Video Games as Art Part 3: Drop

http://drop.notch.net/


The above link will lead you to a game that was created by a recently famous game developer known as Notch (famous for the game Minecraft). The basis of the game is quite simple. You start off by typing the letter that is highlighted in red, which begins the movement phase of the game. Now, each letter is moving towards the edge of your screen and the camera is moving inwards to the center of this cube with a chunk taken out of it. Your goal is to type each new red letter before it reaches the edge of the screen.

You'll notice right away that the game is based upon fractal images, as you're moving (what seems to be endlessly) through these cubes that are missing sections of themselves. However, something that might not be quite as noticeable, after playing one or two games you'll realize that the letters actually make up words. These words even have meaning to the game! From an artistic stand point, this has great implication (since you're having users subconsciously type out these words without first realizing they spell something).