Ok.
 
I don’t know where to start because we have got a few things going on with this.. “thing”. Yes this is not a video, this is a game, and not one of the most amazing ones (I’m saying this because I still can’t figure out how to play).
 

The band Cut Copy in collaboration with Pitchfork, the famous webzine, and Bennet Foddy, a former Cut Copy’s member, a philosopher at Oxford University and a game developer (batman skills), developed a trippy lo-fi game and just like Batman Mr. Foddy likes to keep secrets too, so we’ll never know how he developed this gaming trap; all that we could find out are curiosity around it, so let’s have a look.
 

The idea of this “thing” started from Pitchfork in partnership with Intel, that gave birth to the “Soundplay” project: they commissioned some of the most innovative game developers working today to create new, original games inspired by songs they love; these games don’t just use music as a soundtrack; their scenes, characters, and settings are all driven by the song.
 

In particular “Sun God” is an experiment in cooperative dancing for two players, or one player with two hands. Two mysterious people haul each other up a pulsating hill, capturing glowing embers between twin trails of light. The hypnotic beats of Cut Copy’s titular song control the light and motion of this blooming cathode-ray glitchscape.
Basically: hypnotic music, hypnotic colours, insanity in figuring out how to play; even though my musical and visual tastes live elsewhere I spent half an hour on the game, so I guess the objective have been achieved.
 

Despite my ignorance, it happens to know that this Bennet Foddy charachter brags gaming creations that have been shown at the Museum of Modern Art and the Pulse Art Fair in New York, nominated for an IGF award at the 2012 Game Developer’s Conference, and have been played by tens of millions of players.
 

Bennet Foddy about the game said: “I couldn’t resist this opportunity to torment his old bandmates by making a predominantly pink game and setting it to one of their new songs.”
 

Oh you, Bennet.

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