“Game pads are totems of a strange religion”
A quote from Selectparks that is inspiring for the project:
“Gamepads are totems of a strange religion. Boxed with exploding supernovas or depicted as craft at war in space, they’re always marketed as a kind of mythological vehicle. Some gamepads come embedded with glowing LEDs as though they were a magical item of arcane power to be discovered by the player in the flesh. Regardless of their shape, every gamepad is released in Beta; countless human hours of chafe and blistered thumbs are testimony that we are in a sense responsible for their evolution - wearing at their form until those that make them listen to our cries. The history of gamepad design echoes the evolution of games through a description of how we play them; in this sense their design is a rich pictogram of action. The same could barely be said of the knife and fork.”
