Riding the Line - the art of fun

Line Rider

The artist comments:

This is a project i did for illustration class.

Its not a game, its a toy. What i mean is there is no goals to achive and there is no score.

Artist, I said, didn't I? I called the author of the program an "artist" because that's what the person named ~fsk, who seems to have made this thing of fun is called. A Deviant Artist, as a matter of fact.

Game design is, after all, an art. Especially something as compelling and unintentionally successful as this. It is an art to create something people want to spend their time with - a painting, a film, a game. It is an art to make something for an assignment that is a truly fun thing - true enough to become something other than you intended it to be, for more of the world than you intended to experience it.

Playing with it is also an oddly satisfying art - learning to draw a track that is complex enough yet doesn't make the unicyclist fall over and die. On the other hand, it is also oddly satisfying to draw something that does lead the unicyclist to an early, animated demise. Now that's the art of fun.



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