Which game did I see on tv?

Question

I caught a glimspe of a tv program here the other day, showing an interview with a computer programmer. He was making various kinds of "silly" computer games, and he won some art awards for it. He said he didn't care much about his games being defined as art, he claimed to create them for his own sake, cause he wanted to.

One of the games was a crude 2D "game" where a man keeps walking from left to right towards a finish line, showing the distance 0 on the left and 100 (i think) on the right. When he gets half way there, it says "half way there", and then it kind of zooms in on the remaing distance, so that it once again coveres the entire length of the screen. The distance indicators are updated, showing 50 on the left and 100 on the right, and the man starts walking once more, from left to right on this new and shorter distance. However, when he reaches half way, it happens again, showing 75 to 100, and again with 87,5 to 100, over and over. He always gets closer, but thus never actually reaching the finish line?

Does anyone know which "game" I am referring to?

Asked by palooka

Answer

These are the games of Pippin Bar.

He made a few of these games, and this perticular one is about the Ancien Greek Punishments (The race is is the story of Zeno, the boulder is about Sisyphus).

Answered by Danny T.

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