Moreover, these forms skip over the boring parts by editing them out: You donвЂ™t have to watch a character traverse the stairs, sidewalk, subway, and elevator to get from home to work. ItвЂ™s easy to pass the eyes over the pages of a book, or to bathe in the waves of image and sound at the cinema or in your living room. Game-play-the work of working a game-is fundamentally irritating, at least in comparison with other media forms. Let the memers honk their geese so you donвЂ™t have to. And like all labor, the best way to get it done is to farm it out to others. Untitled Goose Game is a game about workвЂ™s ubiquity in the guise of a game about leisureвЂ™s frivolity. It might even be more fun not to play the game than to play it. It did so, in part, by offering a counterintuitive way out of the quandary of game-playвЂ™s fundamental aggravation: Someone has to play the game, but that someone neednвЂ™t be you. Untitled Goose Game became a massive, surprise hit-and a meme-in the month since its release. The playerвЂ™s job is to make them work again. Games are machines, and broken ones at that. And playing them requires exerting the effort to operate them. ThatвЂ™s the big problem with video games: To enjoy them, you have to play them. The only problem is that you have to play the game to do so. You gain a new perspective, having had the opportunity to be something grander than-or just different from-yourself.

Games turn the world on its head, allowing you to become all the things you are not: a criminal, in Grand Theft Auto an explorer of alien worlds, in No ManвЂ™s Sky the universe itself, in Everything. ItвЂ™s fun! Being a goose for a while is diverting and surprising, and embodying one in a simulated, pastoral environment speaks to the flexible power of games as a medium. For some reason, it turns out to be familiar to everyone, even city slickers who have never seen a goose in person. A recent, hugely popular video game, Untitled Goose Game, stages this conflict. If you are a person and one appears on your country estate, the advice recommends avoiding engagement and then standing your ground if it charges. TheyвЂ™re brusque, clumsy, and territorial. Like games, geese are notoriously annoying.

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