On occasion, I've referred to five-minute games that have an emotional impact (like The Crossing) as the gaming equivalent of tone poems; these games from Ze Frank are more like quips or epigrams -- five second games with a bit of a sting. You kind of have to play all three to get the point.
In a sense, they're little one-off jokes, but in another sense, they're interesting because, they demonstrate how with a bare minimum of assets and mechanics, an interactive system can still create endogenous meaning: the platform is life, and what happens when you leave it says something about your view of the existential universe. Just as one line of a poem can compress a universe of feeling, so these tiny little Flash apps have something to say.
cheating at christianity
With a little contemplation, you can change your mind after choosing an elevator.
Is that a bug, or a hidden message about esoteric christianity?
So if you dont already know
So... if you don't already know
Ze Frank's best content is the 1 year video blog he did, called the show, archived and available here: http://zefrank.com/theshow/
which inspired a community of fans now mostly living at http://postorg.org.
and his main page has many teency little flash games on it, as well as various videos and such, that will entertain for many short bursts at a time: http://zefrank.com/ Not all of them have a comical point to make such as atheist and the likes...
Sports Racers, Racing sports...what is *your* power move?
oh and here's the show where he talks about these games: [goes to grab link] Er...his sites being upgraded right now so a lot of stuff is down...but I think its here:
http://www.zefrank.com/theshow/archives/2006/05/050106.html
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