Sentimental Gamer

Ok, so, pending the final submission of the installer to GDIAC site, I’m just about done with Stage IV. It’s something I really wanted to make, I made it, and it was ….  well, it was. Let’s just leave it at that. Next design..

One of the stories that I replay in my head a lot is one of those “Wizard of Oz” type things where the character is whisked off to some weird universe and needs to confront specific task to make things right again. I guess It’s a common device because you get to isolate the specific issue you want not by dealing with the real world (which has thousands of intersecting influences), but by simply making up your own world with just what you’d like :). Cheap? Eh, p’raps.

So, mostly it’s inspired by the Enigma song “The Gravity of Love”, which is pretty high up there in terms of songs that I treasure. I actually just watched the music video this morning on YouTube… funky….

So, god help me, I’ve no friggin clue what the video’s about, or what the song was originally supposed to be about,  but when I listen to the song, it makes me envision a strong female character who’s trying terribly hard to convince herself that her romantic love is “it”. What do I mean by “it”? I mean that it’s a character who’s totally convinced that the ultimate feeling we can have is love… it’s what defines us, what makes life worth living, etc. But not just love in general… a specific love for a person.

I dunno, I’ll talk more about the story later I’m sure (much to the dismay of I’m sure every citizen of the internet), but I’ve felt in the past few years that a lot of people get hung up on love (romantic love in particular). It’s treated like some sort of panacea, as though it solves any issue. Ok, so it’s certainly not a bad thing, but it feels like the “easy” solution to life. It feels tangential to a lot of issues, yet it’s always readily applied. It’s like how you would treat somebody putting grafitti on your house. If you’re in it for the long haul, you figure out why people are vandalizing your property, you work to solve youth delinquency, and in general spend far more time than is reasonable to solve the issue. But you have solved it, rooted it out and removed it completely. Conversely, you could get a bucket of paint and just blot it out. Boom. Done. Root of the problem is still there, but hey… you got a quick solution.

That’s what I feel love is like sometimes… a quick and easy solution when we would do well to find a more robust meaning.

Or am I just being a grouch?

Likely the latter….