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"A man paints with his brains and not with his hands."
~Michelangelo
I want to keep this brief, since I think that if a piece of art can't speak for itself then its value is diminished.
This is a piece of conceptual artwork, in the guise of a well known video game. It's far from a perfect version, but it doesn't need to be in order to make its point. What I've ended up with can, I hope, at least in principle, be appreciated by people from a non-programming background, even if they don't understand exactly what the code means.
The most obvious thing that I hope most people will take from this piece is just how fragile it is. What begins, random number theory aside, as a perfectly fair suggestion that either player could 'win', is quickly unbalanced or even broken entirely by the removal of almost any one of the lines of code governing it. Whilst the ability to remove lines as you see fit liberates, you may naturally find yourself impeded by the fact that we want the game to run properly.
Otherwise, it becomes a useless, undesireable artifact. |
