Man i got stoked when i saw this thread, i thought yall were gonna rec some like artistically hostile media, not just air your gripes abt journalists or ur fav IP gettin done dirty or annoying/bad game design or about queers being actually represented in media for once (very scary, i know).
when i think of cool hostile media, i think of Kittyhorrorshow's work, or some of Tim Heidecker's stand up/dryer stuff, or Andy Kaufman's shit, or idk i cant think of other examples rn. But when I think of hostile art, I imagine a sort of anti-art object that keeps the audience in mind, keeps them at bay. It rejects marketability and common tools for easing an audience into appreciating it. I think of some of the discussion present in Wreden's The Beginner's Guide (ie the part about the 100s of empty boxes as games, or the intended hour long wait prison). Isn't there some kinda multiplayer shooter game that requires the player to mess with the files and do some coding in order to even play it? I forget the name of that one, but ideas like that are sick. And they are hostile, hostile to the audience even participating in the art object.
I'm about to release a vinyl with a CD insert soon, and I'm physically breaking and melting the CD's right up to the data written on them because I appreciate this concept of art being sort of stand offish. Like, I'm gettin' push back from some people saying "not everyones gonna play a fucked up CD, someones gonna break their car stereo tryna put it in, why limit the amount of reach your music could get?"
And I think they're missing the point I guess. Anyway, sorry for the quick rant, but does anyone have any other suggestions of games or otherwise that are INTENTIALLY hostile to the player?
