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Facemaker II Game

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This simple animated game shows an essentialist approach at using video game software to generate art. These pieces were made using the classic Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) from the 1980's. A classic game cartridge called Facemaker was also used - its a game where you build funny faces from preset choices. Throughout the game there is a song which loops infinitely, and it has 42 notes in the melody. Using this face system facility as a starting point I randomly generated 42 faces, out of a possible 271,724,544. These were then overlayed onto the melody to create a simple animation loop. But the simple animation divides when clicked, continuing as such to a level where it crashes my computer. Warning: there is nothing fun about this game.