has already been reviewed on Kotaku and FWR:
http://kotaku.com/5170770/layoffs-the-video-game-is-depressing-fun

http://firstwallrebate.com/

]]> By: Nick Montfort http://grandtextauto.org/2009/03/16/layoff-released-today/comment-page-1/#comment-444216 Nick Montfort Mon, 16 Mar 2009 19:24:42 +0000 http://grandtextauto.org/?p=2565#comment-444216 Mary, congrats on the new game! Just having started to play, I see what you mean about the unsettling feeling. While there is an aspect of fun, there are also some odd things about this one ... perhaps the strangest is that it doesn't seem to take the ironic stance that other games about work and the economy do. You just are asked to consider people as puzzle tiles while you're also given information about them as having human lives, personalities, and relationships. Mary, congrats on the new game! Just having started to play, I see what you mean about the unsettling feeling. While there is an aspect of fun, there are also some odd things about this one … perhaps the strangest is that it doesn’t seem to take the ironic stance that other games about work and the economy do. You just are asked to consider people as puzzle tiles while you’re also given information about them as having human lives, personalities, and relationships.

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