The Emotion Bot: Take 5
Phew! Picked the heaviest week of the month to embark on such a little stunt!
Thus concludes 5 days with The Emotion Bot! It was a subject ripe with possibilities; in fact, I dropped 2 from my original plan and came up with another 2 along the way. Kind of a test run for a character based strip, maybe? Who knows. Hope you liked it!
Cheers!
–Pedro Arizpe
This was a great strip that I looked forward to reading everyday last week. Ever since I first read, “The Obsolete Add-on” I’ve been checking your site regularly to see what new works are coming. I’m a big fan of your work and was glad to see some familiarity in the direction that gaming has taken from an older generation. When I was a kid I always required myself to play through at least 100 titles from the oldest system I owned(NES), before even considering a newer one(Genesis, PSX, GBA) , so I could fully appreciate the system for what it was, and the development that went into every feature and title, not graphically, but on the concepts the designer wanted to portray. Thanks again for all the great works and I look forward for what’s to come!
Oh wow, a great comment. Thanks! I’m very interested in the personal relationship between the player and her/his games, and I see it as a phenomenon that has mutated since our 8 bit days. Not only in the matters of “filling in the blanks” like in “The Obsolete Add-on”, but also how you could spend months playing just one game (usually getting a new one until your birthday or christmas), and you’ll end up familiarizing with the game in ways the creators never expected. Like, how that screen scrolled in a certain way if you did such and such, wondering about the backstory behind a minor grunt enemy… I believe that, for most people, that sense of “entertaining yourself out of necessity” is pretty much extinct. Don’t get me started on Achievements…
There are related issues I’d like to tackle In upcoming comics, like how the industry doesn’t really care about true preservation of games. I’m glad to know some people understood “The Obsolete Add-on” (you’d be surprised at how defensive some people got about it). Thanks!
–Pedro Arizpe