Desrert Bus

We were introduced to a game called 'Desert Bus' in a lesson and instruced to play it for 15 minutes. We were not told any information about the game or about the purpose of it, so we had to make decide ourselves.
The idea of the game is to travel from a certain location to another, and just like other games it follows origanal conventions where a challenge is set out to complete with an aim of acheiving. There are also dangers to avoid which is a convention of a game. The twist that makes 'Desert Bus' post modern is that unlike racing car games when people say 'Thats realistic', this game really is realistic in the fact that it highlights all the features of driving a bus by showing how it is boring and repetitive, and how it does actually take 8 hours to get to your destination. The purpose of the game was to mock other games that claim to be 'realistic'. The game highlights the reality of driving a bus all day and to acheive your aim of getting to your destination you have to drive the bus for 8 hours. You have to stay aware and keep looking at the road just like if you were driving because you start with a flat tire and have to prevent yourself from vering to the right. If you do drive into the quick sand and break down, you have to wait to be toed back to where you started and wait in actual time for your rescue vehicle to arrive. The game is clever in the fact that it highlights how realsitic a game can be but is pointless to play as an entertaining game.