Rising to Power: Dan Bemergui

Submitted by the99th on Thu, 07/10/2008 - 15:45.

Dan Benmergui is single-handedly galloping the standard of Argentine game development above and beyond what's been done with his innovative and poetic experiments. Last night he passed me the links for some of his new stuff, one is a single-screen RPG that uses mouse gestures for combat and critiques capitalism, and another is a open-ended toy involving photography, time-space manipulation and the relationship between a boy, a girl and a goose.

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Links?

Submitted by andyhavens on Fri, 07/11/2008 - 17:29.

Or is finding them part of the ARG... ?

Ludomancy

Submitted by costik on Fri, 07/11/2008 - 19:47.

http://www.ludomancy.com/blog/

They're not available to

Submitted by the99th on Mon, 07/14/2008 - 18:15.

They're not available to play yet, I'll do a review when finished.

Chrononauts

Chrononauts

Time travel would seem to be a fairly intractable subject for a game. After all, paradoxes are a major issue, and the sheer variety of potential outcomes are a challenge, at least if you posit that changing the time stream is at all feasible (and if you don't, then time travel is nothing more than historical tourism). That's one reason that Chrononauts is such a clever design; it tackles the problem head-on, producing something quite satisfying (and even instructional for younger players without much knowledge of history) with what is, when you come down to it, a remarkably simple and quite clever system.

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