CV08 | The Age of Black Bug
This blank continent, White Land, exists only in two dimensions.
The Age of Black Bug is based on a science fiction story in which a two-dimensional pixel block is used to depict the confrontation between the players and the “Black Bug.” As a part of the game for a week, the Black Pug appears on the continent’s center, continuously expanding outward in a swirling pattern and constantly multiplying black squares. Players began tentatively producing small images around the canvas, but the interesting confrontation began once it became apparent that Black Pug was encroaching on the surrounding land, which eroded its own territory. To ensure the integrity of their creations, some cultivate their own land and constantly rewrite the areas affected by the black squares; others grow in complement to the black squares, resulting in colorful fireworks interspersed with black pixels…
This plane-based game maps the logic of the transactions behind mutually occupied color blocks. By simulating pricing and trading, the player experiences the economic utopia of the asset commons in radical markets in a relaxed and unconscious way. The confrontation in the game also represents how we unconsciously are held captive by the development of technology, as well as the eventual discovery of the interrelationship between organic life and inorganic processes.
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About Artist
SpaceDAO, The operator of The World of The Space, was formed by the development team of The Space and active members of the community. It is responsible for regulating The core parameters of The Space, and around The Space, discusses the creation of art in the Web3 world, the application of radical markets, the construction of the meta-universe and other issues.