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Trigger Happy

A deconstruction of Michel Foucault's "What is an Author?", this retro-styled art game pays homage to Space Invaders. As the text of Foucault's essay filters in from the top, the player "deconstructs" it by…

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Trigger Happy is an arcade developed by Thompson and Craighead.

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What Trigger Happy is

Trigger Happy was developed by Thompson and Craighead.

The premise, in the publisher's words

A deconstruction of Michel Foucault's "What is an Author?", this retro-styled art game pays homage to Space Invaders. As the text of Foucault's essay filters in from the top, the player "deconstructs" it by shooting the words which in turn are hyperlinked to Yahoo search inquiries on the linked word.
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How it plays

It is played from a side view perspective. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

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