I’ve really started to like more and more of Jonathan Coulton’s work as I listen to more. In his "Thing a Week" project, one of his songs became a video production when he said he learned he could use Flickr images with no sort of legal ramifications.
Here is Jonathan Coulton’s "Flickr":
I heard about Jonathan Coulton after he did the bizarre finale of the game Portal, so I recently picked up some of his stuff, which I was surprised to see was a lot! I think he’s very witty, and a talented, and silly, lyricist. The song I’m attaching for some reason reminds me a little of old Barenaked Ladies stuff. He has several songs that I really like, but this one just came up today and I thought I’d share it with you.
I downloaded the demo for a few Xbox Live Arcade games last night, and started playing one that I bought as soon as I finished the demo. It’s called Braid, and it’s a cross between a Mario game, a Prince of Persia game and an impressionist painting.
Mario in that it’s a side-scroller, with jumping and platforms.
Prince of Persia because of the manipulation of time. If you mess something up, you can essentially ‘rewind’ the game back to where you’d messed up and do it differently. Some things in the game AREN’T affected by your time control, like moving platforms or items to collect, so there are several puzzles and impasses that you have to work through how you can manipulate time to your advantage and help you through them.
And impressionist paintings can’t really be described with words. I attached a short video highlighting some of the graphics and music, which I can’t get over how beautiful it looks and sounds. A lot of time and artistry went into putting this game together. It makes me wish I could do this kind of stuff.
(When time is manipulated, the colors kind of go grey and the music is played backwards)
What do you think of the game? Poll time!
If you’re a Halo 3 fan, you’re gonna get this joke. If you’re not, I attached the original Halo 3 add that this clip is spoofing below. I don’t know if it’s official or just fan-made (my suspicion is fan-made, because they used the Viva Piñata McDonald’s toys), but either way it’s great.
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