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Savva Madar, Untitled Art Game

Winner of the 2016-17 OSU Marion Digital Media Composition Award

 ARTIST'S STATEMENT (excerpt):

The project came about when it was announced that we could do anything and I immediately knew I wanted to build a game. Now the idea behind the game actually came about from my French literature class. More or less that whole class was spent talking about the absurdity and meaningless of life. That’s sort of what my game is about. It’s meaningless and playing it is absurd as it really is just a time waster. But there is a deeper message behind it. The game can’t be beat and has no ending. So a player would keep walking in the game forever and as long as they walk the player lives. Assuming players don’t know that the game can’t be beat they live for only as long as they have hope. If a player knows the game can’t be beat then the only logic move is not play. If that’s not saying something then I don’t know what is. The game was originally supposed to take in a summer time environment but I felt that the cold would better represent the harshness of life and it was also more holiday related. Also originally the main character was supposed to be just a man walking but I felt it wasn’t emotional enough. So I made the man into a woman. I then went into overkill mode and gave her infant to carry in her hands. Then I also ripped up her dress to make it seem like she’s been through a lot and this is the final stretch for her and her infant.