This is awesome.

Planetom, I used UDK for the game. Alvis, my apologies to all of the arcade cabinet purists. I had several reasons for not using a CRT, but I did consider it. Ultimately, the cabinet serves as a placeholder, and is not a pure throwback. TEKNA2007, I hope not, but we’ll see.

Regarding game mechanics, you can walk around and not blow anything up, but the game ends after a couple of minutes. Or, you can destroy work and deal with the Jeff Koons minions. You are never able to even shoot at Jeff Koons in the game (he is always on a second story balcony, and the player can only shoot parallel to the first floor. The video was created on my PC and is a little misleading in regards to that actuality).

Lastly, I actually LIKE Jeff Koons’s art. I think he is a very intelligent, and savvy business person. I used him as subject matter because he is so polarizing and his work is so fun to look at. The title is purposely overly inflammatory but I wish Jeff Koons no ill will. I defy anyone to walk into a gallery and NOT look at one of those balloon dogs. They are pretty amazing.

Thanks for the feedback. I hope this answers some questions.

I’m not much of a gamer, but I’d like to see a game in which someone like this is defeated by mocking laughter.

http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2010/10/03/jeff-koons-the-infamous-made-in-heaven-series/

As for Koons: Why the hate? I don’t know much of anything about him, but a google search seems to suggest that he makes weird, rather dull art. Is there a backstory I’m unaware of?

PC CRTs are bad enough, but you should NEVER, ever, ever, ever, ever use an LCD.

Except that there’s a massive gulf of difference between the two things.

One is a real life politician talking seriously to real life constituents about “targeting” real life political opponents, with the intent of undermining their real life efforts and winning a real life political struggle.

The other is a virtual game world in which a virtual player character has the virtual choice of destroying virtual works of art with a virtual rocket launcher, and then must face the virtual consequences of virtual Jeff Koons and his virtual legal forces – a virtual fate which cannot be virtually escaped.

If anything, a game like this would probably work to PREVENT an attack on Koons or his work because anyone who doesn’t like the man could simply take out their dislike on him virtually, perhaps even laughing about it all, and no actual harm would be done. If we’ve learned anything about violence and anger in the history of psychology, it’s that a healthy outlet for venting anger does wonders for preventing people from actually snapping and doing real damage.

~D. Walker

That’s what lays at the heart of the Jeff Koons conundrum. The more we dislike him, the more important he becomes, hence the more power he gains.

He hires drones to create the artworks for him, then sells it at a hefty price. A popular theory is that it was never about the artworks in the first place, but rather a social experiment all along. All we can know for certain is that the flow of money is real.

Like it said on a tin: It’s a game you can’t win.

I am all pumped up to experience this piece of art now but THERE IS NOTHING TO DOWNLOAD

Also, people hate Jeff Koons because his entire schtick is “Isn’t it amazing that I can produce crap like that and force people to confront the value in my art?” He rubs the crappiness of his subject matter in our faces. Sorry Jeff, that just makes it well-executed crap.