Link: http://www.pixelnitrate.com/aig_catcher.php
Fellow UCLA Animation Workshopper Joaquin Baldwin has created a great little Flash game called AIG Exec UFO Catcher (NSFW). Joaquin combines excellent animation and simple interactivity with apropos social commentary to let players punish AIG execs for their shameful spending of bail-out money on opulent self-indulgence. There's something satisfying and charming about being able to (literally) "bring down the hammer" (in the form of an old-school "UFO catcher" vending machine claw) on effigies of these real-life corporate criminals. I just hope they face real punishment (though I'll settle for huge fines and/or prison time instead of death and dismemberment)...
You can play the game on Joaquin's website:
AIG Exec UFO Catcher (NSFW, especially if you work for a big corporate bank)
Also, check out his award-winning animated films Papiroflexia and Sebastian's Voodoo, which was just won the Grand Prix in the 2008 aniBoom Awards.


