Games as Art

Submitted by EmilyShort on Mon, 10/29/2007 - 18:27.

The Maison d'Ailleurs, museum of science fiction and the otherworldly, opened Saturday an exhibit in honor of H. P. Lovecraft. The exhibit features dozens of original paintings and works of short fiction based on ideas from Lovecraft's notebooks, but also a collection of games written for the occasion: five works of interactive fiction in English, French, and Spanish, and two graphical adventures.

Peter Nepstad's site carries more news about the exhibit, as well as download links for those of us who can't casually visit Switzerland and would like to play the works at home.

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Lovecraft Country

Lovecraft Country

Will the real H.P. Lovecraft please stand up? One of the following three descriptions is from an H. P. Lovecraft story. The only thing changed in that sentence was the tense so that it would read in the present tense, just like descriptions in a game. The other two are from Lovecraft Country: Arkham By Night, a text-based game--a multi-user experience, if you will--available on the Skotos Network as part of a package of games. The package may be the best monthly expenditure on entertainment this side of Netflix. But that is a decision you'll have to make at a later point. Right now, you have to decide which is vintage Lovecraft and which is web-age Lovecraft. Is it a, b or c?

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