- Copong stands for 'Cooperative Pong'. Copong is a split-single player video game based on Jungian Anima and Animus psyche constructs. A single player is split into two concurrent, gendered avatars playing 'against' one another. Copong (or Co-Pong) was originally developed with MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) and their proprietary software as the world's first open source split-single game.
- 'Split-single player' concept explained:
Have you ever tried to play chess by yourself? -- It doesn't really work does it?
Same goes with Ping Pong but not with Solitaire. This is because as humans we can only handle a single active stream of consciousness at any given time. Hence, the idea of truly playing against yourself in real-time is undoable.
Or, is it?
This is why Copong (Cooperative Pong) was developed. Copong is a short video game that allows a single player to play her/himself by literally splitting his/her single in-game consciousness (avatar) into TWO simultaneous sub-avatars who play against one another in real-time.
Copong was inspired by the Jungian Anima/Animus constructs (the degree of 'maleness' and the 'femaleness' latent within every human psyche no matter their gender or orientation).
The fundamental intent -- Moral Improvability factor -- for creation of Copong is to indirectly introduce children to 'the other sex' from an early age through a very simple, real-time video game. Fact is that one of the most important, enduring, and universal challenges that adults deal with is maintaining a reciprocally respectful and peaceful marital or professional relationship with members of the 'opposite' sex. Oftentimes, because each gender lacks innate understanding of the other gender's vantage points and realities, their relationship and tacit respect sink through titanic conflicts and irreversible break-offs. Copong was developed to address this challenge by indirectly preparing young minds for interactions with their opposing inner gender through a constructively playful video game.
Through a universally simple game structure -- inspired by the original Pong gameplay -- Copong turns a single player into a dual-self player who engages with his/her contradictory (complimentary) inner gender.
Copong was designed and coded and released through Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) portal for public playership in July 2016.
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