Thinning

Oldenburg, Aaron

Thinning

dc.contributor	Oldenburg, Aaron
dc.contributor.author	Oldenburg, Aaron
dc.date.accessioned	2021-01-04T21:37:15Z
dc.date.available	2021-01-04T21:37:15Z
dc.date.issued	2016-06-27
dc.description	This is an exploration of the unique spatial properties of the psychoactive chemical salvinorin A. It is a simulation of curved repetition, loss of time and location, feelings of familiarity, directional movement losing context in space, depersonalization. The gameplay initially looks like that of a standard “rogue-like” game, a 2D procedurally-generated dungeon-crawler. But as one moves through the rooms, instead of encountering monsters to kill, the camera zooms out, showing the same room repeated, with the player character moving in the same patterns through seemingly infinite rooms. These repeating rooms turn into curving patterns, and eventually the player is not focused on controlling their character, but navigating this world turned into patterns through empty space.	en_US
dc.description.abstract	This is an exploration of the unique spatial properties of the psychoactive chemical salvinorin A. It is a simulation of curved repetition, loss of time and location, feelings of familiarity, directional movement losing context in space, depersonalization. The gameplay initially looks like that of a standard “rogue-like” game, a 2D procedurally-generated dungeon-crawler. But as one moves through the rooms, instead of encountering monsters to kill, the camera zooms out, showing the same room repeated, with the player character moving in the same patterns through seemingly infinite rooms. These repeating rooms turn into curving patterns, and eventually the player is not focused on controlling their character, but navigating this world turned into patterns through empty space.	en_US
dc.genre	videogame	en_US
dc.identifier	doi:10.13016/m245p0-sjjy
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/11603/20286
dc.language.iso	en_US	en_US
dc.relation.isAvailableAt	University of Baltimore
dc.rights	Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States	*
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/	*
dc.title	Thinning	en_US
dc.type	Software	en_US

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