Untitled Goose Game, the smash hit Australian video game about a rampaging goose, is to be preserved for posterity by three national institutions. | By Nick Miller arts
“Are video games art? They sure are, but they are also design,” MoMA declared. There was pushback: “Gamebollocks,” complained one art critic. A work of art “has to be an act of personal imagination... the worlds created by electronic games are more like playgrounds”.
“It was so quirky, it captured people’s imagination,” Chan says. “That local game scene had really grown up – I see it like Australian music in a way, there are the local scenes that emerge and blow up on the global scene. And games are the new pop music.” In this case they get live software that runs on today’s tech, plus documentation and early builds from the development process, to give insights into how it was made.
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