[[A woman stands over a man in prone position who holds a video game controller]]
Woman: New game?
Man: Yeah! It's amazing!
Man: It's tremendously complex and adaptive. It's never the same game twice!
Man: As you develop new skills and master new levels, it combines its challenges in wholly unpredictable ways.
Man: It's really compelling! This is the kind of game you could play for years and it's always new.
Woman: So as you get better at it, it gets better at challenging you?
Man: Yes! Theoretically there's no ceiling to how elaborate the series of puzzles could become.
Woman: Sounds fun!
Man: I LOVE THIS GAME
[[ONE WEEK LATER]]
[[The man lies on his side, without the controller]]
Woman: Not playing the new game?
Man: Ehh
Man: It got hard
{{header: level up at WONDERMARK.COM}}
{{alt-text: He came to a level where you just keep dying without any way of predicting why or when or how. The developers call it 'profound'}}
He came to a level where you just keep dying without any way of predicting why or when or how. The developers call it 'profound'
The computers tell me it was 20 years ago, June 9, 2006, that I arrived in New York for my first-ever comic convention as an exhibitor, MoCCA.
It was an important trip for me, a milestone in what would go on to become my career.
I wrote a little reminiscence on Patreon (free/unlocked) — including a first-since-then reprint of the photocomics I made at the time, documenting the trip!
Read the rest here: [ 20 Years Ago (In Photocomic Form) ]
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