Evolution
of GAME/animals
From
landscape to cityscape. From two players to a single player, from 3x3
to 1x5 and 2x4, from a human to an animal.
Once
humans depicted game animals, now game animals depict CHAlleNGED
GAMES.
Rock
art is placed on natural rock surfaces and can be considered a form
of landscape art. Common subject in rock art is depiction of game and
hunting scenes. In the course of time our evolution replaced the
natural surroundings and rock surfaces with cityscapes and building
walls. Game evolved as well. From game animal to a game, from a game to a CHAlleNGED GAME. So did human being, to a game animal.
On the
documentary photos below are some evidences. These are some peculiar
versions of the popular tic-tac-toe game I encountered in 2012 in the
city of Yerevan, Armenia, that offer food for though to ludologists and
game connoisseurs what kind of game animal expressed itself and what
is the game played.
The
first example was teasing me daily as it was on my way from the
school I was living in to the bus stop in a suburb in Yerevan called
(unofficially, but nobody knew any other name for it) Bangladesh.
Simple chalk drawing on a building wall, extremely resembling a
tic-tac-toe game but only with one player, the player “X”. “X”
always starts in tic-tac-toe, so in general has bigger chances to
win. But this one stopped and didn't win. Win against oneself? Is
this losing?
To
my regret I was unable to decipher the mysterious constellations and
the message from the free thinker on the second picture. It reminded
me a bit to my One-row-Tic-tac-toe ( http://challengedgames.blogspot.co.at/2014/01/one-row-tic-tac-toe.html ),
but this didn't take me further. Two
intersecting stylised hearts can be isolated between the two games...
this just leads me to the next post.
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game
- something you play, usually a competitive activity
- an animal that is hunted
- a living organism that feeds on organic matter, typically having specialized sense organs and nervous system and able to respond rapidly to stimuli.
- a person with a particular interest or aptitude
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