| SiSSYFiGHT 2000 is not an
animated work in the traditional sense. SiSSYFiGHT 2000 is a game. Unlike
pre-generated media like film and video, games exist as sets of rules – as procedures
that are set into motion by the participation of the players as they play the game. In the
case of SiSSYFiGHT, this act of play occurs on many levels: social interaction,
strategic decision-making, narrative role-playing, and perverse critique of many of the
conventions of computer gaming. As
players interact with the structures of SiSSYFiGHT and play the game, they are in a
sense algorithmically generating an improvisational animation. The drama that occurs in a
game of SiSSYFiGHT is an emergent property of the experience, an effect of the
process of play, rather than something which was pre-coded by the designers of the game.
Thus the complex operation of desire and
drug-like addiction in SiSSYFiGHT. The top SiSSYFiGHT players have played
the game thousands of times. How many times have you seen your favorite animation? coming
forms, capable of threatening the joys of marketing? |
