Mac Game: Art project or malware?
by Elinor Mills
CNET.com
November 4, 2009
As part of his Master of Fine Arts thesis project, Zach Gage wrote a game to run on Macintosh computers that resembles Space Invaders but with a digital roulette twist–for every alien space ship the player destroys a random file on the computer is deleted.
“Lose/Lose is a video-game with real life consequences. Each alien in the game is created based on a random file on the player’s computer. If the player kills the alien, the file it is based on is deleted. If the player’s ship is destroyed, the application itself is deleted,” the computer technology design major wrote on his Web site.
“At what point does our virtual data become as important to us as physical possessions? If we have reached that point already, what real objects do we value less than our data?” he asks. Continue reading “Lose/Lose: Playing with Fire in Cyberspace”