Tuesday, 1 July 2014

The Guy Who Made The Videogame In "Her" Made A Real Game For Your iPhone

It’s called MTN and it’s a mountain simulator and it’s beautiful.



David O'Reilly / Via mountain-game.com


David O'Reilly is an Irish animation artist who is best known for creating the indelible and very, very funny fake videogame in last year's Oscar-winning Her. That game, enjoyed by Joaquin Phoenix's lightly depressed greeting card designer, suggested—with its gesture controls, holographic projection, and Pixar-inspired characters—a kind of plausible near-future of the medium:




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Now O'Reilly has gone and made a thing that you can play. It's called MTN, and it's out for iOS today. I resist calling MTN a game, because that doesn't feel like the right name for it. It's a kind of interactive animated art piece in which you control the camera surrounding a single, levitating mountain. O'Reilly himself says its a “mountain simulator”.


Anyways, the way the thing starts is it asks you a few cryptic, Rorschach-type queries, and then it makes you a mountain. My mountain looks like this:




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The Guy Who Made The Videogame In "Her" Made A Real Game For Your iPhone

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