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I think Rick Sanchez and the xenomorph from Alien learned something today, and have been given a lot to reflect on.pic.twitter.com/ja4oHwkA0U
It's frustrating, because I *don't* want to be snarky and dismissive. The intent here is good, and the little ludic metaphors about collaboration and teamwork and togetherness are perhaps corny and condescending and shallow but they manage to make it more than a digital museum.
But this is one of the (many, many) problems with the platform-as-a-metaverse idea. You can't sell licensed skins for your social Battle Royale Party one minute, then expect it to be a serious place to learn about history the next. Fortnite by its nature can't be everything.
I mean, this is the loading screen I got when I quit out of the March Through Time instance. "Aim for the head" is a helluva thing to tag on the loading screen for a tribute to MLK. And granted, it's random, and it's unrelated to the event but... that's my whole point.pic.twitter.com/Js5ZFVnBM4
You can't just place a somber reflection on race and history in America in the middle of your party time Battle Royale any more than you can comfortably hold a wake in a Chuck E. Cheese.
I guess part of the problem is that I'm viewing this from the lens of a critic, and as a critic of both Fortnite and the metaverse idea more broadly I find it hard to ignore both the tonal dissonance and the way it serves the platform itself. However...
I also grant that meeting kids where they are is a strong argument, as is the idea that maybe I'm just an Old Man Yelling at Clouds asking for media to not be this giant glommed together tonal mess. But glommed together messes may well just be what things are going forward.
What even is this video game anymore??
There's a video essay in there somewhere. Fortnite, Roblox, to some extent Minecraft, and a handful of other platforms are really really interested in becoming extensible metaverses that hold untold numbers of monetizable experiences, from games to education to film premieres.
that font is awful, wtf am i watching?
Getting very strong vibes of, "Bubsy 3D: Bubsy Visits the James Turrell Retrospective"
That's a surprisingly accurate parallel
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