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[Neonivek]

Frog Fractions. Art game and a WTF too. It's actually playable though, so might not be "arty enough"

I could see an argument that it is "artsy" but the reason I don't is because... It is clear that it wasn't what the creator was going for.

[Redzephyr01]

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Wut.

[Spehss _]

Installing DF 40.10

I think I made a mistake at some point and got duped raws. The playable civ is gremlins, and the hostile civ is unicorns. The other civs appear to have been a race of dragons which died out in the first hundred years due to old age, and a race of trolls, which got wiped out by the unicorns.

Now this is what I'd call a fantasy world.

[miauw62]

A game can be both "artsy" and fun, like Braid or Fez. The thing is that neither of those two are really trying to convey a deeper meaning, they're just "artsy" in the way that there is a big focus on the atmosphere and graphics.

[IronTomato]

You guys want good, artsy games?

Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee. First game I ever played, best game I ever played.

[Tawa]

Installing DF 40.10

I think I made a mistake at some point and got duped raws. The playable civ is gremlins, and the hostile civ is unicorns. The other civs appear to have been a race of dragons which died out in the first hundred years due to old age, and a race of trolls, which got wiped out by the unicorns.

Now this is what I'd call a fantasy world.

Someday, the screenwriter of the inevitable DF movie will get bugged raws when he downloads the game to see what it's about and writes a movie about flesh balls that live in houses built out of pigeon feathers on a mountain made of solid leaves, locked in an eternal war on ducks, aided by their faithful friends, the floating guts.

[acetech09]

I don't dislike art games, they're just not my thing. Incidentally, my two favorite games of all time are DF and Half-Life 2, for mechanics and storytelling, respectively.



non-visual-NSFW WTF of the day, probably the week.

[penguinofhonor]

Starseed Pilgrim is artsy and awesome.

[hops]

I only like art games when they're explaining a scientific concept. Wait, do those count as art games?

[mastahcheese]

That's Bill Nye, objective.

[Sergarr]

I only like art games when they're explaining a scientific concept. Wait, do those count as art games?

Is there a game about quantum mechanics?

[MaximumZero]

Carl Sagan's COSMOS the Movie of the Show, the Game?

[Graknorke]

Starseed Pilgrim is artsy and awesome.

Hotline Miami is artsy and awesome.
Really, you can convey a message and also be fun. It's not impossible, artists of the world.

[hops]

I only like art games when they're explaining a scientific concept. Wait, do those count as art games?

Is there a game about quantum mechanics?

Apparently yes

[Fniff]

I don't think it's a question of being fun or not. What matters is if the gameplay carries the atmosphere of the game well. That's the point of a game. If you want to be all bullshitty, you can make an "interactive fiction" but it won't be considered a game by me. Having a game with only story is like having a film where there is no visuals, only dialog.

For example, a game I played recently (And am playing through again) is a prime example of the "it doesn't need to be fun, it needs to be good" idea. The game, named Knock Knock, is basically a game where you walk around a house turning on lights and avoiding monsters you can't fight against, then going for walks in forests looking for a girl who shows you a quick, cryptic video when you find her then disappears entirely. Sounds like the horrible lovechild of Dear Esther and the latest youtube personality's horror LP, right? Well, I still consider it one of the best experiences I've ever played on the virtue of the fact that the developers (Ice Pick Lodge, the same people who made the Void and Pathologic) managed to make it an engaging trip into the mind of a severely disturbed man haunted by his failures and stuck in a rut of superstitious rituals and childhood games.

You don't need a fun game, but you can't have a walking simulator and still call it an art game. I find the notion of art game silly anyway.