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Jeremy Couillard's video games capture what it's like to be alive

by RobertJaTomsons on 9/7/24, 12:48 PM with 63 comments

• by alienbirds on 9/11/24, 3:40 AM

  Escape From Lavender Island is also available to play on Steam - Windows only though it seems - https://store.steampowered.com/app/2164310/Escape_From_Laven...

• by deisteve on 9/11/24, 2:56 AM

  getting similar vibes to LSD: Dream Emulator for Playstation 1 without the obviously shockingly grotesque and creepy atmosphere.

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxdw5GnoMK4

  I like it!

  Just wish I had the same passion I used to have for video games, after I hit mid 30s I just stopped playing. Anytime I start to dabble again I can't help but feel anxiety from having spent so much time on video games in my youth and late adult hood.

• by veunes on 9/11/24, 10:46 AM

  I've never heard about Jeremy Couillard's work. Using video games as a medium for intersection of digital culture and contemporary art. Quiet cool and interesting

• by wly_cdgr on 9/11/24, 7:19 AM

  I'm a fan, but I wouldn't really call his stuff games. More like art that uses game tropes as a tool of expression.

• by adamdiy on 9/11/24, 10:40 AM

  the premise of the game somewhat reminds me of the book Lanark (great and bizarre)

  ~"A young man awakes alone in a train carriage, he has no memory of his past. He soon arrives in Unthank, a strange Glasgow-like city in which there is no daylight and whose disappearing residents suffer from strange diseases, orifices growing on their limbs and body heat fading away"

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lanark:_A_Life_in_Four_Books

• by gareth_untether on 9/11/24, 6:53 AM

  It takes tremendous skill in a number of areas to produce a video game. I do wonder if with AI generated games we’ll see more of this type of work or less!

• by mauriciolange on 9/11/24, 12:31 PM

  ...to be alive today, the title without the "today" means something different