☼ 'Ballerburg Donationware', The Pentagon Pleasure, De Ontsteking, Ghent, 2020

200x85x75 cm, silver sand, poplar multiplex, metal hardware and wire mesh.

Ballerburg used to be a video game I played on the Atari ST. Ballerburg is a turn based artillery game from 1987. It was designed for two players, both of which can be human or computer-controlled. In the game, two enemy kingdoms, separated by a mountain, try to destroy the castle of the enemy by exchanging cannonballs. The game was free of charge as public domain software. The designer, Eckhard Kruse, asked for a 20 DM donation in exchange of the source code of the game.