Lissitzky’s Revenge
Game by: Christopher Totten
Medium: Paper cutouts, pen and ink, Adobe Photoshop, Construct 2
Featured artist: El Lissitzky (1890-1941)
Platforms: PC, Mac, Linux
Input: Controllers
Download site: http://gamejolt.com/games/action/lissitzky-s-revenge/56829/
Lissitzky’s Revenge is an action game based on the poster Beat the Whites with the Red Wedge (El Lissitzky, 1920) using paper cut-outs as the art medium. Players are a red wedge and must destroy the white circle in each scene by solving puzzles based on works by Lissitzky. As players interact with the game, they encounter constructivist interpretations of classic arcade games such as Yar’s Revenge (Atari, 1982) and Frogger (Konami, 1981).
This Suprematist game is a simple action game for games’ sake - or is it actually a Constructivist propagandha game? Will you play the way it tells you to or will you think for yourself?