I've been playing around with PICO-8 to explore what it might be like to use for computer game art and philosophy. Here's one of my first attempts:
Should the Louvre Be Burned Down?
A tiny art-game about the avant-garde.
"I made this one after visiting the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nancy. They had an exhibition on titled 'Should museums be burned down?' It was sort of a history of burning art. I loved the idea that a museum could still be bold enough to ask such a question. Perhaps only in France. I then learned that the exhibition was inspired by a question asked much earlier in the 1920s. L'Esprit Nouveau asked its readers in 1921: faut-il brûler le Louvre? Or, should the Louvre be burned down? So I decided to make a little art-game asking that question, and giving players a chance to answer it. Yes or no. The player is free to choose. The game ends with some of the answers people gave in 1921."
-- James LaGrande
If you'd like to learn more about the history behind this game, check out this essay by Yann Rocher: "Faut-il brûler le Louvre?"
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