No worries lol. I'd argue that it can be both a game and a manifesto. I think it communicates an opinion about the medium; Perhaps the atypical format also communicates a intention or a view. Though I do understand I'm a largely pretentious personality, and design and intention frequently don't align, so please feel free to disregard my input and read it as you will :)
26 days ago (+1)
I think art is valid, didn't seem pretentious so far, dunno your personality lol. Revisiting this again, I feel like this means something intentional. Not sure, so I want to ask you.
This reminds me of people who just uploaded games to these manifesto jams, that doesn't make sense, but this one is more of a challenge. This project has too many elements, really contradictory and difficult. The game needs to be changed...
I've tried to play half assed, sat down to think really hard, just feel very confused. I wonder what your opinion is. Where does it come from? What your view of this work, maybe it's to be confusing or to make stuff up? Force people to think and engage with the game rules, to consider 'fixing' it with the creative process.
I am sad I could not eat my cactus because I don't have that capacity, so I couldn't get full points, only two points. I don't know what these points are for. Maybe this is about the creative absurdity and pointlessness of games.
26 days ago(+1)
I'd say the thesis of this game originates from the idea of the house rule: Some end user decided that they did not want to play the game as designed and have chosen to redefine how the game works, ignore rules, or otherwise modify the piece.
The game intentionally overlaps and contradicts itself to force players to choose which rules to follow and which ones to discard: Simply by playing you've already discarded rule one. By choosing which rules to follow and which ones not to follow, you are "fixing" the game.
Sure points are meaningless, but why do we care? We've already lost the game. They're not useful for anything besides blind recording. And anyway if you're unable to recall the time conversion to india standard time without an x86 or ARM computer, your point total becomes very quickly moot.
Yeah, that makes a lot of sense! Appreciate the clarification and context. This happens with many live game, people always interpret. Good to know.
I'm the sort of dummy that only gets things when it's spelt out, so I like overt manifestos. I guess you left out the reasoning for this purposes, must break the rules.
I checked the rules beforehand, think I got it right. I played after noon IST. I took the game as getting minus 2 points every minute (-1 -1), and I lost. Not a problem, can still play, didn't say to stop when lost. There isn't an explicit end point.
Didn't want to scream and couldn't learn sign language, so only way to gain points was to say I don't care about points (1), or locate talismans (2). I was constantly bored and malaised playing this game, so I could record as much as I wanted.
I can only play the game for one minute because the -1 -1 would force me to throw away my sheet as a paper airplane at a lizard, -16. Can't unfold it. Didn't want to write on my things, so this is when the game actually ended for me.
Don't think I got the right message from this, but it was funny lol. Spent my time basically counting rocks. Lost with 88 points. I think this shows my neurodivergent hyperfixation, checking every single manifesto this jam.