GET OVER IT, SCHOPENHAUER (getting over it with bennet foddy)
Channel: SpekWork Studio
Date: 2019-11-15

‘If the reader wishes to see shortly whether [it is true that the pleasure in this world outweighs the pain], let him compare the respective feelings of two animals, one of which is engaged in eating the other.’ 
— Arthur Schopenhauer


We’re in the content production grind and flow now bb. We talk Bennett Foddy’s Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy in the light of Arthur Schopenhauer’s Studies in Pessimism, and explore various instances of game maker snobbery.

QWOP: http://www.foddy.net/Athletics.html

Studies in Pessimism by Arthiur Schopenhauer:
On the Sufferings of the World: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/On_the_Sufferings_of_the_World
On Noise: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/On_Noise

The Schopenhauer Cure: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19508.The_Schopenhauer_Cure

Speedrun w/ uninstall: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=12&v=jGa9822kdrw
 
Faster speedrun: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-v5GHxn94o

Art and Labour podcast, On (Surplus) Value in Art: http://www.artandlaborpodcast.com/podcast/reading-on-surplus-value-in-art/

Bennett Foddy plays through Getting Over it: https://youtu.be/DYjbCJXxWLg
Bennett Foddy on making games matter as much as sports: https://youtu.be/5uUPPtBJqR0
Bennett Foddy’s course where students produce a prototype game a week:https://youtu.be/9O9Q8OVWrFA
 
Game Cat liked at Amaze Berlin made by a student of Foddy’s in his protype-a-week course: https://q_dork.itch.io/consume-me
 
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