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Octodad meets Kinect: How one of the funniest games ever is finding new legs
"Loving Father. Caring Husband. Secret Octopus." Any doubts you may have harbored about the comedic value of Octodad -- the latest project from the increasingly acclaimed DePaul Game Development program -- were almost certainly abandoned after reading the tagline above. Cold souls in need of further convincing only need spend a few minutes with the free indie title to realize its genius. Everyone else is probably dead, or born without a sense of humor, which some might argue to be worse. Octodad doesn't rely on shortsighted bursts of wit, wordplay or other pre-programmed gags to arouse laughter. Its humor is emergent -- the very act of wobbling the cephalo-protagonist between his patronly objectives simply is funny. Rather, it was funny. Now that the game's collegiate developers have followed through with their plan to infuse the game with Kinect support, Octodad has reached a plane of comedy few other titles have even approached.
