Polygon.com / 18.07.25

The Coldplay kiss cam' cheating scandal is now a video game

It was only a matter of time, wasnt it? Over the last couple of days, the internet has swarmed around a mortifying moment during a Coldplay concert when the event crew zoomed in on the audience the hopes of finding a cute couple that could inspire cheers from the crowd. Instead, the camera caught what appeared to be an illicit moment between two executives who immediately turned away from the spotlight in embarrassment. The apparent scandal, which is all over the web, has now been transformed into a video game where the entire point is to find the couple in the crowd. Created by Jonathan Mann, known for his long-running song a day series, Coldplay Canoodlers is a short, if not inspired, take on the viral kiss-cam moment. Players move their mouse around the pixel art crowd, where the game will randomly place the couple. Every time you pinpoint the couple, the actual footage of the viral moment will play and your score goes up. The game then resets and the couple will regenerate somewher...
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