An unusual use of a gaming engine: Auriea Harvey and Michaël Samyn has created a kind of (in their own words) ‘explorable painting’. I quote:

The Graveyard is a very short computer game designed by Auriea Harvey and Michaël Samyn. You play an old lady who visits a graveyard. You walk around, sit on a bench and listen to a song. It’s more like an explorable painting than an actual game. An experiment with realtime poetry, with storytelling without words.

I like the idea of ‘explorable paintings’, especially when it is so well executed as this one. The old lady could use some work, but the environment is very atmospheric indeed. Worth the download.

PS: I’m having a bad desktop day. Anyone care to throw me a link to some cool desktop images?

On this day...

... in 2003: Me, me, me, me