Ivan sent me a link to a very smart review of the iPad game Infinity Blade. See Kill Screen – Infinity Blade Review. The review starts with:
Infinity Blade is a game about interation, about retreading old ground, about the small changes that surface across endless repetitions.
In the game, every time you die you come back as your son, but with slightly more experience and better powers. The review has a “Begin Bloodline X” at the bottom. Clicking on it replaces some of the words in the review with another review. Small changes are animated and the process then repeats. The review is a meditation on the game as life where you “live the same life a little bit better, a little bit smarter, a little bit longer than the time before.”
Very smart. Better than the game.