This game appears to have been released last month, but I've just recently come across it via Infosthetics. The game, Torrent Raiders is Aaron Meyers' MFA project at USC's Division of Interactive Media, and it's a space-themed shooter based on the real-time content of a torrent. In it, you play as a copyright mercenary, flying among the packets of a torrent and shooting them to gather evidence about the IP addresses it moves through. Ultimately, when you gain enough evidence targeting a specific IP address, you can fire a bomb that collects a bounty -- apparently this signifies something like a lawsuit.
The game is fascinating for its visualization of torrent information, and I really appreciate how smoothly the whole thing works, but the fact that you play as a bounty hunter (working, essentially, for those whom many would consider to be the bad guys) reflects an interesting design choice that reveals the game's rhetorical content.
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Tuesday, 19 June 2007
Torrent Raiders - A Game about Intellectual Property
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