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Farklempt!

Posted by Zonk on from the emotions-equals-movement dept.

robotissues writes "Farklempt! is an online video game that challenges its players to manage their emotional-health through the skillful manipulation of feelings against other players trying to do the same. USA Today said: "You will not see another game like this one for many a day, we suspect, unless someone finds a way to squeeze a copy of The Sims until the pure essence comes out". Wired Online also covered the unveiling at Dorkbot NYC last week."

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  1. Ugh, pretentious art alert by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    My avant garde/pretentious art alarms are going off. This "game" that I just "played" maybe has some point. If I'm supposed to know what the point of it was, I guess I missed it.

    As far as I can tell, I just clicked on some circles and made them smaller.

    I mean, come on. What is this? Metafilter?

  2. This Game Is Not About Emotions... by DLWormwood · · Score: 2, Insightful
    Sad, Happy, Angry, and Anxious make about as much sense for the navigation controls in this game as Top, Bottom, Up, Down, Strange, and Charm do to describe the real world properties of quarks.

    The whole "emotion" angle is just hot air for a "rapid click to control" UI for moving the player's vehicle while it tries to collide with other players in the game arena.

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    Those who complain about affect & effect on /. should be disemvoweled