Comments on: Rara Racer is brilliant

By: Independent Creator » Blog Archive » Rara Racer

Independent Creator » Blog Archive » Rara Racer — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 23:04:38 +0000

[...] And yeah, it took me a couple weeks to actually getting around to playing it. Downloading games is hard. But don’t trust me, trust Mr. Koster. [...]

By: Henk

Henk — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 06:44:14 +0000

I thought it was less of a critique of games and more of a critique of how little attention most people pay to things today. We’re surrounded by distractions, and it takes a good effort to focus for any length of time. Most people just don’t bother resisting, and it makes it much harder to enjoy things well.

By: goviolet » this modern life

goviolet » this modern life — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 20:48:17 +0000

[...] (Thanks to Raph Koster.) [...]

By: Thom Robertson

Thom Robertson — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 22:16:38 +0000

I loved the presentation, the creativity, and the humor of it. Plus it was pretty slick, with good sound.

But is this game-as-a-critique-of-games just masturbatory? I mean, the game itself wasn’t interesting, fresh, or fun, only the stuff larded on top. It’s not hard to make a pacman/asteroids/deathrace/moldy clone; everyone does it (including me).

If we want to turn the concept of games sideways, strange toys like this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7obli6Vx-A
seem more relevant than 4th-wall-breaking stuff. To me, anyway.

By: Michael Chui

Michael Chui — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 22:03:05 +0000

Loved the IM popup. :p

By: Raph

Raph — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 20:20:10 +0000

Heh. What makes it great is that it subverts the very notion of game — not that it is great fun in its own right.

By: Bret

Bret — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 18:56:05 +0000

I might have missed something… I tried really hard to last the entire 2:10 without crashing, thinking there was some hidden bonus monologue but I was consistently stopped by the all-the-way-from-the-bottom-to-the-top wall of cones.

This reminded me of the time I was in intro to film, and I turned in a film about how bad the film I turned in was.

I’m curious though.. did I misunderstand? What makes this game great?