![]() I mean they’re trash in the way that food becomes trash as soon as you put it in the sink. I don’t mean they look bad or they’re badly made,Īlthough a lot of them are. At that point you can’t change the world - not without breaking it into pieces and starting fresh with new ideas.įor years now people have been predicting that games would soon be made of prefabricated objects, bought in a store and assembled into a world.įor the most part, that hasn’t happened, because the objects in the stores are trash. You mould your ideas into a certain shape that can be played with,Īnd in the process of playing with them they begin to harden and set When you’re building a video game world you’re building with ideas.Īnd that can be like working with quick-cement. Imaginary mountains build themselves from our efforts to climb them, and it’s our repeated attempts to reach the summit that turns those mountains into something real. ![]() It already felt like my inability to get past the new obstacle was my fault as a player, rather than as the builder. But I couldn’t bring myself to make it easier. I’d have an idea for an obstacle, and I’d build it, test it, and… it would usually turn out to be unreasonably hard. The obstacles in Sexy Hiking are unyielding, and that makes the game uniquely frustrating.īut I’m not sure Jazzuo intended to make a frustrating game - the frustration is just essential to the act of climbing and it’s authentic to the process of building a game about climbing.Ī funny thing that happened to me as I was building this mountain: In that sense, every pixelated obstacle in Sexy Hiking is real. ![]() Most obstacles in video games are fake - you can be completely confident in your ability to get through them, once you have the correct method of the correct equipment, or just by spending enough time. There’s a sense of truth in that lack of compromise. ![]() You prod and poke at it, exploring the limits of your reach and strength, trying to find a way up. It might take you an hour to get over that tree. No amount of forward progress is guaranteed some cliffs are too sheer or too slippery.Īnd the player is constantly, unremittingly in danger of falling and losing everything.Īnyway when you start Sexy Hiking, you’re standing next to a tree, which blocks the way to the entire rest of the game. The act of climbing, in the digital world or in real life, has certain essential properties that give the game its flavour. In it, your task is simply to drag yourself up a mountain with a hammer. It’s built almost entirely of found and recycled parts, and it’s one of the most unusual and unfriendly games of its time. In a certain way Sexy Hiking is the perfect embodiment of a B-game. They’re built more for the joy of building them than as polished products. Designers slap them together very quickly and freely, and they’re often too rough and unfriendly to gain much of a following. The author of the game was Jazzuo, a mysterious Czech designer who was known at the time as the father of B-games.ī-Games are rough assemblages of found objects. This game is a homage to a free game that came out in 2002, titled Sexy Hiking. Just find a safe place to stop, and quit the game.ĭon’t worry, I’ll save your progress, always. I’ll understand if you have to take a break at any point… I’ll be here.Īlright, thanks for coming with me on this trip. Then what you’re about to go through might be too much.įeel free to go away and come back. If you’re not ready for that, like if you’ve already had a bad day, Starting over is harder than starting up. If you won an argument with a friend and then later discovered they just returned to their original view. If you won some money at the casino and then put all your winnings on red, and it came up black. Or if you left your wallet at home and you have to go back, after spending an hour in the commute. If you’ve deleted your homework the day before it was due, as I have. There’s no feeling more intense than starting over. Furthermore, there is a maximum number of characters per section so I've split the monologue into two distinct sections one lasts from the beginning of the game to the beginning of "Orange Hell", and the other lasts from "Orange Hell" to the end of the game. There may be discrepancies between this transcript and the in-game subtitles I noticed a few mistakes which I corrected. This is the "main" monologue of the game, which plays in labelled segments as you progress throughout the game.
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