There’s A Swastika In The Basement And I Don’t Know How To Remove It
no smart academic quote today, because
there’s a swastika in the basement and i don’t know how to remove it.
a short political artwork created very spontaneously between august 28th & august 29th/30th on occasion of the state elections in thuringia on september 1st 2024. this artwork is about trying to remove a swastika from a basement wall, getting increasingly unhinged along the way. because i didn’t want to reproduce this symbol, and also because of german laws of course, this ludopolitical artwork shows an x instead of an actual swastika.
(when even i am doing an explicit political artwork, and even i as an ancom am rooting for capitalist democracy, you know that stuff is fücking serious.)
this artwork runs in the browser, but downloadable builds are provided as well. this is probably the smallest ludic artwork of mine (in folder size) yet.
(the "nazi sounds from the basement" that you can hear in the background are extracted from a 1936 recording of a nazi military parade. models and soundrecordings etc were all created by myself, using additional soundfiles via pixabay.)
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Good work, great meaning.
Just a hint: to make it more enjoyable you should make available the first four items at the start, so the "player" can choose the order, and when all the tools have been used make the last tool available to break the wall.
Even if it is not a game, let the user choice which tool use first make it more entertaining and the users will stay till the end without find it "guided too much".
Thank you for this work :)
Thank you for your comment. These tools (at least the first ones) appear in the order that I actually used them in real-life on this actual wall in the basement - so, the linearity is intentional.
Very interesting :)
Good job.
It's pretty weird to read about swastikas, but to see a harmless cross on the wall. But I liked the message
i just read that since 2018 this symbol would be allowed in video games. i didn't know about that, but still as i said, i also don't want to reproduce it.